RustConf 2026 adds four hands-on workshops for Montréal conference day

RustConf 2026 is turning its Montréal conference day into a practical systems lab. On Tuesday, Sept. 8, the 10th annual RustConf will add four half-day workshops that push straight into the work Rustaceans are doing in production today: foreign-function interfaces, C-to-Rust migration, async actors, and Linux kernel drivers.

The lineup is built around hands-on topics with immediate payoff. The workshops are Practical Actor-Based Concurrency in Async Rust, Hello, Kernel! Linux Driver Development in Rust: Part 1, Using Advent of Code as an FFI Playground, and C→Rust, Beyond the Basics. RustConf says the sessions are meant to sharpen skills in async programming, Linux kernel development, and interoperability work, which lines up with the language’s growing footprint in systems code and mixed-language codebases.

Access to the workshop day is an optional add-on for in-person attendees only, and RustConf says capacity is limited. One listed workshop, Practical Actor-Based Concurrency in Async Rust, is priced at $290 USD, while other workshop listings on the schedule show fees such as $375 and $500 before taxes and fees for certain offerings that were marked sold out. The conference schedule places early badge collection on Sept. 8 as well, before keynotes and sessions on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10 and the optional UnConference on Sept. 11.

The broader event runs Sept. 8-11, 2026 in Montréal, Canada, with an online attendance option. Hosted by the Rust Foundation, RustConf says it has been held since 2016 and is the flagship annual conference for the Rust programming language and its ecosystem. That broader positioning matters here: the workshop track is not just about syntax or first steps, but about where Rust has become practical enough to compete in legacy migration, embedded integration, and low-level platform work.

The conference’s organizational machinery has also been moving for months. The Rust Foundation announced registration and the speaker lineup on April 9, 2026, after a call for proposals that ran from Dec. 16, 2025 to Feb. 16, 2026. It also introduced the RustConf 2026 Program Committee on Jan. 15, 2026, describing it as a global group drawn from five continents.

The result is a conference that looks less like a language showcase and more like a map of Rust’s next jobs. If the main stage is where the ecosystem explains itself, Sept. 8 is where the ecosystem shows what it can now build.