YOW! and Swipe Conference in cooperation with the Australian mobile user community are pleased to present three experience reports by seasoned mobile developers. Our speakers share their stories about what does and doesn't work. The experiences cover the spectrum from UI to communicating with the corporate backend systems. This is a unique opportunity to learn, validate your own experience or share your mobile experience with others. Come early for light food and drinks, meet new people, catch up with old friends... Find out what's happening in your local developer community.

Program

5.30pm - Registration 

5.30pm - Food & drinks

6.00pm - Presentation

Presenters:

Mark Aufflick has been involved in the Apple industry since his first job in 1995 and quickly joined the Internet revolution, starting an ISP a year later. Since then he has developed back end, web and gui applications for various Unix platforms, MacOS and iOS - for both corporate giants and small businesses. These days Mark is a MacLife award winning Mac and iOS developer with his company Pumptheory; a co-founder of the Swipe Conference for Mac and iOS developers; and the convenor of Sydney CocoaHeads. Mark has recently presented at Mobile Camp Oz, CocoaHeads and the Apple University Consortium's /dev/world. @markaufflick on Twitter.

Tom Adams - Tom Adams has over 10 years experience in the IT industry as a software engineer, consultant and lecturer.With Keith Ahern, Tom co-founded mogeneration, becoming Australia's leading iPhone, iPad & Android development house before focusing on the publishing market with their Oomph platform, powering Australia's largest magazines & newspapers.

Victor Rodrigues is Head of Audiological Software Development for Cochlear. He is an Agile methods practitioner and evangelist with a passion for the total end user experience

 Kevin O'Neill is the delivery manager for Australia's largest real estate portal, realestate.com.au. Kevin is a regular speaker at Cocoaheads Melbourne and has worked on some of Australias most recognisable iOS Applications.

Many thanks to our YOW! Night sponsors

Nuance Communications designs and delivers intuitive speech recognition technologies, which include the renowned Dragon NaturallySpeaking platform and the hugely popular Dragon Search and Dragon Dictation Applications for iPhone.  With the upcoming Nuance Mobile Developer Program, Australian developers will be able to bring the power of Nuance’s speech technology to iOS and Android. For more information, make sure to register for YOW! Nights in August, where Nuance will be sharing more information. 

REA Group is a market-leading online advertising business specialising in real estate. Established in Melbourne in 1995, the Group operates real estate websites in Australia and around the world and delivers innovative advertising solutions to the real estate industry.

The rapid growth of mobile application development in Australia means that now is the perfect time to bring local and international iOS developers together at Swipe Conference Melbourne, September 5th and 6th.

Over two content-packed days attendees will learn how to conceive and refine ideas for mobile applications through to the business of developing and selling those applications. In-depth technical presentations will cover the latest coding techniques and development frameworks while design sessions will guide attendees through the nuances of creating best of breed user experiences for Apple’s mobile platform.

Sydney Community Partners