Name: QCon London
Start: 2026-03-16T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
Location: London, England

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QCon London - March 2026 | Kure‑Cal

Schedule

87 events • 14 tracks • 5 concurrent events

3 days

Break

7:15 am to 9:00 am

Badge Pick-Up & Continental Breakfast

3rd & 5th Fl.

Keynote

9:00 am to 10:10 am

Keynote Address

Break

10:10 am to 10:35 am

Break

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

The Hidden Power of Boring Problems

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) Journey: From WASM in Go to State Machines in Rust

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems

4 concurrent sessions

Break

11:25 am to 11:45 am

Break

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

The Socio-technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change

Unconference

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

Unconference: Native Languages

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry

4 concurrent sessions

Break

12:35 pm to 1:35 pm

Lunch Break

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

Evolving Wise Architecture to Power a Global Account

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

All Tech Debt is NOT Created Equal

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

Designing Language-Agnostic Plugin Systems With Webassembly and Extism

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era

4 concurrent sessions

Break

2:25 pm to 2:45 pm

Break

Talk

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

One-to-Many Products, One-to-Many Countries: Scaling Nubank to 127 Million Customers

Talk

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

The Influence Toolkit

Talk

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

Use<’lifetimes> For<’what>

Unconference

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

Unconference: Connecting Systems

Other

3:00 pm to 12:00 am

QCon London Software Development Conference

Uncover emerging software trends and practices to solve your complex engineering challenges, without the product pitches.

The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London

Break

3:35 pm to 3:55 pm

Break

Unconference

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Talk

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering

Talk

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server

Talk

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Enchant your AI and Apis with eBPF magic 🪄

Break

4:45 pm to 5:05 pm

Break

Talk

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Modernising Retail at Scale: Architecting a Cloud‑to‑Edge Platform for a Global Enterprise

Workshop

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Connecting the Dots: Staff+

Talk

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters

Talk

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Networking

6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Conference Social - Drinks & Nibbles

1st & 2nd Fl.

16 concurrent sessions

Break

8:00 am to 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

3rd & 5th Fl.

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

Orienting, Understanding, Playing, Thriving: Debugging your Organisation

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

Reliable Retrieval for Production AI Systems

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down

Talk

10:35 am to 11:25 am

Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

5 concurrent sessions

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

Blurring the Lines: Engineering & Data Teams in the Age of AI

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

Building on Bedrock: A Security Philosophy from Bootloader to Runtime

Talk

11:45 am to 12:35 pm

From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training

5 concurrent sessions

Unconference

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

Unconference: Debugging Distributed Systems

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

From Chaos to Clarity: Modern SBOM Practices That Actually Work

Talk

1:35 pm to 2:25 pm

Introducing Tansu.io -- Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations

5 concurrent sessions

Talk

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

Are We All on the Same Page? Let’s Fix That - With AI Assistance

Talk

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents

Talk

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

Rethinking Your Engineering Hiring Process & Signals for the AI Era

Unconference

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

Unconference: Software Security & Risk Management

Talk

2:45 pm to 3:35 pm

Chronon - Mixed-Workload Data Processing Framework

5 concurrent sessions

Talk

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

Talk

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents

Unconference

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Unconference: Building Engineering Teams

Talk

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

Exploding GPUs

Talk

3:55 pm to 4:45 pm

The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution

5 concurrent sessions

Talk

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Talk

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes

Talk

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

From Copilots to Orchestrators: A Three-Month Playbook for Training AI-Native Engineering Teams

Talk

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation With CHERI

Workshop

5:05 pm to 5:55 pm

Connecting the Dots: Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

5 concurrent sessions

Networking

6:00 pm to 6:45 pm

Exhibitor Reception for Attendees - Drinks & Nibbles

3rd & 5th Fl.

Session

Badge Pick-Up & Continental Breakfast

7:15 am to 9:00 am· 1 hr 45 min3rd & 5th Fl.

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Overview

Schedule

Badge Pick-Up & Continental Breakfast

Keynote Address

Break

From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved

The Hidden Power of Boring Problems

A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) Journey: From WASM in Go to State Machines in Rust

From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems

Break

Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story

The Socio-technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change

Unconference: Native Languages

Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry

Lunch Break

Evolving Wise Architecture to Power a Global Account

All Tech Debt is NOT Created Equal

Designing Language-Agnostic Plugin Systems With Webassembly and Extism

APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era

Break

One-to-Many Products, One-to-Many Countries: Scaling Nubank to 127 Million Customers

The Influence Toolkit

Use<’lifetimes> For<’what>

Unconference: Connecting Systems

QCon London Software Development Conference

Break

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering

Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server

Enchant your AI and Apis with eBPF magic 🪄

Break

Modernising Retail at Scale: Architecting a Cloud‑to‑Edge Platform for a Global Enterprise

Connecting the Dots: Staff+

Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters

Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Conference Social - Drinks & Nibbles

Continental Breakfast

Orienting, Understanding, Playing, Thriving: Debugging your Organisation

Reliable Retrieval for Production AI Systems

Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI

Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down

Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time

Blurring the Lines: Engineering & Data Teams in the Age of AI

Building on Bedrock: A Security Philosophy from Bootloader to Runtime

From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training

Unconference: Debugging Distributed Systems

Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence

The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

From Chaos to Clarity: Modern SBOM Practices That Actually Work

Introducing Tansu.io -- Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations

Are We All on the Same Page? Let’s Fix That - With AI Assistance

Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents

Rethinking Your Engineering Hiring Process & Signals for the AI Era

Unconference: Software Security & Risk Management

Chronon - Mixed-Workload Data Processing Framework

Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents

Unconference: Building Engineering Teams

Exploding GPUs

The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution

Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes

From Copilots to Orchestrators: A Three-Month Playbook for Training AI-Native Engineering Teams

Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation With CHERI

Connecting the Dots: Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Exhibitor Reception for Attendees - Drinks & Nibbles

Machine Learning at the Edge of Scale and Speed: Nanosecond Inference at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction

The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering

How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist

Vector Search on Columnar Storage

Ethical AI Is an Engineering Problem

Beyond Benchmarks: How Evaluations Ensure Safety at Scale in LLM Applications

Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Not Just I/O: Using Async/Await for Computational Scheduling

The Reinvention of the Dev Team

Building an AI Ready Global Scale Data Platform

Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure