try! Swift World is a set of personal online workshops led by Swift developers around the world, meant to keep the worldwide Swift community connected around the latest in Swift Development. Each workshop is limited to 10 attendees and lasts for about 2 hours with extra time built-in for networking / brainstorming/ discussions with other participants. Check weekly for new workshops!

Follow us on Twitter at @tryswiftworld for the latest updates and announcements!

Available Workshops

Natasha Murashev

The best way to learn AI is to actually build with it! This is an interactive workshop challenge where you will be building an AI-Powered Movie Search App. We will meet on Friday for a pre-building session where the conceptual ideas required for the app will be discussed. You will then be provided with a detailed step-by-step guide on how to build the app, including all the resources needed. You will then spend the week(end) building the app - any questions or obstacles you encounter can be posted in the workshop Slack channel, where you will be given support by the course instructors and fellow peers. This workshop is in collaboration with Vatsal Manot.

Skills you will learn:

  • How to work with the OpenAI API
  • How to Get Training Data to Experiment With
  • How to work with Text Embeddings
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • How to Implement Advanced Generalized Search (e.g. 'romantic movies in New York City')

Buy Now ($50)

Access Future Workshops

Get notified as we release new workshops. New ones will be announced weekly!

Interested in sponsoring or want more information? Send us an email at [email protected].

Instructors

Erica Sadun

Swift Author

Daniel Steinberg

Author, Trainer, Consultant

Vincent Pradeilles

iOS @ PhotoRoom

Marc Aupont

iOS Engineer @ Lickability

Marin Todorov

Developer, Speaker, Author

Roxana Jula

Senior Mobile Engineer & Director of Augmented Reality at Monstarlab

Kishikawa Katsumi

Lead Software Engineer, Open Source Creator

Paul Hudson

Swift Author

Carola Nitz

Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

Ben Scheirman

NSScreencast

Tim Oliver

Lead iOS Engineer, Open Source Contributor

Erica Correa

iOS Engineer @ The Knot Worldwide

Samuel Goodwin

Roundwall Software

Yasuhiro Inami

Lead iOS Developer, Functional Programming

Bas Broek

iOS Developer, Swift Weekly Brief, Open Source Contributor

Donny Wals

iOS developer, Author, Speaker

Jeroen Zonneveld

Technical Project Manager

Ellen Shapiro

Mobile developer, Writer for RayWenderlich.com

Yusuke Kita

Software Engineer @ 10X

David Okun

iOS Architecture

Soaurabh Kakkar

Principal iOS Engineer at Tokopedia

Vatsal Manot

Swift + AI

Marcin Krzyzanowski

Eclectic Developer

Vui Nguyen

iOS & IoT Engineer

Shai Mishali

iOS Tech Lead @ Gett

Marina Gornostaeva

Experienced iOS Developer, Mentor, Speaker

Alex Paul

iOS Instructor @ Pursuit.org

Hector Matos

Senior iOS Developer @ Dropbox

Anastasiia Voitova

security software engineer @ CossackLabs

Tanner Oakes

iOS Tech Lead @ Twitter

Yuki Aki

Engineer @ LINE Fukuoka

Jeffrey Bergier

iOS Developer @ Mercari.jp

Julio Carrettoni

iOS Developer @ Lyft

Mustafa Yusuf

Indie Developer

Mohammad Azam

Lead Mobile Developer

Tobias Due Munk

Interface Designer & Software Developer

Benedikt Terhechte

Swift Developer @ XING

Joe Masilotti

Independent developer, Masilotti.com

Ritesh Gupta

Mobile Engineering Manager @ Fueled

Danilo Campos

Independent Product Design & Development Consultant

Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina

Apple, Ethics & Karma

Curtis Colly

Indie developer

Zack Shapiro

Lead iOS Engineer, Co-Founder & Editor of Better Programming

Eli Budelli

Head of Apps at Automattic (WordPress, Woo, Simplenote)

Cate Huston

Tech Lead

Neem Serra

Mobile Developer @ Stitch Fix

Jason Zurita

Mobile Team Lead @ Driver Technologies

Chris Britt

Freelance Magician & Emcee

Craig Clayton

Senior iOS engineer @ Ed Farm

Chris Marshall

Swift Addict

James Dempsey

Developer, Trainer, Speaker, Musician

Guilherme Rambo

App developer, speaker, tinkerer

Natalia Panferova

Software engineer, author and speaker

Timirah James

Singer/Songwriter, Mobile Engineer, Developer Evangelist

Jeremy Massel

Mobile Infrastructure Engineer @ Automattic

Lorenzo Mattei

Mobile Infrastructure Lead @ Automattic

Federico Zanetello

iOS Engineer

Adrian Eves

iOS Engineer

Pavel Zak

iOS/macOS developer

Claudia Maciel

iOS Developer

Lea Marolt Sonnenschein

iOS developer, Ray Wenderlich Tech Editor

Mugunth Kumar

iOS @ Xero, Author

Malin Sundberg

iOS & macOS developer

Daniel Saidi

Freelance Developer

Daisy Ramos

iOS Developer @ Lickability

Andrés Ibañez

Software Architect @ Banco Nacional de Bolivia

Dominik Hauser

iOS Developer

Jorge Ortiz Fuentes

Mobile Developer Advocate @ MongoDB

Jeroen Leenarts

iOS Developer Relations Lead @ Stream

Frank Courville

iOS Corporate Training @ School of Swift

Joseph Heck

Developer, Author

Tim Condon

Founder @ Broken Hands

Peter Friese

Senior Developer Advocate @ Firebase

Rob Whitaker

Senior iOS Engineer

Vikram Kriplaney

Senior Software Engineer

Emad Ghorbaninia

Lead iOS Engineer

Audrey Sobgou Zebaze

iOS/macOS Engineer

Marco Eidinger

Lead iOS engineer

Frank Lefebvre

Freelance OS X & iOS developer

Tunde Adegoroye

iOS Content Creator

William Vabrinskas

Senior iOS Engineer @ UberEats

TBD

More instructors will be announced soon!

We are committed to providing a safe space for all of our attendees, speakers, and volunteers. Our Code of Conduct can be read in full here.

Meet the Organizers

Natasha Murashev

Founder of try! Swift

FAQ - try! Swift World

What is the format of try! Swift World?

try! Swift World is a series of ongoing workshops - new workshops posted weekly. Each workshop is limited to a group of 10 participants to keep it small and private. Think of it as getting personal time with a top Swift developer. The workshops last up to 2 hours and include about an hour of interactive content (prepare to get hands on and code along!), and the rest of the time is used for questions, casual discussion, networking.

How can my organization get involved?

try! Swift is a community conference, and we really need everyone's help to make it happen! The easiest way to get involved is by attending. If you're a manager, we ask that you encourage your team to attend workshops and give them the time to do so.

We are also looking for sponsors. If you’d like more information, please contact us at [email protected].

Why is there a fee for the workshops?

The workshops are run by very busy professional Swift developers from around the world. They are taking time out of their schedule to provide a personal workshop for you and answer all of your questions. The workshop fee goes toward paying instructors for their time and to support try! Swift in continuing to organize workshops in a sustainable way moving forward.
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Diversity & Economic Hardship Scholarships

try! Swift is about bringing together talent from all around the world to collaborate and share advanced knowledge and techniques to improve our craft as a community. We want to make sure everyone has a chance to participate regardless of economic cicumstances!

Economic Hardship Scholarships

Economic hardship scholarships support community members who have been economically impacted during this time of economic uncertainty. Apply here. Interested in sponsoring or want more information? Send us an email at [email protected].

Diversity Scholarships

Diversity scholarships support community members from traditionally underrepresented groups who may not otherwise have the opportunity to attend try! Swift for financial reason. Apply here. Interested in sponsoring or want more information? Send us an email at [email protected].

How it works

Those who apply will receive a weekly email with a chance to participate in the latest workshops. Each scholarship recipient can attend one workshop per week, so everyone gets a chance to attend.

Deadline

try! Swift is an ongoing event, so the scholarship applications are on a rolling basis.