[Rubycon] Opening remarks

- Why Rubycon?
- Agenda of the day

https://rubycon.it/

Transcript

1. the premier Ruby conference in the heart of Italy 󰏢 Rubycon Italy 8 May 2026 | Rimini, Italy Riccardo Carlesso Developer Advocate
2. 🐦 @SREccardo www.linkedin.com/in/riccardocarlesso/ Former sysadmin, Ruby [on Rails] developer, network admin. 14-years Googler, passionate about Reliability, SRE, DevOps, Maths, yellow, 🎹 piano, triathlons 󰖱🏃󰚬, caipirinhas and Amarone. As a Developer🥑Advocate for Google Cloud, I preach SRE, DevOps, the Google Way, and Gemini CLI to various audiences. About Ricc
3. Why Rubycon?!?
4. 2008: It all started in Dublin..
5. Dublin, 2008 2008: It all started in Dublin.. Fabio
6. 2008: Get yourself a Mac Fabio hints
7. 2009-2011: I’m a Ruby Dev
8. 2009-2011: I’m a Ruby Dev Unlike my colleagues who maintain cancancan, rubocop, ruby_llm , herb I start creating “superior milestones” of the ruby community, … which nobody has ever heard of :)
9. 2012-2024: Join Google, Move to CH Ruby is very popular in Google, but will slowly phase out… so I need to “secretly date” my first love and find clever way to marry my daily job with Ruby.
10. 2012-2024: 12 years .. … and 24KG later…
11. 2024: RubyDay! On LangchainRB (from Andrei Bondarev) - and Ruby Embeddings in pgSQL
12. 2024: RubyDay!
13. 2025: No RubyDay SO I thought: Hold my beer…
14. 2025-08-02:: Modena.RB meets @ Lido degli Estensi A.k.a. Màudna/Mòdna meets Fràra
15. 2025-08-02: A few Beers later… SI PUO FARE!
16. 2025-08-02: A few Beers later… And the rest is history.
17. Location Rimini, Italy
18. Location Rimini, Italy
19. Ok, but why?
20. Ok, but why? 1. Matz asked me (Euruko 2024)
21. Ok, but why? 1. Matz asked me (Euruko 2024) 2. RubyDay was suppressed in 2024 Emiliano Riccardo
22. Ok, but why? 1. Matz asked me (Euruko 2024) 2. RubyDay was suppressed in 2024 3. Strong 󰏢 Ruby community Ruby! Ruby!
23. Ok, but why? 1. Matz asked me (Euruko 2024) 2. RubyDay was suppressed in 2024 3. Strong 󰏢 Ruby community 4. We feel we have ideas to make it unique
24. Ok, but why? 1. Matz asked me (Euruko 2024) 2. RubyDay was suppressed in 2024 3. Strong 󰏢 Ruby community 4. We feel we have ideas to make it unique a. Strong tech content (no Sponsor slots)
25. Toga Party / Disco
26. Ok, but why? 1. Matz asked me (Euruko 2024) 2. RubyDay was suppressed in 2024 3. Strong 󰏢 Ruby community 4. We feel we have ideas to make it unique 5. Italian food / seaside / yet unusual venue
27. Land of Piadina
28. Agenda
29. ricc@ricc-mac :🏡~/git/rubycon.it $ ruby -I _includes -r schedule_dsl -e '' 09:30 | (15m) | Welcome to Rubycon (Riccardo Carlesso) 09:45 | (40m) | 🎤 Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Web Apps (Carmine Paolino) 10:25 | (40m) | 🎤 Shift-left on Accessibility in your Ruby webapps (Julia López) 11:05 | (15m) | ☕ Coffee Break 11:20 | (40m) | 🎤 Breaking the rules of software engineering: will it work? (Silvano Stralla) 12:00 | (40m) | 🎤 rv, a ruby manager for the future (André Arko) 12:40 | (65m) | 🍝 Lunch Break & Networking 13:45 | (60m) | ⚡ Lightning Talks. 14:45 | (40m) | 🎤 Semantic Image Search in Ruby: Postgres, Redis, or LLM? (Michele Franzin) 15:25 | (40m) | 🎤 My daily life on Ruby (Akira Matsuda) 16:05 | (15m) | ☕ Coffee Break 16:20 | (40m) | 🎤 HTML-Aware ERB: The Path to Reactive Rendering (Marco Roth) 17:00 | (40m) | 🎤 From Plato to Production: A Philosophical History of Code (Yara Debian) 17:40 | (20m) | 🎤 Piadina - It's a wrap! (Riccardo Carlesso) Agenda
30. Tickets for your +1s https://ti.to/rubycon/rubycon-2026/with/dinner-only
31. rubycon.it