# MQ Summit 2026 - announcing the speaker lineup **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [11 August 2026 11:42 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/mq-summit-2026-announcing-the-speaker-lineup/38479 "2026-08-11T11:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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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. ℹ More info: **[mqsummit.com](http://mqsummit.com/)** **Early Bird promotion ends soon.**