San Francisco Ruby Conference
Two days of Ruby talks and conversation groups at SFJAZZ, Nov 10-11, then a community day in the city on Nov 12. Let's bring programmer delight and Ruby into the future.
Tickets
Late bird: $500, until Nov 8.
Company-sponsored: $650, invoiced. It keeps Late bird at $500.
Teams of five or more: 10% off and a segment on stage. https://sfruby.com/team/
Need sign-off? The email for your manager: https://sfruby.com/manager/
Two audiences, one stage
Small teams are startups building on Ruby. Big teams run Ruby at scale. While one is in a talk, the other is in a conversation group, then they swap. Keynotes are for everyone.
Day 1, AI-heavy: agents in production, AI in legacy codebases, and the Ruby tooling for both.
Opening keynote: Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians), "Why start a new company on Rails, and AI, today."
Talks: CJ Avilla (Anthropic), Sergey Karayev (Superconductor), Carmine Paolino (RubyLLM), Vladimir Dementyev and Svyatoslav Kryukov (Evil Martians), Madison Sites (Order.co), JP Camara (Wealthbox), Ben Sheldon (Frontdoor Benefits).
Closing keynote: Ryan Sherlock (Fin), "Who Watches the Agents? Closing the Rails Loop from Code to Customers."
Day 2, AI-light: queues, concurrency, real-time, open source, and the businesses built on them.
Opening keynote: Rosa Gutiérrez (37signals), "Solid Queue: two years on Rails."
Talks: Peter Zhu (Shopify), Phillip Campbell (Gusto), Alex Coomans (Persona), Jason Bosco (Typesense), Marco Roth (Herb), Celina Lopez (Primary Health), Cole Robertson (Rebulk), Jason Thomas (OpenC3).
Closing keynote: Chris Oliver (GoRails), "Rails: The Founder's Unfair Advantage."
The schedule with times and abstracts: https://sfruby.com/#schedule
Conversation groups
A smaller room, a host, and a minute on stage to introduce yourself. Everyone is invited to at least two groups with people who work on the same kind of system.
Day 1: startups and startup-minded engineers meet. Big teams share their agentic coding strategies. Small teams find their people in a matching game.
Day 2: big teams meet engineers. Startups meet VCs. Big teams compare Sidekiq, Solid Queue, GoodJob and more.
Who's coming
Engineers from Persona, Hack Club, Gusto, Cisco, Laravel, Handshake, Order.co, IFTTT, ClickFunnels, Honeybadger, Shopify, Typesense, thoughtbot and more. The list updates daily: https://sfruby.com/#companies
Nov 12, community day
A walk, a bike ride, an ocean swim, a hackathon. Run one or join one. Send ideas to conference@sfruby.com.
The Pier
Your ticket makes you a character in the Pier, our pre-conference game: https://clouds.sfruby.com. Chat with attendees, do quests, and earn coins for goodies at the conference.
Sponsors
Buildkite, Typesense, WorkOS, Fin, Persona, Laravel Cloud, Superconductor, Gusto and more. Become one: https://sfruby.com/sponsor-2026/
Organized by Evil Martians with the SF Ruby community.