MQ Summit 2026 is announcing the lineup

MQ Summit is a conference built around messaging and event-driven systems. It grew out of RabbitMQ Summit and now brings the whole ecosystem into one room: RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS, Pulsar, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Amazon SQS/MQ, Azure Messaging and Google Pub/Sub. Practitioners, architects and maintainers from competing projects, all talking shop. 📍 Haarlem (near Amsterdam) + online 🗓️ 21-22 October 2026 - 2 days, 1 standard track, 1 lab track (for in-person attendees), and about 27 speakers KEYNOTE: Adi Polak (Data & AI @ Confluent, best-selling author) A few of our speakers announced: Clemens Vasters , Principal Architect, Messaging & Real-Time Intelligence @ Microsoft Matt Leming & Jon Rumsey , Chief Architect / DQM Architect @ IBM MQ Stefan Moser & Michael Davis , Principal Engineer / OSS RabbitMQ @ AWS · Amazon MQ Viktor Gamov , Principal DevAdvocate @ Confluent , Kafka in Action co-author David Ansari , RabbitMQ Core @ Broadcom, and Lovisa Johansson , RabbitMQ expert @ 84codes JB Onofré (Apache) & Matt Pavlovich (ActiveMQ PMC), plus ~40 more More: mqsummit.com/#speakers Talks cover agentic workloads, queues vs. logs, real-world scaling war stories, MQTT, security, and where open-source messaging goes next. ℹ️ More info: mqsummit.com Early Bird promotion ends soon.