
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.

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
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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

KUMO COMMUNITY DINNER
Paris, 27 October 2026
Join the Kumo Community in the city of lights for another unforgettable dinner.
KUMO PARTICIPATION: HOST

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

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
Our Team
45 Years Of Collective Email Experience
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.
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.
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.