One company - two informational services
InfoQ & QCon

The InfoQ editorial support team is constantly working with new and existing editors to ensure that they are aligned with our shared purpose. We do this directly by helping queue leads to select the most appropriate news leads for innovator and early adopter topics, and also by ensuring that the news written is concise and high quality. This makes it easy for readers to build trust with InfoQ, and learn about the latest topics that will be involved with driving human progress through the use of software.

We are implementing various features on infoq site that are meant to increase the reach of our content to as many developers as possible. This includes features like automatically sharing the content on other platforms (twitter, apple news, etc), or giving our users the possibility to easily share an infoq content. By doing this we help as many technical people as we can to keep up with the technologies, push for innovation in their teams, and therefore contribute to the overall progress of the software industry.

Design and Frontend have been refining their processes to focus on making our products more accessible to people with disabilities. We've introduced new checks in our process, to test for and fix accessibility issues (color blindness, motion etc.)

The attendees give feedback coming out of each session and the QCon operations team makes sure the speakers receive the feedback within one day of their session. They appreciate the immediate feedback because they can improve on their delivery and give better presentations.

In the time I've worked in the finance department of C4Media, I've seen first-hand how we are always searching for new ways to grow and adapt, utilizing various tools & methods to maintain an organized and coherent remote environment and avoid becoming stale or burned-out with inefficient tasks. This willingness to experiment has helped us progress, through technology, which I feel is an embodiment of our Company Purpose.

What I appreciate the most in my work for C4Media is that I am part of a network of people who create value for other people and for each other. We continue and complement each other's work with different skills and new ideas and sometimes out of contrast comes something challenging and innovative. We, in the HR/Recruiting team collaborate often with the Marketing team to exchange best practices for our processes. We are also looking into working with the Dev team to bring some automation tools into Recruiting. I think this kind of networks that we create and keep alive through work are powered by technology and can lead to personal and community growth and fulfillment.

Through the QCon marketing emails I try to convince past attendees or potential attendees of the benefits they would get from attending this software development conference: that will help them meet their peers, share common challenges, and find solutions from the global software developer community.