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Over the last five years, thousands of developers and hundreds of teams have gone from zero-to-Rust at Amazon. What can we learn from those diverse experiences to help other organizations adopt Rust? This is a blueprint for bootstrapping Rust adoption. We will talk about strategies that work well for bringing Rust into organizations, and strategies that don’t. Domains where Rust is likely to succeed, and areas where it is still a work in progress. This talk is intended for anyone who wants to bring (or increase) adoption of Rust in their organization.

This session covers how one team uses Rust to power health technologies, decision support algorithms, and health devices across Subsaharan Africa and the US. Rust makes reaching the last mile of healthcare delivery cheaper, more resource efficient, and – in some cases – possible.

Rust is gaining traction across industries—but can it become a cornerstone of automotive development? This talk explores Rust’s potential across embedded systems, infotainment, cloud services, and factory tools. How do C/C++ developers feel about Rust transition, what gaps remain in the ecosystem, and how to tackle both technical and organizational resistance. This session is ideal for teams exploring safer, modern tooling in safety-critical environments. It’s not just about code—it’s about adoption at scale.

In an era where governments have the ability to eavesdrop on journalists and their sources through mass surveillance infrastructure, The Guardian developed Secure Messaging to provide a secure, anonymous, and easy-to-use initial contact mechanism. This presentation will detail how Rust language features were instrumental in building the system’s secure and performant backend services and how we made an inherently opaque system observable.