--- title: thoughtbot around the world, meet us at upcoming events description: Thoughtbot is attending and speaking at six events across two continents this fall. Highlights include XO Ruby Vancouver (LLM integration in Ruby), EuRuKo 2026... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events-lnhlezzqe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: thoughtbot around the world, meet us at upcoming events | daily.dev og:description: Thoughtbot is attending and speaking at six events across two continents this fall. Highlights include XO Ruby Vancouver (LLM integration in Ruby), EuRuKo 2026... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events-lnhlezzqe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LNHlEZzQe.png og:image:alt: thoughtbot around the world, meet us at upcoming events og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # thoughtbot around the world, meet us at upcoming events **[thoughbot](https://daily.dev/sources/thoughbot)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Thoughtbot is attending and speaking at six events across two continents this fall. Highlights include XO Ruby Vancouver (LLM integration in Ruby), EuRuKo 2026 in Brno (timekeeping in Ruby), Rails World 2026 in Austin (database sharding and AI agent engineering), Rocky Mountain Ruby in Boulder (Rails app decay patterns), an Amsterdam Tech Leaders meetup hosted by thoughtbot, and the London CPO Conference. Thoughtbot also runs an ongoing Tech Leaders meetup series in cities including London, Austin, and Boston. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What talks is Thoughtbot giving at Rails World 2026? Two Thoughtbot engineers are speaking at Rails World 2026 in Austin. Tess Griffin is presenting 'Sharding Is Hard: Let's Make It Easier!' covering when to shard, how to pick a shard key, and keeping transactions consistent. Joël Quenneville is presenting 'Harness Engineering on Rails,' framing AI agents as reactive systems that improve code by iterating on standards, tests, and linters. _Teams evaluating Rails architecture and AI agent patterns track Rails World sessions on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Tech Leaders meetup in Amsterdam](https://daily.dev/posts/tech-leaders-meetup-in-amsterdam-dryvnabtv) · thoughbot · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Rails World 2026 recap: All talks online](https://daily.dev/posts/rails-world-2026-recap-all-talks-online-apr1cvqhr) · Rails · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Our UK Tech Leader Tour](https://daily.dev/posts/our-uk-tech-leader-tour-xlyij52oh) · thoughbot · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Speaking at Rocky Mountain Ruby 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/speaking-at-rocky-mountain-ruby-2026-lme2eynog) · RUBYLAND · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#ruby](https://daily.dev/tags/ruby), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events-lnhlezzqe) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"thoughtbot around the world, meet us at upcoming events","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events-lnhlezzqe","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/thoughtbot-around-the-world-meet-us-at-upcoming-events-lnhlezzqe"},"datePublished":"2026-08-12T00:00:49.514Z","dateModified":"2026-08-12T00:01:11.023Z","description":"Thoughtbot is attending and speaking at six events across two continents this fall. 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