Online Services Summit 2026
Fifth Online Services Summit
Stockholm, 4 November 2026
Hosted by Pragma and Avalanche Studios
This year's event is hosted by Avalanche Studios, who have been building and running online open worlds for over two decades, including theHunter: Call of the Wild, now in its ninth year.
"We are glad to welcome senior online services engineers to our office on 4th November for the Online Services Summit with Pragma. Supporting live online worlds is central to our work, and we look forward to hosting the industry's technical leaders"
said Stefanía Halldórsdóttir, CEO at Avalanche Studios Group.
A one-day gathering for engineering leaders working on online services in games.
Now back for it's fifth event, the Online Services Summit brings together backend and online engineers from studios across Europe to talk through what's hard right now, what's changing, and what people are doing about it. Previous editions have included teams from Ubisoft, Massive, Bulkhead, Epic, Unity, Arrowhead and Mediatonic, among others.
What to expect
The day mixes keynotes, fireside chats, panels and roundtables, with plenty of time between sessions to talk. No sales pitches, no vendor hall. Just people who build and run online games comparing notes.
Topics typically cover things like live service architecture, matchmaking and lobbies, scaling for launch, player data and telemetry, cross-platform accounts, cost and infrastructure, and the organisational side of running online teams.
Who it's for
Backend and online services engineers, tech leads, engineering managers and directors at game studios and publishers. Attendance is by invitation and approval. If you work in this space and would like to attend, request a spot and we'll be in touch.
Details
Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
Location: Stockholm, Västgötagatan 5, 118 27
Format: Full day, talks and networking, food and drinks provided
Cost: Free for approved guests
Questions, or interested in speaking? Get in touch at adam@pragma.gg