We’re looking for speakers who can share practical insights, bold ideas, and real-world experience from the world of messaging systems. Whether you're deep in the guts of a broker, building tools around them, or using MQ technologies at scale in production, we want to hear from you.

MQ Summit 2025 is a one-track in-person conference. Speaking slots are either 40 minutes, which includes a minimum 10-minute Q&A or 25 minutes with a 5-minute Q&A.

RECOMMEND US OR RECOMMEND A SPEAKER

Do you know any researchers, programmers or experts who are a part of groups traditionally underrepresented in IT (due to gender, ethnicity or any other reason) and whose work you can recommend to our committee? Please let them know that our CFP is open and that we’d love to see their work! You can suggest their name in the form if you want us to check them out and possibly invite them.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Your talk should be submitted by 23:59 CST on 15 June 2025.
• You will be informed about the status of your submission by 31 July 2025.

THEMES & TOPICS

What We’re Looking For:

✅ Deep dives into messaging systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Pulsar, NATS, Amazon SQS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and more

✅ Case studies of large-scale implementations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

✅ Innovations in messaging, event-driven architectures, and hybrid cloud strategies

✅ Security, observability, and best practices for running reliable messaging infrastructure

✅ Tooling, interoperability, and evolving standards in the MQ ecosystem

✅ Trends in how messaging tech is enabling:

 • Cloud-to-edge architectures

 • AI-powered systems

 • Smart manufacturing

 • Connected vehicles

✅ Exploring messaging patterns in a point-to-point centric world:

 • Pub/Sub, M:N, push vs. pull

 • Messaging core vs. HTTP shell

 • Art of the possible with modern message exchange approaches

Is your presentation slightly outside that scope? Amaze and inspire us with your submission!

WHO SHOULD SUBMIT?

Developers, architects, SREs, DevOps engineers, technical leaders, and anyone passionate about messaging systems! Whether you’re working with one technology or bridging multiple tools, we’d love to hear from you.

BENEFITS FOR SPEAKERS

All speakers get:

• conference attendance free of charge
• an invitation to all the accompanying events (speakers’ dinner, reception, lunch, et cetera)
• free beverages at the reception
• other small tokens of our appreciation.
• 15% discount code to share with your network to buy conference tickets (Super Early Bird excluded)

The programme committee is also happy to help out with talk delivery, give early-stage feedback and get the speaker ready for the conference.

SELECTION

The MQ Summit programme committee will review, rate, and select submissions based on:

• Insights to be learned
• Relevance and timeliness of the presentation to message queuing
• Presenter credentials and expertise.
• Diversity in the agenda - have we already accepted a talk on the same subject?
• Diversity in the line-up - we want to make sure we have speakers from different communities and groups.

Your title and abstract should sell your talk to attendees and reviewers. The abstract should answer the questions: "Why should I attend this talk?" and "What will I learn?"

TIPS FOR SUBMITTING

Never spoken at conferences before and are unsure if you should, and what should you talk about? Noel Rappin has a good article on this here: https://noelrappin.com/blog/2014/01/conference-prompts-or-how-to-submit-proposals-and-influence-people/

"1. A conference that was limited to only people that really thought they were the most qualified person to talk would be depressing, if not completely horrific.

2. You are absolutely the most qualified person to tell me what you think on a particular topic.

3. This is how you become qualified. You study something, you teach it to other people."

What mistakes to avoid when submitting a talk? Noel Rappin also has an answer in this article: https://noelrappin.com/blog/2014/03/what-i-learned-from-reading-429-conference-proposals/.

In short: clearly identify your topic, be respectful of everyone, be interesting, but also self-aware, don't pitch your company, and submit early and often. We could also add to that - think if this conference audience is the right one for your talk (and why?).

Need more tips? We recommend Sarah Mei's article "What Your Conference Proposal is Missing": http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/

CODE OF CONDUCT

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct.

PRIVACY

Code Sync (by Erlang Solutions) care about your data and privacy. By submitting this form, you agree that your data will be processed according to Code Sync privacy policy. You can opt out anytime from the emails you receive from us. You also agree to your submission (all the form fields) being shared with our committee members, using this Sessionize platform, who will be reviewing your submission. If your submission is successful, you agree to us adding your profile to our conference platform: Swap Card.

Plus invitation to all the accompanying events: speakers' meet-up/dinner, afterparty, pre-conference meet up etc.