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](http://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**](http://mqsummit.com/)

**Early Bird promotion ends soon.**



MQ Summit 2026 - announcing the speakers