If you can’t make it to this conf and live in the Bay Area, you should checkout the monthly SF Ruby meetups. But you really should go to this conference.
Back when I used to go to conferences, I realized that all talks fell into two categories: (1) side-projects and (2) sales pitches
Cool new language? Side-project
How I built X in Y days? Sales pitch for the cloud provider they used
Keynote? Sales pitch (buy my course!)
Why you're doing X wrong? Sales pitch (come work for us!)
How sped up our API: Side-project (the feature isn't in prod and never will be)
Hard to imagine conferences got good at some point. Did they?