RustConf 2026: Full Schedule

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09:00 EDT

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT

Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

What does it actually mean to bet a company on a particular programming language? Seven years ago, Bryan Cantrill helped start Oxide Computer Company with Rust at the center of that bet, and spent the years since finding out the answer to this question.
In this talk, Bryan will share how his thinking about Rust has evolved, from the earliest infatuation to the honeymoon to the many ups and several downs of a long, deep relationship with the language, tested across bootloaders, an operating system, a hypervisor, a distributed storage system, a network operating system, compilers, and debuggers. Bryan will get into where he thinks Rust is strong, where it still has real gaps, and what he thinks the language and ecosystem need to prioritize as Rust moves further into systems’ future.

Speakers

Bryan Cantrill

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Oxide Computer

Bryan Cantrill is a software engineer who has spent three decades at the hardware/software interface. He is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, which builds rack-scale computers for the post-cloud era. Prior to Oxide, he spent nearly a decade at Joyent, a cloud computing... Read More →

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT
Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Keynotes

16:35 EDT

Fireside Chat - Stewarding Rust & Python

Thursday September 10, 2026 16:35 - 17:20 EDT

Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

What does it take to steward two of the world's most widely used programming languages — and what can Rust and Python learn from each other?
To close RustConf 2026, the executive leaders of the Rust Foundation and the Python Software Foundation sit down for a candid conversation on the challenges facing open source communities today: AI's impact on language ecosystems, cross-ecosystem interoperability, security priorities, governance lessons, and how to lead global communities in a rapidly changing world.

Speakers

Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Executive Director, Rust Foundation

Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant and researcher with governments, parliaments and development agencies all over the world, advocating for openness and transparency, and developing... Read More →

Deb Nicholson

Executive Director, Python Software Foundation

Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation which serves as the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She has previously served the open source ecosystem through... Read More →

Thursday September 10, 2026 16:35 - 17:20 EDT
Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Keynotes