People behind Solid Queue, YC, and AnyCable speaking at the same conference?

The San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026 will take place in San Francisco, featuring speakers from Solid Queue, Y Combinator, and AnyCable, with tickets priced at $450 until September 30. The conference aims to gather 450 Ruby and Rails engineers and founders, offering networking groups, a founders' round with Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, and interactive games.

San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026 450 Ruby and Rails engineers and founders meet in San Francisco to build the future Join the game Buy the ticket $450 · until Sep 30 https://luma.com/sfrubyconf2026 The lineup - Garry Tan Built Bookface, YC's internal platform, on Rails. Now runs the place. Keynote - Ryan Sherlock Scales the Rails infrastructure and MySQL fleet behind Fin, the AI customer service agent. - Cole Robertson YC S25. Measures bulk inventory nobody can barcode, with LiDAR and computer vision. - Carmine Paolino Creator of RubyLLM, the Ruby framework for every major AI provider. - Rosa Gutiérrez Built Solid Queue, the job backend that ships with Rails 8. - Jason Bosco Bootstrapped an open-source search engine on Rails. It answers 10B+ searches a month. - Chris Oliver Has taught Rails to a generation of developers. Maintains Pay, Noticed and Jumpstart. - Vladimir Dementyev Author of AnyCable, TestProf and Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications. - Andrey Novikov Author of Yabeda, the Ruby instrumentation framework with over 10 million downloads. - Jason Thomas Co-created COSMOS, the Ruby stack used to build, test and fly satellites and robots. - Neha Abraham Builds the data tools a nationwide remodeling business runs on, in Rails. - Marisa Lopez Builds public health infrastructure on Rails: the platform connecting labs, clinics and patients. - Phillip Campbell Scales Sidekiq and the Rails apps that run payroll for hundreds of thousands of small businesses. - Peter Zhu Ruby core committer. Works on Ruby's garbage collector at Shopify. - Ben Sheldon Author of GoodJob, the Postgres-backed Active Job backend. - Alex Coomans Simplifies the Rails architecture behind Persona's identity platform. Spent nine years scaling Square before that. - Madison Sites Wrangles legacy Rails in production. Speaks on what AI agents can and can't fix in old codebases. - CJ Avilla Teaches Rails on YouTube. Previously an engineer at Craftwork and developer educator at Stripe. - Irina Nazarova CEO, and co-founder of AnyCable, the WebSocket server for Ruby. Keynote More than a room of talks Half the value of a conference is who you meet, so it is on the schedule rather than left to the coffee queue. - 01 Everyone gets a mic You are matched into at least two networking groups of 70 to 100 people. In each one you get 60 seconds on the mic to say who you are and what you are building. - 02 Teams of 5+ get a longer slot Bring five or more from your company and you get extended time, and slides, to introduce the team to the room. - 03 Founders' round with Garry Tan A dedicated group for founders and founding teams with the President and CEO of Y Combinator. The conference starts now Your ticket is a character slot. The game begins the day you register, months before the doors open. - 01 Your character joins the map Upload a photo and get your Cloud Card: an 8-bit version of you, up on the clouds on one big shared picture with everyone else who is going. - 02 Tasks and games, starting now Quests run in the conference app and the SF Ruby Slack from the day you register until November. Complete them and badges stack up on your Cloud Card. - 03 Arrive knowing your crew We match you into a group by shared interests. Find your people online first, then in person at SFJAZZ, where the last badges are earned face to face. Tickets Three days at SFJAZZ All talks, all networking sessions, and the community day. - Early bird Sold out $350 - Regular Until Sep 30 $450 - Company-sponsored Invoiced, expensable, no deadline $650 Bringing your team? Everyone gets 60 seconds on the mic in their networking groups. Teams of 5 or more get extended time, and slides, to introduce the company. Group registration is open on Luma, and we invoice. San Francisco SF Ruby Conference 2026 Sponsors The first companies backing year two. Thank you Tickets are on sale SF Ruby, All Year Round The conference is year two of a community that meets every month: free meetups, a curated jobs board, and a running feed of Ruby startup news. Choose your quest Tickets, sponsorship, the meetup, or just say hi.