J On The Beach 2026

J On The Beach is a developer conference held in Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol, bringing together engineers working with big data, distributed systems and the JVM ecosystem. The 2026 edition runs across two days in late October, combining technical deep dives with workshops led by practitioners rather than vendors. The conference has built a reputation for substantive content over sponsor-driven programming, attracting backend engineers, data architects and platform teams from across Europe. Sessions typically cover Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, functional programming and the operational realities of running data infrastructure at scale. The beachside setting in southern Spain is deliberate: the organisers position it as a conference where the hallway track matters as much as the stage, with attendees staying in the same area and continuing conversations well past the closing session. For teams travelling to Torremolinos, accommodation sits within walking distance of the venue, and most international attendees arrive via Málaga airport, roughly twenty minutes away. Hoperfy can handle hotel booking and speaker accommodation for events of this size.