The Executive Committee for the RubyWorld Conference has opened a program for the RubyWorld Conference 2013. At the Executive Committee's invitation of speakers from around the world for the RubyWorld Conference 2013, 20 groups of people responded to the request. We have chosen 11 after impartial consideration by the Program Investigation Committee.

An award-giving ceremony for the "Ruby Prize Award 2013," also known as the "Rookie of the Ruby," will be held during the RubyWorld Conference 2013 on November 21 (Thursday) by the Ruby Association, Nihon-Ruby-no-Kai and Matsue city. This ceremony is to commend those who contributed to the spread of the Ruby in the last couple of years and participated in activities that led to the Ruby's development.

Please visit the official web page for detail: http://www.rubyworld-conf.org/

Selected general speakers:

--Aaron Patterson (AT & T)

"Speeding up Rails internals using unique Ruby techniques"

--Hidenori Miyoshi (Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.)

"Matters about Rails application development using JRuby"

--Yuumi Yoshida (EY-Office Ltd.)

"Education for increasing Ruby developers -- 8 years of knowledge from Ruby education"

--Yohei Yasukawa (YasuLab), Shozo Hatta(Beyond Perspective Solutions Co., Ltd.)

"Social Translating: The Way of Translating Rails Tutorial and Ruby Hacking Guide"

--Naoto Takai (COOKPAD Inc.)

"Continuous Delivery in Cookpad"

--Shinichi Nomura (CrowdWorks Inc.)

"The role fulfilled by Ruby in the ultra-fast start-up of Japan's top crowdsourcing, CrowdWorks"

--Mitsuyoshi Kawabata (Agileware Inc.)

"Methodology and Case Study of Agile Development by a Rubyist"

--Kuniaki IGARASHI (spice life, inc. / Hitotsubashi University)

"Lerning Ruby space has been spreading"

--Ayumu Aizawa (salesforce.com Co.,Ltd.Heroku, Inc.)

"Developing Ruby apps in the "Cloud" age"

--Tetsuo Yamamoto (8Clouds Software. Inc.), Takenori Takaki (Techno Project Co., Ltd.)

"Research and Development of Ruby API for using agile development and big data corresponding database (4D DAM)"

Keynote Address:

Yukihiro Matsumoto (Ruby Association)

Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub Inc. CEO)

"The Internet Axiom: Escaping the Tyranny of Time and Space"

Source: Executive Committee for RubyWorld Conference