Agenda - Rustikon 2026

Registration

Welcome

An Option? Have a slice!

In 2024, I added the `Option::as_slice` and `Option::as_mut_slice` methods to libcore. This talk is about what motivated the addition, and looks into the no less than 4 different implementations that made up the methods. It also shows that even without a deep understanding of all compiler internals, it is possible to add changes both to the compiler and standard library.

Andre Bogus

From Pain to Solution: Private Rust Crates with CrabHub

As Rust projects grow, managing private crates becomes a real headache. Teams struggle with inconsistent versioning, fragile dependencies, and cumbersome workflows that slow down development. In this talk, I’ll walk through how these challenges can be solved with Rust and CrabHub.

Wojciech Kargul

Procedural Macros 101

This session we will delve into the sometimes murky world of procedural macros - showing some of the great tooling available for understanding the code generated, such as cargo expand, and the key building blocks we will need for writing our own.

Ciara R

Lightning talk by Superteam Poland

Michał Wojtas

Coffee Break

Supercharging Axum Development with Claude Code: Practical AI-Assisted Workflows for Rust Engineers

In this talk, we’ll explore battle-tested best practices for integrating Claude Code into a professional Axum development workflow without compromising on Rust’s core values: correctness, clarity, and maintainability.

Krzysztof Grajek

Are mutexes slow?

In this talk, we'll dive deep into what makes concurrency coordination costly, and explore some pathways to mitigate that cost.

Jon Gjengset

To impl or not to impl: The State of Existential Types in Rust

Bartłomiej Kuras

Lunch Break

Let's talk about Link-Time Optimization (LTO)

I contributed LTO-related changes to many open-source projects, and had a lot of interesting discussions with their maintainers about LTO. In this talk, I want to share with you my experience.

Aliaksandr Zaitsau

Blazingly Fast or Blazingly Hyped? A Reality Check on the RIIR Movement

This talk puts popular Rust rewrites to the test. We'll examine how these tools stack up against their battle-tested predecessors, looking at real-world performance, compilation times, binary sizes, feature completeness, and ecosystem maturity.

Mateusz Maćkowski

Marek Grzelak

From Micrograd to coppergrad: Building Neural Networks and Backpropagation from Scratch in Rust

In this talk, we’ll re-create the core ideas of Karpathy’s micrograd, but entirely in Rust.

Paweł Szulc

Lightning talk by Exein

Coffee Break

Why I Needed Rust: Finally, Infrastructure Automation I can sleep on

For infrastructure engineers, SREs, platform teams, and Rust developers who've felt the pain of configuration drift, failed deployments, and infrastructure code that simply doesn't scale safely.

Jesús Pérez

AI Agents in an Iron Cage: How Rust ensures safety and performance in production

The talk explores how Rust’s type system and memory safety can be leveraged to enforce mandatory guardrails at the infrastructure level, where traditional frameworks often fall short.

Kostiantyn Mysnyk

There are rats in my Cargo!!!

In this introductory talk, we will explore what it means to "Ratatuify" the Rust package manager, Cargo.

Orhun Parmaksız

Rustikon afterparty

Join us at the Rustikon afterparty!

Registration

Building a self-hosted LLM ecosystem in Rust: from infrastructure to applications

This talk explores building a complete self-hosted LLM stack in Rust: Paddler, a distributed load balancer for serving LLMs at scale, and Poet, a static site generator that consumes those LLMs for AI-powered content features.

Mateusz Charytoniuk

The Unglamorous Side of Rust Web Development

This technical talk examines the most prevalent pain points facing Rust web developers today and explores how the community is addressing them.

Mateusz Maćkowski

Lightning talk by Exein

Coffee Break

Rust performance debugging with TUIs and LLMs

In my session, I will present the https://hotpath.rs crate and explain how it compares to other profiling tools available.

Paweł Urbanek

Let's build an async runtime together

During this talk we'll build a basic, working async runtime using nothing more than a standard library. The point? To see it's approachable for mere mortals.

Marcin Kulik

Clean Code for Good Science: Rust in Research and Health

This talk explores what it means to write scientific software that lives up to the standards we expect of science itself.

Caroline Morton

Lunch Break

Getting hired in Rust - Recruiter's perspective

I’ll share what the Rust job market really looks like in 2025 — where companies are hiring, which skills stand out, and how the recruitment process actually works behind the scenes.

Mateusz Lenart

Rust metaprogramming - macro_rules! beyond basics

I'll share a few tricks to help you write cleaner, more powerful declarative macros. You'll also get a sneak peek at the nightly features to see what's coming next macro_rules! world.

Krzysztof Atłasik

No cars were harmed for this talk: Automotive Rust, amateur style

I'll initiate you in the art of 'CAN bus sniffing': Connecting to the central nervous system of a modern car, interpreting the data, and seeing what we can build as enthousiastic amateurs.

Frank Lyaruu

Lightning talk by Superteam Poland

Michał Wojtas

Coffee Break

Beyond println!: Mastering Rust Debugging

This talk explains how Rust debugging actually works: how compiler-generated debuginfo (DWARF/PDB) maps binaries back to source, and how LLDB/GDB interpret that data in practice.

Vitaly Bragilevsky

Channels in Rust: The Art of Concurrency

We’ll take a deep dive into Rust channels — from synchronous channels to asynchronous channels — to explore how message passing enables reliable concurrent programming.

Gaurav Gahlot