Agenda

Thursday, 04 - 09:00
1 Session

Doors Open

Sep 04 - 09:00 to 09:45
Beurs Van Berlage
09:45
1 Session

Opening Keynote

David Heinemeier Hansson

Rails Core
Rails 8
Sep 04 - 09:45 to 11:00
Track 1
11:15
2 Sessions

Startup Speed, Enterprise Scale: Rails Powers 3k Events/Sec Throughput

Austin Story

Senior Engineering Director, Product Platform
Rails
Architecture
Sep 04 - 11:15 to 11:45
Track 2

Multi-Tenant Rails: Everybody Gets a Database!

Mike Dalessio

Software Developer & Gummi Bear Lover
Multi-Tenancy
SQLite
Databases
Sep 04 - 11:15 to 11:45
Track 1
11:45
1 Session

Lunch, sponsored by Codeminer42

Sep 04 - 11:45 to 13:00
Sponsor Lounge
12:00
1 Session

Lightning Talks - 1

Sep 04 - 12:00 to 13:00
Lightning Track
13:00
2 Sessions

Teaching Rails with the Real Thing: Onboarding Engineers into a (Massive) Monolith

Katarina Rossi

Staff Software Engineer
Onboarding
Education
DevEx
Sep 04 - 13:00 to 13:30
Track 2

SQLite Replication with Beamer

Kevin McConnell

Lead Programmer
SQLite
Sep 04 - 13:00 to 13:30
Track 1
13:45
2 Sessions

Resumable Jobs with Active Job Continuations

Donal McBreen

Lead Programmer (Security, Infrastructure and Performance)
Rails 8
Active Job
Deployments
Sep 04 - 13:45 to 14:15
Track 2

Beyond the Prompt: Building Real-World LLM Features in Rails

Kinsey Durham Grace

Software Engineer on Copilot
AI
LLMs
AI Agents
Sep 04 - 13:45 to 14:15
Track 1
14:15
2 Sessions

30 minute break

Sep 04 - 14:15 to 14:45
Throughout the venue

Lightning Talks - 2

Sep 04 - 14:15 to 14:45
Lightning Track
14:45
2 Sessions

From Chaos to Clarity: Structured Event Reporting in Rails

Adrianna Chang

Staff Software Engineer
Rails Internals
Structured Logging
Data Analysis
Sep 04 - 14:45 to 15:15
Track 2

Taming the Beast: Safely Managing Database Operations in Rails in a Team of 100s

Miles McGuire

Staff Engineer
Rails at Scale
Performance
Sep 04 - 14:45 to 15:15
Track 1
15:15
2 Sessions

30 min break

Sep 04 - 15:15 to 15:45
Throughout the venue

Lightning Talks - 3

Sep 04 - 15:15 to 15:45
Lightning Track
15:45
2 Sessions

Active Record 8: Resilient by Default

Hartley McGuire

Rails Issues Team & Senior Developer
Active Record
Sep 04 - 15:45 to 16:15
Track 2

The $1B Rails Startup: Scaling from 0 to Unicorn in Four Years

Jack Sharkey

CTO / Co-Founder
Rails at Scale
Startup
Sep 04 - 15:45 to 16:15
Track 1
16:30
1 Session

Day 1 Closing Keynote: Hotwire Native - A Rails Developer’s Secret Tool for Building Mobile Apps

Joe Masilotti

The Hotwire Native guy
Hotwire
IOS
Android
Hotwire Native
Sep 04 - 16:30 to 17:30
Track 1
18:00
1 Session

(Unofficial) Backer Bars

Social
Sep 04 - 18:00 to 23:00
Amsterdam
Friday, 05 - 09:00
1 Session

Doors Open

Sep 05 - 09:00 to 09:45
Beurs Van Berlage
10:00
1 Session

Ruby & Rails - a Chat between Maintainers

Aaron Patterson

Rails Core

Hiroshi Shibata

Ruby Maintainer & OSS committer, ANDPAD, Inc.

Jean Boussier

Senior Staff Engineer, Rails Core

Robby Russell

CEO, Planet Argon
Rails
Ruby
Sep 05 - 10:00 to 11:00
Track 1
11:15
2 Sessions

Ruby Stability at Scale

Peter Zhu

Ruby Core committer, Staff Developer
Ruby
Monitoring
Observability
Stability
Sep 05 - 11:15 to 11:45
Track 1

Rails Under a Microscope: Diagnosing Slowness at the Byte Level

Snehal Ahire

Lead Software Engineer
Ruby
Performance
Memory
Garbage Collection
Sep 05 - 11:15 to 11:45
Track 2
11:45
1 Session

Lunch, sponsored by Codeminer42

Sep 05 - 11:45 to 13:00
Sponsor Lounge
12:00
1 Session

Lightning Talks - 4

Sep 05 - 12:00 to 13:00
Lightning Track
13:00
2 Sessions

Reading Rails 1.0 Source Code

Masafumi Okura

Freelance Ruby/Rails developer
Rails 1.0
Sep 05 - 13:00 to 13:30
Track 2

Make Rails AI-Ready by Design with the Model Context Protocol

Paweł Strzałkowski

CTO
AI
MCP
LLMs
Rails
Sep 05 - 13:00 to 13:30
Track 1
13:45
2 Sessions

Beyond the Basics: Advanced Rails Techniques

Chris Oliver

Founder
Rails
Sep 05 - 13:45 to 14:15
Track 1

Bringing Offline Mode to Hotwire with Service Workers

Rosa Gutierrez

Principal programmer
Hotwire
Service Workers
Sep 05 - 13:45 to 14:15
Track 2
14:15
3 Sessions

30 minute break

Sep 05 - 14:15 to 14:45
Throughout the venue

Rails Core Office Hours

Sep 05 - 14:15 to 14:45
Pair Programming Zone

Lightning Talks - 5

Sep 05 - 14:15 to 14:45
Lightning Track
14:45
2 Sessions

Passkeys Have Problems, but So Will You If You Ignore Them

Jason Meller

VP, Engineering
Security
Authentication
Phishing
Sep 05 - 14:45 to 15:15
Track 2

Introducing ReActionView: An ActionView-Compatible ERB Engine

Marco Roth

Independent Consultant, Toolsday GmbH
View
Sep 05 - 14:45 to 15:15
Track 1
15:15
2 Sessions

30 min break

Sep 05 - 15:15 to 15:45
Throughout the venue

Lightning Talks - 6

Sep 05 - 15:15 to 15:45
Lightning Track
15:45
2 Sessions

Lessons from Migrating a Legacy Frontend to Hotwire

Radan Skoric

Lead Software Engineer
Hotwire
Turbo
Stimulus
React
Sep 05 - 15:45 to 16:15
Track 2

LLM Evaluations & Reinforcement Learning for Shopify Sidekick on Rails

Andrew McNamara

Director Applied ML, Shopify

Charles Lee

Staff Engineer, Shopify
AI
LLMs
Rails
Architecture
AI Agents
Machine Learning
Sep 05 - 15:45 to 16:15
Track 1
16:30
1 Session

Closing Keynote

Aaron Patterson

Rails Core
Rails Internals
Rails
Sep 05 - 16:30 to 17:30
Track 1
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