RustWeek Speakers Announced!

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 Between Computer Code And Legal Code: Open Source's Influence
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 Ryhl —

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