The program committee for QCon New York 2020 is pleased to announce the 2020 conference tracks!
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The program committee for QCon New York 2020 is pleased to announce the [2020 conference tracks](! Join us in New York and become a better engineer by improving your knowledge on Java, security, machine learning, next-generation microservices, devex & teams, and more.
[Register before Feb 29th to save $810 - the lowest price available](
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2020 Tracks
Blameless Culture
Absorb the lessons learned from failures and outages in a human-centric process.
Modern CS in the Real World
Learn how companies are applying recent CS research to tackle concurrency, distributed data, and coordination.
Architectures Youâve Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software.
Bare Knuckle Performance
Learn from practitioners on the challenges and benefits of architecting for performance and much more.
Java - The Interesting Bits
Learn the new features in the recent and near-future releases of Java and the JVM and what they offer.
Ethical Considerations in Consciously Designed Software
Design considerations for various contexts, locations, security and privacy requirements.
Operating Microservices
Learn from practitioners operating and evolving systems in performance demanding environments.
Security
Learn how to make security an inherent part of the software development process.
Native Compilation Is Back (A Look at Non-Vm Compilation Targets)
Issues with native compilation for in browser-based and server-side environments.
Trouble-Shooting in Production
Learn debugging strategies for complex and high stakes environments where standard debuggers and profilers fail.
Predictive Architectures and ML
Explore the systems and designs covering the full loop from machine learning to inferencing.
Data Engineering on the Bleeding Edge
Explore the latest trends in data engineering that help improve the lives of developers.
Production Readiness
Observability, emergency response, capacity planning, release processes, and SLOs for availability and latency.
Humane Leadership
A look at leadership with an emphasis on empathy, taking chances and building other leaders within organizations and teams.
Devex & Teams
Explore how to reduce developer friction between teams and stakeholders.
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QCon New York 2020 early track hosts
Each curated "editorial" track is a collection of software topics chosen by a domain expert that focuses on key aspects in areas such as culture, data science, machine learning, front-end technologies, and architecture. Take a look at the confirmed QCon NY 2020 hosts so far:
[Wes Reisz]( (QCon SF Chair, Host of the InfoQ Podcast, & VP of Technology @SectionIO) will be spearheading the "[Architectures Youâve Always Wondered About](" track that will look into next-gen architectures from the most admired organizations in software.
[Gwen Shapira](, Principal Data Architect @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop, has just been confirmed as the host of the "[Data Engineering on the Bleeding Edge](". Her track will deal with the latest trends in data engineering that help improve the life of the developer.
[Hema Raghavan]( (Senior Manager & Heading AI for Growth and Communication Relevance @LinkedIn) will be hosting the "[Predictive Architectures and ML](" track. The track will explore the systems and designs that go into building predictive architectures such as recommender systems, search, ads targeting, fraud detection, self-driving cars, covering the full loop from machine learning to inferencing.
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Hear from the QCon New York PC Members
Each QCon is individually organized by a committee of senior software leaders across a wide spectrum of technology. We ask our committee members to be intentionally opinionated on the hottest topics in software today. We have interviewed some of this yearâs PC members.
Tony Printezis (JVM/GC Engineer @Twitter & Twitter Rep at JCP Executive Committee) [shared his thoughts]( on QCon and the topic areas that heâs most excited about. [Read more online](.
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Michelle Brush, SRE Manager @Google talked about her first experience with QCon, [operating microservices & observability](. You can read the entire interview on [qconnewyork.com](.
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We hope to see you in New York!
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