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Swift Connection
is the new FrenchKit
Swift Connection is the new FrenchKit, the French conference dedicated to Swift, iOS, macOS and the ecosystems of Apple technologies since 2016.
The only thing that changed is... Nothing.
- Starts
- Sept 21, 1 PM
- Ends
- Sept 22, 6 PM
- Venue
- Pan Piper
- Location
- Paris
Workshops
This year Swift Connection is introducing a much-awaited new format: premium Thursday morning workshops, providing an extra opportunity to explore Swift frameworks and features in-depth.
Thursday, September 21, 8:30 am
An introduction to SwiftData
by Daniel Steinberg
It is very early days for SwiftData and the framework is still not what it will be when it grows up. That said, it’s a great time to get started with SwiftData and it may do enough to meet your needs whether you’ve been using Core Data already or you’ve been persisting your data by hand. In this hands-on, fast moving, half day workshop, we’ll play with the fundamental concepts and APIs for this first release of SwiftData. We take a quick look at Core Data and see how many of the recent changes pointed to the work being done in SwiftData We then take an app that uses manual persistence and transform it to a SwiftData app. We will look at how Model works and see how entities, attributes, and relationships are better represented in Swift and SwiftData. We work with Contexts, Containers, and Querys. You will need the most recent public release of Xcode 15. This workshop is intended as an introduction to SwiftData.
Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books including his Kickstart books for Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, and Functional Programming and his new Curious Case series with last year’s best seller on Async programming in Swift and titles in progress on Swift Macros and SwiftData. He also has been releasing weekly videos on Swift and Mathematics on his YouTube channel. Daniel presents iOS, Functional Programming, SwiftUI, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. 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. 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. Information on his books and videos is available on the Editors Cut website. Details on his training, and speaking is on the Dim Sum Thinking website.
Our Programme
Speakers
Vui Nguyen
Vui is a Senior iOS Engineer, technical lead, and mentor. As a Leadership Fellow for Women Who Code Mobile and a Women Techmakers Ambassador, Vui's helping to build a world that she wants to live in, one where women experience gender parity in tech. She also enjoys helping others by sharing solutions to problems solved at work. After being burnt out from years of COVID lockdown, Vui's excited to attend in-person events again, so that we can rebuild those lost connections, and help one another within the iOS community again. When she’s not coding, Vui enjoys freshwater fishing, eating different cuisines, and taking long naps.
Krzysztof Zabłocki
Krzysztof is a principal engineer focused on consulting to help teams elevate their developer efficiency. Passionate about writing quality code and helping others do the same, he created many free and well known community tools trusted by over 80,000 teams including industry leaders Apple, Disney, and Airbnb. like Sourcery, Objective-C Playgrounds, Inject, LifetimeTracker.
Shai Mishali
Shai Mishali a Senior iOS Tech Lead for monday.com, as well as an international speaker, and a highly active open-source contributor and maintainer on several high-profile projects - namely, the RxSwift Community and RxSwift projects, but also releases many open-source endeavors around Combine such as CombineCocoa, RxCombine and more.He's a published author, having worked on over 6 different books on various topics related to the Swift eco-system, on topics such as Combine, RxSwift, async/await, and other Advanced Swift topics.As an avid enthusiast of hackathons, Shai took 1st place at BattleHack Tel-Aviv 2014, BattleHack World Finals San Jose 2014, and Ford's Developer Challenge Tel-Aviv 2015. You can find him on GitHub and Twitter @freak4pc.
Danijela Vrzan
Danijela was a Civil Engineer when she wrote her first line of code and decided to pursue programming as a career. One day she opened Xcode and made a simple iOS app. When she opened the app on her phone, she immediately knew that’s what she wanted to do. She’s been working as an iOS Developer, publishing articles, and speaking at conferences since 2020.
Ibrahima Ciss
Ibrahima is a seasoned iOS engineer interested in building magical, scalable and accessible mobile experiences with Apple's latest technologies like SwiftUI.
Hidde van der Ploeg
Hidde is an independent App Developer passionate about apps that are fun to use (especially on watchOS). After working as a Digital Product Designer for over a decade, he switched to working full-time on his apps for all Apple platforms. A deep background in design helps him build apps focusing on quality and great simplicity. Learn more about his apps and what he’s working on via Twitter or Mastodon.
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Robin Kanatzar
Robin is an iOS and Android engineer who has been building mobile applications since 2016. She is passionate about accessibility and runs her own company, Accessible Mobile Apps, to publish accessible apps and support the accessibility community. She currently works as an iOS engineer at Betclic in Bordeaux, France.
Paul-Anatole Claudot
Paul-Anatole is a principal engineer (@Betclic), front-end architect, who has been working in iOS development for 15 years, starting with agency apps and now concentrating on creating high-quality products. He has a great passion for working on multiplatform topics such as CICD, Automated Design System, or any other front-end tool!
Simon B. Støvring
Developer with a passion for iOS and developer tools and I have been building iOS since the iPhone 3GS was released in 2008. During the day I work as a Principal iOS Engineer at Shape, an agency specialized in delivering native mobile apps and during long nights and weekends I work as an indie developer on Runestone, Scriptable, and more.
Nicolas Zinovieff
Worked for Apple last millennium, has been writing highly specialized or embedded code since last century, had a passion for open-source, weird algorithms and performance since forever, and is now trying to train the next generation. Make it so. 🚀
Tim Condon
Tim is a Swift developer from Manchester, UK and one half of the Vapor Core Team. He sits on the Swift Server Workgroup and delivers talks and workshops on Vapor and server-side Swift around the world. He runs Broken Hands, a server-side Swift consultancy and works with clients around the world to help them deploy Swift on their backends. He also co-organises the ServerSide.swift conference - the world’s first and only conference focused on server-side Swift.
Aviel Gross
Aviel is a software engineer known for his knack for innovation. He dedicated 4 years to refining the Facebook app before taking the lead of Adobe's Behance iOS team for the last 2.5 years. More recently, he introduced SwiftUI to the app, curated the SwiftUI.wtf website and also became a go-to advisor for multiple Adobe teams seeking guidance on SwiftUI-related endeavors.
Andreas Lang
Andreas is a long-time Apple user whose first computer was a Macintosh Plus. Several Macs later and with the introduction of Swift, he started developing software for the Apple ecosystem. As a Senior Software Architect at the Center of Excellence Mobile of EnBW AG, Andreas focuses on integrating the latest technologies into user-friendly products, as well as architecting long-lasting and testable software.
Avi Tsadok
Avi Tsadok is a mobile group manager at Melio Payments, bringing 13 years of iOS development experience to the table. With a strong background in mobile app development, he has led the mobile team at Any.do and contributed to its success. Avi is also an accomplished author, having published four books and numerous articles on topics such as Core Data, Swift Package Manager, Testing, and more. His expertise and leadership in the mobile industry make him a valuable asset in driving innovation and delivering exceptional user experiences.
Vincent Pradeilles
Vincent works at PhotoRoom and contributes to building great apps. He also enjoys sharing about Swift and iOS on his YouTube channel.
Daniel Steinberg
Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books including his Kickstart books for Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, and Functional Programming and his new Curious Case series with last year’s best seller on Async programming in Swift and titles in progress on Swift Macros and SwiftData. He also has been releasing weekly videos on Swift and Mathematics on his YouTube channel. Daniel presents iOS, Functional Programming, SwiftUI, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. 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. 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.
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Benoit Rottembourg
Benoit Rottembourg holds a doctorate in computer science from Sorbonne University. He has headed the data-science teams of major European groups such as Bouygues in France or Maersk in Denmark. He has been involved in the design of planning, pricing and customer segmentation algorithms for over 25 years, hybridizing applied mathematics and artificial intelligence. Aware of the risks posed by the massive diffusion of algorithms in society, he joined Inria, the French research center for digital science and technology, to create the Regalia project in 2020. Regalia is a platform for auditing unfairness and algorithmic bias, at the service of regulatory authorities and auditors.
Hervé Bérenger
Shortly after being offered his first Z80 computer in the late 80s, Hervé discovered that you could modify its source code to always win at Nim game . This initial spark ignited a lifelong passion for software development; after years in the aerospace and banking industry, Hervé embarked on his iOS journey in 2015, and since then he contributed to dozens of consumer and entreprise mobile apps. He's now Staff Engineer at MWM, where he promotes sustainable coding, collaboration, and a creative usage of technology.
The Swift Connection Conference is supported by:
Platinum
MWM
MWM is the #1 French non-gaming app publisher with 600M+ downloads worldwide. Founded in 2012, we've built a diverse portfolio of over 50 apps, from the renowned Edjing Mix and Beat Maker Pro to our unique AI-powered apps like Color Pop & Stemz. We design advanced technology to enrich human experiences. Every app we craft has its mission: to inspire and empower users to unlock their potential.
Gold
Ippon
Ippon is all about collective energy driven by communities of enthusiasts! We aim to meet the challenges of digital transformation for our customers by applying our expertise to high-value-added projects. Come and meet our team and talk about the innovative topics and technology stacks we use, our expertise, such as MobileOps with Bitrise, and our involvement in communities such as CocoaHeads and Mobilis in Mobile.
Silver
AMO
We believe that today’s social products and companies are broken. They lost their way overtime and no longer serve their users best interests. We know we can do better and believe the world deserves better. We want to get back to what social networks initially set out to accomplish — strengthening real relationships first and foremost before the mission statements became connecting the world. We want to help people without consuming all of their time behind screens and we want to give them a platform to be themselves without needing to compete with brands and celebrities. In doing so, we believe that we can create a stronger business than Meta or Bytedance and one that is net positive to society.
Zelty
Introducing Zelty, the innovative iOS point-of-sale solution for restaurants chains and franchises. Streamline your operations, orders and collection , enhance customer experiences, and boost your restaurants’ efficiency with Zelty's versatile cash register system.
Calling all Swift developers! Join Zelty's dynamic team. Collaborate with talented professionals, work with cutting-edge technologies, and shape the future of restaurant point-of-sale systems.
Pan Piper • 2-4 Impasse Lamier, Paris
Tickets
All tickets provide full access to the conference, including talks, food and social events.
Discounted tickets are available in limited quantity and are attributed on a first come, first served basis.
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.
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