MQ Summit

The MQ Summit schedule is live! @adipolak.bsky.social opens the conference with her keynote: When Software Starts Talking to Itself. Two days plus a hands-on labs track, Haarlem and online, 21-22 October 2026. Full lineup in this thread. Join us: mqsummit.com/#register #MQSummit #Messaging

Closing notes in the Grote Zaal. Two days, one stage, every flavour of broker, and no vendor war. Thank you for being here, and for watching from wherever you are 💜 #MQSummit

Closing panel in the Main Room: the future of the open source messaging ecosystem, with Matt Pavlovich (HYTE, ActiveMQ PMC) and JB Onofré, who's involved in around twenty Apache projects. Bring your hardest question. #MQSummit #OpenSource

Kafka, but the stakes are the lights staying on across Norway. Herman Jakobsen (Statnett) on controlling the Norwegian power grid in real time. Main Room. #MQSummit #Kafka

Last coffee break of MQ Summit 2026. Then: Kafka controlling the Norwegian power grid in real time (Main Room, 15:40) and a panel on the future of open source messaging at 16:15, also in the Main Room. #MQSummit

The real cost of a messaging platform rarely shows up on the invoice. Scott Corrigan (meshIQ) is in the Main Room with 'The Hidden Operational Cost of Messaging Platforms'. #MQSummit #Kafka

A very Dutch case study for a conference in Haarlem: Jeroen van Disseldorp (Axual) and Guy Hagemans (AppyThings) on taking PostNL from API polling to event streaming. Main Room, now. #MQSummit #Kafka

The @mqsummit.bsky.social social media team is absolutely fantastic. Benchmark performance for any conference.

In Labs (PHIL Café): @clemens.vasters.com (Microsoft) with 'Introducing JSON Structure'. Schemas for your messages, hands-on, in person only. #MQSummit #JSON

JMS, meet RabbitMQ, by way of AMQP 1.0. @ansd.xyz, RabbitMQ core tech lead, is in the Main Room with 'Bringing JMS to RabbitMQ: AMQP 1.0 and Cross-Broker Interoperability'. #MQSummit #RabbitMQ

Last Lab of MQ Summit 2026: @clemens.vasters.com (Microsoft) introducing JSON Structure, 13:30 in PHIL Café. If you've ever fought with a message schema, bring a laptop. In person only. #MQSummit #JSON

Day 2 of MQ Summit, and one more thank you to everyone who made these two days possible: AWS, @synadia.bsky.social, EMQ, CloudAMQP, IBM, @valkeyio.bsky.social, Solace, @seventhstate.bsky.social, HYTE, meshIQ and @ahrefs.bsky.social. #MQSummit

Lunch 🍽️ At 13:30: @ansd.xyz on JMS and AMQP 1.0 in RabbitMQ (Main Room) and @clemens.vasters.com introducing JSON Structure in Labs (PHIL Café). Then PostNL on moving from API polling to event streaming. #MQSummit

"Harvest now, decrypt later" means messages captured today could be read once quantum hardware catches up. Rob Parker (IBM MQ) is in the Main Room with 'The Quantum Threat Is Here... Is Your Messaging Ready?' #MQSummit #PostQuantum

Is your MQ engineer about to be replaced? Lajos Gerecs and John Samuel from Seventh State are in the Main Room with 'How Do You Eliminate an MQ Engineer? Addressing the Elephant in the Room'. #MQSummit #RabbitMQ

In Labs (PHIL Café): 'Hands-On with Agent Mesh: Powering AI Coordination with Events' with Hari Rangarajan from Solace. AI agents coordinating over events, and you get to build it. In person only. #MQSummit #Solace

'Resilient Messaging... How Hard Can It Be?' Those three dots are doing a lot of work. Jon Rumsey from IBM MQ is in the Main Room now. #MQSummit #IBMMQ

Coffee break. At 10:50: Jon Rumsey asking how hard resilient messaging can really be (Main Room), and a hands-on Agent Mesh Lab with Hari Rangarajan from Solace in PHIL Café. #MQSummit

Lightning Talks in the Main Room now ⚡ Short, sharp, and over before your coffee gets cold. #MQSummit #Messaging

Welcome back. Day 2 of MQ Summit starts in the Grote Zaal with a word from the sponsors who make this possible, then Lightning Talks at 9:20. #MQSummit

Day 2 of MQ Summit. On the menu: Lightning Talks at 9:20, the quantum threat to messaging, JMS on RabbitMQ, Kafka at PostNL and on the Norwegian power grid, and an open source panel to close. Grote Zaal, from 9:00. #MQSummit #Kafka

That's a wrap! Watch the highlights of Day 1 at MQ Summit 2026!

Network Drinks are on, thanks to meshIQ 🥂 Find the speaker you wanted to catch after their talk. This is the moment. #MQSummit

Closing notes for Day 1 in the Grote Zaal. Next: Network Drinks at 17:45, sponsored by meshIQ. The talks are over. The queues vs. logs arguments are not. #MQSummit

Last talk of Day 1: Christopher Coco (Verrus) rebuilding gRPC's patterns on NATS with CloudEvents and Tower. Request/reply over pub/sub, Main Room, now. #MQSummit #NATS

At sea, "the network is down" isn't an incident, it's the weather. @krital.bsky.social (MAPS Messaging) is in the Main Room with messaging lessons from autonomous systems at sea. #MQSummit #Kafka

Part two of today's queues vs. logs debate. @gamussa.dev (Confluent, co-author of Kafka in Action) is in the Main Room with 'From Queues to Logs and Back Again'. #MQSummit #Kafka

In Labs (PHIL Café): 'End-to-End Encryption Standard' with Matt Pavlovich (HYTE, ActiveMQ PMC) and Rob Parker (IBM). Encryption that holds up across every hop, hands-on. In person only. #MQSummit #Security

Coffee break. At 15:40: @gamussa.dev going from queues to logs and back again (Main Room), and an End-to-End Encryption Standard Lab in PHIL Café. After that: messaging at sea, and gRPC patterns on NATS. #MQSummit

Queue or log? It's the question behind half the architecture debates in this building. Ali Alemi and Edward Berezitsky from AWS are in the Main Room with 'Queues vs. Logs: Choosing the Right Backbone for Event-Driven Architectures'. #MQSummit #Kafka

Queues were boring infrastructure, right up until AI workloads needed somewhere to wait. Lovisa Johansson (84codes) is in the Main Room with 'The Return of the Message: Why the AI Boom Needs Message Queues to Survive'. #MQSummit #AI

MQ Summit is on, thanks to our sponsors. Platinum: AWS, @synadia.bsky.social, EMQ, CloudAMQP, IBM, @valkeyio.bsky.social, Solace. Gold: @seventhstate.bsky.social. Silver: HYTE. Network Party: meshIQ. Partner: @ahrefs.bsky.social. #MQSummit

In Labs (PHIL Café): 'Get Hands-on with the IBM MQ AI Agent' with Richard Coppen, Jon Rumsey and Chris Leonard from IBM. In person only, and yes, you get to try it yourself. #MQSummit #IBMMQ

RabbitMQ streams, but infinite. Michael Davis is in the Main Room with 'Bringing Infinite Streaming to RabbitMQ'. If you've ever had to choose between retention and disk space, you'll want to hear this. #MQSummit #RabbitMQ

Lunch 🍽️ Back at 13:30 with Michael Davis on infinite streaming in RabbitMQ (Main Room) and a hands-on IBM MQ AI Agent Lab in PHIL Café. Then at 14:05, Lovisa Johansson on why the AI boom needs message queues. #MQSummit

Haven't tried the Labs yet? They're in PHIL Café, in person only, and they're where you actually build things. This afternoon: the IBM MQ AI Agent at 13:30 and the End-to-End Encryption Standard at 15:40. Bring a laptop. #MQSummit

What does a broker need when the clients are AI agents? Vignesh Selvam from Amazon MQ has a list of five. Main Room: '5 Capabilities Your Broker Needs for Agentic Workloads'. #MQSummit #AI

MQ Summit 2026 is here! Welcome to Haarlem. #MQSummit #MQSummit2026

Never quite sure what an exchange actually does? Labs (PHIL Café), right now: 'Introduction to RabbitMQ' with @rhodin.bsky.social and @loissotolopez.bsky.social from 84codes. In person, laptops out. #MQSummit #RabbitMQ

Running MQTT at scale? The EMQ team is at their stand by the Kleine Zaal, talking EMQX: pub/sub, queues and streams in one MQTT platform. Come say hello between talks. Thank you to EMQ, Platinum Sponsor of MQ Summit. #MQSummit #MQTT