Shaping the future of Ruby on Rails
Rails World was a two-day, two track community conference where more than 1,000 Rails developers from 57 countries gathered to hear technical talks, demos, networking, and keynotes about the latest features and best practices in Rails development.
Big thank you to our speakers
The following speakers shared valuable insights at Rails World on the future state of Rails and where Rails is headed tomorrow and beyond.

Aaron Patterson
Rails Core & Senior Staff Engineer, Shopify

David Heinemeier Hansson
Rails Core, CTO, 37signals

Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
Creator of Ruby

Eileen Uchitelle
Rails Core & Senior Staff Engineer, Shopify

Rafael França
Rails Core & Principal Engineer, Shopify

Tobias Lütke
CEO, Shopify

Xavier Noria
Rails Core, Zeitwerk, Independent Consultant

Andrea Fomera
Senior Software Developer, Soundstripe

Bruno Prieto
Programmer, 37signals

Chris Power
Founder, Typecraft

David Henner
Staff Engineer, Zendesk

Donal McBreen
Lead Programmer (Security, Infrastructure and Performance), 37signals

Emmanuel Hayford
Senior Rails Developer, Rails Developer #OpenToWork

Greg Molnar
Independent Contractor, Spektr Security

Jamis Buck
Senior Ruby Software Engineer, DBX, MongoDB

Jenny Shen
Senior Developer, Shopify

Julia López
Senior Software Engineer, Harvest

Justin Searls
Co-founder, Test Double

Kevin McConnell
Lead Programmer, 37signals

Miles McGuire
Staff Engineer, Intercom

Mostafa Abdelraouf
Infrastructure Engineer, Instacart

Obie Fernandez
Author of The Rails Way, and Chief Scientist, Olympia

Ridhwana Khan
Lead Software Engineer & Writer

Robby Russell
CEO, Planet Argon

Robert Beene
Founder, Typecraft

Rosa Gutierrez
Principal programmer, 37signals

Stephen Margheim
Rubyist, Web Developer, and Engineering Manager, Prevail
Thank you, Toronto!
We gathered for two days in one of the coolest venues in Toronto - Evergreen Brick Works - located on the historic site of the former brick works and quarry and surrounded by a beautiful nature park.
Thank you, sponsors!
The following sponsors helped us make Rails World an unforgettable experience, and we are truly grateful for their support.


