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!
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Available Workshops
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 in India developing AI-based apps for reading Sanskrit texts.
Interactive Workshop: The Power of AI + Voice
Natasha Murashev
This is an interactive workshop challenge where you will be building a Voice Memos app with AI-powered search, transcription, summaries, and more. 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.
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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 @ PhotoRoom
Vincent Pradeilles
Vincent works at PhotoRoom and contributes to building great apps. He also enjoys sharing about Swift and iOS on his YouTube channel.
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
Senior Mobile Engineer & Director of Augmented Reality at Monstarlab
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
Swift + AI
Vatsal Manot
Vatsal fell in love with his jailbroken iPod touch 4G back in 2011 as twelve year old, and has been programming on Apple platforms ever since. He’s extreemly passionate about the Swift community and maintains numerous Swift/SwiftUI OSS projects.
His friends would say that he loves building frameworks, almost to a fault - but he’s okay with that :p
At the moment, Vatsal is laser-focused on bridging the gap between Swift developers and generative AI. He's working onbsessively on bringing state-of-the-art LLM tooling to Apple platforms via native Swift libraries, and is excited to see what the community builds with it.
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
Indie Developer
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, a seasoned developer with 10+ years of experience, contributed to Fortune 500 companies like Valic, AIG, and Dell. As a lead mobile developer at Blinds.com, he played a key role. Azam is a top instructor on Udemy and LinkedIn with 70K+ students. Currently a lead instructor at DigitalCrafts, he trains developers now employed at Apple, JP Morgan Chase, and Exxon. Azam, an international speaker since 2006, also enjoys exploring the world in his free time.
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 @ Stitch Fix
Neem Serra
Neem Serra is a mobile developer at Stitch Fix and lives in the St. Louis area. She loves to do conference talks on unconscious bias or Swift and has recently been making all of her technical talks have examples related to her two loves: her baby Logan and cupcakes. Neem loves to bake, read comics, and host craft nights.
Jason Zurita
Mobile Team Lead @ Driver Technologies
Jason Zurita
Jason Zurita is a self-taught Software Engineer working as the Mobile Team Lead at Driver Technologies. Having begun his career as an Electrical Engineer, he understands the challenge in changing careers, which is part of 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."
Craig Clayton
Senior iOS engineer @ Ed Farm
Craig Clayton
Craig Clayton is a self-taught, senior iOS engineer, instructor and mentor at Ed Farm, specializing in cultivate change and promote innovation in education. He also volunteered as the organizer of the Suncoast iOS meetup group in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area for three years, preparing presentations and hands-on talks for this group and other groups in the community.
Chris Marshall
Swift Addict
Chris Marshall
Chris Marshall has been writing Apple software since 1986, where his first Apple computer was a brand-new Mac Plus, maxed out at 4MB of RAM, and an external SCSI 20MB hard drive. In the years since, he has transitioned through numerous languages and frameworks, to arrive at Swift, with the various flavors of Cocoa. He writes Swift every day.
These days, Chris likes to explore the world of iOT and device control, and is also quite passionate about usability and accessibility. A huge believer in open-source and charitable software, Chris has written uncountable lines of code (Including a great deal of Swift), accessible via his GitHub repository.
James Dempsey
Developer, Trainer, Speaker, Musician
James Dempsey
As owner of Tapas Software, James has been coding and teaching Swift since it was announced. His open-source utility BuildSettingExtractor is the fastest, easiest way to extract Xcode build settings. He also sings about Swift as frontman for the iTunes chart-topping band James Dempsey and the Breakpoints. When not Swifting, he co-hosts The Weekly Review productivity podcast. James is a fifteen-year Apple veteran gone indie.
Guilherme Rambo
App developer, speaker, tinkerer
Guilherme Rambo
On his day job, Gui manages a team of developers building an e-commerce app for the Brazilian market. He is also the developer behind apps such as AirBuddy, the WWDC app for macOS, and the iOS app ChibiStudio. Other than building for Apple’s platforms, Gui co-hosts the Stacktrace Podcast, speaks in conferences around the world, and loves to share his ideas on Twitter and his blog.
Natalia Panferova
Software engineer, author and speaker
Natalia Panferova
Natalia is a software engineer passionate about iOS and macOS app development. She enjoys working with Swift and SwiftUI and shares what she learns on Nil Coalescing Blog.
Before joining Nil Coalescing as a co-founder, she was part of the core SwiftUI team at Apple designing and building SwiftUI APIs.
Natalia lives in New Zealand, and when not coding or writing blog articles she likes to go on nature walks with her dog Phoebe.
Timirah James
Singer/Songwriter, Mobile Engineer, Developer Evangelist
Timirah James
Timirah is a singer/songwriter, turned mobile engineer, turned Developer Evangelist. She's worked heavily in the startup scene building and launching iOS, WatchOS, and tvOS applications. Timirah is also a Swift Instructor on the O'Reilly Platform, and is heavily involved in the tech community as an international speaker, organizer, mentor, and tech workshop facilitator for several tech conferences and organizations –– including her own non-profit organization called TechniGal LA, which exposes women of all ages to learning and employment opportunities in STEM.
Fun Fact: She also released a code-inspired song called "Coderitis" on Spotify!
Jeremy Massel
Mobile Infrastructure Engineer @ Automattic
Jeremy Massel
Jeremy Massel is a Mobile Infrastructure Engineer at Automattic. He works on release tooling, server-side infrastructure, and APIs shared by all of the Automattic apps. He especially enjoys working on projects that improve app stability, security, and user privacy.
Lorenzo Mattei
Mobile Infrastructure Lead @ Automattic
Lorenzo Mattei
Lorenzo started programming on a C64 in late 80s and never stopped. Lately, he got interested in developing processes and tools to help teams to ship faster and with higher quality. He currently leads the Mobile Infrastructure team at Automattic.
Federico Zanetello
iOS Engineer
Federico Zanetello
Federico Zanetello is an iOS Engineer with strong passion for Swift, minimalism, and design. When he’s not busy automating things, he can be found writing at fivestars.blog and/or playing with the latest shiny toys ✨.
Adrian Eves
iOS Engineer
Adrian Eves
Adrian Eves loves all things Swift, especially on the watchOS and iOS platforms. When he’s not behind a computer, he’s off chasing his kids, training for the Ironman, reading, or listening to music. You can follow him on Twitter at @swifteves
Pavel Zak
iOS/macOS developer
Pavel Zak
I am an iOS/macOS developer passionate about graphics, UX, and animations. For almost a decade I write mobile apps for a living, teach programming and occasionally speak at conferences or write blog posts about topics I could not find elsewhere (considering myself to be the slowest writer you can meet :).
Claudia Maciel
iOS Developer
Claudia Maciel
Claudia Maciel is an iOS Developer who helps young companies and aspiring developers to build native Apple applications. Before starting Coder Pilots Apps, Claudia worked for five years as a Co-Site Director for the K-12 STEM Programs and as an airline pilot for SkyWest Airlines. After a successful career helping K – 12 Students and their teachers, Claudia now builds and trains others on how to build Apple applications. Claudia enjoys flying airplanes with her family and reading a good mystery, suspense novel.
Lea Marolt Sonnenschein
iOS developer, Ray Wenderlich Tech Editor
Lea Marolt Sonnenschein
Lea is an iOS developer and international speaker passionate about seeing new and diverse faces at upcoming tech conferences. That's why she created this workshop, in hopes to inspire more people to give public speaking a try, and share their knowledge with the rest of us! She's currently a product manager at Azimo, and a long-time writer and tech editor at raywenderlich.com..
Mugunth Kumar
iOS @ Xero, Author
Mugunth Kumar
Mugunth started dabbling around with iOS SDK since the original iPhone, even before the official SDK was released. He worked as a independent iOS consultant for a vast part of his career and is currently working at Xero, an accounting software company based in Melbourne.
Mugunth is a published author and has authored a handful of programming books, iOS 5 Programming: Pushing the limits, iOS 6 Programming: Pushing the limits and iOS 7 Programming: Pushing the limits. The books were in the top 100 most-selling books on Amazon’s Computers and Technology Section.
Malin Sundberg
iOS & macOS developer
Malin Sundberg
Malin is an iOS and macOS developer who decided to go full in on SwiftUI when creating her app Orbit for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Being one half of a two-person team, Malin keeps herself busy developing the app and the backend (written in Swift using Vapor), designing the UI, product page, icons, and other artwork for the app. Malin is also passionate about the developer community and regularly organizes local meetups in Vancouver, Canada.
Daniel Saidi
Freelance Developer
Daniel Saidi
Daniel is a freelance developer who is passionate about mobile product development, open source and system architecture and who loves to spend his time with fun projects.
Daniel has worked with app development for 10+ years and currently focuses on Swift, SwiftUI and open-source. He writes about his endeavors at Twitter (@danielsaidi) and on his blog.
Daisy Ramos
iOS Developer @ Lickability
Daisy Ramos
Daisy is an avid iOS developer, currently building apps at Lickability. She’s been developing apps since the early adoption of Swift and has helped host several editions of try! Swift NYC. When she's not coding she enjoys long distance hiking and survival horror video games. She can be found on twitter as @daisyr317.
Andrés Ibañez
Software Architect @ Banco Nacional de Bolivia
Andrés Ibañez
Andrés "Andy" Ibañez is a software architect, currently overseeing the mobile app development for Banco Nacional de Bolivia, the oldest bank in Bolivia. He started doing iOS development in 2011 and he has done all kinds of different work, including jailbreak development as well as using the official iOS SDK since iOS 4.
He likes to share his knowledge and what he learns on his blog and Twitter. When he's not coding, he may be doing photography as a hobby, playing some videogames, or spending some quality time with his cats.
Dominik Hauser
iOS Developer
Dominik Hauser
Dominik is a self-taught iOS developer working in a small agency in Germany. His first app hit the App Store in 2009 and is still available. He writes blog posts about Xcode and iOS development.
Over the years he wrote several books about test-driven iOS development and building fun little apps using locations services on the iPhone.
Dominik has a PhD in high-energy astrophysics from his former life as a physicist.
Jorge Ortiz Fuentes
Mobile Developer Advocate @ MongoDB
Jorge Ortiz Fuentes
Jorge is a mobile developer advocate working at MongoDB. He focuses on mobile development, security, and systems architecture. As a developer, he started working for the M.I.T. in 1993 and he has collaborated on many software projects since. Most of them were internally for HP, where he worked for more than 15 years. Since 2008 he has been working in different aspects of mobile development. After playing with PalmOS, he learned Android programming for the first Android Developer Challenge and right away started to play with the first iPhone SDK. He was an instructor for some of the best iOS and Android Bootcamps in the U.S.A. and Europe. He occasionally delivers mobile and microservices courses, training individual developers and the teams of some of the biggest companies worldwide.
Jeroen Leenarts
iOS Developer Relations Lead @ Stream
Jeroen Leenarts
Jeroen is the iOS Developer Relations Lead at Stream. He is a software developer with 20 years of experience and has focussed on iOS development for over a decade. He also runs a podcast with a focus on iOS developers, called AppForce1.
Frank Courville
iOS Corporate Training @ School of Swift
Frank Courville
Frank does iOS corporate training and workshops through his company School of Swift. He's been building apps for companies big and small since the era of felt and linen backgrounds. He loves to write about new iOS technologies, as well as tweet about productivity and automation.
Joseph Heck
Developer, Author
Joseph Heck
As a developer, author, and life-long student, Joe has both written software and run systems for multiple decades. His most recent book, Using Combine is available at no charge on the web with the content and associated code available on GitHub. When not developing on a project, he writes online at his blog: Rhonabwy.
Tim Condon
Founder @ Broken Hands
Tim Condon
Tim is a Swift developer from Manchester, UK and part of the Vapor Core Team. He's the server-side Swift team lead at raywenderlich.com and has written the unofficial-official book on Vapor with the founders of the framework. He founded Broken Hands a few years ago and delivers talks and workshops on Vapor and server-side Swift around the world. He also co-organises the ServerSide.swift conference - the world’s first and only conference focused on server-side Swift.
Peter Friese
Senior Developer Advocate @ Firebase
Peter Friese
Peter (Twitter: @peterfriese) is a Senior Developer Advocate on the Firebase team at Google. His mission is to help developers build insanely great apps on Apple’s platforms using Firebase. His current focus is on SwiftUI, Combine, async/await, and everything Auth. He publishes on his own blog and his YouTube channel.
Rob Whitaker
Senior iOS Engineer
Rob Whitaker
Rob is a senior iOS engineer and mobile accessibility advocate. Rob has been tinkering with the iOS SDK since it was released by Apple and has consulted on multiple iOS accessibility tools. Rob's true passion when building apps for iOS comes in making sure everyone can have a great experience, regardless of their abilities, background or situation.
Rob is the author of the book Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps. The book covers building apps that are not just accessible, but inclusive for both the iOS and Android platforms. Rob writes the MobileA11y.com blog covering various aspects of building accessible mobile apps.
Vikram Kriplaney
Senior Software Engineer
Vikram Kriplaney
A veteran software engineer and mobile developer since when WAP was cool and Symbian roamed the earth, Vikram has built iOS and Android apps from the time each platform debuted.
Very Indian, very Spanish and increasingly Swiss (having grown up between Gran Canaria and Mumbai), he calls Zürich home.
Emad Ghorbaninia
Lead iOS Engineer
Emad Ghorbaninia
Emad is a Lead iOS engineer at the Ministry of Taxation in Denmark and Article Author, Tech Editor, Video Instructor at Raywenderlich. When he’s not in front of a computer he is usually playing board games 🎲 and video games 🎮 or watching series 📺. (you won't believe it) sometimes he plays harmonica 🎼.
Audrey Sobgou Zebaze
iOS/macOS Engineer
Audrey Sobgou Zebaze
Audrey discovered iOS when she first bought an iPhone Edge in 2008. Since then, she is working passionately on Apple platforms, enjoying SwiftUI and CoreData with Drive iOS/macOS team at Proton to make privacy by default her moto. When she is not coding, playing and watching basketball and football are her favorite activities. As a movie addict, she tries to avoid trailers as much as she can.
Marco Eidinger
Lead iOS engineer
Marco Eidinger
Marco has been developing iOS apps and frameworks for over a decade at his day job. Personally, he contributes to the iOS community with open-source tools like SwiftPlantUML and XCSnippetsApp. He loves to write and share his programming knowledge on his blog SwiftyTech. You can find him on GitHub and Twitter as @MarcoEidinger.
Frank Lefebvre
Freelance OS X & iOS developer
Frank Lefebvre
Frank has been developing software for Apple platforms since 1985. As a freelance developer, he works on macOS applications and system-level services, as well as iOS and server-side applications. He is also an Apple-certified trainer, and he teaches server-side Swift and iOS development with SwiftUI.
Tunde Adegoroye
iOS Content Creator
Tunde Adegoroye
I’m an iOS Content Creator teaching iOS development topics such as SwiftUI, Architecture, Career Development advice and more on the tundsdev YouTube channel. I’m also a Lead App Developer for Bally’s Interactive based in Manchester.
William Vabrinskas
Senior iOS Engineer @ UberEats
William Vabrinskas
Senior iOS Engineer at UberEats with over 10 years of experience. I love to open source projects and share my knowledge with others just like me. I am a machine learning hobbyist and love to use and learn about new machine learning and AI technologies. I am also a maker, amateur photographer, and tinkerer.
Daniel Leivers
Lead Mobile Developer
Daniel Leivers
Dan has led mobile development for clients ranging from The Cartoon Network to The Wall Street Journal, developing iOS apps for clients including Audi, News Corp and DeBeers and consulting on iOS/Android features and capabilities and engineering standards.
Recently (due to his inability to relax) he completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and had a baby.
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More instructors will be announced soon!
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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 in India developing AI-based apps for reading Sanskrit texts."
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.