Rust Forge Conf 2025 Schedule Available - tours, workshops, talks & more!
Read the conference schedule, find a few speakers you recognize, and check out the extra events which feature hobbits, kiwi and fusion reactors.
Rust Forge Conf 2025 is taking shape. It’s going to be an event that will change the arc of many people’s careers and generate personal connections that will last decades.
Now we just need to get as many people there as possible! Please take a look through the schedule below and share it with anyone who might know someone who might be a little bit curious.
Thank you to everyone around the world who has been so supportive of the event since it was first discussed over a year ago.
We’re so excited to create this event for you. Let’s generate those job opportunities, spark ideas and celebrate what everyone is able to build with the language.
Here are a few highlights from the schedule for people who don’t like lots of text:
Learn the lessons from Adobe’s experience with bringing Rust into the Photoshop codebase. David Sankel is one of the people leading the effort, and he’ll be flying in from New York to tell us about the process first-hand.
Discover how to design a superconducting magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier. Tom Simpson from OpenStar will be explaining how they are developing fusion, in part enabled by modelling physics with Rust.
Learn about implementing major projects with Rust. For example, Sophia Turner, who has been in the core team of TypeScript, Rust, Nushell and other major language projects will be discussing how to build a programming language.
The person who believed that Rust needed to a human success as much as a technical one, Steve Klabnik, will be discussing what makes Rust, Rust. What’s happened in the ten years since Rust 1.0, and what is in store for its future.
There are many more topics being covered in the event than these highlights - especially blinking LEDs! Keep scrolling!
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Tim McNamara
Rust Forge Conf
It's not a secret that supply chain security is a major concern in 2025. What tools are available to help us make informed decisions on the crates that we use in the Rust software we develop?
Adam Harvey will be presenting on crate security in 2025
Overview
The week of the conference is designed to have maximum time building relationships. We ramp spend time ramping up to the formal part
Mon-Tues - Orientation - explore the city at your own pace (be sure to try the coffee)
Wed-Thur - Co-creation Days - collaboration, community building, workshops, guided tours
Fri-Sat - Conference - dozens of talks and ample space for the hallway track
Sun - Cooldown - group bike ride and farewell
The Rust programming language and ecosystem changes the code you write, the way you write code, and the expectations you have.
Azriel Hoh will be presenting on the the developer experience with Rust
Detailed Agenda
Orientation
Mon 25th - Tues 26 August
The venue won’t be open yet, but people will be descending on Wellington from around the world.
Ideas:
Meet up and take a walk up the hill where the hobbits hid from the ring wraiths? (It’s only 15 minutes’ walk from the venue)
Make use of the self-guided itineraries. We’ll have options for people interested in food, art, history, and nature.
Arrange a meal with others in town by logging into the Discord server.
Co-creation days
Wed 27 - Thus 28 August
Whether you want to work on a project with others, have conversations with project members that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to do or you want to immerse yourself in learning, these two days are for you to design your own programme.
Workshops:
Application Security Workshop with Laura Bell Main of SafeStack.io
Gamedev Workshop: Build a Game with Bevy with Stephan Dilly (rustunit), organiser of the worldwide Bevy Game Development Meetup
Text User Interface (TUI) Workshop: Becoming a terminal chef with Ratatui by Orhun Parmaksız, Ratatui maintainer
Full Stack Web Workshop: Shipping a Site with Leptos with Ben Wishovich, Leptos core team member
Tours:
Wētā Workshop Tour. Wētā Workshop creates the characters, costumes and props behind The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Avatar, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and many others. We’ll be visiting the workshop that makes them, and have a chance at doing some leathermaking while we’re there.
Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne Tour. Much of New Zealand’s wildlife is nocturnal. Explore the ecosanctuary by night with a guided tour, encountering many of the world’s most fascinating creatures.
OpenStar Fusion Reactor Tour. Wellington hosts one of the world’s most novel fusion startups, OpenStar. Rather than using a tokamak reactor, they use a superconducting levitated dipole magnet to constrain the plasma field. And it works.
Conference days
Fri 29 - Sat 30 August
These are just the talk titles. If any of them pique your interest, then you should definitely skim through the abstracts.
David Sankel: Engineering the Future at Adobe: Why Rust is Key to Our Next Chapter
Sophia J Turner: Building programming languages
James Blackwood-Sewell: PGRX - How Rust reshaped the Postgres ecosystem
EncodePanda: Rust for the Rest of Us: Your Survival Guide
Ross Younger: Land of the long fat pipe: the quest for faster file transfers
Mikey Williams: Rust in color: embedded LED art
Azriel Hoh: The Development Experience Is Different With Rust
mix irving: Peer-2-Peer Data Visualisation
Ugur Arikan: Composing zero cost abstractions in route optimization
Jack Purvis: From Ruby to Rust: building a live visual performance tool with Rust
Orhun Parmaksız: Rust rocks (literally)
Tom Simpson: Designing superconducting magnets for fusion power
Adam Harvey: Crate security in 2025
Predrag Gruevski: The Past, Present, and Future of SemVer in Rust
Anders Rasmussen: Embedded Device Drivers in Rust
Jonas Kruckenberg: Panic! At The Disk — Oh!
Elias Junior: Tackling complexity a test at a time
Jeremy Wells: Take your web app offline with Rust and Tauri
David Lattimore: Wild build times
Steve Klabnik: Rust is (much) more than safety
Amazing, right?! See you soon 🙌