I’ll get this blog started by writing a series of posts about my recent visit to QCon London (March 9th-11th).

When I first heard about QCon, a few years ago, I thought it would be just another dull tech conference in an anonymous hotel or conference centre, but I’m very pleased to say I was completely wrong!  QCon was held in the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre right in the heart of London,  opposite Westminster Abbey, and provided a range of tracks on subjects as varied as large scale  architecture, iOS and Android development, lean and Kanban, HTML5, NoSQL and state of the art .NET.

In addition, there were daily keynotes on subjects such as entrepreneurialism, innovation and scaling agile processes.

Together, these talks provided an opportunity not just to freshen up my .NET development skills, but to find out about technologies and ideas I’d never considered before and, perhaps more importantly, to think about non-technology issues too – innovation, how to learn, continuous improvement.

I’ll write a short summary of each of the talks I attended over the next few weeks (time permitting!).