Come share what you've learned from shipping async Rust code - your architectural choices, late-night debugging, performance tweaks that mattered, and honest takes on what works and what's still painful with Tokio. We're looking for talks across all technical levels, but every talk should give people something practical they can use in their own work.

Most talks run 25–30 minutes. When you submit, let us know if you'd prefer something a little shorter or a little longer and why (e.g., "this topic needs the full 40 minutes to do it justice"). We'll work with you to land on the right length rather than asking you to commit to a fixed slot up front.

We want to hear about real experiences and practical lessons from these areas:

• Building with Rust: Lessons from real-world experience using Rust & Tokio to build and ship products. Rust can be a good fit for web, robotics, AI, infrastructure, mobile, connected devices, real-time collaboration, and more. Share how using Rust helped deliver higher-quality software.
• Design and Architecture: How do you structure code that is easy to understand, extend, and maintain? How have you evolved new patterns as you adopt AI tools?
• Testing and Verification: How can we use integration testing, property-based testing, fuzzing, simulation, model checking, formal verification, and AI reviews to maintain the highest quality standards?
• Performance: We all like fast software. Bring us the tricks and tips that you learned to speed things up, reduce memory, or improve quality.
• AI with Rust: What role does Rust play in AI applications? How is AI changing Rust development? Topics include agents, inference, on-device models, integrating AI into applications, and using AI to write Rust code while maintaining high standards.
• Cool Stuff: Let's nerd out. Show us something interesting and fun you made with Rust. Anything goes. There does not need to be any practical application; just did it for fun. Side projects, unfinished experiments, and ideas that didn’t work out are all welcome too.

Submissions will be reviewed by a content committee organized by the Tokio team, the organization that is hosting TokioConf. Agenda decisions will be announced by late January 2027.

By submitting, you agree to Tokio and TokioConf's Code of Conduct.

Please reach out if travel expenses prohibit you from speaking.