Past QCon London attendee: “This is a conference by engineers for engineers. I was learning from what is actually happening in other companies.”

QCon London 2027. April 13-15. 75+ practitioners, 15 tracks. Current pricing ends July 14. https://t.co/qxxqtcQtod

QCon London 2027 | Software Conference for Senior Developers

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TheAI decisionsyou make this year will shape what your team can ship next year.

At QCon London, senior engineers from innovator and early adopter companies tell the stories behind what’s working in production.

You’ll come back with patterns ready to adopt, costly mistakes you can now avoid, and a way to de-risk technical investments before building them.

75+ practitioners from innovator and early adopter companies · 15 engineering tracks Patterns and practices, not products and pitches

Early Bird DeadlineJuly 14th

Conference:£1,990

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QCon past attendees included senior engineers from these organizations

What you’ll learn at QCon London

Patterns and practices ready to adopt, from teams already running them in production.

Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About

Modern API Design

Resilience Engineering: Everything Fails All the Time

Guardrails and Safety Nets (Evals) for Today’s Landscape

The Tech of FinTech

Something About Distributed Systems

Staff+ Engineering Skills

Engineering AI Systems

Data Platforms Reimagined

Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop

Code Beyond Engineers & Engineering Teams

Developer Experience as a First-Class Architecture Concern

Real World Platform Engineering

Software Security & Risk Management

Native Languages - and Wasm

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Why attend QCon London 2027

What QCon delivers that other tech conferences don’t.

The program focuses on what early adopters have proven works in production. The speakers are the senior engineers doing it now, before it becomes standard practice.

An international program committee of working senior engineers selects each session. Speakers share the systems they’ve built and what they learned running them. No hidden product pitches.

Every pattern you hear comes from a system someone has actually built and run. You can put it to use on your team’s work as soon as you’re back at your desk.

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The QCon experience

Talks worth your time.Conversations you can’t get from a recording.

Conference experience

15 engineering tracks across innovator, early adopter, and early majority topics

75+ international practitioner speakers

One speaker for every 11 attendees

Patterns and practices, not products and pitches

Extended hallway time: built into the schedule, not stolen from it

12 months of session recordings included

Optional experiences

Video-Only Pass for those who can’t attend in person

Stay ahead ofthe adoption curve

QCon focuses on the technologies and practices proven by early adopters and are ready for wider enterprise use. Each track on the program is placed on the adoption curve so you know where the patterns you’ll hear about sit.

Innovators

• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Multimodal AI
• Agentic AI / Orchestration
• Physical AI
• Reasoning Models
• AI DevOps
• AI-powered hardware
• AI in Robotics aka Embodied AI
• LangOps or LLMOps
• Knowledge Graphs
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Robotics
• Edge inference and model training
• Large-scale distributed deep-learning

Early Adopters

• Small Language Models (SLMs)
• Explainable AI
• Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Generative AI/Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Cloud agnostic computing for AI
• Data Contracts
• Data Observability
• Virtual Reality e.g. VR/AR/MR/XR
• Cognitive Services
• Graph Data Analytics
• IoT Platforms

Early Majority

• Synthetic data generation
• MLOps
• Vector Databases
• AI coding assistants
• Image Recognition (Computer Vision)
• Natural Language Processing
• Deep Learning
• Open Table Formats (OTFs)
• Data Mesh
• Digital Assistants
• Apache Beam

Source: InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report - 2025

Your teamat QCon

Three days that align your team on the calls already on your roadmap.

Engineering Leaders & CTOs

Validate multi-year technology strategy. Understand which emerging practices are ready for enterprise adoption.

Software Architects & Principal Engineers

Get architectural patterns from teams who’ve scaled systems you’re planning to build. Learn their tradeoffs.

Senior Developers & Staff+ Engineers

Develop technical judgment for complex decisions. See how leading teams solve problems similar to yours.

Bringing your team?

Special launch discounts are available for groups of 10+. Email[email protected]with your group size for team discount details.

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3 days. 75+ senior practitioners. Patterns ready to adopt, Costly mistakes to avoid, and a way to de-risk technical investments before building them.

Reduceproject risk

Learn from production failures to avoid costly mistakes

Movefrom decision to delivery sooner

Apply patterns proven in production

Buildteam capability

Build skills that hold up across roles and projects

Benchmarkyour approach

Understand how leading teams tackle problems you’re facing

Validatetechnology bets

Learn from engineers who adopted first to reduce your risk

Adoptthe right technologies at the right time

Understand emerging trends before they become table stakes

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It’s not just about the tech. It’s about you too.

The QCon ‘We Care’ experience

01Longer breaks between sessions

02Quiet spaces when you need them

03Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options

04A prayer room and a family room

05A code of conduct, actively enforced

06Diverse voices on the main stage

07Active support for women in engineering

08A safe place where everyone is welcome and able to express themselves

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QCon London Venue

The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London

The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London

Situated in the heart of Westminster, the QEII Centre is ideally located to take advantage of everything London has to offer. Uniquely situated in the shadow of Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the London Eye, you will be within a five-minute walk to the Thames and surrounded by excellent transport links in and out of the capital.

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Conference Location

Why senior engineerstrustQCon

Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

Practical takeaways and new perspectives.

I like the broad variety of topics... for me it’s always a safe choice, as I know the overall quality is very high.

Mark Schmidt

Senior Engineer @Adobe Systems Engineering GmbH

The speakers and the attendees make QCon stand out … a good balance of new tech to look out for along with the descussions around day to day problems that we face as developers.

Vipra Ramtekkar

Development Engineer @ING

This is a conference by engineers for engineers. I didn’t feel like I was being sold something … I was learning from what is actually happening in other companies.

Christopher Prigg

Senior Engineer @Tesco PLC

It’s the best tech conference I’ve attended so far. The quality of the talks was outstanding. It was all about learning and sharing experiences. No marketing or trying to push products on you.

Sol Latorre

Senior Backend Engineer @N26

“Attending QCon really allows me to gain so many different perspectives to really broaden my own horizon.”

Luca Mezzalira

Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect @AWS

“QCon was a masterclass. The sessions sparked ideas directly aligned with my work. I’m excited to bring these insights into our transformation journey.”

Kudzaishe Buruuru

Data Modeling and Advanced Data Analytics @Investec

“I came away inspired by the quality of the sessions, the diversity of topics. The sessions were rich in practical insights. I had the chance to connect with amazing engineers, tech leads, and architects...each conversation offering a new perspective.”

Dipanshi Bansal

Software Engineer @Bloomberg LP

“This was my first time attending QCon London. Every track brought something new to the table, with actionable takeaways that I’m eager to see how this can be applied.”

Quentin Loos

Technology Platform Team Manager @Belfius

“Thrilled to have attended QCon London, a premier conference for senior software engineers and tech leaders. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with industry pioneers, dive into advanced tech trends, and gain actionable insights.”

Ali Mansour

Senior Software Engineer @Murex

Past QCon talks

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WhoattendsQCon

Senior engineers, software architects, and engineering leaders making technical decisions for teams shipping production systems.

34%

TECHNICAL TEAM LEADS AND HIGHER, SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS

23%

SENIOR DEVELOPER / LEAD ENGINEER

24%

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Guiding engineering teams for 20+ years

Helping senior software developers adopt new technologies and practices for over 20 years. The conferences sit alongside InfoQ articles, news, podcasts, and trends reports.

20years

Helping senior dev teamsadopt the right patterns and practices

550kper month

Global senior software developers relying on the InfoQ community tostay ahead

4500+per year

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