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Swift Island is an all-inclusive experimental conference happening after Apple's WWDC 2023.
You know that feeling you get after WWDC ends, when all you want to do is catch up on all the videos Apple just released? That urgent need to experiment and play with all the new betas, frameworks and APIs. The overwhelming desire to spend hours on all of the above, quickly followed by the sinking realization that you can't - because you have actual work to do.
Yep, we've all been there and that feeling sucks.
Our mission is to break the cycle!
Swift Island is an experimental conference in the broadest sense. After WWDC, we invite you to join us for a hands-on experience with all of Apple’s newly announced API's and Frameworks, in sessions guided by top-notch mentors.
The format is very simple: 2 workshop days, choose from 4 sessions per day provided by 8 mentors. Everyone pair programs and has fun.
A conference ticket is all inclusive: You will get two days of workshops, three days of lodging in a shared cabin (private rooms) and all the food you need for breakfast, lunch and dinner during your stay. And a bike. And did we mention it’s on an island?
It's called Texel (pronounced tes-sel) and it’s one of the five Frisian Islands, located in the Wadden Sea, which is a Unesco World Heritage. In short - it's an island in the Netherlands and it's awesome.
Beyond the experience of being introduced to WWDC material by top-notch mentors on a frikkin' island, you’ll also enjoy:
Maxim Cramer is the founder of MENNENIA, a consultancy empowering founders to confidently create technology for a better world. She blends a deeply technical background with design thinking and strategy, making tech simple and accessible for founders and executives. She’s worked on apps that have seen over a million downloads on launch, won Emmys, been featured by Apple in retail stores around the globe, and now teaches TechLiteracy® so founders can build products with less headache and more confidence.
Jordi Bruin is an independent developer for Apple platforms whose 10 latest apps that have been featured on the App Store and was nominated for an Apple Design Award in 2022. By using his 2-2-2 method he’s been able to quickly prototype, and launch, new ideas that make use of the latest technologies. His goal is to build simple, useful and fun tools that help people in their daily lives. During Swift Island he’ll show you how to get started building new ideas for visionOS.
Nataliya is an iOS lead at Paypal who is passionate about learning and teaching. She enjoys following the evolution of Apple technologies over the years and sharing her learnings with the community. One of the first topics she dove deeper into 10 years ago was data persistence and she’s very excited to revisit it for her SwiftData workshop!
Vincent works at PhotoRoom and contributes to building great apps. He also enjoys sharing about Swift and iOS on his YouTube channel.
Sofia’s developer journey began in SwiftPlaygrounds. In 2020 she was accepted to Apple Entrepreneur Camp. Sofia has a bachelor’s degree in Textile Science and Engineering, and today she’s an indie developer building the recipe organizer Ambre.
Mobile GPU/DSP engineer. I was deploying neural networks on small chips before CoreML/MPSCNN or even PyTorch came into existence. I used to lead the open-source game engine, cocos2d, and created the world's first pure Swift game engine that runs on Android. Previously led mobile development on Apple platforms at Prisma AI.
Sofía Swidarowicz is a Senior iOS Engineer from Madrid, Spain, that has worked in different products and functionalities, from banking (BBVA) to holiday accommodations (Idealista/Rentalia), in an Online Travel Agency (eDreams), in an online learning platform for creatives (Domestika) and recently in a company which designs, manufactures, and distributes electric vehicle charging technologies (Wallbox). She loves spreading information about iOS programming and mobile technology, and enjoys playing inline hockey, learning to surf, and meeting people from all parts of the world.
Tom is a passionate indie Mac app developer and co-founder of Nonstrict. He is building his own app Bezel and the recording backend of Screen Studio. Previously, he worked on the app that became Apple Music Classical, the Rijksmuseum app, and is one of the main contributors to the open source tool R.swift. Tom is a fan of both space and time.
Prins Hendrik Texel
Stuifweg 13
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All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everybody.
Niels van Hoorn
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Sidney de Koning
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All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everybody.
Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organisers.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, technology choices, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
Sponsors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, sponsors should not use sexualised images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualised clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualised environment.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately. Conference staff can be identified as they'll be wearing branded clothing and/or badges.
Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.
We expect participants to follow these rules at conference and workshop venues and conference-related social events.