There’s no shortage of Apple-focused conferences for professionals to gather with their peers. We have once again collected details—or at least dates—for all the Apple-related conferences we can find; if we’ve missed any, let us know in the comments so we can add them. We’ve sorted them by date so you can scroll through and see which might fit into your schedule.
In terms of our attendance, Adam Engst will be at the ACEs Conference in May and is likely to go to MacTech Conference in October. If regular TidBITS contributors are asked to speak at any other conferences, we’ll be sure to mention that in a future article.
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MacTech Pro: February–September 2019
A regional event series from the folks behind MacTech Conference, MacTech Pro is designed for professional Apple techs and consultants. Events are single-track, hotel-based seminars, and the all-day schedule includes lunch. The MacTech Pro events take place in 10 cities throughout the United States:
- February 13 in Los Angeles
- March 13 in Seattle
- April 3 in Boston
- April 24 in Denver
- May 22 in San Francisco
- June 26 in Washington, DC
- July 17 in Chicago
- July 31 in Atlanta
- August 28 in Houston
- September 18 in New York
Appdevcon: March 12–15, 2019
Formerly known as Mdevcon, Appdevcon is held in Amsterdam for mobile app developers, with sessions for both iOS and Android developers.
iOSCon: March 21–22, 2019
Returning for its sixth year, iOSCon takes place at the CodeNode venue in London for two days. The program features a number of sessions on building apps with Swift.
try! Swift Tokyo: March 21–23, 2019
try! Swift is an international community gathering in Tokyo to learn about the latest advances in Apple’s Swift programming language.
Mac Admin & Developer Conference UK: March 26–27, 2019
The Mac Admin & Developer Conference is, as they say in the UK, just what it says on the tin. Now in its third year, the two-day conference offers sessions on the Terminal, automation, security, device management, and other topics of interest to Mac IT professionals. It’s held near Borough Market in London.
NSNorth: April 26–28, 2019
The Canadian conference NSNorth is returning after a three-year hiatus. Held in the St. James Theater in Old Montreal, the conference offers a broad range of topics of interest to developers and designers.
App Builders Switzerland: April 29–30, 2019
Another conference for mobile app developers, App Builders Switzerland will take place in Lugano. It offers two tracks: one for iOS developers and another for Android developers.
Xojo Developer Conference: May 1–3, 2019
The Xojo Developer Conference will take place at the Marriott Biscayne Bay in sunny Miami. Originally called REALbasic, Xojo is an object-oriented cross-platform development tool that can create native macOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, and Web apps. Look forward to 30+ educational sessions, networking, and two evening social events.
Command-iT: May 15–16, 2019
If you work in Apple IT and speak French, check out the two-day Command-iT event at the Grand Rex movie theater in Paris, France. The first day provides eight sessions with dedicated French speakers about the challenges, hurdles, and guilty pleasures of Apple product administration, security, and deployment. On the second day, four workshops give attendees the opportunity to put the lessons learned the previous day into practice.
LiveCode Conference: May 20–22, 2019
As a TidBITS reader put it, the LiveCode development environment is the spiritual successor to all things HyperCard, and it can create apps that run under macOS and iOS, not to mention Windows, Android, Linux, and HTML5. The LiveCode Conference takes place in San Jose shortly before WWDC.
UIKonf: May 26–29, 2019
Billed as “Berlin’s independent conference for serious iOS developers,” UIKonf focuses on cutting-edge topics in iOS development, mobile design, and business.
ACEs Conference: June 4–6, 2019
Organized by Apple consultant Justin Esgar, the ACEs Conference moves to Kansas City, Missouri for its fifth year and promises to be “the place for inspiration, ideas, business networking, and instantly applicable knowledge.” Focusing on ways that Apple consultants can grow their IT businesses, past topics have included the pros and cons of managed services, content marketing (from Adam Engst), and business productivity (by Jeff Porten). TidBITS readers can save 10% on tickets.
WWDC: June 3–7, 2019
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will once again take place at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose from June 3rd through 7th. Tickets, which cost $1599, are once again being distributed by lottery to registered developers who wish to attend. Apple also offers student scholarships that including lodging.
AltConf: June 3–6, 2019
AltConf is a free, community-driven event that takes place at the San Jose Marriott alongside WWDC, offering additional talks and events for those who weren’t lucky enough to get into WWDC or who want a break from Apple’s Reality Distortion Field. Tickets are free, but donating $360 guarantees a seat if the space fills up. New this year is a keynote-themed escape room.
If you can’t make it to San Jose, there are now four one-day AltConf events across Europe, all on 3 June 2019. Viewing the keynote is free, but admission to the rest of the sessions costs £60 or €60, which includes lunch.
- AltConf London, a one-day event at The Vaults near Waterloo
- AltConf Paris, a new half-day event at Station F
- AltConf Berlin, a new one-day event at Kino in der Kulturbrauerei
- AltConf Madrid, a new one-day event at Impact Hub Piamonte
Layers: June 3–5, 2019
A conference for designers, Layers is “about design, technology, and all the tasks that lie between.” This three-day conference takes place at the Montgomery Theater, across from WWDC. The conference pass costs $850, though you can take $150 off with the coupon code REPRESENT if you “identify with a group that is underrepresented in this community.” Speakers include Khan Academy Principal Designer Raphael Arar, Lyft Product Designer Linzi Berry, and Sketch founder Pieter Omvlee.
try! Swift San Jose: June 7, 2018
Yet another event that’s taking place in parallel with WWDC, try! Swift San Jose offers free presentations from Swift open-source contributors at the Hilton attached to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. It’s free, but if you donate any amount you’re guaranteed entry.
MacDeployment: June 10–11, 2019
The biennial MacDeployment conference returns this year at the University of Calgary. This year’s focus will be on Mobile Device Management and how to deploy Macs equipped with the T2 chip. The registration fee for the two-day conference is $299, and lunch, coffee, and snacks are included both days.
MacDevOps:YVR: June 12–14, 2019
MacDevOps:YVR is held in Vancouver, Canada on the campus of Simon Fraser University. If you code as part of managing Apple devices, check out this conference. Tickets provide over 20 educational sessions; 10 hours of networking; an evening reception; and breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
MacAdmins: July 9–12, 2019
Hosted at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in State College, PA, the MacAdmins conference is “for anyone who deploys and manages Macs and iOS devices.” Registration will include workshops, breakout sessions, and networking events when it opens in March.
Macstock Conference & Expo: July 27–28, 2019
Macstock is returning for its fifth year in Woodstock, IL, providing one of the few conferences focused on productivity for end users. Past speakers have included Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus, videographer Wally Cherwinski, and podcaster Allison Sheridan.
FileMaker Developer Conference: August 5–8, 2019
This one’s pretty specific, but since the FileMaker Developer Conference is open to the public and FileMaker is an Apple subsidiary, we’re including it. It takes place at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida and provides more than 80 sessions aimed at helping you create FileMaker apps for mobile, cloud, and on-premise environments.
iOSDevCamp DC: August 9, 2019
iOSDevCamp DC is a one-day, one-track conference focused on iPhone and iPad development in McLean, Virginia.
360|iDev: August 25–28, 2019
Claiming to be “the leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) developer conference,” 360|iDev happens at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Denver. It provides four days of hands-on training, sessions, and community networking, all in Swift.
iOSDevUK: September 2–5, 2019
Focused on iOS development topics, the ninth installment of iOSDevUK takes place in Aberystwyth, UK. Tickets will go on sale in March.
try! Swift New York: September 2019
try! Swift is an international community gathering in New York to learn about the latest advances in Apple’s Swift programming language. Past speakers have included Ash Furrow of Artsy, Erica Correa of XO Group Inc, and Sebastiaan de With, formerly of Apple.
Digital Book World: September 10–12, 2019
Digital Book World takes place at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Sessions cover all aspects of the publishing industry, but often with a special focus on Apple and Apple Books.
MacSysAdmin: October 1–4, 2018
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The premier event for Mac and iOS system administrators in Europe, MacSysAdmin takes place in Göteborg, Sweden. Talks are aimed at system administrators in enterprises, schools, and institutions, along with technical consultants, consulting firms, and distributors. All sessions are held in English. Speakers include numerous well-known names in the Apple sysadmin world.
Macoun: October 4–6, 2019
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For German-speaking Apple developers, the 12th annual Macoun conference in Frankfurt, Germany is worth checking out. Up to 500 attendees will spend three days focused on all things iOS, macOS, and watchOS.
MacTech Conference: October 16–18, 2019
Moving from November to October, the Los Angeles-based MacTech Conference offers attendees three days of sessions, seminars, and vendor interaction, plus pre-conference workshops and a pair of superlative evening activities. We’ve attended many times (see “MacTech Conference 2012 Opens Mental Doors,” 22 October 2012, “MacTech Conference 2013 Abounds with Networking and Fun,” 11 November 2013, and “Three Highlights from MacTech Conference 2015,” 9 November 2015) and recommend it highly to Apple IT professionals.
Jamf Nation User Conference: November 12–14, 2019
Much of being an Apple IT administrator these days involves device management. Jamf, one of the leading suppliers of device management systems with Jamf Pro and Jamf Now, puts on the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) with the purpose of “empowering people, transforming business processes and making IT life easier.”
Held in downtown Minneapolis, the JNUC provides product demo and preview sessions, in-depth tech sessions, sessions dedicated to Apple services, and certification courses. We wrote about it the last few years in “JNUC 2018: How Organizations Use Apple Devices as Tools of Change” (9 November 2018) and “JNUC 2017: A Glimpse into the World of Apple Enterprise” (3 November 2017).
heise MacDev: December 3–5, 2019
In another opportunity for German-speaking Apple developers, heise MacDev is a new conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, aimed at covering all aspects of software development for Apple devices, including the Mac, iPhone, iPad, as well as Apple Watch and Apple TV.
No Details Available Yet
There are quite a few conferences that haven’t explicitly canceled or announced details for 2019 so far. We’ll update this article as we learn more.
- /dev/world
- CMD-D
- CreateWorld
- iOSDevCamp Colorado
- MacTrack Legal
- Swift By Northwest
- Úll
- X World
If we’ve missed any notable Apple-focused conferences that are open to the public and attract attendees from a broad geographic area, please let us know in the comments, and we’ll look into adding them.
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The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
When family is all you have left…how far will you go to protect it?
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last.
Hitman Sniper
BECOME THE ULTIMATE SILENT ASSASSIN
Step into the shoes of Agent 47 in Hitman: Sniper and discover the most compelling sniper experience on mobile.
Step into the shoes of Agent 47 in Hitman: Sniper and discover the most compelling sniper experience on mobile.
TACTICAL MISSIONS IN MONTENEGRO
Hone your strategic skills and orchestrate the perfect assassination.
Hone your strategic skills and orchestrate the perfect assassination.
ACTION ZOMBIE CHALLENGE IN DEATH VALLEY
Prepare for non-stop action in a true test of your accuracy and speed of execution.
Prepare for non-stop action in a true test of your accuracy and speed of execution.
MORE THAN 150 MISSIONS AND 11 DIFFERENT CONTRACTS
Improve your strategy for the perfect assassination as you uncover secrets and subterfuges.
Improve your strategy for the perfect assassination as you uncover secrets and subterfuges.
17 UNIQUE WEAPONS
Eliminate targets, collect weapon parts and complete blueprints to unlock the most powerful rifles.
Eliminate targets, collect weapon parts and complete blueprints to unlock the most powerful rifles.
COMPETE AGAINST YOUR FRIENDS TO DOMINATE THE LEADERBOARD
Boost your score and climb up the ranks to become the world’s finest silent assassin.
Boost your score and climb up the ranks to become the world’s finest silent assassin.
Apple Mini Mac 2018
Hitman: Sniper is memory intensive. Devices such as iPad 2, iPad Mini, iPhone 4S and iPod Touch 5th Generation will suffer from occasional dips in performance and will not support Everyplay.
Fractal Space
Live the memorable experience of Fractal Space, a unique first-person adventure & puzzle game by the French indie developers team Haze Games!
Will you solve the mysteries of this station and get out alive? This, my friend, is up to you…
Will you solve the mysteries of this station and get out alive? This, my friend, is up to you…
Jump over lasers, avoid terrible moving saws, dodge giant crushers and use your jetpack and taser gun to think your way through the puzzles of this mysterious space station.
KEY FEATURES
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– Control your Jetpack to fly freely around space!
– Use your Taser Gun to activate switches remotely
– Find lost recordings to solve the mystery that lead you to this station
– Observe and act upon your environment to move forward
– Full Gamepad support
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– Control your Jetpack to fly freely around space!
– Use your Taser Gun to activate switches remotely
– Find lost recordings to solve the mystery that lead you to this station
– Observe and act upon your environment to move forward
– Full Gamepad support
SOLVE BRAIN ENGAGING PUZZLES
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While surviving the adventure through the space station of Fractal Space, dexterity is not the only challenge; activate switches, complete 2D minigames, use cubes to reach higher grounds, go through portal teleporters, orient light mirrors, search for clues to guess access codes… Your brain and mental resources must constantly be stimulated if you want to solve Fractal Space’s puzzles!
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While surviving the adventure through the space station of Fractal Space, dexterity is not the only challenge; activate switches, complete 2D minigames, use cubes to reach higher grounds, go through portal teleporters, orient light mirrors, search for clues to guess access codes… Your brain and mental resources must constantly be stimulated if you want to solve Fractal Space’s puzzles!
TASER-GUN: PRECISION IS PRECIOUS
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Shoot your taser-gun to power-up electric devices remotely. When you’re alone in the universe, this weapon is your best friend!
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Shoot your taser-gun to power-up electric devices remotely. When you’re alone in the universe, this weapon is your best friend!
JETPACK: ENJOY FLYING
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Defy laws of physics and gravity by firing up your Jetpack to fly freely through space and avoid deadly traps in the station. You cannot risk falling into the void of space, so use it wisely and make sure you have enough fuel to make your journey!
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Defy laws of physics and gravity by firing up your Jetpack to fly freely through space and avoid deadly traps in the station. You cannot risk falling into the void of space, so use it wisely and make sure you have enough fuel to make your journey!
SPACE EXPLORATION AWAITS
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Explore and pick up hidden recordings throughout the station – they will help you solve certain puzzles, recall what happened to you and solve mysteries about your past, present and future.
Pick up health and ammunition packs as you explore space to help you get through this adventure.
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Explore and pick up hidden recordings throughout the station – they will help you solve certain puzzles, recall what happened to you and solve mysteries about your past, present and future.
Pick up health and ammunition packs as you explore space to help you get through this adventure.
ACHIEVEMENTS & LEADERBOARDS
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Show the entire world what a puzzle mastermind you are by unlocking achievements, and sharing your Fractal Space speed run scores with your friends!
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Show the entire world what a puzzle mastermind you are by unlocking achievements, and sharing your Fractal Space speed run scores with your friends!
Food Book Recipes
Food Book Recipes is an awesome A.I based recipe app. It helps food lovers to cook wide variety of healthy and delicious dishes. Food Book is a complete cookbook app which helps you to become a perfect cook. Food book has the largest collection of recipes from different parts of the world. Download this recipe book app and enjoy cooking new recipes. We have the collection of different festival recipes, country-wise recipes, kids recipes etc. if you are a beginner in cooking then this will be the best companion for you. All foodies who love to cook alone can use this app. Even kids can simply prepare their favourite dish very easily. Step by step directions for cooking a new recipe. Recipes we cook has to complete the diet needs. This app provides great food with good variety. People always needs healthy food with more taste. Christmas recipes, New year specials, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter, Ramadan, Salads, Cake recipes, Meat, Chicken, Vegan, Juice, Smoothies and more in a single app. If you are a beginner in cooking then this will be the best cooking guide for you. This cooking app gives you great cooking ideas for this Christmas. Christmas cookies, Christmas cakes, Christmas eve dinner recipes and much more recipe collection. All delicious and healthy Christmas recipes are here. You can get your favourite recipe by searching the recipe name, ingredients etc. You can access recipes without the aid of internet by adding them into offline. You can bookmark your favourite recipes too. You can add ingredients to shopping list so that you can buy it from the market very easily. Our extensive library of delicious dishes highlights the many diverse cuisines of world. You can try variety of dishes. Explore the largest collection of Asian cuisines. Authentic and delicious collection.
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Towers Rush
New Mac Pro 2018
Prepare to defend your portal from the attacking monsters! Be prepared to battle Orcs, undead, dwarves and other surprising characters in many scenarios for hours.
This epic journey will give you a unique experience in tower portal defense. This unique experience in medieval tower placement and defense will improve your strategic gaming.
This epic journey will give you a unique experience in tower portal defense. This unique experience in medieval tower placement and defense will improve your strategic gaming.
GAME FEATURES:
-No in-app purchases
-More maps, monsters and towers than the Lite version.
-Detailed map design for every scenario.
-Mid to giant size maps.
-6 distinct towers with 5 upgrade transformations in each.
-Intense boss fighting.
-Attractive music in every map.
-More than 40 monster designs.
-Unique sounds for each monster.
-Allows strategic tower placements.
-Speed button.
-No in-app purchases
-More maps, monsters and towers than the Lite version.
-Detailed map design for every scenario.
-Mid to giant size maps.
-6 distinct towers with 5 upgrade transformations in each.
-Intense boss fighting.
-Attractive music in every map.
-More than 40 monster designs.
-Unique sounds for each monster.
-Allows strategic tower placements.
-Speed button.
2018 Mac Pro
-For better performance is recommended restart your device right before first time playing.