🌎 Community-curated list of tech conference talks, videos, slides and the like — from all around the world

📅 2018-09-04
🌎 New York City, United States
try! Swift Conference is an international community gathering about the latest advancements in Swift Development. The event is about bringing together talent from all around the world to collaborate and share advanced knowledge and techniques to improve Swift craftsmanship. Coming again to New York City on September 4th & 5th 2018, with workshops happening on September 3rd!
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    • 👤 Bas Broek
    Bas is an iOS and tooling developer at XING. He is currently curating Swift Weekly Brief and contributing to frameworks, apps and tooling in open source. He likes Swift and experimenting with other programming languages.
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    • 👤 Berta Devant
    During this year's keynote memoji was introduced to iOS 12 and iPhone X, allowing users to create a meme of their own persona and use that for message apps as an animoji. In this talk I will walk you through some of the new thing from Face Tracking and how you can create your own memoji using ARKit 2.
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    • 👤 Leah Culver
    Leah Culver is the co-founder and CTO of Breaker, the top social podcast app for iOS. Breaker launched in March 2017 and was Y Combinator class of Winter 2017. Leah also previously founded Pownce, an early social networking site and Convore/Grove, a group messaging service. Leah is also a co-author of both the OAuth and oEmbed open API specifications. She lo…
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    • 👤 Gopal Sharma
    Swift on the server has been talked about since Swift was open sourced. There have been a lot of efforts to make Swift on the server viable. However, when building a product, you should be focused on your product, not on the tools and frameworks backing it. This talk evaluates the holistic experience of building a small (but real) backend in Swift, versus a …
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    • 👤 Johannes Weiss
    NiO, Vapor's integration, and what it means for future of Swift. Bio - Originally planning on working his way up the ranks of Panera Bread Company, Logan was unexpectedly thrust into the high octane world of iOS App Development. Passionate about open source, he eventually found his way to Vapor where he currently works developing open source web tools in swi…
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    • 👤 Jon-Tait Beason
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    • 👤 Christina Moulton
    Siri Shortcuts help to improve your user experience by making actions available with Siri in iOS, watchOS, CarPlay and HomePod. We can set up our apps to give easy access to frequent actions without needing to open the app. Even better, iOS can suggest frequently used actions pro-actively using notifications or the lock screen. We’ll see how to add custom Si…
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    • 👤 Audrey Tam
    You want to add ML to your apps but you think you need to study a lot of math and write Python and you can’t find the time? Think again: Apple’s Create ML gets you started in the comfort of Xcode and Swift! No math needed :]. Create ML is brilliant for getting you started with ML. It makes it easy to try different datasets — getting your data right is actual…
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    • 👤 Jen Person
    Ever look at an app and think, 'I wonder how I'd build that?' After scrolling through Instagram looking at cat photos, I decided to try my hand at building some of its features to determine how I'd tackle common development challenges. In this talk I share what I learned, including tips for designing a scalable data structure in a NoSQL database and implemen…
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    • 👤 Sebastiaan de With
    Go through the steps to take a simple user interface from a utility to a sheer delight. Learn the touches and mindset required to (re)design your app's UI to let users love interacting with it.Sebastiaan de With is an ex-Apple designer and photographer that is the design half of the team behind the camera app Halide. When he’s not working on Halide, he does …
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    • 👤 Felix Krause
    Using third party SDKs significantly speeds up your development process. Felix will talk about the risks of depending on external code, and how an attacker can easily inject malicious code in software you bundle within your app.Felix is the creator of fastlane, an open source toolset for automating all your iOS and Android development tasks. He joined Twitte…
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    • 👤 Logan Wright
    NiO, Vapor's integration, and what it means for future of Swift.Originally planning on working his way up the ranks of Panera Bread Company, Logan was unexpectedly thrust into the high octane world of iOS App Development. Passionate about open source, he eventually found his way to Vapor where he currently works developing open source web tools in swift. He …
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    • 👤 Tom Harrington
    Core Data brings a lot of power to an app and continues to evolve, but it can have rough spots when you're working in Swift. What if you want to save an enum pr a struct? Does it help if your data is Codable? What's the best way to create Swift-friendly model classes? This session will cover techniques and gotchas for integrating Core Data with your Swift co…
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    • 👤 Chris Bailey
    • 👤 Ian Partridge
    Chris and Ian will explore what it’s like to build REST APIs in Kitura 2, using the built-in support for OpenAPI. Quickly generate an iOS and Android client SDK to use in your app, and deploy your server-side Swift app to the cloud. We’ll also provide an update on Kitura development and what the future might hold.
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    • 👤 Peter Steinberger
    Peter founded and bootstrapped PSPDFKit in 2011, and has since expanded the company with the goal of providing the highest quality PDF framework for all platforms. While Peter is responsible for the day-to-day management of the team, he never misses the chance to go under PSPDFKit’s hood and get his hands dirty with writing and debugging code. Peter has work…
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    • 👤 Kentaro Matsumae
    The ‘Super Resolution' technique is used for converting low resolution images into high resolution, which reduces the amount of image data that needs to be transferred. In this talk, I'd like to show you the implementation of super resolution with CoreML and Swift, and compare the results with conventional methods. I’ll also talk about how to train your own …
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    • 👤 Kaya Thomas
    At WWDC, Apple announced a lot of changes coming to Notifications for iOS 12. In this talk, we’ll go over these new features (provisional authorization, updating notification settings from the lock screen, group notifications and user interaction within a notification) and discuss ideas on how and why you might want to take advantage of them for your app.
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    • 👤 Erica Correa
    In an increasingly fast-paced society, users demand immediate satisfaction from their products. When they tap on a mobile app icon they expect it to launch in four seconds or less. With 23% of users abandoning an app after first use, there’s not a second to spare in making a great first impression. See how much of The Knot’s loading time was eaten up by our …
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    • 👤 Mattt
    Strings are the most versatile type in the Swift standard library. This talk looks at seven different ways to understand and work with strings: as collections of Unicode characters, as identifiers, as paths, as natural language text, as encoded data, as structured data, and as typographic content.
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    • 👤 Daiki Matsudate
    It has been three years since Swift was first introduced. Yet there are still missing features and unfixed bugs. The good news is that Swift is open source and we, the community have the power to fix it. In this talk, I’ll discuss how to pitch an idea in Swift Forums, submit a Proposal, and how to build, test and benchmark Swift using the example of Dictiona…
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    • 👤 Alicia V Carr
    A 16-year-old inspired me to learn to code. This lit the fuse that would take me on an amazing journey through challenges and victories while creating an app to help victims escape domestic violence and abuse.