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Swift Connection
now Theatrically Better
Swift Connection, the French conference dedicated to Swift, iOS, macOS and the ecosystems of Apple technologies, and previously known as FrenchKit, will welcome you to its largest edition ever.
Now at a brand new venue: the Théâtre de Paris.
- Starts
- Sept 23, 1 PM
- Ends
- Sept 24, 6 PM
- Venue
- Théâtre de Paris
- Location
- Paris
Our Largest Tribute to Swift
Taking place at the historic Théâtre de Paris, dating back to 1891, with the capacity to accommodate twice the number of attendees and up to three times the increased community space, Swift Connection promises to be an experience like never before.
We intend our new venue to serve as the main stage for actionable and insightful presentations, sharing, and meeting with both old and new friends, making this edition of the Swift Connection conference our most significant celebration of the Swift ecosystem yet.
Introducing the Speaker Inclusion Programme
We know, presenting a technical talk to a large audience can be a daunting experience, particularly for speakers who are members of minority groups or come from diverse backgrounds.
To support these speakers, aside to the traditional CfP, we are launching the Swift Connection Speaker Inclusion Programme: selected participants will be granted a speaking slot and access to workshops, personalized materials, as well as a dedicated Slack channel.
Applicants must identify with a minority or diverse group and no prior conference speaking experience. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with a maximum of two submissions selected by review committees.
Are you interested? Feel free to read all details herehere
Thank you for your participation! The submission window is now closed.
Our Programme
September 23
September 24
Speakers
Muralidharan Kathiresan
Creator of Swiftpublished.com
Murali is an experienced Senior iOS Developer with more than 10 years of expertise in Mobile App Development. He is also the co-creator of https://swiftpublished.com, a weekly blog that focuses on iOS Development. Murali believes in writing clean and organized code and prioritizes testing as the first step.
Rob Napier
Rob has been a Cocoa developer since 2003, and began developing for iPhone when the first public SDK came out. Before coming to Cocoa, he made his living sneaking into Chinese facilities in broad daylight, among other InfoSec risk assessment duties. He's given dozens of talks internationally on software development, information security, and cryptography.
Leah Vogel
Director of Engineering
Leah is Director of Engineering at Chegg with nearly a decade of iOS development under her belt.She is a speaker, writer, bookworm, wife, mother, and generally mostly harmless.
John Sundell
Swift by Sundell
John is Swift developer and iOS freelancer who builds apps, games, and developer tools. He also makes Swift by Sundell, a collection of articles and a podcast about Swift development, and co-hosts the Stacktrace podcast.
Ellen Shapiro
Ellen Shapiro is an iOS and Android developer who's been building native apps since late 2010. She works for Pixite on their Zinnia journaling app. She lives in Rochester, New York. When not coding or talking about it, Ellen can generally be found traveling, biking all over the place, playing sous-chef to her wife Lilia, and relentlessly Instagramming their cats.
Danielle Lewis
Danielle is an iOS & visionOS developer who was inspired to learn Swift after the Vision Pro announcement in June of 2023. Since then, she has shipped 7 apps to the App Store and started a BSCS.
Timirah James
Apple
Timirah James is a Technology Evangelist on the Worldwide Developer Relations team at Apple, and member of the Contributor Experience workgroup serving the Swift open source community. She is best known for being a leader in the mobile and serverless community, creating awareness around STEM and diversity in tech, as well as helping others build great technical skills to become great developers.
Chris Eidhof
SwiftUI Field Guide
Chris is the creator of the SwiftUI Field Guide, co-founder of objc.io and co-host of Swift Talk.
Melisa De la Garza
Melisa is an iOS engineer. She has over 10 years of experience working with iPhone and iPad native apps, and more recently with KMM. She is usually either baking while listening to Harry Potter podcasts, reading YA novels, solving puzzles, or enjoying strolls with her adorable dog.
Vincent Pradeilles
Photoroom
Vincent works at PhotoRoom and contributes to building great apps. He also enjoys sharing about Swift and iOS on his YouTube channel.
Rick Van Voorden
Software Engineer
Rick has been building software professionally for the Apple Ecosystem since 2009. He spent years building native mobile apps at eBay, Facebook, and Snapchat. He is a contributor to the Swift and Swift-Collections open-source projects.
Nicolas Zinovieff
Just another guy
Nathan Manceaux-Panot
Indie macOS developer
Nathan builds and designs Retcon, a new macOS Git client for rewriting history very fast. He loves making things with computers and greatly values kindness.
Natan Rolnik
Senior iOS Developer @ monday.com
Natan entered the programming world in 2009 by learning how to make iPhone apps in Objective-C. Nowadays, he works as Senior iOS Developer in the monday.com team.
His passion always has been beautiful UIs animations, but in the last few years tooling and server side Swift got his attention and love. He publishes content in this area on his website, SwiftToolkit.dev
Lena Stöxen
My name is Lena, but online I often call myself Tea. I'm from Hannover, Germany. I study CS and work at VWCV. What I really enjoy is probably programming, which can be seen as either 'not having a hobby‘ or 'not having a job'. Over the last years, I was fortunate enough to win the Swift Student Challenge three times. When I'm not thinking about a programming problem, I'm probably painting.
Etienne Vautherin
Cartographer of software innovation and pilot of code generators, Etienne offers app creators a path to new achievements straight to the summit! A pioneer who began by reaching a milestone such as the “Mac Toolbox” in 1984, he has since trained and supported developers in the most basic ways to the most advanced destinations (reactive programming, SwiftUI, Kotlin Multiplatform).
Eric Bariaux
Founder at Nelcea
Eric, a Software Engineer by trade and a Geek at heart, has had numerous encounters with development in the Apple software ecosystem throughout his career, starting from his early professional days developing on a NeXTstation. Currently, Eric's focus lies in Personal Knowledge Management and wearable AI solutions on various Apple platforms.
Douglas Hill
iOS team lead at PSPDFKit
Douglas is fully invested in iPad as a developer and user. He’s an organiser of the NSLondon meetup and enjoys travelling while working remotely.
Darius Sabaliauskas
Senior iOS engineer at Vinted
Darius Sabaliauskas is a Senior iOS Engineer at Vinted, dedicated to the mission of making second-hand the first choice worldwide. With over a decade of experience in the dynamic field of iOS engineering, Darius is a seasoned professional known for his passion for solving complex problems and delving deep into the intricacies of how things work.
Anthony Chanliau Merle
Lead dev iOS at AVIV-Group
Anthony fell in love with iOS in 2013. Starting with Objective-C, he developed many native apps for startups and bigger companies. He currently works at AVIV Group as an iOS lead developer. He is always keen to learn the latest Swift features, the language evolution and the features of TCA. He'd like to learn about Game Development someday!
Bas Broek
iOS and accessibility at WeTransfer
Bas is an iOS and macOS developer with a passion for testability, accessibility and user-centric apps. He cares about communication and collaboration.
Likes coffee and watches (a lot).
The Swift Connection Conference is supported by:
Gold
Codemagic
Codemagic CI/CD is for mobile dev teams building Flutter, React Native, iOS and Android apps. You can build, test and deploy your apps with ease using fast Apple Silicon M2 machines. Numerous integrations with third-party tools allow you to monitor your code quality, test your app on real devices, and even update your project management system. Transparent pricing allows you to pay for the minutes and parallel builds you use, or you can get unlimited build minutes with an annual plan. As a fully hosted and managed service, you’ll never worry about updating Xcode or Android Studio again!
Silver
Genius Scan SDK
The Genius Scan SDK lets you integrate a reliable document scanner with OCR in your app, enabling your customers to capture high-quality, legible documents that you can process effortlessly. All the processing happens on-device for optimal performance and privacy. Trusted by hundreds of companies worldwide, the Genius Scan SDK is compatible with Android, iOS, and cross-platform frameworks.
Media
Kodeco
Kodeco has been helping developers excel for over 14 years. We offer mobile devs a huge content library, multimodal training, and live bootcamps and on-demand certificates with mentor support. Companies benefit from custom learning paths, training dashboards, and career roadmaps to foster internal growth. Stay on top of your game with future-forward training on topics like AI and visionOS!
Théatre de Paris
15 Rue Blanche, 75009 Paris
Team
La Tech Connection
Since 2016, the founders of La Tech Connection have been organizing international conferences and local meetups, including FrenchKit, CocoaHeads Paris and Swift Paris. In 2022 they decided to join forces to build La Tech Connection, with the goal of developing and bringing together the mobile ecosystem in France.
Denis Poifol
iOS developer since 2016. I love architecture, generics, and technical deep dives for the sake of it. Working 4 days a week enthusiast. When I am not working I am having fun with the cutest dog in the world, playing D&D with my friends, or trying to suck less at chess.
Audrey Sobgou Zebaze
I discovered iOS when I 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.
Julien Datour
I started as a mobile developer in 2014 and fell in love with the Apple platform. As a developer or auditor, I worked on various missions for Xebia and now am a senior team leader at Qonto . Co-organiser of FrenchKit for five years, I occasionally talk or write about topics I’m curious about (it even included some sort of treason for Swift, with Kotlin multiplatform). When not working, I’m a new father trying to figure out how to debug both code and diapers.
FAQ & Sponsoring
We have created a comprehensive FAQ to answer all your questions about the upcoming conference, covering general information, ticketing, speaking and more.
Check it out to make sure you are fully prepared for the event!
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