KotlinConf 2026 Report

Every year I’m looking forward to the KotlinConf, my favorite conference. And this one was very special for me, as it took place in Munich, my hometown.

The first surprise awaited on the highway approaching the convention center. The roadsigns shown the directions to the conference!

The conference started for me on Wednesday with the workshop. It was an updated version of the workshop we did with my colleague Martón last year. It went smooth this year as well, with a genuine interest of all attendees.

We were off for a good start! And when I was sitting at the reception after the workshop, decompressing from the whole day of talking, another colleague asked me if I can help with the Coding Challenge. I agreed and spent next two days commentating the blind coding competition.

But before that, we started with an hour long keynote, featuring days and months of work of hundreds people at JetBrains and other companies to make the Kotlin Ecosystem the best for development on all platforms.

The conference is, of course, a bubble of like-minded people. So nobody asked a question “why should I use Kotlin?”, they were rather asking “can I use it in scenario A on a platform B?”, which is exciting and terrifying at the same time. We absolutely realistically cannot support that many scenarios and platforms. But we’ll do our best!

At the end of the second day I was even happier than at the start of the conference, but absolutely exhausted. Most of my colleagues who worked at the conference felt the same, but we had a great afterparty nevertheless.

Thanks to the public holiday on Monday, I had a long weekend to recover. And now, I already can’t wait when and where the KotlinConf 2027 opens it doors.

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