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RubyConf 2026

oin RubyConf 2026 in Las Vegas, July 14–16, for three days of Ruby talks, live coding, and community events. Grab your ticket and connect with fellow developers.

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43Voices

13Underwriters

0Exhibitors

10On the bill · sessions

38Companies · in total

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The Voices

Programmed at RubyConf, in alphabetical order.

Alan Ridlehoover

Sr. Engineering Manager · Cisco

Alexander Baygeldin

Backend Engineer · Evil Martians

Alicia Rojas

Software developer · Telos Labs

Allison Pike

Cofounder & writer of Once a Maintainer · Infield

Allison Pike, Colby Swandale, Jeremy Evans, & Richard Schneeman

Once A Maintainer · Panel Discussion

Amir Rajan

DragonRuby LLP

Andy Andrea

Lead Software Developer · Panorama Education

Antônio Paulino

Software Engineer · Codeminer42

Brandon Weaver

Senior Software Engineer · Amazon OneMedical

Cameron Dutro

Software Engineer · Cisco Meraki

Carolyn Cole

Princeton University Library

Colby Swandale

Technical Lead · Ruby Central

Dalma Boros

Rails Engineer, WNB.rb Organizer

Dave Thomas

Ancient Programmer

David Gillis

Founder · flipmine.com

Edy Silva

Developer Relations · Codeminer42

Fito von Zastrow

Staff Software Engineer · Cisco Meraki

Gabriel Quaresma

Software Engineer · Codeminer42

Gannon McGibbon

Staff Engineer · Shopify

Hilary Stohs-Krause

Senior Software Engineer · Red Canary, a Zscaler company

Jeremy Evans

Ruby committer · Ubicloud

Joé Dupuis

Senior Software Consultant · Test Double

— and 21 more, by name unsung —

§II

Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

§III

The Programme

Selected from 10 sessions on the bill.

Tuesday, July 14 10:30 AM
AI-assisted coding: lessons from small startups to legacy codebases
The pace and breadth of change with AI coding tools is overwhelming, and it seems like every day there are dozens of new developments and emerging capabilities. We'll share lessons…
Tuesday, July 14 10:30 AM
Stop Fighting Ruby I18n: Message Format Is All You Need
Ruby I18n tries to do the simplest thing that works in the most common situations. But do you know all of the pitfalls and trip-ups hiding within? What if there was an alternative …
Tuesday, July 14 10:30 AM
The Anatomy of an ERB Rendering Engine
ERB is one of Ruby’s oldest and most widely used technologies, yet many Ruby developers only have a vague mental model of how it actually works. In this talk, we take a deep dive i…
Tuesday, July 14 11:15 AM
Implementing Core Set
Historically, Ruby's Set class was in the standard library. Starting in Ruby 3.2, the Set standard library was autoloaded by default. In Ruby 4.0, Set is now implemented as one of …
Tuesday, July 14 11:15 AM
Ready: 12x Faster Ruby CLIs Through Spectacular Overengineering
Ruby is a fantastic tool for CLIs, as long as you're ok waiting 100-1000ms for them to boot. What if you didn't have to wait? What if you could get Rust or C speeds instead? Perhap…
Tuesday, July 14 12:00 PM
Each All the Way Down: How Ruby Enumerators Power Streaming in gRPC Ruby
What is an Enumerator, and how can it be used for streaming data? While learning about streaming handlers in gRPC Ruby, I found that the docs mention returning an Enumerator, but w…
Tuesday, July 14 12:00 PM
From cores to queues: parallelizing Ruby tests the right way
Your test suite takes 25 minutes. But you have 8 cores. So it should take 3 minutes, right? If only it were that simple! Whether you're on Minitest or RSpec, running tests in paral…
Tuesday, July 14 2:00 PM
Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Design Patterns and Best Practices
Command-line applications are ubiquitous in modern development workflows, powering tools for cloud services, developer automation, and AI-assisted development. Ruby’s expressive sy…
Tuesday, July 14 2:00 PM
Makeover Monday 💅✨: How a Weekly Ritual Transformed Our Codebase and Culture
Whenever I’m asked why I like Ruby, my answer is always simple and always the same: because she’s cute. That's my tongue-in-cheek nod to the community's shared sentiment that Ruby'…

Intermission

Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 38 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

“38 companies. one are betting more than once.”

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House

1All threespeak · spons · exh

12Sponsoringsponsor only

0Exhibitingexhibitor only

25Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Infield

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

9% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

C-suite25%
Founder / Owner25%
Manager / Lead1228%
Engineer · IC2047%
Other roles716%

Of 43 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room

№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier

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100% of 13

RubyConf 2026

AI-assisted coding: lessons from small startups to legacy codebases

Stop Fighting Ruby I18n: Message Format Is All You Need

The Anatomy of an ERB Rendering Engine

Implementing Core Set

Ready: 12x Faster Ruby CLIs Through Spectacular Overengineering

Each All the Way Down: How Ruby Enumerators Power Streaming in gRPC Ruby

From cores to queues: parallelizing Ruby tests the right way

Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Design Patterns and Best Practices

Makeover Monday 💅✨: How a Weekly Ritual Transformed Our Codebase and Culture

“38 companies. one are betting more than once.”