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Everyone who spoke at QCon AI New York 2025.

Every speaker was a working practitioner, talking about a system they own and what it took to run it.

December 16–17, 2025 The New York Academy of Medicine 36 speakers

Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

Speakers

Speakers and keynote speakers

Shuman Ghosemajumder

Co-Founder & CEO @Reken, Co-Founder & Chairman @TeachAids, Previously CTO @Shape Security, and Founded Trust & Safety Product Group @Google

Cassie Shum

Vice President of Field Engineering @RelationalAI, Previously @Thoughtworks

Aaron Erickson

Senior Manager and Founder of the DGX Cloud Applied AI Lab @NVIDIA, Previously Engineer @ThoughtWorks, VP of Engineering @New Relic, CEO and Co-Founder @Orgspace

Gwen Shapira

Co-Founder and CPO @Nile, Previously Engineering Leader @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop

Michael Webster

Principal Engineer @CircleCI, Previously Senior Software Engineer @Bronto Software

Jake Mannix

Technical Fellow @Walmart Global Tech Focusing on AI and Relevance Engineering, Previously Worked on the AI Platform @LinkedIn

Julie Qiu

Uber Tech Lead, Google Cloud SDK @Google, Building Client Libraries and Command Line Tools Across Different Language Ecosystems

Ian Thomas

Software Engineer @Meta, QCon London 2024 PC Chair, Previously Technology Leader @Genesis Global

Karthik Ramgopal

Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn, 15+ Years of Experience in Full-Stack Software Development

Prince Valluri

Principal Engineer & Tech Lead for Boosting Developer Productivity with AI @LinkedIn

Meryem Arik

Co-Founder and CEO @Doubleword (Previously TitanML), Recognized as a Technology Leader in Forbes 30 Under 30, Recovering Physicist

Justin Reock

Deputy CTO @DX & Author of "DX's Guide to AI Assisted Engineering", Platform Engineering Ambassador, Previously @Cortex, @Gradle, @Perforce Software, and @OpenLogic

Tracy (“Trac”) Bannon

Software Architect and Researcher @The MITRE Corporation, Host & Journalist of "Real Technologists Podcast", DevOps Ambassador

Bryan Oliver

Principal @Thoughtworks, Global Speaker, Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering" and "Designing Cloud Native Delivery Systems"

Wenjie Zi

Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI, Community Leader Building TAPNET, Previously @Grammarly, 10+ Years of Industrial Experience in Artificial Intelligence Applications

David Stein

Principal AI Engineer @ServiceTitan, Previously ML Infra Tech Lead @LinkedIn

Mallika Rao

Engineering Leader @Netflix

Peter Bell

Founder & CTO of Gather.dev, Host of the O'Reilly CTO Hour and the CNCF Executive Summits at KubeCon

Gautam Guliani

Content AI @Cengage Learning

Daniel Doubrovkine

Ex-CTO, People Leader and Engineering Practitioner in OSS and AI

Tom Janofsky

CTO Scaling SaaS & Marketplace Platforms, Building High-Impact Engineering Orgs

Rob Duffy

Chief Technology Officer @HealthEdge, Ex Amazon, Salesforce, Expedia

Naomi Saphra

Kempner Research Fellow @Harvard, Incoming Faculty @Boston University

Will Hang

Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI, Former Founder, Previously @DeepMind, @Google Brain, @Snorkel AI

Rachana Kumar

Global CTO, Board Member for the Liberty Science Center, Tech Advisory Council Member at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Previously VP of Engineering and Managing Director of @Etsy Mexico

Dr. Jörg Schad

Head of Engineering @Nextdata

Aditya Kumarakrishnan

Technical Fellow @Walmart in Applied AI

Hilary Mason

Co-Founder & CEO @Hidden Door

Sepehr Khosravi

Machine Learning Platform Engineer @Coinbase, Award Winning Instructor @UC Berkeley - Gen-AI Bootcamp, Founder @ AI Scouts

Itamar Friedman

Founder & CEO @Qodo - Building AI-Powered Code Review & Quality Solutions, 20+ Years Leading Machine Learning Teams

Ben O'Mahony

Principal AI Engineer @Thoughtworks, Startup Advisor, Speaker, Future Author and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2006

Hien Luu

AI/ML Leader, Advisor, Speaker, and Author

Bonnie Xu

Software Engineer @OpenAI, Previously @Stripe

Paulo Arruda

Senior Production Engineer @Shopify, Author of faastRuby

Adi Polak

Director, Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering @Confluent, Author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark" and "High Performance Spark 2nd Edition"

Wes Reisz

Technical Principal @Thoughtworks, 16-Time QCon Chair, & Creator of The InfoQ Podcast