Swift Connection

Laura Savino

Adobe

Laura Savino turns technical topics into conversations that spill out into venue hallways and beyond. She's a software engineer on Adobe creative apps including Photoshop, with a background spanning from decades-old legacy codebases to a thoroughly modern skepticism of the AI she uses every day. Rather than swearing off computers entirely, she copes by reading Cat Hicks papers and studies on occupational health.

Daniel Steinberg

Dim Sum Thinking

Author of A Swift Kickstart, A SwiftUI Kickstart, and more than a dozen books. Writing apps for iPhone and iPad since the very first SDKs. Teaching Swift to engineers at Apple, Google, and eBay. Presenting at conferences on every continent. Daniel has shaped how a generation of developers thinks about this platform.

Antoine Van der Lee

RocketSim

Antoine is passionate about contributing to the Swift community. You might know him from his weekly blog posts on his personal blog, SwiftLee, his newsletter, SwiftLee Weekly, or RocketSim, an Xcode Simulator-enhancing app. His contributions to the Apple developer ecosystem have also been recognized by Apple, where he is featured as part of the Apple Developer Community recognition program. He particularly enjoys speaking on best practices for structuring code architecture in a way that creates sustainability, new Swift features, and how iOS developers can be more successful in their work.

Before going indie in 2024, he led the team at WeTransfer as a Staff iOS Engineer and developed several large-scale apps since 2009 (iOS 4!). His most recent work resulted in two brand-new courses: From Side Project to Going Indie at going-indie.com and a course focused on Swift 6 and Concurrency at swiftconcurrencycourse.com.

Matt Massicotte

Apple Platform Developer

Matt keeps himself busy with training, consulting, writing, and working on open source projects. From individuals all the way up to large teams, he loves working with people to understand and solve problems. He's been developing for Apple platforms for about 30 years.

Soroush Khanlou

Square

Soroush Khanlou is a New York-based iOS developer. He freelanced for many years, for companies like Adobe, Betterment, and non-profits like Urban Archive, and now he works as an accessibility engineer at Square. He blogs about programming at khanlou.com. In his free time, he hikes, bakes bread and pastries, and collects suitcases.

Chris Eidhof

objc.io / SwiftUI Field Guide

Chris is the founder of objc.io and creator of SwiftUI Field Guide. He wrote multiple books about Swift, runs the Swift Talk video series and organizes SwiftUI workshops.

Hervé Bérenger

MWM

After an engineering degree in aeronautics, Hervé has been a developer for more than 25 years. He's built video games, AI frameworks, (real) flight simulators, worked for the banking industry for ten years, and then switched to mobile development in 2014. After 6 years at Applidium/Fabernovel, he joined MWM where he's currently head of the iOS development team. In his talks, he loves taking our toys apart to figure out how they work, and is always promoting a creative and playful use of technology.

Stelios Frantzeskakis

Perry Street Software

Stelios is a Staff Engineer at Perry Street Software, publisher of the LGBTQ+ dating apps SCRUFF and Jack'd, serving a community of over 40 million members worldwide. He enjoys speaking at technical conferences and writing about architecture, testing, and developer experience.

Zachary Brass

Zach has been an iOS developer for over 15 years at all different types of companies from startups to FAANG. In his spare time, he's a dancer and dance instructor, and competes in the occasional pun competition.

Lucy Galik

Lucy is a Senior Software Engineer at Monzo working on UI frameworks. Previously she worked at Delli and Farmdrop. She likes learning new technologies, solving problems and helping others. Outside of work, she enjoys cold water swimming and is also an avid operagoer.

Eric Bariaux

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. Today he works on IoT and energy management backends but uses his many side projects to explore Swift's full potential, from embedded systems to server-side development and on all Apple platforms.

Douglas Hill

Nutrient

Douglas spent many years as the iOS team lead at Nutrient (previously known as PSPDFKit) and recently switched to work across a wider range of technologies at Nutrient. He's a long-time organiser of the NSLondon iOS developer community.

Klemens Strasser

Indie Developer

Klemens is an indie developer dedicated to crafting delightful apps with a strong focus on accessibility. He won an Apple Design Award as a Student in 2015 for his very first project, Elementary Minute. In 2025, his latest app, Art of Fauna, received both an Apple Design Award and an App Store Award. His work centers on creating thoughtful, high-quality experiences that are welcoming and usable for as many people as possible.

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