Haggis Ruby
Join us on the 23rd and 24th April 2026! Here's what you can expect to see!
The schedule
Day 1 - Thursday, 23rd April
| 8.45 | Registration |
| 9.30 | Welcome James Bell |
| What happened to RubyGems and what can we learn? Mike McQuaid | |
| How I Upgraded Rails (and Only Broke Production Once) Jess Sullivan | |
| 10.45 | Tea break |
| 11.20 | Developer skills worth learning when AI can write code Sue Smith |
| How to build a haunted house Aji Slater | |
| 12.25 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Panel Discussion - to be confirmed |
| 15.20 | Tea break |
| 16.00 | Under the hood - exploring digital assistive technology Carme Mias |
| Making Solid Cache the Rails Default Donal McBreen | |
| 17.00 | End of Day 1 talks! |
| Evening | Ceilidh & Drinks at the Drygate |
Day 2 - Friday 24th April
| 9.30 | Day Two welcome James Bell |
| What working in a high-performing team taught me about shipping my own projects fast and while having fun Hana Harencarova | |
| Replacing React with Hotwire for developer happiness Colin Gemmell | |
| 10.35 | Tea break |
| 11.15 | What's Ruby fo(u)r? Murray Steele |
| Burnout in Open Source: a structural problem we can fix together Miranda Heath | |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
| 13.50 | Workshop - Event Sourcing, but in Ruby Ismael Celis |
| 15.20 | Tea break |
| 16.00 | It’s a Kind of Magic: Shipping Rails Upgrades with Confidence ✨ Peter Aitken |
| Closing Keynote Maria Gutierrez | |
| 17.15 | End of conference reflections and let's close this thing down James Bell |