We are looking for technical talks for all types of audiences -beginner, intermediate or advanced- and for great non-technical talks that you think would appeal to the conference attendees.

While this is a Ruby focused event, we love hearing and learning about lots of different things, so don’t be shy and send your proposal even if your main language is not Ruby.

You can submit talks in either English or Spanish, we will have interpreters at the event for both.

Selection process

Our first round of review is blind, meaning reviewers will not see your name or biographical information. They will see the title, abstract, description, notes and the additional information field contents. Please keep any potentially identifying information out of these fields.

During this first round, reviewers may have questions for you about your proposal. The CFP application allows two-way correspondence in comments without revealing your identity. You’ll get an email (and see a notification on the site) if there are questions for you. Please reply promptly and consider adjustments, if requested.

Once every talk has at least five ratings, we move into the second round, where we evaluate highly-rated talks alongside their biographical information to come up with a balanced program. We are committed to selecting a diverse and well-qualified group of speakers.

Expect to be notified about the CFP result by June 17th.

Still don’t know what to talk about?

Here are some things that we find interesting:

• Testing
• Refactoring
• Ruby and hardware
• Web applications security
• Developer happiness
• Machine learning
• Ruby internals
• Building and maintaining APIs (REST/GraphQL/RPC)
• Scaling Rails applications

Having trouble writing a proposal?

We recommend you take a look at Zach Holman’s guide to writing a good proposal.