diff --git a/examples/example-jvm/pom.xml b/examples/example-jvm/pom.xml
index 8832ab3ff4..f5f0e4b681 100644
--- a/examples/example-jvm/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/example-jvm/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <kotlin.version>1.3.30</kotlin.version>
+        <kotlin.version>1.6.0</kotlin.version>
         <serialization.version>0.11.0</serialization.version>
         <kotlin.compiler.jvmTarget>1.8</kotlin.compiler.jvmTarget>
     </properties>