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Tuesday, September 8
 

08:00 EDT

Registration and Badge Pickup
Tuesday September 8, 2026 08:00 - 18:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Tuesday September 8, 2026 08:00 - 18:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Registration

09:00 EDT

Workshop 1: Practical Actor-Based Concurrency in Async Rust (Additional Registration Required)
Tuesday September 8, 2026 09:00 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Asynchronous Rust makes it possible to build highly concurrent systems—but structuring shared state correctly remains one of the most common sources of complexity for intermediate Rust developers. Even when code compiles, subtle contention, accidental locking across `.await`, and `Send + Sync` constraints can make larger systems difficult to reason about.This workshop explores actor-based design...
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Speakers
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Herbert Wolverson

Rust Trainer, Ardan Labs
Herbert is the author of Hands-on Rust, Rust Brain Teasers and the Rust Roguelike Tutorial. Herbert teaches Rust with Ardan Labs, from zero-to-hero.
Tuesday September 8, 2026 09:00 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Workshops

09:00 EDT

Workshop 2: Hello, Kernel! Linux Driver Development in Rust - Part 1 (Additional Registration Required)
Tuesday September 8, 2026 09:00 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Rust is entering the Linux kernel, bringing memory safety and modern tooling to low-level systems programming. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn how to build a Linux kernel with Rust support enabled, set up a complete development environment targeting both x86-64 and aarch64, and write a practical Rust-based misc device driver. We’ll explore kernel-space inter-process communication...
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Speakers
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Alexandru Radovici

Assistant Professor, Politehnica University of Bucharest
Alexandru Radovici is an Associate Professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, where he introduced the first Rust-based embedded systems development course. He has been contributing to Tock for almost six years and has also founded and run several companies delivering industrial-grade... Read More →
Tuesday September 8, 2026 09:00 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Workshops

09:00 EDT

Workshop 3: Using Advent of Code as an FFI Playground (Additional Registration Required)
Tuesday September 8, 2026 09:00 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Using Advent of Code (AoC) puzzles as the substrate, participants build a working Rust FFI library from scratch, wrapping a real AoC solution in a C glue layer and calling it from multiple different target languages. By the end of the workshop, attendees leave with a working multi-language project, a replicable methodology, and hands-on intuition for the pitfalls that make production FFI hard.AoC...
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Speakers
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Alyssa Evans

Staff Software Engineer, Ditto
Alyssa Evans is a Staff Engineer specializing in production Rust FFI across Swift, Android/Java, and other target platforms. Less than two years after first writing Rust, she was hired for her FFI expertise at Ditto, a company with 5+ years of production Rust SDK experience. Her work... Read More →
Tuesday September 8, 2026 09:00 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Workshops

13:30 EDT

Workshop 4: C→Rust, Beyond the Basics (Additional Registration Required)
Tuesday September 8, 2026 13:30 - 17:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Rewriting a C codebase in Rust isn’t a big bang: it’s a marathon, where you execute a series of small, deliberate steps. This workshop teaches you how to do it incrementally, based on hard-won lessons from migrating production C codebases over to Rust.We’ll start with FFI fundamentals (repr(C), bindgen, cbindgen), move to writing correct extern “C” interfaces, then work through a 4-step...
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Speakers
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Luca Palmieri

Principal Engineering Consultant, Mainmatter
Luca Palmieri builds technology products for a living. His current focus is on backend development, software architecture and the Rust programming language.
He currently works at MainMatter as a Principal Engineering Consultant. He partners with teams across the industry to make s... Read More →
Tuesday September 8, 2026 13:30 - 17:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Workshops

13:30 EDT

Workshop 5: Hello, Kernel! Linux Driver Development in Rust - Part 2 (Additional Registration Required)
Tuesday September 8, 2026 13:30 - 17:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
This workshop is an extension to “Hello, Kernel! Linux Driver Development in Rust – Part 1”. We aim to go beyond purely software-based examples by introducing embedded devices connected over USB. This will allow participants to experiment with Rust driver development against real, external hardware, and better understand how Rust fits into common kernel subsystems used in practice.These...
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Speakers
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Alexandru Radovici

Assistant Professor, Politehnica University of Bucharest
Alexandru Radovici is an Associate Professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, where he introduced the first Rust-based embedded systems development course. He has been contributing to Tock for almost six years and has also founded and run several companies delivering industrial-grade... Read More →
Tuesday September 8, 2026 13:30 - 17:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Workshops
 
Wednesday, September 9
 

08:00 EDT

Registration and Badge Pickup
Wednesday September 9, 2026 08:00 - 18:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Wednesday September 9, 2026 08:00 - 18:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Registration

09:00 EDT

Opening Remarks
Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
An introduction to RustConf 2026 from your host, the Rust Foundation!
Speakers
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Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Executive Director & CEO, Rust Foundation
Dr. Rebecca Rumbul leads the Rust Foundation as Executive Director & CEO. She holds a Ph.D. 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... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Keynotes

09:15 EDT

Keynote: Rust Adoption at Scale With Ubuntu
Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:15 - 09:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
When Ubuntu 25.10 shipped with Rust-based rewrites of core system packages like coreutils and sudo, it marked the first milestone toward making memory-safe utilities the default in Ubuntu. In this talk, Jon Seager charts the journey behind that decision, including the motivation, tradeoffs and surprises along the way. Canonical has now shipped Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, the first long term support release...
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Speakers
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Jon Seager

VP of Engineering, Canonical
Jon is VP Engineering at Canonical, where he leads the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Foundations, and Debcrafters teams. He conceived and led the "Oxidizing Ubuntu" initiative, making Ubuntu 25.10 the first major Linux distro to replace its coreutils and sudo implementations with Rust-based... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:15 - 09:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Keynotes

10:05 EDT

Project Update: Bringing Rust into Python
Wednesday September 9, 2026 10:05 - 10:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
In the last few years, Python users started looking at Rust as an alternative for building Python modules. It can deliver performance on par with C with a developer experience much closer to Python. Late last year, two members of the Python Core team proposed integrating Rust into the CPython interpreter and standard library. The Rust Project reached out with support, and established an ongoing...
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Speakers
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Tomáš Šedovič

Rust Program Manager
Tomas has worked in tech for over 20 years, most of it on free and open source software (OpenStack and Kubernetes). More recently, he managed a team making hardware access manageable (Ironic project), and later on, building Linode Kubernetes Engine.

He picked Rust up in 2013, th... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 10:05 - 10:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Project Updates

10:35 EDT

☕️ Morning Break
Wednesday September 9, 2026 10:35 - 11:05 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Wednesday September 9, 2026 10:35 - 11:05 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breaks

11:05 EDT

"Rust: Batteries Included" — Inside Volvo Cars' SmartCell, The Next-Gen EV Battery
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
SmartCell is Volvo Cars’ new AC battery technology, marking a breakthrough in EV development by eliminating complex components like the inverter and onboard charger. This simplifies the drivetrain, reduces cost, and enables a cleaner architecture by shifting more intelligence into the battery itself — and this is where Rust comes in. Building on our experience bringing Rust into production...
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Speakers
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Julius Gustavsson

Expert, System Architect, Volvo Car Corporation
Julius Gustavsson has well over 20 years of experience developing embedded systems software spanning multiple industries from consumer electronics and telecommunications to avionics and automotive. Shortly before joining Volvo Cars he had discovered Rust and became convinced of its... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:05 EDT

Good or Bad Vibes? Coding with AI in Rust
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
AI-assisted Rust code writing is increasing in prevalence in both open-source and production environments. Recent LLM models can write Rust that compiles, passes tests and may look idiomatic, yet there can be underlying issues. Crate maintainers may frequently encounter "vibe-coded" contributions: code that is syntactically correct but architecturally un-idiomatic. Get ready to contribute! This...
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Speakers
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Lisa Crossman

Bioinformatics Consultant, SequenceAnalysis.co.uk
Lisa Crossman is originally a Lab Biologist with a wealth of experience in scientific research and programming. She has a degree in Microbiology from University of Bristol, UK, MSc in Molecular Genetics from the University of Leicester and a PhD in Bacterial Genetics and Molecular... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:05 EDT

Zngur: Simplified Rust/C++ Integration
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
A good C++ interop solution is essential for organizations migrating new development to Rust on their large, existing C++ codebases. While popular solutions exist, they often require unsafe-Rust expertise or make assumptions about the code being exposed. These problems are compounded when you add experienced C++ engineers to the mix who are Rust novices. Zngur, a relatively new Rust/C++ interop...
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Speakers
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David Sankel

Principal Scientist, Adobe
David Sankel leads Adobe's Software Technology Lab, which is charged with improving software development across the industry through training, research, and library/tool design. He is an active member of Rust's t-lang/interop working group and the C++ Standardization Committee. His... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:55 EDT

Detecting Borrow and Provenance Bugs Across Unsafe Rust and C/C++ Interoperability
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Rust’s ownership system eliminates many memory errors at compile time, yet real-world systems routinely bypass these guarantees through unsafe code, raw pointers, and foreign interfaces to C/C++. In these contexts, failures often stem not from simple memory faults but from violations of Rust’s semantic aliasing and provenance rules, which may remain invisible to conventional debugging methods....
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Speakers
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Joannah Nanjekye

Researcher, Canergie Mellon University
Joannah Nanjekye is a programming languages researcher/ special faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research spans programming language design, optimization and garbage collection. She is the author of the book, Python 2 and 3 Compatibility, published by Apress, but has also... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:55 EDT

Fearless Concurrency on the GPU
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
This session introduces a novel open source Domain-Specific Language (DSL) that enables developers to author high-performance GPU kernels directly in safe Rust. The DSL employs a tile-based programming model targeting the Tile IR open source MLIR dialect, allowing developers to focus on algorithms that decompose large tensor-based computations into smaller tile-based ones. By automating memory...
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Speakers
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Melih Elibol

Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Melih Elibol is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, where he works on programming systems for GPU computing. He created cutile-rs, a safe Rust DSL for tile-based CUDA kernels. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, where he focused on distributed systems for machine learning.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:55 EDT

Replacing #[cfg] with Traits: The Inlinable Dyn Extension Trait Pattern
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Library authors often face a painful trade-off: support optional features via a labyrinth of compile-time #[cfg] gates, or rely on stubbed defaults and API toggles that push feature negotiation to runtime - at the expense of binary bloat and runtime assertions. This talk explores a third option: the "Inlineable Dyn Extension Trait" (IDET) pattern. By leveraging Rust's type system and modern...
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Speakers
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Daniel Prilik

Systems Software Engineer, Meta
Daniel is a Systems Software Engineer who has been writing Rust since 2017. He is the author of `gdbstub`, and a former core dev on the OpenVMM project.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

12:35 EDT

🍴 Lunch Break
Wednesday September 9, 2026 12:35 - 14:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Wednesday September 9, 2026 12:35 - 14:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breaks

14:00 EDT

Compiling the Linux Kernel with gccrs
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
After five years of intense development and focus on the standard library, the gccrs project is now finally able to compile existing production Rust code - with our first major milestone being the Linux kernel. This talk will narrate the journey that the compiler underwent in order to handle the difficult Rust standard library as well as various crates within the kernel. We will explore curious...
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Speakers
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Pierre-Emmanuel Patry

Compiler Engineer, Embecosm
Toolchain engineer at Embecosm and lecturer at EPITA, Pierre-Emmanuel has been involved with GCC for three years. His work mostly revolves around the Rust frontend and the RISCV backend.
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Arthur Cohen

Compiler Engineer, Embecosm
Arthur is a French compiler engineer working full-time on the gccrs project at Embecosm. He is responsible for many of the bugs within the macro expansion and name resolution passes of the frontend.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:00 EDT

Reverse Engineering Rust Malware in 2026
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
In the past several years, professional malware reverse engineers have come to a terrible realization: They need to learn how to reverse Rust programs. The widespread adoption of Rust has not only led to an increase in legitimate software targets to study and examine for vulnerabilities, but also an explosion in malware written in Rust. This talk is a survey of the reverse engineering landscape...
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Speakers
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Cindy Xiao

Security Researcher, Decoder Loop
Cindy Xiao is an experienced malware analyst, security researcher, and software developer. She has given talks and workshops on malware reverse engineering at leading cybersecurity conferences, including RECon, RE//verse, and NorthSec. Cindy is the founder of Decoder Loop, a training... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:00 EDT

Tokio, Rayon, and the GPU: Profiling a Radiology AI Pipeline in Rust
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
How do you go about profiling and optimizing a performance-critical medical AI system in Rust? This talk presents a case study of porting a radiology AI system from Python to Rust, a system that had been shown to boost radiologist productivity by up to 40% in a study, but that relies on high-performance ingestion and processing of data to deliver these results. This resulting system leverages...
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Eric Karl

Principal Solutions Architect, Northwestern Medicine
Eric Karl is the technical lead for the ARIES Radiology project at Northwestern Medicine. He has led a push to leverage Rust in Northwestern Medicine's AI efforts.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:50 EDT

From C++ APIs to Idiomatic Rust: Wrapper Design Patterns
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
In this talk, we’ll walk through a practical example of wrapping a real C++ library and show repeatable design patterns for: modelling ownership and lifetimes, mapping error handling into Result, defining safe abstraction boundaries, and minimising unsafe surface area. We’ll also discuss how generated bindings (e.g., Crubit-style tools) accelerate interop, and why wrapper design still requires...
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Speakers
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Divya Chakarwarti

Software Engineer, Core Dev Rust Team, Google
Divya is a software engineer at Google’s Core Dev Rust team, focused on developing safe wrappers, C++/Rust interoperability, and scaling Rust in production.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:50 EDT

The Future of Rust in Academia
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Discover Rust's potential to shape the future of software engineering in academia! In this talk, we'll explore why Rust’s safety, performance, and growing industry demand make it the ideal language for modern curricula, empowering students to explore fundamentals, e.g. low-level hardware and language design, and thus preparing them best to build the future.
Speakers
avatar for Mordecai Etukudo

Mordecai Etukudo

Software Engineer, Rust Africa
Mordecai Etukudo is a software engineer and community leader driving Rust adoption in academia and open-source to empower the next generation of developers.
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Bart Massey

Portland State University, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Bart Massey is a 26-year Portland State University Assistant CS Professor with a PhD in AI. He has taught Rust, Embedded Rust and Rust Web to many students over about eight years. Bart is the founder and current director of Rust-Edu (https://rust-edu.org), promoting and improving... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:50 EDT

Unsafe Rust
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
This presentation explores the role of Unsafe Rust in systems programming and its implications for safety-critical software. Rust is designed to provide memory safety and prevent common programming errors through its ownership and borrowing model. However, certain low-level operations require the use of unsafe code, which introduces risks such as undefined behavior (UB) and under-specified...
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Robert C. Seacord

Standardization Lead, Woven by Toyota
Robert C. Seacord is the Standardization Lead at Woven by Toyota where he works on the Software Craft.   Robert is the convenor of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 international standardization working group for the C programming language.Previously, Robert was a Technical Director at... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

15:30 EDT

☕️ Afternoon Break
Wednesday September 9, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Wednesday September 9, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breaks

16:00 EDT

Listening to the Radio with Rust
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
The radio spectrum is full of signals: FM music stations, aircraft transponders, ham radio repeaters, and even an atomic clock broadcasting the exact time. With a $30 USB dongle and some Rust code, you can tune in to all of it. This talk is an introduction to software-defined radio (SDR) through the lens of Rust. We'll start with what's actually out there on the airwaves: the surprisingly rich...
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Speakers
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Thomas Eckert

Software Engineer, Redpanda Data
Thomas is a software engineer at Redpanda Data in Ottawa. He's written Rust since 2018 and recently fell down the software-defined radio rabbit hole.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

16:00 EDT

Migrating RediSearch from C to Rust - Challenges and Techniques
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Cybersecurity is more prominent than ever. Rust offers the perfect opportunity to modernize your companies tech stack, address tech debt, get shiny new developer features while also addressing security needs. But rewriting is big and scary. It can massively increase complexity, slow down engineering and put features at risk. We want to share our learnings from helping a client, RediSearch, migrate...
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Jonas Kruckenberg

Senior Software Engineering Consultant, Mainmatter
Jonas is an engineer at Mainmatter and creator of the k23 operating system. He has helped people to build fast, secure, cross-platform desktop apps through his work on Tauri and is deeply involved in open-source, local-first, and humane software. Outside of code, he sings in classical... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

16:00 EDT

When Safe Code is Fast - Scientific Computing in Rust
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Bounds checking is slowing Rust down, the borrow checker prevents performant data structures, and existing libraries in C++ and Fortran have had too many decades of optimizations to just catch up with them - we have heard it all. But, what if we don’t listen? In this talk, we’ll explore two new features of the Rust standard library: computing derivatives via std::autodiff, and running code on...
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Manuel Drehwald

PhD Student, University of Toronto

Manuel is a PhD student in the Matter Lab at the University of Toronto. He is working on adding new features to LLVM and the Rust compiler, in order to support Scientific Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), and Machine Learning applications in Rust. In previous groups, Man... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

16:50 EDT

Redox OS Update and Demo
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:50 - 16:55 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Redox OS is a Unix-like operating system written in Rust and community developed. Redox is intended to be a complete alternative to Linux, for the cloud and desktop. We will provide an overview of new features and recent progress, and give a quick demo of programs running on Redox.
Speakers
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Ron Williams

President, Redox OS Nonprofit
Ron is the president of the Redox OS nonprofit, and frequent technical contributor. Ron has over 30 years of experience in the software industry, and is now focusing his energy on helping make Redox a success.

Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:50 - 16:55 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

16:55 EDT

Building Rust Africa: From Community to Continent Scale Institution
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:55 - 17:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Rust Africa began as a small, informal developer community and evolved into a structured, cross-continental initiative working to institutionalize Rust across multiple African countries. This talk presents the strategic decisions, governance models, incorporation debates, and operational challenges behind building a sustainable open-source ecosystem in an emerging market context. Rather than...
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Enow Scott

Project Manager, Adorsys
Scott Enow is a fintech delivery lead and Rust engineer working on safety-critical systems, digital identity, and growing the Rust ecosystem in Africa.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:55 - 17:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:00 EDT

Using the Rust Standard Library on High-End MCUs
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:00 - 17:05 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Most embedded Rust software is no_std. However, as more powerful microcontrollers become available, we may be able to use the Rust standard library to simplify embedded development. Learn what it's like to port and use the Rust standard library in embedded projects, with comparisons against existing no_std and std solutions.
Speakers
avatar for Ian McIntyre

Ian McIntyre

Embedded Software Engineer, Freelance
Ian's embedded Rust powers satellites and a few other things here on Earth. Beyond his work, he brings Rust to high-end MCUs through the imxrt-rs project.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:00 - 17:05 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:05 EDT

Tips for Speeding Up Cargo Build in CI
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:05 - 17:10 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
The Rust maintenance team has done a lot of work to speed up compilation times, particularly for iterative development, but how can we speed up compilation for situations like CI where we ought to start with a blank slate? This talk will discuss quick, practical tips for easy ways to speed up a CI build.
Speakers
avatar for Kaitlin Seng

Kaitlin Seng

Lead Software Engineer, Ginger Cybersecurity
Kaitlin has over a decade of experience developing cybersecurity tools with a background spanning applied research and open-source contributions.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:05 - 17:10 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:10 EDT

Layered Configuration and Safe Hot Reload in Rust
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:10 - 17:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Hot reloading configuration in long-running services is often treated as a file-watching problem. In practice, most failures occur because configuration is mutated in place, partially applied, or insufficiently validated before entering runtime state. This lightning talk presents a layered configuration model that makes safe hot reload a natural consequence of system design. Configuration flows...
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Ethan Hann

Independent Consultant
Ethan Hann (he/him) is a Staff Software Engineer with nearly two decades of experience building distributed systems across healthcare, ad tech, and SaaS. He has led engineering teams, architected multi-tenant platforms serving millions of users, and designed event-driven systems handling... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:10 - 17:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:15 EDT

Building Efficient Web Scrapers
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:15 - 17:20 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
This talk explores the considerations and design choices for developing efficient web scrapers. It centers on a comparative analysis between Python and Rust. Contrasting Python's ease of use and rich data science ecosystem, with Rust's advantages in performance, memory safety, and concurrency.
Speakers
avatar for Camille Owens

Camille Owens

Cloud Engineer, Development Seed
Camille is a cloud engineer at Development Seed. She is passionate about cloud architecture, infrastructure design, and reliable data delivery within geospatial systems. She focuses on building reliable and automated systems that turn complex, raw data into something usable, accessible... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:15 - 17:20 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:20 EDT

Implementing a High Performance Serialization Library
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:20 - 17:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
This talk introduces wincode, a high-performance Rust serialization library. You’ll learn how hidden copies can sneak into otherwise safe code, how placement initialization helps avoid them, and how compile-time metadata can dramatically improve performance without sacrificing ergonomics or maintainability.
Speakers
avatar for Zach Brown

Zach Brown

Senior Engineer, Anza
Performance engineer at Anza. Author of the wincode library. Interested in PLT, compilers.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:20 - 17:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:25 EDT

Zero-copy Transfers with io_uring and Rust
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:25 - 17:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
This talk examines the performance costs of epoll-based file-to-socket I/O, including redundant memory copies and excessive syscalls. It then shows how Rust and io_uring achieve high-throughput, low-latency file-to-network transfers using fixed buffers, registered files, and sockets, demonstrated through a practical zero-copy pipeline.
Speakers
avatar for Craig Hamilton

Craig Hamilton

Staff Flight Software Engineer, Umbra Lab, Inc.
Craig started programming when he was 13, and still gets excited when developing.

Some highlights of his career have been to architect and develop medical devices that have saved lives, defense software that has been deployed to some of the remotest and hostile locations on the planet to protect our military, and working with astronauts to contribute to the success... Read More →
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:25 - 17:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:30 EDT

Crates in Firefox Over FFI
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:30 - 17:35 EDT
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We will look at integrating an existing crate (urlpattern) into Firefox's gecko platform (C++) to create a new Web API, and some challenges martialing data across ffi boundary.
Speakers
avatar for Ed Guloien

Ed Guloien

Senior Software Engineer, Mozilla
Ed is a Senior Software Developer on the Networking team at Mozilla, where he is a cookie module peer and spec contributor that works on the Gecko platform under Firefox. He is interested in systems programming, networking protocols, performance and privacy.
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:30 - 17:35 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Community Lightning Talks

17:45 EDT

Closing Remarks
Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:45 - 17:50 EDT
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Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:45 - 17:50 EDT
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  Keynotes

18:00 EDT

🎉 Evening Reception
Wednesday September 9, 2026 18:00 - 19:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Mingle with fellow Rustaceans after an exciting first day at RustConf! Appetizers and drinks will be provided. 
Wednesday September 9, 2026 18:00 - 19:30 EDT
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  Social Events
 
Thursday, September 10
 

08:00 EDT

Registration and Badge Pickup
Thursday September 10, 2026 08:00 - 18:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Thursday September 10, 2026 08:00 - 18:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Registration

09:00 EDT

Keynote - To Be Announced
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT
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Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Keynotes

09:40 EDT

Project Update: Safety-Critical Rust Consortium
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Speakers
PL
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 EDT
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  Project Updates

10:30 EDT

☕️ Morning Break
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 EDT
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Thursday September 10, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breaks

11:00 EDT

Making GPUs Feel Native in Rust
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
GPUs power some of the most important workloads in computing, yet they still feel foreign in Rust. Today Rust can program GPUs, adapting to GPU-native models. This talk explores the inverse: making GPUs Rust-native, where the hardware feels like a natural part of the language.
Speakers
avatar for Christian Legnitto

Christian Legnitto

Founder, VectorWare
Christian Legnitto is the founder of VectorWare, the first GPU-native software company. Previously he worked at Apple, Mozilla, Facebook, and Robinhood.
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:00 EDT

Rust: The First 10 Years Were the Easiest
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
We spent more than 10 years proving that Rust works. We focused on memory safety, async, and moved from a niche experiment to the Linux Kernel. But building a revolution was easier than maintaining a global standard. As we head toward 2027, the "honeymoon" phase is over, and we are now facing the real challenges: managing decentralized governance, navigating corporate pressure, continuously...
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Francesco Ciulla

Head of DevRel, Zerops
Francesco is a developer, runner, teacher and speaker, based in Rome, Italy. He's on Twitter too much and loves making videos on YouTube.
From 2017 to 2021, he worked as a Fullstack Developer at the European Space Agency on the Copernicus project.
By 2021, Francesco decided to quit... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:00 EDT

Simulating a Million Patients: Realistic Health Data Generation in Rust
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Healthcare researchers desperately need realistic synthetic patient data: for teaching, for testing analysis pipelines, and for sharing results without compromising real patients' privacy. But generating data that's actually realistic is surprisingly hard. Naïve approaches produce patients who are statistically implausible: twenty-year-olds with dementia, smokers whose blood pressure is...
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Dr. Caroline Morton

Senior Software Consultant / Epidemiologist, Parakeet Consulting
Dr. Caroline Morton is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, and senior rust software engineer working at the intersection of public health and modern software. She is the founder of two companies, the author of over 70 academic papers and two books, and the creator of open-source tools... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
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  Breakout Sessions

11:50 EDT

BorrowSanitizer: Securing Rust Across Foreign Function Boundaries
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
From the Linux Kernel to Chromium, Rust is increasingly finding its way into security-critical C++ applications. Developers who interoperate with these languages need to use Rust’s unsafe features to bypass the restrictions of the borrow checker. However, when unsafe code is used incorrectly, it can break the compiler’s assumptions about aliasing, leading to silent, “impossible” forms of...
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Speakers
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Ian McCormack

PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Ian McCormack is a PhD candidate in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on making Rust interoperation easier.
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:50 EDT

Rust Atomics in the Wild: Memory Ordering Design Patterns from Popular Crates
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Modern Rust codebases use atomics for much more than simple shared-state coordination. When multiple atomics interact, subtle behaviors can appear that are easy to miss and can look arbitrary at first. With a closer view, a small set of recurring patterns shows up across many production systems, and those patterns can be applied deliberately to solve nuanced coordination problems when both...
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Speakers
avatar for Martin Ombura Jr.

Martin Ombura Jr.

Senior Software Engineer, Scarlaria LLC
Martin Ombura Jr. is a Senior Backend Software Engineer who has worked with Rust since 2019, with a focus on building reliable systems. At GoDaddy, he contributed to the initial adoption of Rust in the backend stack. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

11:50 EDT

Rust for ML Infrastructure: A Case Study in Building an ONNX Runtime
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
What does it take to build a machine learning inference engine in Rust - and what does that experience reveal about Rust as a language for ML infrastructure? This talk presents lessons learned from designing and implementing a GPU-accelerated ONNX runtime in Rust. The project, Onyxia, parses ONNX graphs, compiles them through a multi-pass pipeline, generates WGSL compute shaders, and executes...
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Speakers
avatar for Ada Hieta

Ada Hieta

Applied AI Engineer, Softlandia
Ada is an Applied AI Engineer at Softlandia. She has worked on multiple ML-related projects, including LLMs, imaging, and optical metrology.
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

12:30 EDT

🍴 Lunch Break
Thursday September 10, 2026 12:30 - 13:45 EDT
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Thursday September 10, 2026 12:30 - 13:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breaks

13:45 EDT

2 Hours to 10 Minutes: Building Rust Monorepos at Scale with Bazel RBE
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
A Rust monorepo with multiple workspaces and a CI pipeline that routinely exceeded two hours with recurrent flaky results. After five iterations — GitHub Actions tuning, shell script hacks, self-hosted Prow and a custom Rust-based orchestrator — each improvement eventually hit a ceiling, until the team spent more time debugging CI than shipping code. This talk is about the infrastructure that...
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Speakers
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Loïs Postula

Chief Information Officer, Foresight Spatial Labs
DevOps engineer from Belgium with nearly 10 years of experience, 4 spent in a Rust-only organisation. Builds and operates CI/CD infrastructure, and automates everything that stands still long enough. Open source believer.
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

13:45 EDT

Real-Time Rust in Robotics
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Robots are complex interconnections of subsystems which use a varied mix of software. David will describe a typical robot's architecture and highlight the areas where Rust is making headway. He will present his team's experience with bringing Rust to the low-level sensors and actuators on a research robotics platform, showing how the use of bare-metal Rust improved the system's reliability and...
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avatar for David Lawrence

David Lawrence

Roboticist, Robotics and AI Institute
David Lawrence is a roboticist at the Robotics and AI Institute in Cambridge, MA, USA, and was previously a senior principal electrical & firmware engineer at Markforged Inc. He received B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science from the... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

13:45 EDT

Servo Devtools: Where Rust Meets JavaScript
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, one of the largest and oldest Rust projects out there. One of the areas we’re actively pushing forward is DevTools support, connecting Servo to Firefox DevTools over the Remote Debug Protocol. This means writing a server in Rust that speaks with a client written in Javascript. Every browser engine needs DevTools, but building them is a project in...
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Speakers
avatar for Rakhi Sharma

Rakhi Sharma

Engineer, Igalia
Rakhi is a software engineer at Igalia, where she works on the Servo Browser engine. She is based in Germany, and is interested in the web, browsers, and engines.
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:35 EDT

TARmageddon: Reflections on a Multi-Crate CVE
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
What happens when several people create popular forks of a Rust project and then a vulnerability impacts all of them? When we found a parsing vulnerability in tokio-tar, dubbed TARmageddon, we discovered how a simple oversight in TAR parsing logic can yield dangerous behavior... and then we discovered the widespread impact. We’ll walk through this vulnerability and how the responsible disclosure...
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avatar for Alex Zenla

Alex Zenla

CTO, Edera
Alex is a Founder & CTO at Edera, building technology for securing containers using hypervisors in Rust. She has contributed to many open source projects including Chromium, Chromium OS, Dart, and Ubuntu, some as early as 11 years old. Alex started in the corporate world at the age... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:35 EDT

Tick Tock: Maintaining Time
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Learn what goes into maintaining a foundational crate in the Rust ecosystem, from API design to constructing algorithms from scratch and catching bugs before they're noticed. An overview of recent optimizations, handling of security vulnerabilities, and some more niche topics will be covered as well!
Speakers
avatar for Jacob Pratt

Jacob Pratt

Senior Software Engineer
Contributor to Rust's compiler and standard library. Maintainer of widely-used crates in the Rust ecosystem.
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

14:35 EDT

Writing a Zero-Copy Database Parser from the Ground Up
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Building a high-performance database proxy demands wire-speed parsing with minimal overhead. This talk walks through the design and implementation of a zero-copy streaming parser in Rust that parses database wire protocols incrementally from the first byte received, using a fixed-size ring buffer and arena-allocated borrow tracking to yield structured slices directly into the network buffer with...
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Devon Tietjen

Co-Founder, CEO & CTO, Eden
Devon is the co-founder and CTO at Eden, where he leads the development of database and networking infrastructure products. Devon has been programming since 9, with an interest in embedded programming, distributed systems, algorithms, and protocols.
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

15:15 EDT

☕️ Afternoon Break
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:15 - 15:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Thursday September 10, 2026 15:15 - 15:45 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breaks

15:45 EDT

Beyond the &: A Future for Native Smart Pointers in Rust
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Rust is often described as a "library-first language," yet user-defined smart pointers are second-class compared to built-in types like &, &mut, and Box. These native types enjoy special privileges, like integration with the borrow checker, that ordinary library types like Arc, RefCell, and PyRef cannot currently replicate. These limitations make Rust much clunkier than it has to be. They also...
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Tyler Mandry

Staff Software Engineer, Google
Tyler co-leads the Rust Language Design team and works on Rust at Google, most recently focusing on language interop and async.
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

15:45 EDT

Oxidizing Fields of Mistria
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Fields of Mistria, a cozy 2D pixel-art farming-sim, was released in Early Access in 2025 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. We use a substantial amount of Rust at NPC Studio, both in development and at runtime. This talk will cover how we started using Rust and how it has evolved during Early Access.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan Spira

Jonathan Spira

Lead Programmer, NPC Studio
Jonathan Spira is a game developer, programmer, and designer based in New York and Philadelphia. He started working in games in 2018 and has worked on Fields of Mistria since 2021.
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

15:45 EDT

Tyr: A New Rust GPU Driver for the Linux Kernel
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
This talk will discuss the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs. We will start by introducing the Linux GPU stack and follow with a brief overview on how modern GPUs work. This will segue into a discussion about the current status of the Tyr driver and its surrounding infrastructure, including other Rust GPU drivers for the Linux kernel. We will conclude by discussing the future plans for the...
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avatar for Daniel Almeida

Daniel Almeida

Consultant Software Engineer, Collabora
Daniel Almeida is a Software Engineer at Collabora, a consultancy that specializes in delivering the benefits of open source software to the commercial world. He mainly works on the Linux kernel and his latest project is Tyr, a Rust GPU kernel driver for the 10th+ generation of Arm... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
  Breakout Sessions

16:35 EDT

Fireside Chat - Stewarding Rust & Python
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:35 - 17:20 EDT
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...
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avatar for Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Executive Director & CEO, Rust Foundation
Dr. Rebecca Rumbul leads the Rust Foundation as Executive Director & CEO. She holds a Ph.D. 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... Read More →
avatar for Deb Nicholson

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
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  Keynotes

17:20 EDT

Closing Remarks
Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:30 EDT
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Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:30 EDT
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  Keynotes
 
Friday, September 11
 

08:00 EDT

Registration and Badge Pickup
Friday September 11, 2026 08:00 - 12:00 EDT
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Friday September 11, 2026 08:00 - 12:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
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09:00 EDT

UnConference (Additional Registration Required)
Friday September 11, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
The RustConf “UnConference” is a beloved tradition of unstructured discussion following the main conference. The UnConf is all about immersive discussions and exchanging ideas between participants, rather than following a typically structured program. Arrive with some ideas about the burning topics you’d like to discuss and get ready to jot them down and dive in with other Rustaceans! It’s...
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Friday September 11, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 EDT
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  UnConference
 
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