Speaker
Niko Matsakis
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Senior Principal Engineer @Amazon, One of the Lead Designers of the Rust Programming Language, Creator of Symposium (symposium.dev), Project Director on the Rust Foundation Board
Niko Matsakis is one of the lead designers of the Rust programming language and co-lead of the Rust language design team. He is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon and a Project Director on the Rust Foundation Board. He is the creator of Symposium (symposium.dev), an open-source platform for agent mods built on the Agent Client Protocol.
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Session
RIIIR: Rewrite It In *Idiomatic* Rust (with AI)
Rust's strict type system and efficient execution make it a popular choice for agentic development -- but agents fail to make best use of Rust's idioms.
