Oxidize 2026
Berlin September 14–16

Oxidize is the leading conference at the intersection of applied Rust and real-world decision-making, bringing together developers and technical leaders building Rust systems in production.

The Call for Proposals is open until March 23, 2026.

Interested in sponsoring Oxidize and connecting with organizations adopting Rust across industries? We’d love to talk.






Oxidize Schedule 2025
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Workshops - Tuesday, 16 September

9:00

REGISTRATION & COFFEE (FOYER)

10:00

Rust for Safety Critical Systems

Jonathan Pallant
Jonathan Pallant
Ferrous Systems
10:00

Using Rust in an existing C++ application

Leon Matthes
Leon Matthes
KDAB
10:00

Building Embedded GUIs with Rust

Michael Winkelmann
Michael Winkelmann
Independent Software Consultant (Slint)
10:00

Making a Rust project Trustable

Lucas Biaggi
Lucas Biaggi
Codethink Ltd.
Jeeeun Evans
Jeeeun Evans
Codethink Ltd.
13:00

Why Rust?

Florian Gilcher
Florian Gilcher
Ferrous Systems
17:00

WORKSHOPS END

Talks - Wednesday, 17 September

09:00

REGISTRATION & COFFEE (FOYER)

10:00

Opening Remarks

10:15

Rust for Safe and Scalable Automotive Innovation:
Insights from Eclipse SDV and the Trusted Software Framework

Ansgar Lindwedel
Ansgar Lindwedel
Eclipse Foundation
Daniel Silverstone
Daniel Silverstone
Eclipse SDV-WG Contributor
11:00

COFFEE

11:30

Breaking language barriers: High-performance IPC with iceoryx2

Christian Eltzschig
Christian Eltzschig
ekxide IO GmbH
12:00

Rewrite, optimize, repeat: our journey porting a triemap from C to Rust

Luca Palmieri
Luca Palmieri
Mainmatter
12:30

Creating a custom test harness for advanced test setups

Manfred Tonch
Manfred Tonch
KDAB
Leon Matthes
Leon Matthes
KDAB
13:00

LUNCH

14:00

Oxidizing KDE: How, why, and why not?

Nicolas Fella
Nicolas Fella
KDE e.V.
14:45

PANEL: Rust and C++ can work together!

15:30

COFFEE

16:00

Designing a cross-platform library for encrypted messaging

Theo von Arx
Theo von Arx
Threema GmbH
Lennart Grahl
Lennart Grahl
Threema GmbH
16:30

Safety monitor: Using Rust in mixed-criticality Linux systems

Daniel Silverstone
Daniel Silverstone
Codethink
17:00

gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust

Arthur Cohen
Arthur Cohen
embecosm
17:30

Lightning Talks

TBD
18:00

Closing remarks

18:15

Socialize at Oxidize!

Talks - Thursday, 18 September

09:00

REGISTRATION & COFFEE (FOYER)

09:30

Opening Remarks

09:45

An intro to the world of auditing Rust code

Morgan Hill
Morgan Hill
Security Consultant
10:15

Rust for large-scale automotive applications

Jonas Wolf
Jonas Wolf
Vector
10:45

COFFEE

11:15

Validating Rust for industry - Certification meets formal analysis

Aïssata Maïga
Aïssata Maïga
Ferrous Systems
Rolland Dudemaine
Rolland Dudemaine
TrustInSoft
11:45

Rewriting space mission analysis in Rust

Helge Eichhorn
Helge Eichhorn
Libre Space Foundation
12:15

PANEL: Rust in Safety Critical

13:00

LUNCH

14:00

Keeping humans safe around robots with Rust

Espen Albrektsen
Espen Albrektsen
Sonair
14:30

Bridging robotics and systems programming: Why Copper is a game changer

Guillaume Binet
Guillaume Binet
Copper Robotics
15:00

Lost in Translation?! Robotics with type-safe coordinate systems

Maximilian Schmidt
Maximilian Schmidt
TU Hamburg /
HULKs RoboCup SPL Team
Rasmus Mecklenburg
Konrad Nölle
15:30

COFFEE

16:00

Building Kiteshield: A journey from prototype to safety-critical

Emil Fresk
Emil Fresk
Kite Shield
16:30

Closing Remarks

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