Overview
Join 300+ developers at the inaugural Tokio Conf 2026 to exchange ideas, learn from one another, and explore the future of async Rust. Hosted by the Tokio Project, this conference features talks from core maintainers and community leaders.
Schedule
26 events
Day 1 - Apr 20, 2026
Opening remarks
9:00 am to 9:10 am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Regency AB
Keynote
9:15 am to 10:15 am
Opening Keynote
Regency AB
Break
10:15 am to 10:45 am
Coffee Break
Regency AB
Session
10:45 am to 11:15 am
Building a Production Control Plane with Tokio
Regency AB
Session
11:15 am to 11:45 am
I want it, you want it, we want it: let's rewrite it in Rust!
Regency AB
Break
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Lunch
Regency AB
Session
1:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Async Rust Meets Async Python: How Daft runs user defined Python coroutines from Tokio
Regency AB
Session
1:30 pm to 2:10 pm
Less Tokio is More Tokio: Strategies for Accelerating a Rust Native Search Database
Regency AB
Session
2:15 pm to 2:40 pm
Zero-Copy Chaos. When everything you knew about tokio performance stopped working
Regency AB
Break
2:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Coffee Break
Regency AB
Session
3:15 pm to 3:40 pm
Scalable Tokio timer for multi-core machine
Regency AB
Session
3:45 pm to 4:05 pm
Using !Send with the benefits of Send
Regency AB
Talk
4:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Lightning Talks
Regency AB
Closing remarks
5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Closing Remarks
Regency AB
Day 2 - Apr 21, 2026
Opening remarks
9:00 am to 9:15 am
Opening Remarks
Regency AB
Session
9:15 am to 9:40 am
From NGINX to Tokio: Lessons from rewriting a 55 million RPS system
Regency AB
Session
9:45 am to 10:15 am
Checking correctness of asynchronous code with Shuttle
Regency AB
Session
10:45 am to 11:15 am
Futurelock And You
Regency AB
Session
11:15 am to 11:45 am
Breaking the 125µs @ 1Mhz barrier w/ Tokio and what it means for your Tokio Web Server
Regency AB
Session
1:00 pm to 1:40 pm
The Edge of Safe Rust
Regency AB
Session
1:45 pm to 2:10 pm
Storage-intensive apps on tokio: when it's time to reach for io_uring
Regency AB
Session
2:15 pm to 2:30 pm
Tokio’s New io_uring-Based File I/O
Regency AB
Session
2:35 pm to 2:45 pm
jj: Simpler and More Powerful Than Git
Regency AB
Session
3:15 pm to 3:40 pm
Using Tokio for CPU-Bound Tasks (Works Really Well)
Regency AB
Keynote
3:45 pm to 4:45 pm
Closing Keynote
Regency AB
Closing remarks
4:45 pm to 5:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Regency AB
Session Details
Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00 am to 9:10 am
Regency AB