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San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026

San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026 is the second annual gathering of 450 Ruby and Rails engineers and founders in San Francisco. Over three days, attendees will participate in talks, networking groups, interactive activities, and founder roundtables. The event emphasizes both technical deep dives and meaningful networking, including unique formats fo…

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98Speakers
39Sponsors
154Sessions
93Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at San, in alphabetical order.

Adrian Marin
Founder · Avo
Alan Ridlehoover
Senior Engineering Manager · Cisco
Albert Pai
CTO · bolt.new
Alexander Baygeldin
Evil Martians · Evil Martians
Alex Coomans
Software Engineer at Persona - Infrastructure Team · Persona
Alex Kalderimis
Senior Software Engineer · Bolt.new
André Arko
Founder · Spinel
Andrey Novikov
Evil Martians
Andy Wang
Founder · Finta
Arjun Singh
Founder · Superconductor
Auston Bunsen
Founder and CEO · AccessGrid
Avinash Joshi
Founder · Cactus
Bart de Water
Founding Engineer · Thatch
Ben Sheldon
Co-founder and CTO · Frontdoor Benefits
Brad Gessler
Founder · Terminalwire
Brandon Shar
Staff Software Engineer · ezCater
Brandon Weaver
Senior Software Engineer · Amazon One Medical
Brian Knoles
CTO · Bellawatt
Brian Moseley
Founder · Sixfold
Brian Scanlan
Intercom · Intercom
Brittany Martin Springer
Software Engineering Manager · RoadRunner
Cameron Dutro
Cisco Meraki · Cisco Meraki

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

37signalsTravel Sponsor
AngelList
AppSignalCoffee Sponsor
AvoRuby Passport Booth
Beyond FinanceEmerald
Bolt.new
BuildkitePickaxe
ChatwootEmerald
ChimeEmerald
Cisco
CodeRabbitSpeaker Dinner Sponsor
DevITjobsMedia Sponsor
ezCater
FastRuby.ioEmerald
FinRuby Tier
Finta
GitButler
GustoTravel Sponsor
Hack Club
HatchboxTravel Sponsor
Intercom
LaravelRuby
Laravel CloudRuby
MuxCommunity Sponsor
Omada
Order.coEmerald
PersonaRuby Passport Booth
PlanetScale
RebulkTravel Sponsor
ShopifyTravel Sponsor
SpeedshopMedia
SumItEmerald
SuperconductorRuby
Temporal
Thatch
Tidewave AI
TRMNLEmerald
TypesenseRuby Tier
WorkOSRuby Tier

Agenda

Selected from 154 sessions.

  • Aug 2026

    Fair by Design: Orchestrating Background Jobs in Ruby

  • Aug 2026

    garnet-js: Implementing the YARV Virtual Machine

  • Aug 2026

    The Anatomy of an ERB Rendering Engine

  • Feb 2025

    Active Agent - An Open-Source AI Framework for Rails

  • Feb 2025

    Hexagonal Architecture and Rails

  • Feb 2025

    How We Built a Bank with Ruby on Rails

  • Feb 2025

    Lessons from 5 Years of UI Architecture at GitHub

  • Jan 2026

    Derailing Our Application: How and Why We Are Decoupling Our Code from Rails

  • Jan 2026

    Rails Expertise, Distilled: AI Agents That Get Your Monolith

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 93 companies show up, and 18 bet on three roles at once?

93 companies. eighteen 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
18All threespeak · spons · exh
21Sponsoringsponsor only
54Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Superconductor·bolt.new·Cisco·Gusto·Intercom·Shopify·37signals·AngelList·Avo·ezCater·Finta·Hack Club·Order.co·Persona·PlanetScale·Rebulk·Thatch·Typesense

Speakers by seniority

38% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1717%
  • Founder / Owner1717%
  • Director / Head of33%
  • Manager / Lead1818%
  • Engineer · IC1313%
  • Other roles3031%

Of 98 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Evil Martians7
2SuperconductorSponsor · Ruby3
3bolt.newSponsor2
4CiscoSponsor2
5GustoSponsor · Travel Sponsor2
6IntercomSponsor2
7ShopifySponsor · Travel Sponsor2
837signalsSponsor · Travel Sponsor1
9AngelListSponsor1
10AvoSponsor · Ruby Passport Booth1
11ezCaterSponsor1
12FintaSponsor1
13Hack ClubSponsor1
14Order.coSponsor · Emerald1
Sponsors by tier
coffee sponsor1
3% of 39
community sponsor1
3% of 39
emerald7
18% of 39
media1
3% of 39
media sponsor1
3% of 39
pickaxe1
3% of 39
ruby3
8% of 39
ruby passport booth2
5% of 39
ruby tier3
8% of 39
speaker dinner sponsor1
3% of 39
travel sponsor5
13% of 39
unspecified13
33% of 39
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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