Frequently Asked Questions

Through February 9, 2027, groups of 10 or more receive $100 off each in-person ticket.

From February 10, group discounts are available for groups of three or more, ranging from $50 to $125 off per ticket depending on group size.

The group registration deadline is June 18, 2027.

We accept Paypal and major credit cards. A payment charged to your credit card or Paypal account is processed directly by us in the funds stated on the website. Please note that QCon AI is a trademarked and wholly-owned brand of C4Media Inc., which is located in Canada. Customers outside Canada or cards denominated in other currencies may incur foreign transaction or exchange fees from their issuing bank. C4Media does not control nor collect these fees.

You are able to pay by invoice online by checking the "Do You Want to Pay Later by Invoice?" checkbox during registration. Payment by invoice online will be available until June 11th, 2027 (subject to change without notice).

The amount of your invoice reflects the published ticket price in effect at the time that your payment of the invoice is due, which is 30 days* from when you submit the order and receive your invoice. You can review our list of early bird discounts (i.e. early payment discounts) and dates of pricing changes on this pricing table. Pricing is based on the date of receipt of payment. If you pay by credit card instead, you will receive the same day's price and you will be emailed a full receipt, marked paid.

After June 11th, 2027, you can email us at payments@boston.qcon.ai to request payment by invoice. Due to the proximity of the start date of the event, we encourage you to instead make a payment by credit card. All credit card payments will automatically generate a receipt, marked paid, that is emailed to the buyer for your accounting records. If you still require an invoice to pay by wire, please email us and will evaluate your request to confirm that your payment by wire will be received by us no later than June 18th, 2027. Please note that this will be less than 30 days to send payment.

Only participants who have paid for the event in full before the event start date, will be admitted to the conference.

*except where an invoice is issued between May 19th, 2027, and June 11th, 2027, in which case payment is due no later than June 18th, 2027.

You can contact us for any payment questions at payments@boston.qcon.ai.

You will receive confirmation of your registration by email once you have completed your registration details. If you can’t find your confirmation email, please check your spam folder, and email info@boston.qcon.ai.

We are happy to assist you with an invitation letter. To do so, you will need to provide the following information to info@boston.qcon.ai from your work email address:

• A screen capture or link to your LinkedIn profile
• A paystub showing your name, current employer, and current payroll period (blocking out any personal information such as the amount or address.)
• Proof of Visa Appointment Date (a copy of the confirmation email). This should show the visa authorities name, your name, email, and appointment date. OR Proof of US Visa (if you already have a visa).
• Full Name (as on passport):
• Date of Birth:
• Company Name:
• Position:
• Date of Employment with Current Company:
• Nationality:
• City and Country of Residence (where will you return after QCon AI):
• Travel Dates to and from Boston:
• If you have been to Boston before and if so, on what dates:

Note: we encourage you to apply for a visa before buying a conference ticket as we will not refund your registration fee if your visa application is turned down.

Registration fees, once paid, are non-refundable. However, if for some reason you can no longer attend QCon AI, you can still make use of the ticket:

• Transfer: You can transfer your ticket to another person until Monday, July 5, 2027 (transfer fee is waived). Email info@boston.qcon.ai to request the transfer and include the new attendee's First and Last Name, Email Address, Job Title, and Preferred Pronouns.
• Watch recorded presentations online: You can watch the sessions recorded at QCon AI on the presentation page during the 12 months following the conference. Session recordings will become available 2 weeks after the conference.

It is the responsibility of the transfer-giver to make sure that the transfer-recipient receives and agrees to these Terms and Conditions, and is fully informed about the requirements of attending QCon AI. Failure of the transfer-recipient being made aware of or agreeing to these Terms and Conditions will not be a reason for a refund.

The Terms of Participation can be found at https://boston.qcon.ai/terms-conditions.

Registration fees are non-refundable. 

Please refer to QCon AI Boston Terms of Participation for more information.

QCon does not sell attendee lists or provide your contact details to data brokers. If you receive unsolicited emails claiming to offer QCon attendee data, these are not authorized by us. Should you feel that someone is using the QCon name in an inappropriate or misleading way, please email us at info@boston.qcon.ai

At the event, sponsors can only access your contact information if you choose to share it by allowing them to scan the QR code on the back of your badge. This is entirely your decision, and no sponsor can access your details without your active participation.

For full details, see our Policy Notice.

See the full pricing schedule for later prices and deadlines.

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All attendees will receive access to recordings of most sessions. Starting 2 weeks after the conference, these will be available on-demand for a duration of 12 months. To help you while you make your schedule selection, please note that a few sessions have a "no video icon," which indicates that these presentations aren't being recorded and won’t be available to watch on-demand.

Most presentation slides will be available on the schedule page after the conference. Some sessions may feature a "no slides" icon in the schedule which designates that slides won’t be available.

The QCon AI Attendee Badge is a special digital badge that you can claim after attending the event to share your experience. Here’s how you can get it:

1. Log into your My Account page: Visit your My Account page on the QCon website.
2. Find the Badge Section: On the last day of the event, a special section will become available for you to claim your badge.
3. Claim Your Badge: Follow the instructions to either log into your existing InfoQ account or create a new one.
4. Share Your Badge: After claiming it, you can share your badge on social media or your professional profiles.

The badge is a great way to commemorate your participation and show your engagement in the global tech community. Share it with the hashtag #QConAI to join the conversation.

We designed QCon AI as a place where everyone feels safe to express themselves, learn, and succeed in adopting new technology and practices. We enforce this through the Code of Conduct to provide a safe and inclusive learning space for our thousands of inspiring attendees.

By joining QCon AI, you agree to our Code of Conduct. All participants, speakers, sponsors, and staff are required to abide by our code of conduct.

You will leave with production examples from other engineering teams: how they approached comparable decisions, which constraints shaped their choices, what changed after launch, and where they would take a different direction next time.

Those examples give you more reference points for the decisions in your own systems.

You can ask speakers why they chose one approach over another, hear different solutions to comparable constraints, and continue the technical discussion with engineers from other companies.

The 2027 program is currently being developed.

QCon AI is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders. 

The conference provides senior software developers with actionable insights and practical advice on critical software development challenges. 

The conference features practitioner-curated topics and technical talks from 27+ senior software practitioners on today's dev priorities.

QCon AI is designed for senior software engineers, software architects, and team leaders.

At QCon AI, we prefer engineers over evangelists, practitioners over trainers/coaches, and team leads over consultants. That is not to say we don't find value in the people on the right; we just prefer those on the left. This simple mantra guides our editorial content. We want to hear from the people who are making decisions and implementations in their fields.

Outside of the regular sessions, there might be some sponsored sessions on the agenda. If a presentation is sponsored by a vendor, it is separated from the main editorial content and labeled as sponsored. One of the core values of QCon is transparency; you will never find sponsored content hidden within editorial sessions at the conference.

QCon AI is produced by C4Media, the team behind QCon and InfoQ.

QCon AI Boston is a two-day production AI conference for senior software engineers, architects, Staff+ engineers, ML/MLOps engineers, platform and security engineers, and engineering leaders.

It takes place July 8–9, 2027 at Boston University, George Sherman Union in Boston, MA.

The program is currently being developed around agent runtime design, context engineering, evals and observability, MCP and tool access, zero-trust agent security, and inference cost and latency.

Speakers and sessions will be added as they are confirmed.

The program focuses on engineering decisions around running AI in production, including architecture, reliability, security, evaluation, infrastructure, and cost.

QCon AI is built around first-hand production experience.

Speakers are hand-picked because they have worked on the systems and decisions they discuss. Different practitioners may reach different conclusions, giving attendees several approaches to consider rather than one prescribed answer.

Sponsored sessions are identified separately from the editorial program.

We do not have a formal CFP and usually directly invite our speakers, however, we do have a submission form for spontaneous submissions.

QCon hand-picks speakers for the first-hand production experience they bring to the engineering questions in the program.

Attendees hear the alternatives considered, the trade-offs behind a decision, what happened in production, and what the practitioner would approach differently now.

July 8–9, 2027

Boston University, George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215