The frontier of
builders, in one room.
Three days where the people actually shipping the future show their work. No keynote theater. Real architecture, real failures, real demos, and the best hallway track in tech.
Where ideas get deployed.
Festival-grade production. Conference-grade depth.
Not another slide deck conference.
We built Summit for people who ship. Every session has to teach you something you can use on Monday, or it doesn't make the program.
Build, don't watch
16 hands-on labs where you ship something real with the engineers who wrote the tools. Bring a laptop, leave with a repo.
Frontier-only talks
Speakers reveal architecture and numbers they've never shared publicly. We review every deck so the substance is real.
The hallway track
Curated matchmaking, founder dinners, and a quiet zone. The connections are the product. The talks are the excuse.
One ticket, all tracks
No paywalled workshops, no upsells on the floor. Your pass covers every stage, every lab, and the recordings for life.
Hybrid by design
Can't fly to Berlin? The live stream is a real production with its own host, captions, and interactive Q&A, not a webcam.
Year-round access
Your badge unlocks the Summit community, monthly online sessions, and early-bird pricing on next year, forever.
48 speakers. Zero filler.
Engineers, founders, and researchers building the systems everyone else reads about. Here's a first look at the headliners.
Dr. Naomi Adekunle
VP of AI Infrastructure
Mateo Rivera
Founder & CTO
Priya Venkatesh
Principal Eng, Realtime
Jonas Lindqvist
Creator of OpenMesh
Amara Okafor
Head of Design Eng
Leo Tanaka
Distinguished Engineer
Sofia Marchetti
DX Lead
Daniel Kwon
Founder
An agenda engineered for momentum.
Mornings for headline talks, afternoons for hands-on labs, evenings for the connections that change careers.
Opening Keynote: The Next Decade of Compute
Designing Systems That Survive Their Own Success
Lab: Ship a Realtime Backend in 90 Minutes
Curated Lunch & Founder Roundtables
The Real Cost of Developer Experience
Opening Night: Rooftop Mixer
Keynote: Building Driftwave to 50M Users
Inside OpenMesh: Lessons From a Decade of OSS
Lab: Fine-tune & Deploy a Model on the Edge
Lunch & Sponsor Demo Floor
Design Engineering as a Competitive Moat
Panel: Scaling Teams Without Losing the Plot
Lightning Demos: 8 Startups, 8 Minutes Each
Lab Marathon: Build & Pitch a Working Prototype
Lunch & Open Office Hours With Speakers
Prototype Showcase & Audience Vote
Closing Keynote: What We Owe the Next Builders
Farewell & Summit 2027 Reveal
Why people come back every year.
92% of past attendees rebook before they leave the venue. Here's what they tell us.
I closed a hiring round and a partnership in the hallway before lunch on day one. The talks were excellent, but Summit is really a connection machine.
The labs alone were worth the ticket. I rebuilt our deploy pipeline from a workshop I sat in. No other conference has paid for itself that fast.
Finally a tech event that respects your time. Every session had substance. I came back to my team with three things we shipped that quarter.
Built with the teams shaping the stack.
The companies behind the tools you use every day help make Summit happen.
Interested in sponsoring? Request the partner deck →
Early-bird pricing, ends Aug 1.
One ticket, every stage, every lab, lifetime recordings. Prices rise 30% after early-bird closes.
Stream
Watch every talk live from anywhere with interactive Q&A.
- All 3 stages, live & on-demand
- Interactive Q&A and live captions
- Lifetime access to recordings
- Summit community membership
- In-person labs & venue access
- Founder dinners & mixers
Full Access
The complete in-person experience. Everything, nothing held back.
- Everything in Stream, included
- All 3 days, in-person in Berlin
- Reserved seats at all 16 labs
- Curated matchmaking & 1:1s
- Rooftop mixer & demo floor
- Summit swag kit & meals
Team
Bring the whole crew. Best value for engineering teams of 5+.
- Everything in Full Access
- 15% off for every seat
- Private team lab booking
- Dedicated team concierge
- Invoiced billing & PO support
- Reserved team table at dinner
Students & nonprofits get 50% off. Money-back guarantee through Sept 1.
Everything you need to know.
Summit 2026 runs October 14–16 at the STATION Berlin event hall in Berlin, Germany. Doors open at 08:00 each day. A full live stream runs in parallel for remote attendees in every timezone.
Every ticket covers all three stages, the lightning demos, and lifetime access to recordings. Full Access and Team passes add in-person venue access, reserved seats in all 16 hands-on labs, the matchmaking program, meals, the rooftop mixer, and a swag kit.
Yes. Full refunds are available through September 1, 2026, no questions asked. After that you can transfer your ticket to a colleague at any time for free, right up until the event begins.
Each lab lists a difficulty tier in the app so you can plan your day. Most assume working familiarity with one programming language and a laptop with a modern editor. Lab hosts and TAs are on hand throughout, so nobody gets left behind.
Students and registered nonprofits receive 50% off any ticket with valid verification. Teams of five or more get our Team rate, which is 15% off per seat plus invoiced billing, a private lab booking, and a dedicated concierge.
Every main-stage talk and most labs are professionally recorded and uploaded within 48 hours. Recordings stay in your account for life, so your ticket keeps paying off long after the lights go down in Berlin.
Berlin is filling up. Lock in early-bird.
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