try! Swift is an immersive community gathering about Swift Language Best Practices, Application Development in Swift, Server-Side Swift, Open Source Swift, and the Swift Community. It took place in Tokyo with talks from community experts on March 1st and 2nd, and Peer Labs / Workshops on March 3rd, 2018.

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Meet The Speakers

Norman Maurer

Software Engineer at Apple

Krzysztof Zabłocki

Creator of Sourcery & Objective-C Playgrounds

Sarah Olson

iOS Developer at Trello

Brandon Kase

iOS Engineer at Pinterest

Tamar Nachmany

iOS Engineer at Tumblr

Wendy Lu

iOS Engineer at Pinterest

Samuel Goodwin

Founder of Roundwall Software

Sash Zats

Software Engineer at Facebook

Karl von Randow

Creator of Camera+, Charles Proxy, and Vee

Katsumi Kishikawa

Freelance Software Engineer

Kohki Miki

Engineer at Cookpad

Ellen Shapiro

iOS Developer at Bakken & Bæck

Shuichi Tsutsumi

iOS Developer in Tokyo/San Francisco

Samuel Giddins

Bundler & CocoaPods Core Team, Developer at Square

Ben Scheirman

Creator of NSScreencast

Javier Soto

iOS Developer at Twitch

Daisy Ramos

iOS Developer

David Hoang

Head of Product Design at One Medical

Kate Castellano

Senior iOS Developer at Clue

Yuka Ezura

iOS Engineer at LINE

Pushkar Kulkarni

Server-Side Swift at IBM

Yusuke Kita

iOS Developer at Mercari

Kentaro Matsumae

Engineer at DeNA

Vu Nhat Minh

iOS Engineer at Mercari / Souzoh

Toru Kuriyama

iOS Engineer at Sansan

Tatsuya Tanaka

Engineer at Yahoo! JAPAN

Yuki Asai

iOS Developer at Recruit Marketing Partners

Takeshi Ihara

iOS Engineer at Recruit Marketing Partners

Tiago Martinho

Developer at ThoughtWorks

Yuya Hirayama

iOS Engineer at VASILY Inc.

Nobuo Saito

iOS Engineer at Mercari

March 1st

8:30 - 🍩 Registration & Breakfast

9:45 - Opening Remarks

10:00 - A Secret Swift Tour

10:25 - ⚡️🎤 SIL for First Time Learners

10:40 - Exploring Clang Modules

11:00 - Break

11:40 - Getting to Know the Responder Chain

12:05 - Optimizing Swift code for separation of concerns and simplicity

12:30 - Should coders design?

13:00 - Lunch

14:30 - Event driven networking for Swift

14:55 - ⚡️🎤 The diamond of variance

15:05 - SwiftyPi

15:25 - ⚡️🎤 Swift in my home

15:35 - UI Testing for Fun and Profit

16:00 - Break

16:30 - Writing Blockchain Clients in Swift

16:50 - ⚡️🎤 Protocol Oriented WebAPI Abstraction

17:05 - 👾

17:30 - AST Meta-programming

18:00 - Closing / Announcements

March 2nd

9:00 - 🍩 Breakfast

9:45 - Opening Remarks

10:00 - Finally Solving the Expression Problem

10:25 - ⚡️🎤 Swift Peer Lab Barcelona

10:40 - Using Swift to Visualize Algorithms

11:00 - Break

11:30 - Codable Routing with Kitura

11:50 - ⚡️🎤 Super Resolution with CoreML

12:05 - Introducing Charles for iOS

12:30 - Designing Experiences With Augmented Reality

13:00 - Lunch

14:30 - Kotlin For Swift Developers

14:50 - ⚡️🎤 Preparing for Swift 5 Ownership

15:05 - Digital Signal Processing with Swift

15:25 - ⚡️🎤 The Type-Safe World of Codable

15:35 - Creating conversational interfaces in iOS/Swift

16:00 - Break

16:30 - UIImageView vs Metal

16:50 - ⚡️🎤 Best Docker Container in Swift

17:05 - ⚡️🎤 The Type Erasure Advantage

17:30 - Investing time into developer tools and experience

18:00 - Closing / Announcements

18:30 - Party 🎉

March 3rd

9:00 - Building real-world server-side Swift applications with Kitura @ Casareal

9:00 - Cloud Firestore Workshop @ Casareal

9:00 - Open Source Swift Workshop @ LINE

9:00 - Mastering Value Types in Swift with SWIFT QUEST @ Casareal

9:00 - Augmented Reality, Swiftly! @ DeNA

9:00 - Making Apps with Realm Cloud @ Casareal

13:00 - Workshops End

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10:00 - Peer Labs @ LINE

18:00 - Peer Labs End

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Meet the Organizers

Natasha Murashev

Founder of try! Swift

Satoshi Hachiya

Founder of Pancake Meetup

Hideyuki Nanashima

Swift Lover

Daiki Matsudate

iOS Freelancer

Yoichiro Sakurai

iOS / Web Developer at Retty

Nino Sakuma

Designer / iOS Developer

Matthew Gillingham

Developer

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Conference Venue: Bellesalle Shinjuku Grand (March 1st & 2nd)

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