QCon San Francisco 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero

QCon San Francisco 2026 runs November 16–20 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on the Embarcadero waterfront. The first three days are the main conference; the final two are optional hands-on training days with half-day and full-day workshops. The agenda is curated by an international committee of senior practitioners and organized into 12 tracks with more than 60 speakers from innovator and early-adopter companies. Sessions focus on what is genuinely working in production: architecting AI systems, agent orchestration, evals and guardrails, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer experience, and resilience engineering. Speakers share trade-offs, decisions, and failures rather than product pitches. Training days cover AI-assisted coding, choosing the right agent SDK, building MCP servers, measuring developer productivity, and incident response. Additional programs include the InfoQ Certified Architect cohort and unconference sessions where peers work through shared problems together. QCon is built for people who shape technical direction: staff and principal engineers, software architects, and engineering leaders. Sessions are selected by practitioners, not sponsors, and access requires a paid registration.