RustConf 2026: Full Schedule

09:55 EDT

Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:55 - 10:05 EDT

Rustls has provided memory-safe Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Rust projects since 2016. In this talk, we'll look back on a decade of building and maintaining the library. We'll discuss the design decisions that shaped it, lessons learned from a security-critical open source project, and how adoption has grown across the ecosystem. We'll also cover what we've been working on recently, and share our plans and priorities for the next ten years of Rustls.

Speakers

Joe Birr-Pixton

Open source maintainer

I’m Joe, hailing from Cambridge, UK. I’m a security engineer, formerly with Twilio, Electric Imp, BlackBerry, Good Technology, Thales, and nCipher. These days I mostly work in Rust, but my professional experience is in C and C++. I’m the original author of the “rustls” crate... Read More →

Daniel McCarney

Open source maintainer

Daniel McCarney is a full-time open source maintainer from Canada working in applied cryptography. He helps maintain Rustls, a high-performance TLS library written in Rust, and the Go standard library's cryptography packages, among other projects. He also helped standardize and implement... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:55 - 10:05 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Project Updates

10:15 EDT

Project Update: Bringing Rust into Python

Wednesday September 9, 2026 10:15 - 10:25 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 communication channel with core Python developers, PyO3 maintainers, and on the Rust side, Cargo, language, and compiler members. We talked through the challenges they're facing, proposed suggestions, brought in experts, and worked together to address concerns people will raise.

This is an overview of that collaboration, where we're now and what's coming next.

Speakers

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 10:15 - 10:25 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Project Updates

09:40 EDT

Project Update: The Safety-Critical Rust Consortium Two Years In

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 EDT

Palais des Congrès de Montréal

The Safety-Critical Rust Consortium (SCRC) was kicked off two years ago, amazingly enough, at RustConf 2024 right here in Montreal. In this talk Pete will recap (briskly!) the last two years of the SCRC, the great work that's been accomplished and the road that lies ahead for getting Rust into more planes, trains, and automobiles. Rust has earned respect in helping to improve the quality of software through its memory-, type-, and thread-safety without doubt. However, there do remain regulatory and compliance items which the SCRC is actively working together on to expand the usage of Rust to safety-critical domains and higher levels of safety-criticality.

Speakers

Pete LeVasseur

Staff Software Engineer, Woven by Toyota

Pete LeVasseur guides Rust adoption efforts at Woven by Toyota and its suitability for the highest levels of safety-criticality. He’s also lead of the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, which has a broad base of support for making Rust a suitable first-language choice for safety-critical... Read More →

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Project Updates

10:00 EDT

Project Goals : Funding :: Chocolate : Peanut Butter

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

Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Project Goals and funding are two good things that are far better together. The Rust Foundation and the Rust Project are working together to build a sustainable pipeline that turns the growing demand for Rust into increasing funding, both for general maintenance and for important project goals (pun definitely intended). Niko will walk through the pieces already in place, from the Foundation's Maintainer Fund to the Maintainer-in-Residence program, and how the Project Goals program helps the whole community, funders and maintainers alike, align on priorities together.

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