Day One of the 19th annual QCon London conference was held on April 7th, 2025, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. Key takeaways included: developer joy increases developer productivity; platforms are “not an island,” but organizations adopting them do so within an ecosystem; collaborative software can be fragile; and local-first software is a design principle by which the data on a user’s device is the primary source of truth.
What follows is a summary of the keynote address and highlighted presentations.
Keynote Address: A Thirteen Billion Year Old Photograph
Dr. Kenneth Harris, Senior Project Manager at The Aerospace Corporation and Former Rocket Scientist and Integration Engineer at NASA, presented his keynote address entitled, A…