RubyConf AU 2018
March 8th & 9th • Sydney
Buy Tickets

Wednesday, 7th March

19:00

🍻 Opening Party 🏝

We're having a pool party on a rooftop in Sydney's CBD. Join us for some casual canapés, drinks, and dancing!

22:00

Thursday, 8th March

8:30

Registration

Get your badge, get your swag, get some coffee. Check out our location and transport information for details on how to get here.

9:30

Welcome to Country

9:50

Sandi Metz
Keynote
10:35

Morning Tea

11:05

Paolo Perrotta
Machine Learning explained to humans
Katie McLaughlin
JavaScript is Awe-ful
12:15

Lunch

13:05

Andy Nicholson
Consider Crystal
Michael Morris
High performance Mario Kart on Ruby
Eleanor Kiefel Haggerty
Here's to history: programming through archaeology
15:00

Afternoon Tea

15:30

Ken Scambler
A Human Approach to Functional Programming
Ryan Bigg
Hiring Juniors
17:00

Friday, 9th March

7:00

Breakfast

Come join us for a delicious hot breakfast in the park outside the venue. Full details TBC.

8:30

Registration

Check out our location and transport information for details on how to get here.

9:30

Lauren Tan
Building the World's Largest Studio at Netflix
Amy Unger
Knobs, Levers and Buttons: tools for operating your application at scale
10:35

Morning Tea

11:05

Danielle Adams
Outside the Web Box: Using Ruby for Other Protocols
Tom Gamon
Dyslexia and Developers
12:15

Lunch

13:05

John Feminella
Building with Blockchains in Ruby
Zach Holman
UTC is Enough for Everybody, Right?
Alaina Kafkes
Tackling Technical Writing
15:00

Afternoon Tea

15:30

Jessica Rudder
The Good Bad Bug: Fail Your Way to Better Code
Stella Cotton
Debugging Your Services with Distributed Tracing
Merrin Macleod
Politics? In My Technology?
18:30

😭 Closing Party 🍻

Come and share canapés, drinks and MESSINA GELATO with all your new Ruby friends at the most appropriate venue for such an occasion The Chinese Friendship Gardens.

22:30

Saturday, 10th March

10:00

Taronga Zoo

Meet at Circular Quay, then a quick ferry ride through Sydney Harbour to Taronga Zoo. Full details TBA.

10:30

Hack Day

Full details TBA

16:00

Buy Tickets

For orders of 3 or more tickets, use discount code 'GROUP'

RubyConf AU would not be possible without the support from these incredible sponsors

Interested in sponsoring RubyConf AU 2018?
Email us!