Ruby

Rails World 2026

Rails World is a two-day, two track community conference featuring technical talks, demos, networking, and keynotes about the latest features and best practices in Rails development. The event gathers over 1200 Rails developers for presentations and discussions shaping the future of Ruby on Rails.

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30Speakers
42Sponsors
49Sessions
54Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Rails, in alphabetical order.

Aaron Patterson
Senior Staff Engineer · Shopify
Alicia Rojas
Software developer · Telos Labs
Andrew Novoselac
Developer · Shopify
Arely Rivera
Lead Product Designer · Telos Labs
Daniela Velasquez
Senior Software Engineer · Shopify
David Heinemeier Hansson
37signals
DHH
CTO · 37signals
Donal McBreen
Lead Programmer · 37signals
Enrique Mogollan
Software Engineer · Handshake
Jason Swett
Host · Code with Jason Podcast
Jenny Shen
Senior Developer · Shopify
Jeremy Smith
Owner · HYBRD
Joël Quenneville
Principal Developer · thoughtbot
Jorge Manrubia
Principal Programmer · 37signals
Jorge Manrubia Díez
37signals
Josef Strzibny
Ruby Developer Advocate · SerpApi
Kevin McConnell
Lead Programmer · 37signals
Kinsey Durham Grace
Copilot Coding Agent Engineering · GitHub
Marco Roth
Independent Consultant & Open Source Contributor · Independent
Michelle Yuen
Organizer · ChicagoRB
Mike Dalessio
Open-source maintainer · 37signals
Nathan Hessler
Organizer · AustinRB

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

1Password
37signals
AppSignal
Avo
Baytek
Beyond Finance
Buzzsprout
Cedarcode
Chime
Clio
Cookpad
Crunch Loop
Dell
Doximity
Fleetio
Fullscript
GiftHealth
GitHub
Gusto
Huntress
Intercom
JetBrains
Judge.me
Judoscale
makandra GmbH
Planet Argon
PlanetScale
Planning Center
Poll Everywhere
Procore
Renuo
RWX
Saeloun
SerpApi
Shopify
Sorcer
TableCheck
Test Double
thoughtbot
TRMNL

Agenda

Selected from 49 sessions.

  • 10:00 AM

    AI and the future of Ruby & Rails - a chat with Matz & DHH

    Join Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson for a conversation on the future of AI, Ruby, and Rails. They'll discuss how AI is changing s…

    KEYNOTE
  • 10:00 AM KEYNOTE

    AI and the future of Ruby & Rails - a chat with Matz & DHH

    Join Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson for a conversation on the future of AI, Ruby, and Rails. They'll discuss how AI is changing s…

  • 1:00 PM

    Durable orchestration on Rails: from continuation to workflow

    Rails 8.1 shipped Active Job Continuation so long-running jobs survive restarts and resume from a checkpoint. This was a real step forward, but can only be the beginning. The workf…

    TRACK 2
  • 1:00 PM

    Herb in Rails 8.2: Your ERB views, now HTML-aware

    With teams, companies, and open source projects adopting Herb in their daily workflows, the foundation is proving itself at scale and is on track to become an opt-in view engine in…

    TRACK 1
  • 1:00 PM

    Practical Hotwire: Stimulus & Turbo on the Ground

    Curious about Stimulus and Turbo? Already using Hotwire, but seeking out solid practices? Join this guided tour through a variety of examples and techniques, with commentary on the…

    TRACK 2
  • 1:00 PM

    Shipping is your heartbeat: Rails in the agentic era

    In 2013, Fin's CTO wrote that shipping is your company's heartbeat - software only starts learning when it reaches customers. In the agentic era, that heartbeat has to get stronger…

    TRACK 1
  • 1:00 PM TRACK 1

    Herb in Rails 8.2: Your ERB views, now HTML-aware

    With teams, companies, and open source projects adopting Herb in their daily workflows, the foundation is proving itself at scale and is on track to become an opt-in view engine in…

    TRACK 1
  • 1:00 PM TRACK 1

    Shipping is your heartbeat: Rails in the agentic era

    In 2013, Fin's CTO wrote that shipping is your company's heartbeat - software only starts learning when it reaches customers. In the agentic era, that heartbeat has to get stronger…

    TRACK 1
  • 1:00 PM TRACK 2

    Durable orchestration on Rails: from continuation to workflow

    Rails 8.1 shipped Active Job Continuation so long-running jobs survive restarts and resume from a checkpoint. This was a real step forward, but can only be the beginning. The workf…

    TRACK 2
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 54 companies show up, and 6 bet on three roles at once?

54 companies. six 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.

Who's in the room
6All threespeak · spons · exh
36Sponsoringsponsor only
12Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

37signals·Shopify·thoughtbot·GitHub·Planet Argon·SerpApi

Speakers by seniority

13% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite27%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • Director / Head of13%
  • Manager / Lead723%
  • Engineer · IC930%
  • Other roles1033%

Of 30 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
137signalsSponsor7
2ShopifySponsor4
3thoughtbotSponsor2
4GitHubSponsor1
5Planet ArgonSponsor1
6SerpApiSponsor1
71PasswordSponsor-
8AppSignalSponsor-
9AvoSponsor-
10BaytekSponsor-
11Beyond FinanceSponsor-
12BuzzsproutSponsor-
13CedarcodeSponsor-
14ChimeSponsor-
Sponsors by tier
unspecified42
100% of 42
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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