Talent Arena (MWC Barcelona 2026)
2026-03-02 - 2026-03-04 | Barcelona, Spain
The Rust Foundation will participate in Talent Arena at MWC Barcelona with programming that spans strategic infrastructure leadership and hands-on engineering.
On the XPro Stage, Executive Director & CEO Dr. Rebecca Rumbul will present “Building the Future in Rust,” examining why Rust is evolving from a developer preference into a strategic infrastructure choice across safety-critical systems, AI infrastructure, telecom platforms, aerospace, automotive, and embedded environments. The session addresses resilience, security, performance, and long-term technology investment in global digital infrastructure.
The Foundation will also host a series of in-depth technical workshops led by Lawrence Freeman, Founder of Fledgio and a Rust Foundation Silver Member. These sessions include advanced async and trait patterns in production systems, building intelligent agents using Rust and open-source tooling, and a hands-on exploration of AI quantization, numeric precision, and inference performance.
These workshops mark the launch of Rust Foundation x Credly Workshop Completion Badges, providing participants with publicly verifiable recognition for demonstrated Rust expertise.
Join us in Barcelona to explore where Rust fits in the next generation of digital infrastructure.

Rustikon 2026
2026-03-19 - 2026-03-20 | POLIN Conference Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Step into the second edition of Rustikon, Poland’s signature Rust gathering!
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Rustikon is built for connection. Trade insights over networking zone designed for interactions, sit shoulder-to-shoulder with experts during speaker’s dinner, and keep the conversations rolling at the After-Party, open to every attendee and sponsor.
Whether you’re hiring top talent, scouting product advocates, or building a brand, Rustikon delivers two days of code, community, and celebration in the heart of Warsaw.

Open Source SecurityCon EU 2026
2026-03-23 | RAI Amsterdam, Europaplein 24, Amsterdam, 1078 GZ, Netherlands
Open Source SecurityCon is a new event that fosters collaboration and shares innovation in cloud native security and open source software security. Sessions will cover architecture and policy, secure software development, supply chain security, identity and access, and open source public policy. The 1-day event will gather a diverse community of professionals to include software developers, security engineers, public sector experts, CISOs, CIOs, and tech pioneers to address challenges and opportunities in modern security. It is hosted by CNCF and OpenSSF and is co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe.

The Rust Foundation’s Director of Outreach, Lori Lorusso, will be presenting the following lightning talk at the event:

“A Case Study in Cross-Ecosystem Security Response”
“Companies use multiple open source projects and programming languages in their product stack creating a potential ‘wheel of misfortune’ when thinking about the rise in software supply chain attacks. Taking it one step further malicious actors are targeting programming languages to get to the core of how products are built. The rise in attacks at the programming language level seen as recently as September 2025 has amplified the need for cross communication between language ecosystems. Using the phishing attacks on Rust and Python as a case study we will show how Alpha-Omega facilitated stronger links between ecosystems, specifically the Rust Foundation and Python Software Foundation (grantees of Alpha-Omega) and how this helped improve security response times and outcomes when the phishing attacks were launched.”

TokioConf 2026
2026-04-20 - 2026-04-22 | Quebec
TokioConf is a dedicated conference for developers building asynchronous network applications in Rust.

RustWeek 2026
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-23 | Ultrecht, Netherlands
Rust Week welcomes over 900+ community members, professionals, and the maintainers of Rust.
The event includes one day of workshops, two days of talks, a hackathon, and social activities. Additionally, attendees can look forward to an unconference, and the second Rust Project All Hands!

RustConf 2026
2026-09-08 - 2026-09-11 | Quebec
RustConf is the flagship annual conference dedicated to inspiring discussions about the Rust programming language and its community, hosted by the Rust Foundation. RustConf 2026 is taking place in Montreal, Canada (and online) this September!
>> Submit a talk proposal here
