About
LavinMQ Code Summit is a free, one-day event where students, companies, and curious minds come together to build side by side. You don't need to be a developer to join.
Bring your ideas, your energy, or just your curiosity. Join us for a day of collaboration, great connections, and new ideas.
Come, have fun, build something, win prizes!
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LavinMQ Code Summit 2026
October 15th
Sara Kulturhus, Skellefteå, Sweden
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We welcome you
Students
Calling all students studying programs related to programming, such as game development, AI, UX/design, or computer science! Join us for a fun and educational challenge where you can put your skills to the test, learn something new, and gain valuable experience that can benefit your future career.
Companies
If your company develops IT solutions in-house, is a SaaS company that manages some or all of its underlying architecture, or is an IT consultancy looking to expand its knowledge base, this summit is for you. Meet key members of the LavinMQ team, network with regional companies and students, and learn something new. Why not turn it into a team-building day for your colleagues?
Tech enthusiasts
Whether you're a coding enthusiast working on personal projects or simply curious about the possibilities of IoT, the LavinMQ Code Summit welcomes you. You don't need to be an expert—even basic programming skills and/or a passion for innovation are enough. Connect with fellow creative minds, explore new technologies, and take your interests to the next level!
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The essentials
How to get there
Coming from another city? We’ll cover your travel costs if you travel by bus. Just keep your receipt and we’ll reimburse you!
Teams
At our hackathons, software developers, AI experts, innovative and creative minds, and process experts come together to explore how to optimize business processes using message queueing, AI, and other powerful technologies — all within a fun and inspiring environment.
We will admit 15 teams.
Team size: No limit!
Team Composition: Teams must have at least two members that cover insights in AI, back-end, front-end and user experience expertise. If you are lacking one of these we will help you find what you need.
Experts will be on site to offer ideas, guidance, and feedback to all teams
Solo applicants: Just apply and we will assign you to a team.
Already got a team? Make sure every member registers individually and specifies the team they belong to. This helps us understand who belongs to each team and ensures we can communicate effectively with all participants.
Code of Conduct
Respect, welcome, and collaboration are the cornerstones of this event. We celebrate diversity and the sharing of knowledge and experiences. Abusive behavior will not be tolerated. Let's uplift and inspire each other, focusing on learning together rather than competing.
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The challenges
This year's hackathon features three challenges exploring different ways technology can be used to solve real-world problems.
The challenges will be revealed at the start of the hackathon, so you'll have the full day to come up with an idea, build your solution, and prepare your presentation.
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Message Broking in Action by LavinMQ
Explore ideas and reason about how messaging could be used to solve a problem.
No previous experience with LavinMQ is required.
For those who want to get hands-on, we'll provide a step-by-step tutorial where you can work with temperature and humidity sensors and use LavinMQ to handle the data.
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AI - Smart Service Desk by Ductus
Explore how AI and messaging technology can be combined to tackle service desk challenges and make handling support requests smarter and more efficient.
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IoT - Enabling A Lifelong Rural Community, by Skellefteå Science City
Explore how technology can help make home-care in rural areas smarter, more efficient, and better equipped to handle the future demographic challenge - More elderly, limited resources, long distances and changing needs.
Use real-time sensor data, IoT, AI, and edge computing to tackle this challenge.
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The jury
Meet the people judging this year's challenges. More jury members will be announced closer to the event.
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Mia Wallmark Nylund
Senior Business Advisor at Arctic Business Incubator
I spent 15 years in the digital industry, working with global brands including Google, Netflix and adidas in both Sweden and the US. For the past four years, I’ve brought that experience into the startup world, working closely with founders across Northern Sweden.
Today, I work at Arctic Business, where we support innovative startups on their journey from early-stage ideas to scalable businesses. Since its founding 20 years ago, Arctic Business has supported more than 200 startups.
I love working with people who are passionate about their ideas and determined to make them happen, and I can’t wait to discover which ideas from the hackathon could grow into something bigger.
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Stefan Vallin
Product Lead at Avassa
Stefan Vallin leads product at Avassa, where he works closely with the engineering team to shape the roadmap for edge application orchestration — a space getting more interesting by the day as workloads move closer to where the physical world happens, enabling physical AI. He's spent most of his career in product management, with stops at Tail-f, Cisco, Netrounds, and Juniper, and also served as CTO at Data Ductus. Stefan holds a Ph.D. in Network Management and once moonlighted as an assistant associate professor at Luleå University of Technology
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Lovisa Johansson
CMO at 84codes/LavinMQ
Lovisa Johansson works with message queuing and distributed systems, with hands-on experience in open-source brokers like RabbitMQ and LavinMQ. She's the author of "RabbitMQ Essentials" and "The Optimal RabbitMQ Guide," and teaches through real-world examples, breaking down complex topics into practical, actionable steps.
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The schedule
08:00 AM
Door open + registration + breakfast
09:00 AM
Welcome key note + Challenge presentation
10:00 AM
Challenge starts
01:00 PM
Lunch
05:00 PM
Presentations
06:00 PM
Dinner + After Party
08:00 PM
Award ceremony
09:00 PM
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We strongly believe in partnerships and would love to welcome more organizations to participate in the day. We see only opportunities when we work together to highlight the technical innovation in our region.
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