Architecture

MQ Summit 2026

MQ Summit brings together the people who design, build, and scale modern messaging systems. The conference focuses on message queues as the backbone of modern distributed systems, ensuring reliable communication, scalability, and resilience. It offers a cross-ecosystem forum with expert-led talks, hands-on labs, and discussion sessions. Participants include…

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30Speakers
9Sponsors
1On the bill · sessions
24Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at MQ, in alphabetical order.
Adi Polak
Data & AI @ Confluent • Keynote Speaker • Databricks MVP • Best-Selling Author • Technical Storyteller · Confluent
Alex Kritikos
Co-Founder / CEO · MAPS Messaging BV
Ali Alemi
Streaming Specialist Solutions Architect · AWS
Anders Bälter
CTO at 84codes (CloudAMQP, LavinMQ) · 84codes
Byron Ruth
VP of Product/Eng @ Synadia · Synadia
Charlotte Henkle
Amazon MQ team @ Amazon · Amazon
Chris Leonard
STSM, AI Technologies · IBM MQ
Christopher Coco
Software Infrastructure Lead · Verrus
Clemens Vasters
Principal Architect, Messaging and Real-Time Intelligence · Microsoft
David Ansari
Technical Lead, RabbitMQ Core · Broadcom
Guy Hagemans
Lead Engineer · AppyThings
Hari Rangarajan
Developer Advocate · Solace
Herman Jakobsen
Tech Lead · Statnett
JB Onofré
ASF member, working on ~20 Apache projects
Jeroen van Disseldorp
CEO and Founder · Axual
John Samuel
Business Unit Leader @ Seventh State · Seventh State
Jon Rumsey
Distributed Queue Manager Architect · IBM MQ
Lajos Gerecs
Software Engineer · Seventh State
Lovisa Johansson
CMO · 84codes
Matt Leming
STSM, Chief Architect · IBM MQ
Matt Pavlovich
CTO · HYTE
Michael Davis
Open Source RabbitMQ · Amazon MQ
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AWSPlatinum
CloudAMQPPlatinum
EMQPlatinum
IBMPlatinum
SynadiaPlatinum
ValkeyPlatinum
Seventh StateGold
AhrefsPartner
meshIQNetwork Party Sponsor
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Agenda

Selected from 1 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    10 Ways to Stop an Erlang VM

    Erlang systems are meant to be running non-stop. But sometimes you just need to get out of the VM and that may be a little… let’s say… unintuitive. Do you have an Erlang VM that y…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 24 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

24 companies. four are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
4All threespeak · spons · exh
5Sponsoringsponsor only
15Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

AWS·Seventh State·meshIQ·Synadia

Speakers by seniority

27% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite620%
  • VP-level27%
  • Manager / Lead827%
  • Product13%
  • Engineer · IC723%
  • Other roles620%

Of 30 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01AWSSp·P3V
  2. 02IBM MQ5V
  3. 03Seventh StateSp·G2V
  4. 04meshIQSp·N1V
  5. 05SynadiaSp·P1V
  6. 06AhrefsSp·P
  7. 07CloudAMQPSp·P
  8. 08EMQSp·P
  9. 09IBMSp·P
  10. 10ValkeySp·P
  11. 1184codes2V
  12. 12Amazon MQ2V
  13. 13Confluent2V
  14. 14Amazon1V
Sponsors by tier
platinum6
67% of 9
gold1
11% of 9
network party sponsor1
11% of 9
partner1
11% of 9
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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