Hybrid conference for engineers building production web systems, with an in-person day at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam on June 11, 2026 and a remote day on June 15. 57 speakers, 1,500 in-person and 10,000+ remote attendees, organised by GitNation.
The Web Engineering Summit is a hybrid conference for full-stack web engineers. The 2026 edition ran in-person at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam on June 11 and online on a separate remote day, June 15. It drew 57 speakers, 1,500 in-person attendees, and 10,000+ remote attendees. The programme covered full-stack web engineering, system design, reliability, observability, performance, and developer experience. It is organised by GitNation.
The summit addressed the engineering side of building and running web systems at scale: system design, reliability, observability, performance, and developer experience, alongside broader full-stack engineering. The hybrid format split the in-person Amsterdam day on June 11 from a dedicated remote day on June 15.
The Web Engineering Summit is run by GitNation, which also operates a portfolio of JavaScript and engineering conferences. The summit extends that brand into full-stack system design and web engineering.
The 2026 edition had two separate days: an in-person day in Amsterdam on June 11 and a remote-only day on June 15, letting both local and global audiences take part.
The 2026 edition reported 1,500 in-person attendees and 10,000+ remote attendees, with 57 speakers.
De Kromhouthal is an event venue in Amsterdam-Noord, a former shipyard hall used for conferences. The in-person day was held there on June 11, reached by ferry across the IJ from Amsterdam Centraal.
GitNation organises developer and engineering conferences across Europe and online. The Web Engineering Summit is its full-stack web engineering event, run alongside other GitNation conferences including TechLead Conf at the same De Kromhouthal venue.
GitNation extends its JavaScript conference brand into full-stack system design, and the 2026 roster, with engineers from Netflix, Sentry, PayPal, and Syntax.fm, signals genuine senior-practitioner ambition rather than a front-end framework showcase.
Registration ran through GitNation at gitnation.com. Public pricing for the 2026 edition was not disclosed by the organiser. The event has now taken place; this fiche documents the 2026 edition for reference.
De Kromhouthal is in Amsterdam-Noord, reached by a free ferry across the IJ from Amsterdam Centraal followed by a short walk.
The remote day on June 15 was an online-only programme, separate from the in-person Amsterdam day on June 11, reaching the 10,000+ remote audience.
Public pricing for the 2026 edition was not disclosed by the organiser. Check gitnation.com for details.
| Official website | https://gitnation.com |
| Register | https://gitnation.com |
| Programme | https://gitnation.com |