Matt is the CTO of HYTE and Apache ActiveMQ PMC member.
Committer and contributor to various Apache integration-related projects and recently lead the development of JMS 3.1/2.0 support and the Jakarta conversion that is now available in ActiveMQ v6.
After successfully switching to Apache integration projects as an alternative to commercial offerings in-house, Matt spent a decade helping other organizations adopt those technologies.
Matt now heads up the engineering at HYTE, which offers a solution for deploying a self-service messaging platform in Kubernetes powered by ActiveMQ.
This session will bring together technical leaders looking to publish a standard (or quasi-standard) for performing end-to-end encryption across various messaging platforms.
Message-level encryption provides a higher grade of security for applications that use shared environments, multi-tenancy, and public cloud services. Currently, there is limited industry collaboration around definition of goals and publishing of specification or guidelines for applications to perform end-to-end encryption across various messaging protocols and platforms.
The goal of this session is to carry over drive-by conversations from MQ Summit 2025 and begin to lay down a roadmap.
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Messaging and event streaming sit at the heart of modern distributed systems, yet the landscape has never been more diverse—or more fragmented. Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ continue to power countless enterprise integration and transactional workloads, while Apache Kafka has become synonymous with high-throughput event streaming and the backbone of many data platforms. Alongside them, projects like Apache Pulsar, NATS, and a new generation of protocols and brokers are reshaping expectations around scalability, multi-tenancy, and the convergence of messaging with streaming and storage. This panel brings together maintainers and practitioners from across the open source messaging world to discuss where the ecosystem is heading. How do classic message brokers stay relevant in a streaming-first world? Is the line between “messaging” and “event streaming” disappearing, and what does that mean for the projects and the standards (AMQP, MQTT, the Kafka protocol) that underpin them? How are communities responding to cloud-native deployment, Kubernetes, tiered storage, and the pull toward the lakehouse and unified data architectures? And what role do open governance and healthy contributor communities play in keeping these projects vibrant? Join us for a candid conversation about the technical challenges, the competitive and collaborative dynamics between projects, and the opportunities that lie ahead for developers building on open source messaging infrastructure.
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