RustConf 2026: Full Schedule

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

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 to feature these utilities with our trademark 15-year support and security maintenance. Also covered is the upki project, a collaboration between Canonical and the Rustls project, all the ways you can develop with Rust on Ubuntu, and our plans for the future.

Speakers

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

17:45 EDT

Closing Remarks

Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:45 - 17:50 EDT

Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Wednesday September 9, 2026 17:45 - 17:50 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Keynotes

09:00 EDT

Keynote - To Be Announced

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

Palais des Congrès de Montréal

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

Keynotes

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 interoperability, security priorities, governance lessons, and how to lead global communities in a rapidly changing world.

Speakers

Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Executive Director & CEO, Rust Foundation

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
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Keynotes