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Upcoming events
100 Exercises to Learn Rust at ADC
Visit WebsiteJoin our 100 Exercises to Learn Rust workshop at ADC 2024 in Regensburg! This hands-on session, led by Marco Otte-Witte, introduces Rust fundamentals – from syntax to the Rust ecosystem – through 100 practical exercises you can complete at your own pace. Designed for developers with experience in any programming language, with materials in English and questions welcome in German or English.
Svelte Summit Spring 2025
Visit WebsiteWe're co-organizing Svelte Summit Spring 2025 in Barcelona together with our friends from Svelte Society. Rich Harris, the creator of Svelte, will join us for a talk on-site in Barcelona. Mainmatter will run a workshops on the day before the main conference.
ElixirConf EU
Visit WebsiteCatch Luca Palmieri at ElixirConf EU for hands-on training on Interfacing Rust in Elixir. Together with Łukasz Pauszek, he’ll explore how Rust can boost Elixir applications, covering Rustler, NIFs, and concurrency.
IMEX
Visit WebsiteMeet Marco Otte-Witte at IMEX Frankfurt 2025. He will be speaking about how businesses in travel, tourism, and events modernize to stay competitive. Don't miss his talk, "Modernize or Marginalize."
Karlsruher Entwicklertag 2025
Visit WebsiteMainmatter Founder Marco Otte-Witte will be speaking at Karlsruher Entwicklertag 2025. He’ll explore why Rust is a real option for backend development, discussing its benefits, challenges, and real-world examples. Learn how Rust brings stability, performance, and safety to backend systems.
JSNation
Visit WebsiteJSNation 2025 is a JavaScript conference bringing together 10,000+ developers to explore the latest trends in JS. Paolo Ricciuti, Svelte Ambassador and Senior Software Engineer at Mainmatter, will give a talk on Svelte 5’s runes and the power of signals—diving deep into their mechanics, gotchas, and real-world applications.
EuroRust 2025
Visit WebsiteEuroRust is a 2 day conference for the European Rust community. It covers all things Rust: from Rust patterns and idioms to system programming and CLI tooling, servers WASM and embedded systems. Mainmatter will host EuroRust 2025 in Paris and online.
Browse our past talks
A Quick Introduction and an Update on the Ember Initiative
Ember Europe Q1 Meetup 2024
At Ember Europe Q1 2025, Chris shared the momentum behind the Ember Initiative and how it’s moving the community forward—with stable Vite support, codemods, and more.
Modern take on ember-cli-mirage that is ready for Embroider and Vite
Ember Europe Q1 Meetup 2024
Nick breaks down how to bring Mirage back into modern Ember apps with Vite, and how Ember Mirage is shaping up as a testing powerhouse.
A blueprint for Rust/Axum apps
Rust Hack and Learn
Marco Otte-Witte introduced Gerust, a generator for Rust backend projects at Rust Hack & Learn in Hamburg.
Ember's Journey to Build with Vite
ViteConf
At ViteConf, our Ember expert Chris Manson, member of the Ember.js Core Learning and Tooling Teams, presented Ember's move to Vite for its new Embroider build system that sets the foundation for Ember's future.
Launching Ember into the Future
EmberConf 2024
Chris Manson explained how Embroider translates old "Emberisms" into modern JavaScript to use with Vite, and shared an update on the Embroider initiative in his talk at EmberConf.
