Your friendly european Ruby conference
Your friendly european Ruby conference

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September 10 - 11 , 2025
Bucharest, Romania

See the July updates video here

beautiful city

Two-day, single track,
relaxed conference

Two-day, single track, relaxed conference.

10-11 September 2025

Community

With a focus on community, we're keeping it cozy with 100-ish attendees and some of the best well-known and up-and-coming speakers.

Friendly

Just as the name says, we're just a couple of friends putting together a conference how we'd like to see. Two days, single-track, breezy, friendly, and inclusive.

Outdoor activities

We began this tradition of engaging in an outdoor activity on the first day and heading to the mountains on the third day to get to know each other better.

Talks and more

We will listen to a few talks and do some outdoor activities together, learning not only about Ruby but a bit of History too.

Walkable city center

Walkable city

Walkable city

Bucharest once called "Little Paris", has a fantastic blend of pre-war, interbellic, and communist architecture for the walking buffs.

great speakers

We have amazing
speakers, really

We have amazing
speakers, really

16-ish speakers with really great stories to say

Day 1, Wednesday, September 10

Day 1, Wednesday, September 10

Day 1, Wednesday, September 10

09:00

09:00

09:00

Registration

Registration

Registration

10:00

10:00

10:00

Opening

Opening

Opening

Jonathan Markwell - Great Developers Do Sales, Marketing and Support

Michael Koper - Starting your own SaaS

André Arko - Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outages

Naijeria Toweett - From imposter to influencer

13:00

13:00

13:00

Lunch break 🥗

Lunch break 🥗

Lunch break 🥗

15:00

15:00

15:00

Obie Fernandez - Ruby+AI Tech Landscape 2025: A Survey

Chris Hasiński - Let's train a model

Greg Molnar - Security in the age of AI

Okura Masafumi - Why doesn't Ruby have Boolean class?

Jan Dudulski - Back to simplicity

18:30

18:30

18:30

Guided Bucharest Walking Tour

Guided Bucharest Walking Tour

Guided Bucharest Walking Tour

20:00

20:00

20:00

Afterparty 🍻 at Fire Club

Day 2, Thursday, September 11

Day 2, Thursday, September 11

Day 2, Thursday, September 11

10:00

10:00

10:00

Carmen Huidubro - Versatility as a technologist

Victor Motogna - Counter-Strike, Rails, and the Building Performant Software

Share your Ruby passion project 🙌 (sign-up here)

Rails SaaS panel

Nicolas Erlichman - Poly-table Inheritance

13:00

13:00

13:00

Lunch break 🥗

Lunch break 🥗

Lunch break 🥗

15:00

Dan Singerman - Code is writing, know your reader

✨Game show✨ by Jakob Cosoroabă

Abiodun Olowode - Abstractions: Friend, Foe, or Frenemy?

Irina Nazarova - Learning to consult, learning to live

18:30

Closing

Closing

Closing

18:30-19:00

🍻 Drinks at Ironic Taproom

Day 3, Friday, September 12

Day 3, Friday, September 12

Day 3, Friday, September 12

9:20

Day trip to Sinana (fully booked)





Michele Hansen 🇺🇸 🇩🇰

Co-Founder of Geocodio and

Author of Deploy Empathy

Andrew Culver 🇨🇦

ClickFunnels Chief Product Officer and

Chief of Staff, Author of Bullet Train

Jonathan Markwell 🇬🇧

Small SaaS Advisor, Inuda
Co-Founder The Skiff

Irina Nazarova 🇺🇸

Evil Martians CEO

SF Ruby Host

Victor Motogna 🇷🇴

Head of Web Development

Wolfpack Digital

Michael Koper 🇳🇱 🇪🇸

Founder of Nusii and

Rails developer

Carmen Huidobro 🇨🇱

Freelance Software Engineer


OKURA Masafumi 🇯🇵

The chief organizer of Kaigi on Rails


Obie Fernandez 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

Chief Consultant at Magma Labs


Nicolas Erlichman 🇺🇾

CTO at GoGrow


Abiodun Olowode 🇬🇧

CTO of Metrifox


Jan Dudulski 🇵🇱

Principal Software Engineer at Gainsight

Wroclove.rb co-organizer

André Arko 🇯🇵 🇺🇸

RubyGems & rv core teams

CEO at Spinel.coop

Chris Hasiński 🇵🇱

Independent Consultant


Greg Molnar 🇭🇺

Independent Consultant

OSCP Certified Penetration tester

Naijeria Toweett 🇰🇪

Founder & CEO at Mama Tech


Dan Singerman 🇬🇧

Principal Software Engineer

at ClickFunnels

got what it takes?

The Friendly Gameshow

The Friendly Gameshow

Get your free Golden Ticket at checkin for a chance to be an live-on-stage participant

we all need it from time to time

Brew you own coffee corner

Brew you own coffee corner

Enjoy a selection of freshly roasted coffee, including regular, decaf, and even coffee leaf tea

need some help?

SupeRails Hack Space

SupeRails Hack Space

Yaro is making the Hallway Track even more memorable with direct guidance for things like how to start a SaaS or a podcast

Find out more

avo support on demand

Avo Dev Booth

Avo Dev Booth

Were you ever curious about what Avo does? Do you want a free onboarding with Paul, one of the core maintainers?

let's stretch our legs

Friday Trip

Friday Trip

Take a train ride with us to the mountains

great sponsors

Sponsored by the community

Sponsored by the community

Sponsored by the community

Help the community in your own way

Sponsor the community

Ruby Sponsors

Ruby Sponsors

Ruby Sponsors

( we ❤️ you )

Gold Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

( thank you, thank you, thank you! )

Community Sponsor

Community Sponsor

Community Sponsor

( proudly helping the community )

Organizers

Community partners

Friendly.rb is a part of the Ruby Triathlon tradition

independent theatre

Incredible venue

Incredible venue

Apollo 111 is right in the heart of the city and has the most comfortable seats you've ever seen at a conference.

Apollo 111 is right in the heart of the city and has the most comfortable seats you've ever seen at a conference.

Apollo 111 is right in the heart of the city and has the most comfortable seats you've ever seen at a conference.

Palatul Universul, Corp B, subsol, Strada Ion Brezoianu 23 - 25, București 030167

Palatul Universul, Corp B, subsol, Strada Ion Brezoianu 23 - 25, București 030167

limited spots

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