---
title: Meet thoughtbot at Brighton Ruby 2026
teaser: Brighton Ruby 2026 will take place in two weeks, thoughtbot will be attending
  and speaking, let's meet!
tags: conferences,ruby,ruby on rails,brighton
author: Rémy Hannequin
published_on: 2026-06-18
---

Brighton Ruby 2026 will take place in a few days and the thoughtbot team will be
there to meet you all in real life, learn from all the great talks, and enjoy a
day by the English coast.

We love Brighton Ruby and enjoyed it for many years. It is a single-day,
single-track conference packed with great energy and great people.

This year we will have 5 thoughtbotters attending:

![Aji Slater's portrait](https://images.thoughtbot.com/8sth2cjnqsrcqzqwi024demlwabm_Ali_Slater.png)

Aji will be at Brighton Ruby for the first time! They are always happy to talk
about ruby game development, recent conversations on
[The Bike Shed](https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com), tracking reading lists on
[Storygraph](https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/doodlingdev), or (let's see
what else... _::rummages through bag of hobbies::_) linguistic anthropology.
Come say hello!

![Chad Pytel's portrait](https://images.thoughtbot.com/lwltzeyrmhro7xrbz2l9bbzqxp7v_Chad_Pytel.png)

Chad is thoughtbot's founder and CEO, host of the
_Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots_'s
[podcast](https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/) and eternal player of D&D.

![Mina Slater's portrait](https://images.thoughtbot.com/pkyl5eoqpbz36lrquink7xqjusk9_Mina_Slater.png)

Mina is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and this will be her first time at
Brighton Ruby. She's interested in infrastructure as code and closing the gap
between operations responsibilities and application development, is an avid
marathon runner, always looking to strike up a conversation about the works of
Brandon Sanderson or show off pictures of her dogs, Dottie and Henson.

![Rob Whittaker's portrait](https://images.thoughtbot.com/yvj3ky5sd803aoy3704pp4fut63z_rob.png)

Rob is our EMEA Development Director, based in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire and most
likely you have seen him already in Brighton Ruby or other conferences.

He has a not-so-quiet obsession with best practices and striving for
improvement. He likes to hunt down delicious beers and coffee in his spare time.
Despite the recent ups and downs, he’s an avid Stoke City fan, which is only a
testament to his determination!

![Sarah Lima's portrait](<https://images.thoughtbot.com/rlx4eih0fe93p9fd3sna6io6why1_Sarah%20Lima%202026%20(1).png>)

Sarah is a developer and team lead, based in Porto, Portugal, and originally
from Brazil. She enjoys working with Ruby especially, but also on any technology
that enables projects to move forward. She loves playings sports like volleyball
and has a great movies and TV series culture.

![Rémy Hannequin's portrait](https://images.thoughtbot.com/038aqq7cxmnqu1fwguk5jlj8lq5h_Remy_Hannequin.png)

And finally, we will also have a speaker at the conference this year: myself,
Rémy Hannequin. I am happy to share that I will be giving a talk on time
management and surprises with Ruby.

I am based in Paris, France, and I have a serious passion for astronomy. I
created multiple open source projects to combine Ruby and astronomy, with the
main one being [Astronoby], a Ruby gem to allows to compute celestial events and
positions with extreme precision.

If you're attending, come say hello! We're always up for talking about Ruby,
Rails, that new gem we're excited about, the eternal Vim vs VS Code debate or we
can just share a drink and talk about something else! Keep an eye on
[thoughtbot on Mastodon] and
[Rob's personal account](https://ruby.social/@purinkle) to see where we'll be
hanging out.

We can't wait to share the experience with you.

[Astronoby]: https://github.com/rhannequin/astronoby
[thoughtbot on mastodon]: https://thoughtbot.social/@thoughtbot