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Joe Birr-Pixton & Daniel McCarney: Project Update: "A Decade of Rustls" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHyL Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Euo_3MOJShd-sZ_r1_bYv4hSuc7eXc-2/view?usp=drive_link

Emma Forman Ling: Sponsor Lightning Talk: "Scaling Infrastructure With Confidence in the Age of AI"

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KIuZ Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrRC0UXRV0uAcwn0iHxu4J4VVC5mome6/view?usp=drive_link

Tomáš Šedovič: Project Update: "Bringing Rust into Python" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHsg Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QSwgYLWi3lU6Zs_0qaIFM0SrhAY_Wejn/view?usp=drive_link

Rebecca Rumbul: Opening Remarks | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2IEzp Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hy4VI2IGmKaB2GShVS7WGWxt9gKyIvhG/view?usp=drive_link

Lisa Crossman: "Good or Bad Vibes? Coding with AI in Rust" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHsj Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ex4N6G3z-TuvW9KvZAfHp2qe3ySrsq_I/view?usp=drive_link

Jon Seager: Keynote: "Rust Adoption at Scale With Ubuntu" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2IEzs Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sXDULkp46Etx743LsXyBAm3msZP6CbqA/view?usp=drive_link

Dean Little: Sponsor Lightning Talk: "Rustc: How I Learned to Respect the Compiler" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2TvBR Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kUKBo9dDi5C34zy7247kjnOQUR0Iaj9r/view?usp=drive_link

Ian McCormack: "BorrowSanitizer: Securing Rust Across Foreign Function Boundaries" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHtb Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jr_Hfs2h3S3wtROw7THqavjnHBVM6yng/view?usp=drive_link

Rebecca Rumbul & Deb Nicholson: "Fireside Chat - Stewarding Rust & Python" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bios: https://sched.co/2IEzy

Melih Elibol: "Fearless Concurrency on the GPU" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHsv Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19N8BqNfSS1LJcKF70DRhzfhBMT22qWNk/view?usp=drive_link

Ian McIntyre: Lightning Talk: "Using the Rust Standard Library on High-End MCUs" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KIuo Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mhm17xBNuMKYr75RtdtxiJ63xDI0WSBX/view?usp=drive_link

Rakhi Sharma: "Servo Devtools: Where Rust Meets JavaScript" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHtq Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ZrB-fuqC5A2H_R2WgzCDePrqvtnqZwQ/view?usp=drive_link

Felipe Monteiro: "Verifying the Rust Standard Library" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KI4j Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KfW1gSTUqtnn-883md7euNqvR6Kb9Dy/view?usp=drive_link

Craig Hamilton: Lightning Talk: "Zero-copy Transfers with io_uring and Rust" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KIv6 Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jL1HUrHFQA4IAEQRbNacjXviIu-AIb5r/view?usp=sharing

Daniel Almeida: "Tyr: A New Rust GPU Driver for the Linux Kernel" | RustConf 2026

Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHu2 Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-jwwkhIOWiWf029ie3eBcIfLnYmjhpOZ/view?usp=drive_link

Confused on the Rust Reference, about Visitem

According to the the reference, a VisItem consists of a Visibility (optional, such as pub) followed by, for example, an Implementation. However, pub is not permitted in front of impl. This seems to conflict with the…

AI Is Making Engineers Faster. But How Will We Build the Next Generation of Senior Engineers?

There is a conversation happening inside engineering organizations right now that probably sounds familiar. Someone looks at the backlog. Then they look at what coding agents can already handle: small bug fixes, routine…

The Second Golden Spike: Memory Safety Across the Valen/Rust Boundary

Announcing Rust 1.99.0