Registration for the IT Picnic 2026 is open

T-Bank has opened registration for the IT Picnic, an annual summer festival for the IT community, which will be held on August 8 at the Kolomenskoye Museum Reserve. For the fourth time, the festival will bring together 30,000 IT professionals, their friends and families at an open-air venue.

The program includes lectures and discussions about technology, interactive events from IT partners, family activities, socializing areas and a large musical lineup. IT specialists from various fields can take part: developers, testers, engineers, architects, analysts, team leaders, project and product managers, designers.

The festival will feature venues and activities for industry participants, as well as for their friends and families.:

• Lectures and discussions with experts range from engineering productivity and working with data to cybersecurity, generative AI, and popular science topics.
• Interactivity from IT partners: technical discussions, expert consultations, technical and logical tasks, technology demonstrations and other activities.
• Spaces for networking and communication with colleagues from different companies.
• Workshops and activities for the whole family: scientific experiments, sports competitions, music labs, chess tournaments and educational programs.
• Music all day: performances by famous artists and musical groups created by IT specialists.

The business program of the festival includes lectures and discussions on engineering productivity, data and analytics, digital product creation, cybersecurity, generative artificial intelligence and popular science topics. Experts from leading IT companies will perform on the stages, sharing their practical experience and real-world cases.

The stands of the IT partners will work at the festival site. Guests will be able to get acquainted with the company's teams, take part in interactive events, attend technical meetings and expert consultations, as well as discuss technologies, products and career opportunities.

Special networking spaces will be opened for communication and dating, where you can meet colleagues from different companies, find like-minded people and make new professional contacts.

The IT Picnic traditionally retains the format of a family festival. Dozens of children's and family areas will be open for guests, where everyone can find something to do according to their interests. The program includes master classes, scientific experiments, sports competitions, chess tournaments, music laboratories, educational projects and game activities for children and adults.

A musical program will accompany the guests throughout the day. The headliner of the IT Picnic 2026 will be LAB with Anton Belyaev, a musical show by Anton Belyaev and the Therr Maitz team, in which famous artists perform popular songs in new arrangements accompanied by an orchestra and choir. The names of the other participants of the music line-up will be announced later.

The festival will also once again host the IT Apartment Complex, a separate stage for musical groups created by technology industry specialists. This year, seven groups will perform at the IT Apartment Complex, which will be selected based on the results of the Open Call. The jury will include the Pompeya group, music journalist Nikolai Redkin and the IT Picnic team. In addition, one of the bands will have the opportunity to perform with Pompeya on the main stage of the festival.

Registration for the IT Picnic is open from June 15th. To participate, you must register on the website.