QCon San Francisco
Senior engineers, architects and tech leads sharing production practice, not vendor pitches.
- Dates
- Nov 16 to Nov 18, 2026
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Cost
- Ticket About $2,995. $2,995 three-day conference pass; current pricing ends Nov 10; workshops Nov 19-20 extra.
- Type
- Conference · Paid ticket
- Organizer
- InfoQ
- Audience level
- Senior, Executive, Mid career
- Suits
- Growing in role, Going for promotion
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Cheaper ways in: Diversity scholarships for senior developers from underrepresented communities; team discounts (email info@qconsf.com).
Speaking opportunities
Has sessions, ask how speakers are chosen
Only a speaker-inquiry form is shown on the site.
Who goes
Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.
Segments: Software engineering leadership
Roles: engineering manager, cto, vp engineering, staff engineer
Levels: Senior, Executive, Mid career
The field it serves: Technology & Software
- Verified open jobs
- about 106,550
- Typical posted salary
- $163,000 a year (middle half $124,000 to $214,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 31% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- −4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,717 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.
Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences
Employers at this conference
Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.
- Antithesis Sponsoring 2026
- Arcjet Sponsoring 2026
- Atomic Software Sponsoring 2026
- Dynatrace Sponsoring 2026
- Freshworks Sponsoring 2026
- FusionAuth Sponsoring 2026
- GitKraken Sponsoring 2026
- Groundcover Sponsoring 2026
- Hud Sponsoring 2026
- IBM Sponsoring 2026
- Infino Sponsoring 2026
- Lucidic Sponsoring 2026
- Milestone Sponsoring 2026
- Nu Sponsoring 2026
- Nutrient Sponsoring 2026
- OpenHands Sponsoring 2026
- Orkes Sponsoring 2026
- Sonar Sponsoring 2026
- Tacnode Sponsoring 2026
- TestKube Sponsoring 2026
- TuxCare Sponsoring 2026
- Unblocked Sponsoring 2026
- Unleash Sponsoring 2026
- Upsun Sponsoring 2026
- Yugabyte Sponsoring 2026
- Adobe Speaking 2026
- Bravely Speaking 2026
- Datadog Speaking 2026
- Mad Labs Speaking 2026
- Ro Speaking 2026
Read from the event’s own pages: qconsf.com, qconsf.com.
Speakers and sessions
Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.
Keynotes
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
Co-founder, Bravely
The Execution Muscle: Why Great Teams Are Built, Not Hired
Laura Savino
Software Engineer, Adobe Photoshop
Learning Out Loud (Under Near-Existential Pressure)
Manju Rajashekhar
Founder & CEO, Mad Labs
The Harness Is the New Operating System
Plum Ertz
Senior Director, Engineering, Ro
Game Time: How to (Unsuccessfully) 10x in a Week & (Successfully) 10x in a Year
Speakers
Adi Polak
Director, Advocacy and DevEx Engineering, Confluent
Andrew Hatch
Engineering Leader and SRE Manager, Cisco ThousandEyes
Ankit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO, Aviator
Daniela Miao
Co-Founder & CTO, Momento
Javier Fernandez-Ivern
Staff Software Engineer, Netflix
Joseph Lynch
Principal Software Engineer, Netflix
Joy Ebertz
Principal Engineer, Imprint
Kaye Mason
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Meta
Krys Flores
Staff Software Engineer, Crunchyroll
Mallika Rao
Senior Engineering Manager, Zocdoc
Melanie Zhao
Engineering Lead, BlackRock
Shweta Vohra
Architecture Leader, Booking.com
Suhail Patel
Principal Engineer, Monzo
Tanya Reilly
Principal Engineer, Datadog
Vanessa Huerta Granda
Resilience Engineering Manager, Enova
Vidhya Arvind
Tech Lead & Founding Architect, Netflix
Read from the event’s own pages: qconsf.com
Industries and functions
Where it is and who it is for
Held in San Francisco, CA. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.
Past and planned editions
- 2026: November 16, 2026 to November 18, 2026, San Francisco, CA
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