{"slug": "thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events", "title": "thoughtbot around the world, meet us at upcoming events", "summary": "Thoughtbot, a software consultancy, announced its fall event schedule, with team members speaking, attending, and hosting events across six cities on two continents from August to October. Fernando Perales will present on responsible LLM integration at XO Ruby Vancouver on August 15, and Sarah Lima and Rémy Hannequin will co-lead a timekeeping workshop at EuRuKo 2026 in Brno from September 16-18. Tess Griffin and Joël Quenneville will speak at Rails World 2026 in Austin on September 23-24, and thoughtbot will host a Tech Leaders meetup in Amsterdam on October 6.", "body_md": "Fall is shaping up to be a busy season for thoughtbot. Over the next two months, thoughtbotters are speaking, attending, and hosting events across six cities on two continents. If you’re nearby, come find us.\n\n##\n[\nXO Ruby Vancouver, August 15, Vancouver, Canada\n](#xo-ruby-vancouver-august-15-vancouver-canada)\n\n[XO Ruby Vancouver](https://www.xoruby.com/event/vancouver/) kicks things\noff. [Fernando Perales](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/fernando-perales) will be speaking on “The Ruby Guide\nto Responsible LLM Integration,” a talk about the production challenges of\nwiring large language models into Ruby applications: malformed input, data\nleaks, prompt injection, outages, and rate limits, and the patterns that\nkeep things stable once real users start hitting them.\n\n##\n[\nEuRuKo 2026, September 16-18, Brno, Czech Republic\n](#euruko-2026-september-16-18-brno-czech-republic)\n\n[EuRuKo](https://2026.euruko.org/), the European Ruby Conference, returns\nfor another year, this time in Brno. [Sarah Lima](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/sarah-lima) and [Rémy\nHannequin](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/remy-hannequin) are co-presenting [It’s about\nTime](https://2026.euruko.org/speaker-sarah-remy.html), a hands-on workshop\non why timekeeping in Ruby is trickier than it looks: time zones, daylight\nsaving quirks, leap seconds, and the bugs they cause in persistence,\nbackground jobs, and tests. EuRuKo has one of the best community atmospheres\non the Ruby calendar, and it’s always worth the trip.\n\n##\n[\nRails World 2026, September 23-24, Austin, Texas\n](#rails-world-2026-september-23-24-austin-texas)\n\n[Rails World](https://rubyonrails.org/world/2026/speakers) lands in Austin\nthis year, and two thoughtbotters are speaking. [Tess Griffin](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/tess-griffin)\nis presenting [Sharding Is Hard: Let’s Make It\nEasier!](https://rubyonrails.org/world/2026/sessions/sharding), on when\nvertical scaling stops being enough, how to pick a shard key, and how to\nkeep transactions consistent across shards. [Joël\nQuenneville](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/joel-quenneville) is presenting [Harness Engineering on\nRails](https://rubyonrails.org/world/2026/speakers/joel-quenneville), on\ntreating AI agents less like chatbots to prompt and more like reactive\nsystems that improve code by iterating on standards, tests, and linters\ninstead of one mistake at a time. Rails World has become the biggest event\non the Rails calendar, and we’re glad to be part of it again.\n\n##\n[\nRocky Mountain Ruby, September 28-29, Boulder, Colorado\n](#rocky-mountain-ruby-september-28-29-boulder-colorado)\n\nRight on the heels of Rails World, [Rocky Mountain\nRuby](https://rockymtnruby.dev/) brings a single-track, two-day conference to\nBoulder. [Fernando Perales](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/fernando-perales) is speaking on “Slowly We Rot:\nsigns of a Rails app’s decay,” a talk about the patterns of decline he’s seen\nagain and again after 13 years consulting on Rails apps: how a quiet TODO\ncomment turns into code nobody wants to touch, why the rot compounds, and\nwhat to do about it before a rewrite starts to look like the only option.\n\n##\n[\nAmsterdam Tech Leaders, October 6, Amsterdam, Netherlands\n](#amsterdam-tech-leaders-october-6-amsterdam-netherlands)\n\nNext up is something a little different: a Tech Leaders meetup in Amsterdam\non October 6, hosted by thoughtbot. It’s part of the same\n[community series](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/our-uk-tech-leader-tour) that’s\nbeen growing in London, Bristol, and Austin: casual, in-person conversations\nfor engineering leaders. More details are coming soon.\n\n##\n[\nLondon Chief Product Officer Conference 2026, October 29, London, UK\n](#london-chief-product-officer-conference-2026-october-29-london-uk)\n\nWe’re also headed to the [London Chief Product Officer\nConference 2026](https://luma.com/CPO), where [Bethan Ashley][bethan\nashley](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/bethan-ashley) is hosting and moderating a round table on product leadership.\nIt’s a chance to dig into the questions CPOs are wrestling with alongside\npeers, in a smaller, conversation-driven format.\n\n##\n[\nTech Leaders meetups, ongoing\n](#tech-leaders-meetups-ongoing)\n\nAlongside these conference stops, thoughtbot runs a recurring [Tech Leaders\nmeetup series](https://luma.com/thoughtbot): casual, in-person conversations\nfor engineering leaders, hosted every few weeks in whichever city we can\ngather a room. Coming up: a [Tech Leaders Meetup](https://luma.com/thoughtbot)\nin London on August 18, Austin Tech Leaders on August 20, and Boston Tech\nLeaders x Webflow Conf ‘26 on September 2. Past editions have popped up in\nLondon, Bristol, Manchester, and Austin, including a Tech Leaders x SXSW\n2026 stop back in March. Follow [the calendar](https://luma.com/thoughtbot)\nto see what’s next near you.\n\nThat’s six conference stops across two continents this fall, plus an ongoing run of Tech Leaders meetups. If you’re at any of these events, find us. We’d love to say hi.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events", "canonical_source": "https://feed.thoughtbot.com/link/24077/17415320/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-up-with-us-at-upcoming-events", "published_at": "2026-08-12 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-12 00:39:36.309930+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["thoughtbot", "Fernando Perales", "Sarah Lima", "Rémy Hannequin", "Tess Griffin", "Joël Quenneville", "EuRuKo", "Rails World"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events.jsonld"}}