The Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote with DHH is now online. Watch it here.

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.

Meet the Speakers

Gain invaluable insights from Rails World speakers on the future state of Rails and where Rails is headed tomorrow and beyond.

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Aaron Patterson

Rails Core & Senior Staff Engineer, Shopify

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David Heinemeier Hansson

Rails Core, CTO, 37signals

Yukihiro

Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto

Creator of Ruby

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Eileen Uchitelle

Rails Core & Senior Staff Engineer, Shopify

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Rafael França

Rails Core & Principal Engineer, Shopify

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Tobias Lütke

CEO, Shopify

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Xavier Noria

Rails Core, Zeitwerk, Independent Consultant

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Andrea Fomera

Senior Software Developer, Soundstripe

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Bruno Prieto

Programmer, 37signals

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Chris Power

Founder, Typecraft

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David Henner

Staff Engineer, Zendesk

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Donal McBreen

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

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Emmanuel Hayford

Senior Rails Developer, Rails Developer #OpenToWork

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Greg Molnar

Independent Contractor, Spektr Security

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Jamis Buck

Senior Ruby Software Engineer, DBX, MongoDB

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Jenny Shen

Senior Developer, Shopify

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Julia López

Senior Software Engineer, Harvest

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Justin Searls

Co-founder, Test Double

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Kevin McConnell

Lead Programmer, 37signals

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Miles McGuire

Staff Engineer, Intercom

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Mostafa Abdelraouf

Infrastructure Engineer, Instacart

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Obie Fernandez

Author of The Rails Way, and Chief Scientist, Olympia

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Ridhwana Khan

Lead Software Engineer & Writer

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Robby Russell

CEO, Planet Argon

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Robert Beene

Founder, Typecraft

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Rosa Gutierrez

Principal programmer, 37signals

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Stephen Margheim

Rubyist, Web Developer, and Engineering Manager, Prevail

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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.

Evergreen Brick Works - picture of inside building
Evergreen Brick Works - picture of inside building hallway
Evergreen Brick Works - different angle of inside building