RWDevCon 2017 Schedule Now Available!

Check out the full schedule for RWDevCon 2017, including 24 hands-on tutorials across 3 simultaneous tracks! By Ray Wenderlich.

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Inspiration Talks

There’s more than just tutorials—we also have several inspiration talks that will fill you with new ideas and energy.

Business success depends on team performance, and building high- performing teams is a well-understood problem. Come hear Ash Furrow discuss the science and mechanics of software team dynamics with useful tips and best practices to help improve any team environment.

Building Compassionate Software (Ash Furrow)

Business success depends on team performance, and building high- performing teams is a well-understood problem. Come hear Ash Furrow discuss the science and mechanics of software team dynamics with useful tips and best practices to help improve any team environment.

Do you ever feel like a fraud, or that you’re blu ng it as a professional developer? You’re not alone.

Rich is a professional idiot. If he remembers to turn up, he’ll be talking about how to leverage your inner idiot to make you a better coder, writer and communicator.

I’m an Idiot. (Rich Turton)

Do you ever feel like a fraud, or that you’re blu ng it as a professional developer? You’re not alone.

Rich is a professional idiot. If he remembers to turn up, he’ll be talking about how to leverage your inner idiot to make you a better coder, writer and communicator.

Have you ever dreamed of pursuing all of your interests? Victoria’s Secret and Calvin Klein model, Lyndsey Scott, shares how she’s made room in her life for acting, modeling, and iOS development contracts.

Finding Freedom through Freelancing (Lyndsey Scott)

Have you ever dreamed of pursuing all of your interests? Victoria’s Secret and Calvin Klein model, Lyndsey Scott, shares how she’s made room in her life for acting, modeling, and iOS development contracts.

As Director of Women Who Code Twin Cities, Sarah Olson has spent the past two years creating a safe space for marginalized developers to connect and learn. In this process, she’s learned many things about building a community. What makes a community thrive? How do we make it as inclusive and welcoming as possible?

Creating Community (Sarah Olson)

As Director of Women Who Code Twin Cities, Sarah Olson has spent the past two years creating a safe space for marginalized developers to connect and learn. In this process, she’s learned many things about building a community. What makes a community thrive? How do we make it as inclusive and welcoming as possible?

As developers, we aim to live in the future and we tend to get super excited by the latest and greatest. This often leads to a quixotic search for a “silver bullet” that will solve all of our problems.

In this talk, I will share some experiences and missteps with hyped iOS technologies and we will look at how to critically evaluate “cool new things” and make better choices.

Silver Bullets and Hype (Roy Marmelstein)

As developers, we aim to live in the future and we tend to get super excited by the latest and greatest. This often leads to a quixotic search for a “silver bullet” that will solve all of our problems.

In this talk, I will share some experiences and missteps with hyped iOS technologies and we will look at how to critically evaluate “cool new things” and make better choices.

This year marks James Dempsey’s 20th year writing code for the Apple ecosystem. In this talk, James explores how he thinks about and works through the many major changes encountered along the way – like transitioning to Swift.

You’ll see that no matter where you are in your career, a young pup or an old dog, you can still learn new tricks!

New Tricks (James Dempsey)

This year marks James Dempsey’s 20th year writing code for the Apple ecosystem. In this talk, James explores how he thinks about and works through the many major changes encountered along the way – like transitioning to Swift.

You’ll see that no matter where you are in your career, a young pup or an old dog, you can still learn new tricks!

Where to Go From Here?

The team and I are really excited about the schedule – we think it has something for everyone.

And that’s not all! In addition to the above, the conference includes a special James Dempsey Game Show, Firebase labs, lunchtime board games, an opening and closing reception, and and much more!

You can download a PDF version of the schedule with times and details on the RWDevCon website.

Interested in your own ticket?

  • Are you a student? Good news – we’re currently accepting applications for 5 student scholarships. Apply now!
  • Not a student? Unfortunately the conference is already sold out (for the third year in a row!), but you can sign up for the waiting list to be notified if any tickets become available for this conference or a future event.

We hope you like the schedule, and we can’t wait to see you in March! :]