San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference
Nov 10-12 at SFJAZZ, San Francisco. 450 Ruby founders and engineers. Keynote: Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator.
Regular tickets are on sale until Sep 9.
Speakers include Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Rosa Gutierrez (37signals), Chris Oliver (GoRails), Jason Bosco (Typesense), Carmine Paolino (RubyLLM, Chat with Work), Cole Robertson (Rebulk), Vladimir Dementyev and Andrey Novikov (Evil Martians), Jason Thomas (OpenC3, COSMOS), Neha Abraham (Power Home Remodeling), and Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians). More announced weekly.
Bringing 5+ people from your company? Teams of 5 or more get time on our networking stage to present their team to people looking to join one. Email us for group ticketing and invoicing: conference@sfruby.com
This is a 3-day pass. Access all talks and networking sessions from Nov 10-12.
Ruby is where startups grow. The companies that scaled on Ruby and Rails are the products we use daily: Shopify, Coinbase, Figma, and Chime are public, and Stripe runs a 50-million-line Ruby monolith. A wave of unicorns is right behind them, from Fin, Gusto, and Persona to Checkr, Apollo and Factorial, and a new generation is shipping leaner than ever: Whop reached a $1.6B valuation with 15 engineers and SurgeAI reached $1.4B run rate, with less than 100 people - both on Rails. The San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference is for people behind the present and the future stories of success on Ruby.
Three days in the heart of San Francisco for the founders and engineers betting on Ruby. Expect deep technical talks, founder stories, and organized networking sessions that turn into your next hire, co-founder, or open source project.
Keynote: Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator
"People are sleeping a bit on how much Ruby on Rails + Claude Code is a crazy unlock. Rails was designed for people who love syntactic sugar, and LLMs are sugar friends."
— Garry Tan
Garry is a Rubyist, who originally built Bookface, YC's internal platform, on Rails. Since taking over YC in 2023, he's led its fastest-growing and most profitable batches on record. He's joining us to talk about Ruby, startups, AI, and what comes next.
What to expect:
Talks from engineers and founders shipping Ruby in production
Deeply technical stories from inside Ruby and Rails scaleups
Organized networking in small groups, not just a name-tag mixer
A full day of community events on Day 3
The legendary SFJAZZ Center
Organized by Evil Martians, with the SF Ruby community.
Join the SF Ruby Slack ahead of the event:
https://join.slack.com/t/sf-ruby/shared_invite/zt-3mi22dwb9-MGN_s0j_jNrt7hb4rvqkHg
Bring 5+ people from your organization, and present your team and company on our networking stage, in front of people interested in joining a team like yours!
Sponsor the conference and get featured like this, plus on our job board and promoted through the event: https://sfruby.com/sponsor-2026/
Find your next role at the SF Ruby Job board: https://sfruby.com/jobs/
See you in San Francisco!