Its all going on out there!

The Third QCon London Enterprise Software Development Conference takes place March 11-13, 2009.

Last year the conference had over 450 registrants & 100 speakers, this years speakers include:

  • Tony Hoare - Inventor of Quicksort, Turing Award Winner
  • Joe Armstrong - Father of Erlang
  • Martin Fowler - Loud Mouth on Object Design
  • Steve Freeman - Agile Software Development Pioneer
  • Michael T. Nygard - author of ‘Release IT’
  • Rod Johnson - Creator of Spring
  • Dion Hinchcliffe - Web 2.0 and Social Media Industry Expert
  • Eric Evans - Mr. Domain Driven Design

Registration before January 15th is rewarded with a £195 saving.  The conference is aimed at Team Leaders, Architects and Project Managers and covers Architecture & Design, Java, .Net, Ruby, SOA, Agile Methodologies and other timely topics such as DSLs and Cloud Computing.

The track themes and hosts are as follows:

  • Architectures in Financial Applications - Cleve Gibbon and Alexis Richardson
  • Emerging languages in the enterprise - Ola Bini
  • Real World SOA - Stefan Tilkov
  • Turning on a sixpence - technical skills for Agile Development - Steve Freeman
  • Web as a platform - Geir Magnusson
  • Agile Organisational patterns - Linda Rising
  • Architectures you Always Wondered About - Floyd Marinescu
  • Domain-Driven Design & Development - Eric Evans
  • Functional and Concurrent Programming - Erik Meijer
  • Java.Next - Key Technologies Shaping the future of Java - Scott Delap
  • Architecture for the Architect - Dan North
  • Domain Specific Languages - Neal Ford
  • Historically bad ideas - Floyd Marinescu & Aino Corry
  • Nest Generation Web on .Net - Beat Schwegler
  • Systems that never stop - Michael Nygard