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About Kumo

Events & Meetups

Connect with the KumoMTA community through  events, conferences, community meetups, regional dinners, and online events. Learn from the engineers building the platform, exchange ideas with fellow MailOps professionals, and stay up to date on what's happening across the MailOps community.


Canadian email summit 1000 px wide

THE CANADIAN EMAIL SUMMIT

Toronto, 24 September, 2026

Bringing together Canadian marketers, email specialists, and digital leaders to share practical strategies, case studies, and emerging trends.

KUMO PARTICIPATION: SPONSOR | SPEAKER | ATTENDING

Learn more >

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M3AAWG68 

Paris, 26-29 October 2026

General meeting of anti-abuse community dedicated to fighting malware, spam, and cyber threats

KUMO PARTICIPATION: ATTENDING 

Learn about M3AAWG >

Community SupperClub

KUMO COMMUNITY DINNER

Paris, 27 October 2026

Join the Kumo Community in the city of lights for another unforgettable dinner.

KUMO PARTICIPATION: HOST 

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Mautic Conference

MAUTIC WORLD CONFERENCE

London, 4 November,  2026

Bringing together Mautic end-users, marketers, developers,  and open-source contributors from around the globe.

KUMO PARTICIPATION: SPONSOR 

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emailexpert forum

EMAILEXPERT FORUM

London, 16-17 November,  2026

Where email senders, marketers, engineers and strategists come together — the whole industry in one place. 

KUMO PARTICIPATION: SPONSOR |  PRESENTING | ATTENDING

Learn more >

Our Team

45 Years Of Collective Email Experience

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Co-Founder

Wez Furlong

With 25 years of experience in distributed and large-scale systems engineering, including as lead engineer and architect on a top-performing commercial MTA, Wez brings his depth of experience at building high-performance, scalable systems to architect and develop KumoMTA.

Wez's software handles billions of interactions per day at many different sites, across email, web and source control.

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Co-Founder

Mike Hillyer

Mike has been working in on-prem email infrastructure since 2006 across multiple organizations including EmailNinjas, an on-prem email infrastructure consulting firm that he founded and successfully exited.

Mike has led multiple global remote teams involved in on-prem infrastructure and as a Product Manager, he's had a hand in the evolution of three on-prem MTAs and two cloud email relay offerings.

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Co-Founder

Tom Mairs

Tom has over thirty years of experience in technology as a leader, consultant, administrator, and Customer Success expert, with the last fifteen years spent in the on-prem and cloud email infrastructure industry.

Tom has led global teams responsible for the sales and support of multiple MTA and cloud email infrastructure products and is passionate about customer success.