Unconf participants guide

Schedule for the week

If you are attending the RustWeek 2025 conference, the celebration and the unconf, your week will look like this:

Location: Tuesday and Wednesday are at Kinepolis. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are at DUS.

RustWeek 2025 includes social activities organised by and for all attending Rustaceans. You are very welcome to join these activities or organise your own.

Check out the RustWeek 2025 homepage for details.

Conference (Tue + Wed)

The 2-day conference is held next to the Utrecht Central Station at Kinepolis Jaarbeurs on Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Tuesday one of the tracks, the Ecosystem track, has one reserved talk slot for each unconf group.

Celebration (Thursday afternoon)

At the unconf venue, in the afternoon and evening, we will be celebrating the 10th birthday of Rust 1.0 together with Rust project members, Rust project alumni, Rust users, and sponsors. All participants of the unconf are welcome to join the party.

Rust's 10th birthday happens to fall exactly on the same day as the release of Rust 1.87.0, which will happen live on stage.

To attend the celebration, you'll need a ticket. Tickets will be free for all attendees of the RustWeek unconf.

Unconf (Friday and Saturday)

Covid policy: Please review our covid policy for the unconf.

The RustWeek unconf will begin on Friday. There will be no plenary start of the unconf, each unconf group runs their own schedule in their own dedicated rooms.

Schedule for both days:

• 09:00 - 09:30: Arrival and registration
• 09:30 - 13:00: Unconf sessions (coffee break at 11:00)
• 13:30 - 14:30: Lunch
• 14:00 - 17:30: Unconf sessions (coffee break at 15:30)
• 17:30 - 18:30: Drinks & departing from the venue

See the getting there section for bus departure times.

For questions about logistics or other, your group leader can reach out to Erik via erik@rustnl.org, or join the RustWeek discord and ask there.

Co-located Rust project All-Hands

At the same venue, in the other wing of the same buliding, there will be a parallel event: the Rust project's All-Hands.

Collaboration is encouraged, but please do not walk into the All-Hands wing and sessions uninvited. The Rust All-Hands is a private event with its own schedule and sessions.

Feel free to invite Rust project members to your sessions. If you want to join any of the sessions of the Rust All-Hands, or organize joint sessions, feel free to ask Mara, who is coordinating the Rust All-Hands.

Rooms
The venue has 20+ airconditioned rooms, of which 10 are reserved for the unconf. For lunch and socializing there are big inside (~350p) and outside areas.

Each unconf group will have a main room and a breakout room. The rooms will have tables made out of cardboard that you can write on, a flipover, and each group's main room has a large HDMI screen.

Venue rooms

The venue has 20+ airconditioned rooms, of which 10 are reserved for the unconf. For lunch and socializing there are big inside (~350p) and outside areas.

Each unconf group will have a main room and a breakout room. The rooms will have tables made out of cardboard that you can write on, a flipover, and each group's main room has a large HDMI screen.

Room assignments

• Rust Embedded Working Group: room 1 + breakout rooms 1a and 1b
• Rust for Linux: breakout room 2
• Bevy Engine: room 4 + breakout room 3
• UI, App dev & Browser Summit: room 11 and breakout room 10
• Critical infrastructure: room 5 and breakout room 6

Please note that breakout rooms 2, 3 & 6 do not have a screen.