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It's time to light the forge! Rust Forge is a creative new conference organized by Rust in Action author Tim McNamara. Meet up with Rust developers from around the world and explore how you can unleash the power of Rust to bring your ideas to life.

Speakers and delegates from Adobe, Oxide, Rocket Lab, OpenStar, Timescale, Zoo and many more will be joining us and we hope you will too!

27-30 August 2025 · Wellington, New Zealand

NEW — Additional tickets available for both Wētā and OpenStar tours!

Student and marginalised group pricing is available through the registration portal.

At Rust Forge you'll learn Full Program ►

  • Wonderful examples of Rust

    fusion power, Adobe Photoshop, CAD, lunar landers

  • Rust in the large

    database engines, programming languages, C​++ integration, systems software

  • Creative coding

    live VJ software, performance art, music

  • Embedded

    from blinking lights, through to medical devices and aerospace

  • Rust and the Web

    APIs, web applications, Web­Assembly, and cross-platform development with Tauri

  • Using Rust for work

    practical advice, security guidance, best practices

Register for extra workshops to learn from experts, library authors, and core maintainers, diving deep into application security, making games with Bevy, building terminal apps Ratatui, and full stack web apps with Leptos.

Get out there and join some of our tours. Groups will be visiting the working OpenStar fusion reactor, exploring the props and costumes at Wētā Workshop, the makers of props for Lord of the Rings and Avatar (oh – and do some hands-on leatherworking), and getting personal with the country's majestic wildlife at the Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne eco­sanctuary.

Meet some of our speakers All Speakers ►

  • Ross Younger

    Land of the long fat pipe: the quest for faster file transfers

  • Nick Humphries

    Building storage systems with SPDK in Rust

  • Laura Bell Main

    AppSec for developers with deadlines

  • mix irving

    Peer-2-Peer Data Visualisation

  • Orhun Parmaksız

    Becoming a terminal chef with Ratatui, Rust rocks (literally)

  • Andrey Konstantinov

    Reflect Your Rust API into the World