QCon London 2027
by InfoQ (C4Media)
Senior practitioners on what actually shipped, including the AI systems that did not work
About This Event
QCon London 2027 runs 13-15 April 2027 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, London, with an optional certification day on 16 April. Organised by InfoQ, QCon is a practitioner conference for senior software engineers, architects and engineering leaders, built on 15 curated tracks and 75+ international speakers presenting work they have personally shipped rather than vendor material. The 2027 programme puts several tracks directly on production AI: Engineering AI Systems, Architecting for Agents, and Guardrails and Safety Nets (Evals) for Today's Landscape, alongside Data Platforms Reimagined, Real World Platform Engineering, Software Security & Risk Management and Resilience Engineering. The speaker-to-attendee ratio is roughly one in eleven, which is the reason people pay conference-level prices for it.
Key Dates & Deadlines
- Early-bird registration ends (conference and conference + certification)
- Video-only pass early-bird ends
- Group discounts open (3+ attendees)
At a Glance
- Date
- April 13–16, 2027
- Location
- Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- InfoQ (C4Media)
- Added
- Aug 12, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 12, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓CTO
- ✓VP of Engineering
- ✓Chief Architect
- ✓Staff engineer
- ✓Engineering manager
- ✓Platform engineering lead
- ✓AI engineering lead
Why Attend
A CTO or VP sending a team here is buying calibration: three days of senior engineers from companies at your scale describing what they built, what it cost and what broke, on precisely the questions most enterprises are stuck on in 2027 — how to evaluate an LLM system before it reaches customers, what an agent architecture actually looks like in production, and where platform teams should draw the line. The Staff+ Engineering Skills track makes it useful for the people you are trying to promote, and the one-speaker-per-eleven-attendee ratio means your architects get direct conversations, not a seat in a keynote hall.
Event Features
- ✓Engineering AI Systems track
- ✓Architecting for Agents track
- ✓Guardrails and Safety Nets (Evals) for Today's Landscape track
- ✓Data Platforms Reimagined track
- ✓Real World Platform Engineering track
- ✓Software Security & Risk Management track
- ✓Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Resilience Engineering, Distributed Systems and Staff+ Engineering Skills tracks
- ✓Certification day on 16 April 2027, and a video-only pass with 12 months of on-demand access from 30 April 2027
What Makes This Unique
- ★15 curated tracks with 75+ practitioner speakers and roughly one speaker per eleven attendees — the ratio is the product, and it is why hallway access to speakers is realistic
- ★Editorially curated by InfoQ around the technology adoption curve, targeting innovator-to-early-majority practices rather than whatever vendors want to present
- ★Three tracks in 2027 are dedicated to production AI (Engineering AI Systems, Architecting for Agents, Guardrails and Safety Nets for Evals) rather than one token AI track
- ★Speakers present systems they personally built and operated, including the failures — no vendor pitch slots
- ★Optional certification day on 16 April extends the conference to 3.5 days
Industries Represented
Event Scale
Pricing Details
Conference (3 days) £2,190 early bird through 8 September 2026, £2,290 thereafter. Conference + Certification (3.5 days) £2,700 early bird through 8 September 2026, £2,800 thereafter. Video-Only Pass £470 early bird through 10 November 2026, £515 thereafter, with access from 30 April 2027. Prices are in GBP and subject to 20% UK VAT; group discounts open 11 November 2026 from 3 attendees, saving up to £160 per ticket.
Organizer
InfoQ (C4Media)
infoq.com/Frequently Asked
- When is QCon London 2027?
- QCon London 2027 takes place April 13–16, 2027 in London, United Kingdom.
- Where is QCon London 2027 held?
- QCon London 2027 is held in London, United Kingdom. The event format is in-person.
- What is the QCon London 2027 submission deadline?
- The next QCon London 2027 deadline is early-bird registration ends (conference and conference + certification) on Sep 8, 2026. Remaining dates: Video-only pass early-bird ends — Nov 10, 2026; Group discounts open (3+ attendees) — Nov 11, 2026.
- How much does QCon London 2027 cost?
- QCon London 2027 is paid. Conference (3 days) £2,190 early bird through 8 September 2026, £2,290 thereafter. Conference + Certification (3.5 days) £2,700 early bird through 8 September 2026, £2,800 thereafter. Video-Only Pass £470 early bird through 10 November 2026, £515 thereafter, with access from 30 April 2027. Prices are in GBP and subject to 20% UK VAT; group discounts open 11 November 2026 from 3 attendees, saving up to £160 per ticket.
- Who should attend QCon London 2027?
- QCon London 2027 is aimed at CTO, VP of Engineering, Chief Architect, Staff engineer, Engineering manager, Platform engineering lead, AI engineering lead.
- What topics does QCon London 2027 cover?
- QCon London 2027 covers Engineering AI systems, Agentic AI architecture, LLM evaluation and guardrails, Retrieval augmented generation, Platform engineering, Distributed systems, Software security and risk, Data platforms, Developer experience.
Sources
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