RustWeek Speakers Announced!
Published on Feb 16, 2026
We’ve been reading, rating, discussing, and re-rating your submissions for the past few weeks, but the wait is finally over. We’re really excited to announce the speakers that will be taking the stage at Rustweek 2026!
In case you haven’t yet, now is a great time to grab your tickets at https://event.onliveevent.nl/rustweek-2026. But without further ado, here are the speakers that have been selected:
| Main track | |
|---|---|
| Day 1 | Day 2 |
| Taylor Cramer — | Greg Kroah-Hartman — |
| Waffle When is never? | Moon Davé Expanding Processing's Reach with Rust + Bevy |
| Stefan Baumgartner Knock, knock. Race condition! Who's there? - A Refactoring Story | Yara Kleingeld Making sound - dragging a ten year old crate into 2026 |
| Rose Peck When uom isn't enough: Handling units of measurement in production CAD applications | Karin Lammers Learning Rust as First Programming Language |
| Andreea Costea Lessons Learnt from using Rust as the Intro to Programming | Æva Black — |
| Cliff L. Biffle Common Pitfalls of Rewriting Things In Rust | Arya Dradjica Obsessive Optimization with String Interning |
| Amos Wenger One year of facet: reflections on reflection | Alice Cecile Open Code Review: Trust Fosters Responsibility |
| Hazel Weakly Programming Languages as a Community of Belonging | Josh Bowman-Matthews Tracking down undefined behaviour in Servo |
| Andrew ‘BurntSushi’ Gallant — | Alice Rhyl — |
| Compiler Track (day 1) | Applied Rust Track (day 2) |
|---|---|
| Vlad Beskrovny & Lukas Wirth One Language, Two IDE Engines | Kora & Cosmo Bobak Writing a top-10 chess engine in Rust |
| Folkert de Vries Stabilizing decade-old features | Gergely Nagy Field report on scripting Rust |
| Boxy Compilers are just programs: Fixing a bug in the Rust compiler | Taj Pereira & Andrew Jakubowicz Debunking Rust Wasm Performance Myths: Why We Moved Core Business Logic to Rust at Canva |
| Bastian Kersting How we replace common C(++) libraries with Rust at scale | Mordecai emmanuel Etukudo Shaping Tomorrow's Software Engineers |
| Sebastian Sydow Writing shaders for graphics in plain rust | Nico Burns Blitz: building a modular web engine |
| Jynn Nelson Precise, consistent, and reliable code coverage | Michael Winkelmann Programming Your Own DSL in Rust – Experiences from Developing µcad |
| Xavier Denis When Iterators Aren't Zero Cost | Harry van Haaren Racing with Rust: building telemetry tools for racing simulators |
| Alona Enraght-Moony Out of tree access to compiler state | Laurenz Mädje Typst: Designing for Incrementality |
| Aïssata Maïga The trials of qualifying Rust | Adam Chalmers Creativity loves constraint (solvers) |
| Industry Track (day 1) | Rust Project Track (day 2) |
|---|---|
| Pete LeVasseur Popping the Hood on Rust in the 2026 Toyota RAV4 | Nine more talks to be announced next month! |
| Lori Lorusso Rustaceans on The Move - The Global Impact of Rust | |
| Jeremy Lempereur Tales of a transformation journey at Proton | |
| Mark Janssen Scaling up Rust development at the Dutch Electoral Council | |
| — 7M smart meters running Rust |
More details about all these talks will be published soon! Stay tuned!