Speakers at QCon AI New York 2026

Nancy Wang

CTO @1Password, Founded and Scaled AWS Data Protection, Previously @Rubrik and @Google

Victor Dibia

Principal Research Software Engineer @Microsoft Research, Core Contributor to AutoGen, Author of "Multi-Agent Systems with AutoGen" Book, Previously @Cloudera, @IBMResearch

Min Chen

Principal Staff Engineer @LinkedIn, Caltech CS PhD With Over 25-Year Extensive Software Development Experience

Nathen Harvey

DORA Lead & Principal Technologist

Joey Wang

Software Engineer @Harvey

Diego Iruretagoyena

Software Engineer @Microsoft AI

Clémence Burnichon

Senior Director of Engineering @Datadog, 15+ Years in the Data and AI Industry

Mehrnoosh Sameki

Principal PM Manager @Microsoft, Co-Founded Error Analysis, Fairlearn, and Responsible AI Toolbox 

Meryem Arik

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

Nina Thigpen, PhD

Director of Women’s Health @Google, Previously Founded the Women's Health Science Team @Oura

Shuangfeng Li

Senior Staff Software Engineer @Google AI Edge, 20 Years of Experience in Google's Core Engineering & Research Groups

Raghav Saboo

RecSys and Search Lead @DoorDash,

Rajat Shah

Staff Software Engineer @Netflix

Liz Fong-Jones

Technical Fellow @honeycomb.io, Developer Advocate, Labor and Ethics Organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Over Two Decades of Experience

Jason Zhou

Digital Natives GTM @OpenAI, Previously GM & Chief Customer Officer @Pryon

Ronak Nathani

Principal Staff Software Engineer, Compute Infra @LinkedIn, Podcast Host @Software Misadventures

Pratik Agarwal

Distributed Systems Engineer @Figma (Sandbox & Caching Platforms), Previously @Momento & @AWS DynamoDB, USENIX SREcon '26 Speaker & QCon SF Track Host

Cristian Lopez

SWE, GenAI Serving @Pinterest

Peter Bell

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

Salina Wu

Software Engineer in ML Infrastructure @Pinterest - Building the Generative AI Serving Platform

Simon Maple

Java Champion and Head of Developer Relations @Tessl, Focused on Developer Tooling, Application Security, and AI-Native, Spec-Driven Software Development

Tejas Chopra

CEO and Co-Founder @Headroom Labs, IEEE Senior Member, and BCS Fellow, Previously @Netflix

Kevin Kelley

Technical Lead for Standards @Anthropic, Focusing on Engineering Problems with Societal Implications

Tara Sainath

Distinguished Research Scientist @Google DeepMind, Lead of Gemini Audio Area and Modeling Lead for Project Astra

Sahil Vashishat

Vice President, Lead AI & ML Engineer @Blackrock

Serena Ruan

Senior Software Engineer at Databricks

Bryan Qiu

Senior Software Engineer at Databricks

Shruti Nair

SWE @Google, Creator of Agent Sandbox SDK and Owner of the Authorization Layer for Agent Substrate

Brian Yang

Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI

Emrick Donadei

Software Engineer @Google DeepMind Infra Team

Ian Carrasco

Forward Deployed Engineer @Baseten Specializing in Voice AI, Previously Computer Vision @Google Maps

Fan Yang

Staff Software Engineer @Netflix - Building the AI Serving Platform

Fabio Flores

Software Engineer, Agents @DoorDash

Lei Pan

Software Engineer @Baseten

Eric Johanson

Enterprise Deployed Engineer @LangChain

Francisco Javier Arceo

Forward Deployed Engineer @Baseten, Maintains the vLLM Agentic API Project

Hien Luu

AI/ML Leader, Advisor, Speaker, and Author

Faye Zhang

Staff Engineer @Google Gemini Enterprise - Building Autonomous Agents, Speaker, Expert in AI/ML, Previously Led Growth AI Initiatives @Pinterest

Wes Reisz

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