Haggis Ruby - schedule

Join us on the 23rd and 24th April 2026! Here's what you can expect to see!

The schedule

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

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
	I’ve seen this movie before: what three inflection points taught me about the only career strategy that works Maria Gutierrez
17.15	End of conference reflections and let's close this thing down James Bell