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 1 hour with extra time built-in for networking / brainstorming/ discussions with other participants. Check weekly for new workshops!
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Available Workshops
Vatsal Manot
Vatsal is an active member of the iOS developer community and is currently focused on building SwiftUIX, a framework to complement the SwiftUI standard library. In the past, he has spoken at try! Swift Bangalore, Swift Bangalore Chapter and has conducted SwiftUI workshops for the Swift India Community.
Asynchronous SwiftUI with Combine
Vatsal Manot
In this workshop, we will intensively examine the relationship between Combine and SwiftUI, explore best practices and ergonomics of building a SwiftUI networking app, discuss various state management techniques and lastly, dissect SwiftUI’s diffing model!
Requirements: a Mac with the latest version of Xcode (11.5) installed. This workshop requires an intermediate level of SwiftUI knowledge, and at least a basic amount of Combine knowledge.
Ben Scheirman
Ben is an iOS/Mac developer from Houston, Texas. Under his company, Fickle Bits, he builds apps for clients ranging from startups to established companies from multiple industries. He also runs NSScreencast.com, a site with over 400 screencasts on app development. When not writing software, Ben is probably playing board games, playing guitar, or making award-winning Texas BBQ. You can find Ben on Twitter (@subdigital) or at his blog at benscheirman.com.
Property Wrappers in Swift
Ben Scheirman
In this workshop you will take a deep dive into Property Wrappers in Swift. You’ll learn what property wrappers are and how to create a couple basic ones to simplify and reuse functionality across multiple properties. We’ll learn about composing multiple property wrappers and how to leverage projectedValue. Then we’ll move on to create some useful property wrappers, such as @UserDefaults, @Keychain, and more. Finally we’ll look at some of the gotchas and pitfalls when using Property Wrappers.
Daniel Steinberg
Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books including the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Dear Elena.
He has written apps for the iPhone and the iPad since the SDKs first appeared and has written programs for the Mac all the way back to System 7.
Daniel presents iPhone, Cocoa, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking, baking bread, or hanging out with friends.
First steps in Combine
Daniel Steinberg
In this fast moving workshop we’ll take a simple SwiftUI app and convert into one that uses Combine. You’ll get a feel for the four main components of Combine: Publishers, Subscribers, Subscriptions, and Operators. You’ll need a Mac with the latest version of Xcode installed.
Yuki Aki
Yuki is an iOS Engineer at LINE Fukuoka. He contributes to OSS including projects like XcodeGen and docs of apple/swift and loves speaking at meetups and conferences to share what he has learned. He is organizing HAKATA.swift which is a local community of Swift, and speaking every time. He also loves drawing cats as his hobby.
Deep dive into Swift Intermediate Language
Yuki Aki
In this workshop, you will get how to learn Swift Compiler mechanism by starting from Swift Intermediate Language, to enter a new World. The Swift Compiler world is very mysterious and interesting. Swift Compiler is doing not only parsing our Swift Code to iOS/macOS Application but also many things, including making our code faster and effective.
In this workshop, you will learn:
- How to understand Swift Intermediate Language Code
- How to understand Code of Complier by code optimizer
- How to get a hint of Compiler Code by materials in https://github.com/apple/swift
After this Workshop, you will be not only can understand the compiler a little, but also you are ready to contribute Swift Compiler, like us.
Requirements: All you need for the workshop is "Curiosity to a new planet" and Xcode.
Erica Sadun
Erica Sadun writes lots of books. When not writing or coding, she parents geeks who are brushing up on their world domination skills. According to her academic dosimeter, she's acquired more education than any self-respecting person might consider wise. She enjoys deep diving into technology and has written, co-written, and contributed to dozens of books about computing and digital media. Sadun has blogged at TUAW, Ars Technica, O'Reilly, and Lifehacker. She has authored more rejected Swift Language proposals than anyone else.
Power Xcode Tricks
Erica Sadun
Xcode is so ridiculously faceted that it's easy to overlook delightful non-obvious features. Let Erica Sadun guide you on a short walk through some obscure but powerful Xcode elements, including search domains, regex file matching, recent modification searches, subtype/supertype navigation, caller/callee links, and more.This short workshop can't cover all of Xcode's features but it may introduce a few gems you haven't tried before. Come and share your favorites and learn some new ones.
Bas Broek
Bas is an iOS developer with a passion for testability, accessibility and user-centric apps. He cares about communication and collaboration. In his spare time, he curates Swift Weekly Brief, talks about things on the Contravariance podcast, helps organizing SwiftAveiro, a Swift workshop conference, and works on various open source projects, like GitHawk.
An Introduction to Testing Logic with Unit Tests
Bas Broek
In this workshop, you'll learn how to make sure the logic in your app works as you'd expect it to by writing tests for it. Not only will this give you the confidence that the logic you've written is working as expected, but if you do find that edge case or new functionality to add, you'll be able to write tests before adding the logic. No more bugs for breakfast, and a test suite explaining the expectations of your logic.
Kishikawa Katsumi
Katsumi is a software engineer who has been working in software development on iOS and Mac platforms for over ten years. He is the creator of some popular OSS libraries and developer tool such as KeychainAccess, IBPCollectionViewCompositionalLayout, SpreadsheetView, SourceKit for Safari, Swift AST Explorer, and so on. He loves to write software for developers.
Let's build AppStore.app clone: an introduction to UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout
Kishikawa Katsumi
The new UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout API makes it incredibly easy to create custom complex collection view layout. At WWDC last year, Apple said they were able to reduce the amount of code and make the codebase quite simple to rewrite using UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout.
Using UIControlViewCompositionalLayout, you can easily write complex UIs in a quick and maintainable manner.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use the UIColletionViewCompositionalLayout API correctly by creating a clone of App Store.app UI.
Erica Sadun
Erica Sadun writes lots of books. When not writing or coding, she parents geeks who are brushing up on their world domination skills. According to her academic dosimeter, she's acquired more education than any self-respecting person might consider wise. She enjoys deep diving into technology and has written, co-written, and contributed to dozens of books about computing and digital media. Sadun has blogged at TUAW, Ars Technica, O'Reilly, and Lifehacker. She has authored more rejected Swift Language proposals than anyone else.
Preview Power Tricks
Erica Sadun
Ask most macOS users and they'll say the macOS Preview App is a utility that displays image files and PDFs. Some users might even mention markup capabilities. But how many users are aware about the ways you can color correct pictures, reorder pages in PDF, convert hand-drawn arrow annotations into actual arrows, present slideshows, or integrate with macOS's new screen capture features? These are just a few of the features available in the Preview app. Behind its modest exterior, Preview offers a surprisingly wide set of utilities. In this workshop, join Erica Sadun in celebrating a sweet app that deserves more appreciation.
Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina
Based in Düren, Germany, near Cologne, Manuel Carrasco Molina, better known as StuFF mc, started programming with his C64 at age 11 in 1987. He entered professional software development in 1997 and has been developing since.
He founded the first French podcast about Apple in 2005 and dove into iOS development at the launch of the SDK in 2008, after spending the first half of his developer career in the Microsoft technologies. He ran ObjCGN.com/SwiftConf.com from 2012 to 2017 which he left at 7P after moving to further challenges.
When he's not developing for the Apple Platforms Stuff is an involved activist and/or local politician (4 years at the city council) in the matters of environment (Hambach Forest) and refugees — he spent a few times in east european countries helping his brothers and sisters. Stuff's mother tongue is French, but he also speaks fluently German, English and Spanish, while speaking a bit of Dutch, Arabic and Italian.
MacCatalyst & UIViewRepresentable — Tips & Tricks
Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina
It’s been almost a year that Apple gave us 2 presents: SwiftUI, and MacCatalyst. Although you can totally use SwiftUI to render a UIKit and AppKit app, I found it more future-proof to go full monty with App Catalyst. That doesn’t go without a few pains, but oh well. And then there’s that limitation of SwiftUI not having all the things that UIKit still has. In this workshop I’d like to show you a few techniques to use common code on both platforms and integrate what’s missing from UIKit into your SwiftUI App.
Donny Wals
I'm a passionate and curious iOS developer, Author and Speaker. Currently I'm working at Disney Streaming Services on our iOS SDK on the internal iOS SDK. I have written three books on iOS development and have delivered several talks and workshop over the past couple of years. Next to iOS development I'm a huge cat lover and I like dabbling on my guitar.
Getting started with Combine by refactoring existing code
Donny Wals
Learn how you can start using Combine in your projects by refactoring them bit by bit. In this workshop, you will take a small sample project that's built using UIKit and refactor bits and pieces of it so it uses Combine where possible. This workshop will get you started from scratch and get you up and running quickly to show you what Combine has to offer, where you can integrate Combine in your projects and most importantly, how to get started with the Combine framework.
Daniel Steinberg
Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books including the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Dear Elena.
He has written apps for the iPhone and the iPad since the SDKs first appeared and has written programs for the Mac all the way back to System 7.
Daniel presents iPhone, Cocoa, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking, baking bread, or hanging out with friends.
First Steps in SwiftUI
Daniel Steinberg
We’re just a few weeks away from WWDC and we’re sure to be seeing updates to SwiftUI. If you haven’t experimented with SwiftUI yet, this workshop is the best way to prepare yourself to dive in after WWDC.
In this fast moving workshop we’ll look at the building blocks of a SwiftUI app. We’ll quickly build a scene that leads you to explore the four fundamental ways of interacting with data: State, Binding, Ordinary properties, and Observable Objects. You’ll work with common widgets and learn the basics of layout and building a scene.
You’ll need a Mac with the latest version of Xcode installed.
Anastasiia Voitova
Anastasiia is a software engineer with a wide background, she started her career as a mobile developer since iOS3, then deepen into security engineering. Now she has focused on cryptography/applied security, helping companies to build secure yet usable systems (oh yes, it takes efforts).
Anastasiia maintains open-source cryptographic library Themis, conducts secure software development training, often speaks at international conferences, co-organizes cyber-security events.
Security data management for app devs
Anastasiia Voitova
This workshop’s goal is to answer some of security-related questions that app developers deal with. How to make security decisions, balancing between "no protection" and "paranoid defenses". How to avoid spending time on low priority security features and focus on "must have".
Content: Risks and threats for (mobile) apps. What do we need to protect (data classification, data protection regulations GDPR CCPA HIPAA DPB etc). What are the guidelines (cheatsheets, security guides). What are the tools (libs, scanners, services). How to test application security (verification checklists). Some real world stories (case studies and examples of security development for real apps).
Best suit for: senior developers who are interested in becoming security stakeholders for their whole product/platform.
Note: This workshop expects for attendees some basic understanding of security decision making, because we won’t discuss things like “store password in Keychain” or “don’t put keys in plist in plaintext”. Take this workshop quiz as self-evaluation, if you scored less than 80%, this workshop might be tricky for you.
Mustafa Yusuf
Mustafa is a developer who started his iOS development journey the day Swift was released. He is currently working at SignEasy. In his free time, you will find him working on his indie apps, The Task App and Lingo.
Leverage the Power of CloudKit
Mustafa Yusuf
Did you ever have an app idea, but you thought you’d need a backend developer for it? Maybe you just needed CloudKit. In this workshop, you will be learning to build a CloudKit based app which will touch upon a lot of concepts from storing, fetching, notification subscriptions and syncing data seamlessly across the whole Apple ecosystem.
Please note: In order to test and use CloudKit, you are required to have a paid developer account.
Jason Zurita
Jason Zurita is a self-taught software engineer working on shared libraries and infrastructure as the Team Lead of the Core Mobile Team at Squarespace. Having begun his career as an Electrical Engineer, he understands the challenge in changing careers, which is what drives him to try and give back to the tech community (contributing to open source, teaching, blogging, giving talks, etc.).
He enjoys learning different tech stacks and how they can be put together to create new and interesting projects, the Swift language, tinkering with electronic projects, and going for a walk with his wife, kids, and dog.
Making a DSL in Swift
Jason Zurita
Did you know that SwiftUI is a Domain-Specific Language (DSL)!? A DSL is a language that is targeted to a particular kind of problem — like building user interfaces in SwiftUI's case or managing dependencies in CocoaPods (i.e., the Podfile).
In this workshop, we will explore what it takes to create DSLs in Swift. Make sure you have the latest Xcode installed and bring your love for Swift!
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Instructors
Erica Sadun
Swift Author
Erica Sadun
Erica Sadun writes lots of books. When not writing or coding, she parents geeks who are brushing up on their world domination skills. According to her academic dosimeter, she's acquired more education than any self-respecting person might consider wise. She enjoys deep diving into technology and has written, co-written, and contributed to dozens of books about computing and digital media. Sadun has blogged at TUAW, Ars Technica, O'Reilly, and Lifehacker. She has authored more rejected Swift Language proposals than anyone else.
Daniel Steinberg
Author, Trainer, Consultant
Daniel Steinberg
Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books including the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Dear Elena.
He has written apps for the iPhone and the iPad since the SDKs first appeared and has written programs for the Mac all the way back to System 7.
Daniel presents iPhone, Cocoa, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking, baking bread, or hanging out with friends.
Vincent Pradeilles
iOS @ Worldline
Vincent Pradeilles
Vincent started working on iOS apps back in 2011. For the last years, he’s been working at Worldline, where he contributes to building great apps for major French banks. He loves Swift and enjoys sharing about it on the Internet. Most notably, he built the framework KeyPathKit that implements a SQL-like syntax for data manipulation. He is also the person behind the Twitter account @ios_memes.
Marc Aupont
iOS Engineer @ Lickability
Marc Aupont
Marc Aupont is a first-generation American born from Haitian immigrant parents. His passion for technology led him to move from Orlando, FL to NYC 2 years ago. He currently works at Lickability as an iOS Engineer and his hobbies include: working on side projects involving electronics and hardware, hosting and organizing tech meetups, as well as weekend road trips to random destinations with his wife and two boys.
Marin Todorov
Developer, Speaker, Author
Marin Todorov
Marin Todorov is a developer, speaker and author. He works for high profile clients most often doing Swift development. Besides crafting code, he enjoys blogging, writing books, teaching, and speaking. He sometimes open sources his code. More about Marin at underplot.com
Roxana Jula
Mobile Developer at Nodes
Roxana Jula
Roxana is a Romanian mobile developer based in Dubai with a passion for augmented reality. She started coding when she was 13 years old and so far has been part of the development team of over 20 apps including one of the biggest digital public services app in Scandinavia. She is involved in the tech community, both online (instagram.com/coderox/) and offline at local events. As an advocate for women in tech, Roxana is encouraging other girls to join the tech world.
Kishikawa Katsumi
Lead Software Engineer, Open Source Creator
Kishikawa Katsumi
Katsumi is a software engineer who has been working in software development on iOS and Mac platforms for over ten years. He is the creator of some popular OSS libraries and developer tool such as KeychainAccess, IBPCollectionViewCompositionalLayout, SpreadsheetView, SourceKit for Safari, Swift AST Explorer, and so on. He loves to write software for developers.
Paul Hudson
Swift Author
Paul Hudson
Paul is the author of Hacking with Swift, Pro Swift, Swift Design Patterns, Testing Swift, Server-Side Swift, Swift Coding Challenges, and more. Suffice it to say, he quite likes Swift. And coffee. (But mostly Swift.) (And coffee.).
Carola Nitz
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Carola Nitz
Carola Nitz is an iOS Software Engineer with 7 years of experience working on various iOS Apps. She spent the last years contributing to complex projects like the Netflix iOS App, Apple Maps and VLC for iOS where she learned to navigate matured projects with legacy code. She’s become known for her talks and tweets about Debugging but her passion is Open Source and the iOS Community, where she enjoys creating events like App Builders but also working in diverse teams and learning from others and sharing her knowledge.
Ben Scheirman
NSScreencast
Ben Scheirman
Ben is an iOS/Mac developer from Houston, Texas. Under his company, Fickle Bits, he builds apps for clients ranging from startups to established companies from multiple industries. He also runs NSScreencast.com, a site with over 400 screencasts on app development. When not writing software, Ben is probably playing board games, playing guitar, or making award-winning Texas BBQ. You can find Ben on Twitter (@subdigital) or at his blog at benscheirman.com.
Tim Oliver
Lead iOS Engineer, Open Source Contributor
Tim Oliver
Tim's been a fanboy of iOS since the iPhone 3G and a full-time iOS engineer since the iPhone 5. Recently, he’s worked as an iOS tech lead at Mercari in Tokyo, and before that, at Realm in San Francisco. In his free time, he enjoys contributing to the open source iOS community, attempting karaoke and playing video games.
Erica Correa
iOS Engineer @ The Knot Worldwide
Erica Correa
Erica is an iOS Engineer at The Knot Worldwide, working on The Knot wedding planner app. She’s committed to clean, concise, reusable code. As a former NYC school teacher she enjoys helping other people on her team learn and grow as engineers. Co-founder and co-manager of TKWW’s Women in Tech resource group, she’s passionate about diversity in technology. She’s also a member of the HR committee of the BlackAF affinity group, spearheading intersectionality efforts to get more black women in tech, product, and design.
She’s happily married to fellow iOS Engineer, George. Together they have a five-year-old named Tino and a one-year-old named Rosie. When not happily coding away on her Mac she spends her time nerding out on Marvel Netflix series with George, painting Tino’s toenails, making Rosie laugh, and cooking Italian comfort food while dancing to salsa in her kitchen.
Samuel Goodwin
Roundwall Software
Samuel Goodwin
Samuel Goodwin runs Roundwall Software in Amsterdam. Since 2011 he has been working to help teams and companies get past the barriers that prevent them from making apps.
Yasuhiro Inami
Lead iOS Developer, Functional Programming
Yasuhiro Inami
Yasuhiro is an iOS developer living in Japan since 2010. While creating iPhone apps such as messenger, camera, news, video-on-demand app in his work, he also dedicates his time to functional programming and open source projects. He is a huge fan of Swift, Haskell, and any statically typed languages that compiler can check his bad code.
Bas Broek
iOS Developer, Swift Weekly Brief, Open Source Contributor
Bas Broek
Bas is an iOS developer with a passion for testability, accessibility and user-centric apps. He cares about communication and collaboration. In his spare time, he curates Swift Weekly Brief, talks about things on the Contravariance podcast, helps organizing SwiftAveiro, a Swift workshop conference, and works on various open source projects, like GitHawk.
Donny Wals
iOS developer, Author, Speaker
Donny Wals
I'm a passionate and curious iOS developer, Author and Speaker. Currently I'm working at Disney Streaming Services on our iOS SDK on the internal iOS SDK. I have written three books on iOS development and have delivered several talks and workshop over the past couple of years. Next to iOS development I'm a huge cat lover and I like dabbling on my guitar.
Jeroen Zonneveld
Technical Project Manager
Jeroen Zonneveld
Jeroen Zonneveld is a technical project manager. Years ago he started as an iOS developer at the agency Triple, but because of a great passion for customer contact and thinking along with their mobile products, he became a technical project manager. To share knowledge with other developers, Jeroen is blogging mobile development tips and tricks on the Zonneveld.dev blog.
Ellen Shapiro
Mobile developer, Writer for RayWenderlich.com
Ellen Shapiro
Ellen Shapiro is a native mobile developer, currently working on the Apollo GraphQL iOS SDK. Ellen has been writing and tech editing for RayWenderlich.com since 2013, working on many tutorials and books about iOS and Android, and has been speaking internationally about iOS and Android development for the last several years. When not coding or writing or speaking about code, Ellen enjoys travel (well, normally...), cycling, playing sous-chef to her fiancée Lilia, and relentlessly Instagramming their cats.
Yusuke Kita
Software Engineer @ 10X
Yusuke Kita
Yusuke is a Software Engineer at 10X. He's been working in frontend and backend team. He's passionate about learning new technology especially Swift Compiler in these days. When not coding, you can find him cycling.
David Okun
iOS Architecture
David Okun
David works at a trading company on iOS architecture. He is most passionate about modularity and making swift work in places you wouldn’t expect it to work.
Soaurabh Kakkar
Principal iOS Engineer at Tokopedia
Soaurabh Kakkar
Soaurabh Kakkar is a Principal iOS engineer at Tokopedia, Indonesia’s technology unicorn. Apart from contributing to large scale consumer apps, he likes to experiment and co-invented a security algorithm that can be read on Google Patents. He has previously spoken on topics like HLS In-Depth, Myths about Application Architecture, Functional Paradigm at Swift India Conference and in company-wide talks. When he’s not programming, he spends time watching Cricket and playing Mortal Kombat on Xbox.
Vatsal Manot
SwiftUIX
Vatsal Manot
Vatsal is an active member of the iOS developer community and is currently focused on building SwiftUIX, a framework to complement the SwiftUI standard library. In the past, he has spoken at try! Swift Bangalore, Swift Bangalore Chapter and has conducted SwiftUI workshops for the Swift India Community.
Marcin Krzyzanowski
Eclectic Developer
Marcin Krzyzanowski
Marcin is an eclectic developer with a years of experience in mobile and desktop applications, as well in enterprise solutions. 10x developer like to learn new things with a pragmatic approach to the art of programming. Ocasionally he speaks at conferences and sharing knownledge. Active in open source software development communities he published a wide range of iOS/macOS libraries and tools, such as CryptoSwift, ObjectivePGP and the amazing Online Swift Playground, capable of running Swift code interactively from a Web Browser.
Some links to get more information about what I do:
- personal blog: https://blog.krzyzanowskim.com
- twitter: https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim
- speaker deck: https://speakerdeck.com/krzyzanowskim
- github https://github.com/krzyzanowskim
Vui Nguyen
iOS & IoT Engineer
Vui Nguyen
Vui has been building iOS applications for almost 10 years, first as a cross-platform mobile developer before transitioning to Objective-C and Swift several years ago. She also builds full-stack IoT applications as a hobby, & has won international IoT competitions with her automated faucet dripper 'Save the Water Pipes'!
When she's not building cool iOS or IoT apps, Vui enjoys fishing, eating, sleeping, and repeating. And glamping, and traveling to different places to go fishing :)
Vui is a Lead for the Colorado chapter of Women Who Code and a Lead for the Women Who Code Mobile Track.
Shai Mishali
iOS Tech Lead @ Gett
Shai Mishali
Shai is iOS Tech Lead for Gett, the on-demand mobility company, and is involved in several open source projects on his spare time - mainly the RxSwiftCommunity and RxSwift projects, as well as an international speaker. Author on the upcoming Combine book from raywenderlich.com and a hackathon addict and 1st place winner of BattleHack World Finals 2014. You can find him on GitHub and Twitter as @freak4pc.
Marina Gornostaeva
Experienced iOS Developer, Mentor, Speaker
Marina Gornostaeva
Marina has been professionally building apps for iOS for 9 years, since before ARC. Throughout her career, she worked on dozens of apps of various sizes, both greenfield and legacy projects. These days she is most passionate about robust solutions, quality code, and building the best user experience. Right now she’s on sabbatical after 4 years of leading and scaling the iOS team at Storytel.
In her spare time, Marina co-organizes CopenhagenCocoa meetups, mentors aspiring iOS developers and follows Swift Evolution. When not watching Netflix, she tries to find time to write and contribute to OSS. She likes cats, drinking wine and table tennis.
Alex Paul
iOS Instructor @ Pursuit.org
Alex Paul
I am an iOS Instructor at Pursuit.org. At Pursuit I have been teaching iOS development for over 2 years now. I teach iOS development to young adults from diverse backgrounds and migrant communities who are striving for a career change. Prior to Pursuit I worked at a New York App agency. Husband and father of a 3 and 7 year old. Talk to me about Swift, Zwift and IRONMANs and diversity in tech.
Hector Matos
Senior iOS Developer @ Dropbox
Hector Matos
Hector is the owner and author of The KrakenDev Blog. He has written iOS Apps since the manual memory management days and has worked for companies both small and large such as Apple, Capital One, Twitter, and most recently: Dropbox.
Hector has spoken at several conferences around the world including the very first try! Swift in Tokyo! When he isn’t hanging out with his daughter, son, or wife, you can probably find him streaming video games on his Twitch Channel!
Anastasiia Voitova
security software engineer @ CossackLabs
Anastasiia Voitova
Anastasiia is a software engineer with a wide background, she started her career as a mobile developer since iOS3, then deepen into security engineering. Now she has focused on cryptography/applied security, helping companies to build secure yet usable systems (oh yes, it takes efforts).
Anastasiia maintains open-source cryptographic library Themis, conducts secure software development training, often speaks at international conferences, co-organizes cyber-security events.
Tanner Oakes
iOS Tech Lead @ Twitter
Tanner Oakes
Tanner Oakes has been developing iOS apps for nearly 10 years. After a stint in web development, he built mobile catalog apps for Neiman Marcus, media and robotics apps for worldwide clients at Bottle Rocket, and is now an iOS tech lead at Twitter.
Yuki Aki
Engineer @ LINE Fukuoka
Yuki Aki
Yuki is an iOS Engineer at LINE Fukuoka. He contributes to OSS including projects like XcodeGen and docs of apple/swift and loves speaking at meetups and conferences to share what he has learned. He is organizing HAKATA.swift which is a local community of Swift, and speaking every time. He also loves drawing cats as his hobby.
Jeffrey Bergier
iOS Developer @ Mercari.jp
Jeffrey Bergier
Jeff is an iOS Developer from San Francisco now working at Mercari.jp in Tokyo. Jeff started his career as a UX Designer and transitioned to iOS Development full time. Jeff brings his design background to solve real-world development problems in simple and beautiful ways.
Julio Carrettoni
iOS Developer @ Lyft
Julio Carrettoni
Julio has over 10 years of experience with iOS, or should we say iPhoneOS? Working around small and mid-sized startups, he developed a taste for the pragmatic yet stable approach. It is impossible to predict what's going to be refactored out next week and what will be there forever. Recently he gave up to pressure and relocated to the Bay Area in an attempt to broaden up his vision and correct some of those nasty habits we all drag behind.
Mustafa Yusuf
iOS Developer @ SignEasy
Mustafa Yusuf
Mustafa is a developer who started his iOS development journey the day Swift was released. He is currently working at SignEasy. In his free time, you will find him working on his indie apps, The Task App and Lingo.
Mohammad Azam
Lead Mobile Developer
Mohammad Azam
Mohammad Azam is a veteran developer who has been professionally writing software for more than a decade. Azam worked as a lead mobile developer for many fortune 500 companies and played an integral role in their success. Azam is also a top Udemy instructor for mobile with more than 40K students. Apart from Udemy, Azam is also a frequent contributor to LinkedIn with top rated courses. At present Azam is a lead instructor at DigitalCrafts, software bootcamp. Azam has trained developers who are now working at companies including Apple, JP Morgan Chase, Exxon etc.
Tobias Due Munk
Interface Designer & Software Developer
Tobias Due Munk
Tobias is an interface designer and software developer from Denmark. He runs a two person software studio out of Copenhagen where they realize app ideas, both their own and other people's. Tobias's conference talks and workshops are known for their high quality and for pushing the format. And then some sprinkles of fun.
Benedikt Terhechte
Swift Developer @ XING
Benedikt Terhechte
Benedikt started developing for the Mac in 2007. He's been hooked ever since. From 2011 to 2016 he worked as an indie developer on a Instagram macOS client, nowadays he works at the German social network XING and writes about Swift at www.appventure.me. He also talks on the ContraVariance podcast every second week.
Joe Masilotti
Independent developer, Masilotti.com
Joe Masilotti
Joe is an independent polyglot developer who's passionate about clean, testable code. He writes about testing on masilotti.com and helps people ideate, develop, and test their products. Also, he's a digital nomad currently living in Montreal and loves to play board games.
Ritesh Gupta
Mobile Engineering Manager @ Fueled
Ritesh Gupta
Ritesh is a Mobile Engineering Manager at Fueled, working remotely from India (currently Bangalore). He has been developing iOS applications since 2013 and also loves to play with Kotlin multiplatform. He enjoys reactive programming and also writes about it on his personal blog riteshhh.com. He also had the honor of writing one complete issue (295th) of iOS dev weekly & has given multiple talks in various meetups/conferences. When he is not coding, you can find him exploring street food or food markets.
Danilo Campos
Independent Product Design & Development Consultant
Danilo Campos
As a teenager, Danilo accidentally learned to code in Second Life. He’s been designing, developing and shipping software ever since. After leading mobile projects at startups like Hipmunk, Level Money and FutureAdvisor, he now works as an independent product design and development consultant, with a focus on iOS.
Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina
Apple, Ethics & Karma
Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina
Based in Düren, Germany, near Cologne, Manuel Carrasco Molina, better known as StuFF mc, started programming with his C64 at age 11 in 1987. He entered professional software development in 1997 and has been developing since.
He founded the first French podcast about Apple in 2005 and dove into iOS development at the launch of the SDK in 2008, after spending the first half of his developer career in the Microsoft technologies. He ran ObjCGN.com/SwiftConf.com from 2012 to 2017 which he left at 7P after moving to further challenges.
When he's not developing for the Apple Platforms Stuff is an involved activist and/or local politician (4 years at the city council) in the matters of environment (Hambach Forest) and refugees — he spent a few times in east european countries helping his brothers and sisters. Stuff's mother tongue is French, but he also speaks fluently German, English and Spanish, while speaking a bit of Dutch, Arabic and Italian.
Curtis Colly
Indie developer
Curtis Colly
Curtis Colly is self-employed as a full-stack web application and iOS developer. Having built a variety of consumer oriented web apps in a myriad of web languages, he appreciates the safety and efficiency that the statically typed Swift offers. He strives to make his code functional, durable and scalable. Curtis enjoys seeking hidden truths. As a result, he appreciates good conversations, experiencing difference cultures and testing innovative ideas in the real-world. He is currently working on a video app for people to share meaningful thoughts on various topics.
Zack Shapiro
Lead iOS Engineer, Co-Founder & Editor of Better Programming
Zack Shapiro
Zack Shapiro is an iOS engineer and has been writing Swift since the day it was announced. Previously he was the Director of Engineering at Bump, a mobile streetwear marketplace and Head of Mobile at SplashThat. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and Editor of Better Programming, the fastest-growing tech publication on Medium in 2019, and is exploring ideas for his next company.
Eli Budelli
Head of Apps at Automattic (WordPress, Woo, Simplenote)
Eli Budelli
Eli Budelli has spent most of her professional career developing mobile apps, from the Palm Pilot to the iPhone 11. She has worked as a developer and release manager for the WordPress iOS app. In her current role as Head of Apps at Automattic she leads a 60+ people team distributed across 18 countries.
Cate Huston
Tech Lead
Cate Huston
Cate spent her career working on mobile and documenting everything she learnt using WordPress, eventually joining Automattic to combine the two as mobile lead. At Automattic, she eventually lead other teams and took on a broader role across the engineering organization. Cate admins the New-(ish) Manager Slack and her writing on leadership regularly appears in Quartz. You can find her on Twitter at @catehstn and at cate.blog.
Neem Serra
Mobile Developer @ Slalom
Neem Serra
Neem Serra is mobile developer at Slalom in St. Louis. She is the current North American Women Techmakers lead as well as the local chapter lead. She loves to teach programming, speaking at conferences, and helping promote people to be able to do their first conference talk. In her spare time, Neem loves to play with her baby, read comics, and host craft nights.
Jason Zurita
Software Engineer @ Squarespace
Jason Zurita
Jason Zurita is a self-taught software engineer working on shared libraries and infrastructure as the Team Lead of the Core Mobile Team at Squarespace. Having begun his career as an Electrical Engineer, he understands the challenge in changing careers, which is what drives him to try and give back to the tech community (contributing to open source, teaching, blogging, giving talks, etc.).
He enjoys learning different tech stacks and how they can be put together to create new and interesting projects, the Swift language, tinkering with electronic projects, and going for a walk with his wife, kids, and dog.
Chris Britt
Freelance Magician & Emcee
Chris Britt
Chris Britt is an award-winning magician and specialist in interactive magic tricks. In the past few months, he has performed virtually for Dell Technologies, Viv Labs and at dozens of private events. Adam Cheyer, the Co-Founder of Siri (the start-up acquired by Apple) said of Chris's performance, "Chris performed a mixture of mindfulness exercises and magic that made everyone feel so good. He was professional, charismatic and all-around amazing. I highly recommend Chris for your magic-related event, be it virtual, or back in the real world when such a thing as possible."
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Meet the Organizers
Natasha Murashev
Founder of try! Swift
Natasha Murashev
Natasha is an iOS developer by day and a robot by night. She organizes the try! Swift Conference around the world (including this one!). She's currently living the digital nomad life as her alter identity: @NatashaTheNomad.
Chris Britt
Freelance Magician & Emcee
Chris Britt
Chris Britt is an award-winning magician and specialist in interactive magic tricks. In the past few months, he has performed virtually for Dell Technologies, Viv Labs and at dozens of private events. Adam Cheyer, the Co-Founder of Siri (the start-up acquired by Apple) said of Chris's performance, "Chris performed a mixture of mindfulness exercises and magic that made everyone feel so good. He was professional, charismatic and all-around amazing. I highly recommend Chris for your magic-related event, be it virtual, or back in the real world when such a thing as possible."
Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina
Apple, Ethics & Karma
Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina
Based in Düren, Germany, near Cologne, Manuel Carrasco Molina, better known as StuFF mc, started programming with his C64 at age 11 in 1987. He entered professional software development in 1997 and has been developing since.
He founded the first French podcast about Apple in 2005 and dove into iOS development at the launch of the SDK in 2008, after spending the first half of his developer career in the Microsoft technologies. He ran ObjCGN.com/SwiftConf.com from 2012 to 2017 which he left at 7P after moving to further challenges.
When he's not developing for the Apple Platforms Stuff is an involved activist and/or local politician (4 years at the city council) in the matters of environment (Hambach Forest) and refugees — he spent a few times in east european countries helping his brothers and sisters. Stuff's mother tongue is French, but he also speaks fluently German, English and Spanish, while speaking a bit of Dutch, Arabic and Italian.
Alvin Varghese
Founder of Swift India
Alvin Varghese
Alvin Varghese is an iOS & macOS developer from the land of cultures and traditions, Kerala. He is in his early twenties, has extremely high energy levels and being idle kills him. He is really passionate about iOS Development and technology, that's why he chose to become a Swift lover and an iOS Developer. When he is not working on any projects, he engages himself by reading books and travelling. He has a life-long obsession with learning and exploring. Nowadays he spends lot of his time organizing and managing Swift India Developer Community .
Nino Sakuma
Designer / iOS Developer
Nino Sakuma
Nino Sakuma ( a. k. a. yucovin ) is a designer and a painter in Japan. She loves Apple products so much that she became an iOS developer. She is an instructor of iOS app development course for beginners `App Creator Dojo(App-Dojo)`. Web site: Apple Blog `Motto shiritai Ringo arekore`. Riko, the mascot of try! Swift, is designed by her.
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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 your and answer all your question. 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.