San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026

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Garry Tan

Y Combinator

San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference '26

Year Two · Nov 10-12, 2026 · SF Jazz

A conference for engineers who read and write Ruby. Founders come here to meet them.

Join the game Buy the ticket $450 · until Sep 30

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Everyone who comes gets a character

The Pier is an 8-bit San Francisco where every attendee, speaker and volunteer walks around as a pixel version of themselves. Your ticket is the character slot, so the game starts the moment you buy it and runs until we meet at SFJAZZ in November.

The Pier: an 8-bit San Francisco, with the SFJAZZ Center under the conference sign

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Quests

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Generate and publish your pixel card +10
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Find yourself on the Pier +1
Talk to 5 people +20
Share your card on your socials +30

Came last year? A returning-attendee quest is already waiting. More land between now and November. Badges stack up on your card, the chatter runs in the SF Ruby Slack, and the last badges are earned face to face at SFJAZZ.

Every player gets a Cloud Card

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The lineup

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The program

What you will actually hear

Every speaker here was hand-picked. We screened GitHub for people actively building in Ruby open source and went after them, which is how a talk about the Ruby stack that flies satellites ended up on the schedule.

Agentic Rails, already in production

Four talks from people who have shipped it, on the question that decides what your job looks like for the next few years.

The people who wrote your Gemfile

A conference pays for itself when the author of the thing that is currently breaking is standing ten feet away. Three independent answers to the job-queue question will be in the same room, all willing to argue about it.

Your job queue
Your real-time layer
- Vladimir Dementyev wrote AnyCable, TestProf, and Layered Design for Rails
Your metrics
- Andrey Novikov wrote Yabeda, 10 million downloads of Ruby instrumentation
Your view layer
- Marco Roth builds Herb, the parser and language server ERB never had
Your runtime
- Peter Zhu commits to Ruby core, on the garbage collector, at Shopify

Every speaker and talk

Day 1–3

More than a room of talks

Startups and scaleups get two tracks, and the tracks weave: when one is on stage, the other room is in an organized networking session, then they swap. Who you meet is on the schedule, so it never comes down 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.

Your hosts

Amanda Kinney

Evil Martians
Ken Decanio
Cameron Dutro

Cisco Meraki
Mike Dalton

Triumph

Each room has a host keeping the mic moving through 70 to 100 introductions, so every 60 seconds lands.

59 open Ruby and Rails roles from 41 companies are on our jobs board today, GitHub, Chime, Gusto, Persona and AngelList among them. In November those hiring managers are sitting in your networking group, and you get the mic.

See who is hiring

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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

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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.