The RubyWorld Conference Executive Committee has set the date for RWC 2016, this year's biggest business conference in Japan, as seen below.

In February 2013, the programming language "Ruby" marked 20 years since its development. Around the same time, Ruby 2.0 was released as a major version for the first time in five years. Ruby is used in a variety of different scenarios, as it enters a new era. This year will mark the 8th RubyWorld Conference. As Ruby spreads, we hope to have participants actually experience the Ruby ecosystem.

- RubyWorld Conference 2016 (summary) -

-- Dates: November 3 (Thu.) and November 4 (Fri.), 2016

-- Venue: Shimane Prefectural Convention Center "Kunibiki Messe"

-- Organizer: Executive Committee for RubyWorld Conference

(Affiliated bodies) Ruby Association / Shimane Prefectural Government /

Matsue Municipal Government / Shimane University / Matsue College of Technology /

JETRO Matsue / Shimane Industrial Promotion Foundation /

Shimane Information Technology Industry Association /

Open Source Software Society Shimane /

METI Chugoku Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry

-- Admission: 5,000 yen (registration required)

http://2016.rubyworld-conf.org/en/

-- Keynote speakers:

Yukihiro Matsumoto (Ruby Association / Chairman),

Daisuke Horie, Edward Thomson (GitHub Inc.)

(Case study) Yuri Umezaki (Nikkei Inc.)

- Program Now Open -

Selected general speakers:

  -- Tsuneo Hayashi (Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.)

    "Ruby adoption to an in-car electrical control unit testing machine. and its effect"

  -- Hidenori Miyoshi (Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.) / Yoshihiko Hara (FUJITSU LIMITED)

    "mruby application development in embedded hardware"

  -- Tomoya Kawanishi (Enechange Co., Ltd.)  

    "The technology to support Enechange -- electricity price comparison service"

  -- Sameer S. Deshmukh (Student, University of Pune)

    "Scientific Computing in Ruby"

  -- Kenta Murata (Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.)

    "Development of machine learning infrastructures for Ruby ecosystem"

  -- Yoshifumi Karube (Afrel Co., Ltd.)

    "Learning mruby with LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 "

  -- Kouichirou Shouji (r-learning Co., Ltd.)

    "Introduction of "IT-OTASUKE-TAI" -- continue to grow with the customer using Ruby"

  -- Tetsuya Hirota (Computer Engineering & Consulting Ltd.)

    "Tried to start programing class for children in a small town."

  -- Naoto Takai (Minnano Wedding Co., Ltd.)

    "How to Build a Strong Team with Ruby, Agile, and DevOps."

  -- Toshio Maki (Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.)

    "Advantages of Ruby in our "DevOps" platform"

  -- Hiroyoshi Noro (Dive into Code Corp.)

    "Three steps from zero to a high-earning engineering job"

  -- Kao Chien Lung (5xRuby, Inc.)

    "Bring Ruby into Campus"

- Attendee registration is now OPEN until 10/7/2016 (Fri.)

http://2016.rubyworld-conf.org/en/entry/