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THURSDAY 2 JUL 2026
9:00am
CHECK-IN
10:00am
WELCOME
10:15am - Special Presentation
THE BEST OF SWIFTUI IN IOS 27
Natalia Panferova
iOS 27 brings another year of SwiftUI improvements, from powerful new APIs for document-based apps and more flexible toolbar customization to new capabilities for container views, new navigation transition APIs, AsyncImage improvements, and updates to state management. In this session we'll explore the most important additions, discuss the problems they solve, and see how they fit into modern SwiftUI development.
About the presenter
Natalia is a software developer based in New Zealand, passionate about building apps for Apple platforms. She has been working in tech for over ten years, starting her career in Europe before settling in New Zealand. She has also worked on the SwiftUI team at Apple, designing and building SwiftUI APIs. Now she runs her own company, Nil Coalescing, writes a development blog at nilcoalescing.com, and publishes books for Swift and SwiftUI developers.
10:55am
THE BIGGEST UPDATES FROM WWDC26
Explore the latest updates across Apple platforms. Discover new ways to build intelligent app experiences, integrate with the new Siri AI, modernise your app to be adaptable in more places and learn about the new tools that help you bring this all together.
11:30am
STUDENT SHOWCASE
A special session featuring some of the winners of Apple's 2026 Swift Student Challenge. Hear about their experience, find out how you can make the most of Apple's resources and opportunities for students, and start planning to enter the 2027 challenge.
12:30pm
LUNCH
1:10pm
HOTDOG OR NOT HOTDOG: APPLE FOUNDATION MODELS IN PRODUCTION
Stuart Hall
Apple introduced Foundation Models at WWDC 2025 and significantly expanded it in 2026 with powerful new capabilities for developers. Join Stuart Hall, founder of Bytesize Apps & Tiny Ideas, for a practical look at building real-world AI features with Foundation Models and Private Cloud Compute. Through real production examples from apps including 7 Minute Workout, WordBoard, Proto, and Fortify, you’ll learn how to generate structured data, understand images, use tool calling, and even recreate the famous “Not Hotdog” app from HBO’s Silicon Valley in just a few lines of Swift.
About the presenter
Stuart has been involved in mobile as a developer, blogger and entrepreneur since the early days of the App Store. He built the 7 Minute Workout app in one night and blogged the story of growing the app to 2.3 million downloads before exiting to a large fitness device company. Previously he was the co-founder of the Discovr series of applications which achieved over 4 million downloads.
1:45pm
IS SWIFTDATA FINALLY GOOD ENOUGH?
Russell Ivanovic
Let’s be honest. Data storage is boring. And tedious. And hard. But we all know it’s important to get right to make a great app. What if you could let a system framework do all the heavy lifting and instead focus on more fun stuff? Is SwiftData that framework? Come find out!
About the presenter
Russell Ivanovic is a legendary Australian developer who previously owned Shifty Jelly, the creators of Pocket Casts, Pocket Weather, and other apps. Russell currently works on Skala, Pinwheel and other apps at Bjango, including new audio plugins like Robot Rocket
2:20pm
AI NATIVE DEVELOPMENT WITH XCODE
Sam Jarman
AI Native developers do not simply use AI tools. They learn to brief, direct, review, and improve AI agents with the judgment of a good technical leader.
Using Xcode 27’s latest agentic features, this talk explores the shift from writing every line yourself to managing the development loop. We’ll look at how to onboard AI into a codebase, give clearer briefs, split work into useful chunks, delegate safely, and review the result with confidence.
You’ll leave with practical habits for working more AI-natively in Xcode, while keeping the craft, accountability, and satisfaction that make software development worth doing.
About the presenter
Sam Jarman is a Kiwi engineering manager based in Sydney, Australia, with over 15 years of experience in software development. His background includes development and leadership roles in iOS, frontend, backend across startups, agencies, small businesses, and medtech. Sam currently leads a team of engineers at Cochlear, where he focuses on helping the team work efficiently and grow their skills.
2:55pm
AFTERNOON TEA
3:20pm
ALL THE NON-TECH ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE KEYNOTE
Claire McGregor
Every WWDC, Apple buries the good stuff. While the keynote is for consumers & SOTU for developers, the announcements that actually move your revenue are quietly lurking in the sessions. This year: new App Store visual real estate, a subscription pricing model that solves the annual conversion problem, a built-in churn-prevention tool you can set up today with zero code, and new B2B and group subscription models that open revenue streams previously near-impossible on the App Store. Claire McGregor (Co-founder & Co-CEO, Appbot and Tiny Ideas) walks you through everything you missed and exactly what to do before your next app update.
About the presenter
Claire has been a product manager and marketer of everything from mobile apps to e-commerce sites and SaaS products for the past 18 years. She's led marketing teams to build multi-million dollar revenues in the UK and Australia and is passionate about growth and conversion optimization. Claire is a self-taught marketer, who started her working life as a veterinarian! A proud generalist with a short attention span, she is currently focussed on growing Proto, Fortify Strength, and the other iOS apps in the tiny ideas portfolio.
3:55pm
DEMYSTIFYING OBSERVATION
Michael Shaw
The Observation approach to state management is highly productive, but at times mysterious and spooky. In WWDC the Observation API surface area continued to increase, and more UIKit functions are now Observation friendly, it’s a standard part of iOS development. It’s not just for Apple frameworks though, when properly mitigated, the approach can be very attractive for broader app wide state management.
Together we’ll demystify Observation by walking through a minimal implementation in Swift. We’ll evaluate the tradeoffs for its usage at a broader app level and look at the decision-making process that led to its adoption in Procreate. We’ll also look at how Swift language features and SwiftUI API choices have made Observation ergonomic and safe, weaving in Property Wrappers, Result Builders, TaskLocal and laziness.
About the presenter
A software engineer for life, Michael joined Procreate in 2017 leading work on Procreate Dreams from conception through to present day, winning an ADA in 2024. Michael serves as Procreate’s CTO and is passionate about bringing simplicity and uncompromising performance to app development.
4:30pm
DEVELOPER PANEL: SURVIVING WWDC AND THE BETA SEASON
Stuart Hall, Claire McGregor, Quentin Zervaas and Amy Delves
WWDC is a lot. The s̶u̶m̶m̶e̶r̶ winter beta season is even more. How can developers digest everything new, decide what to focus on in our apps, and be ready on day one of each year's new OS releases. In fact, should we even try? Stuart, Claire, Quentin and Amy will share their experiences in navigating the stormy waters of beta season and keeping their heads above water.
5:15pm
CLOSE
FRIDAY 3 JUL 2026
9:15am
WELCOME
9:25am - Special Presentation
EVERYTHING NEW IN VISIONOS
Oliver Weidlich
This year's WWDC, and the substantial updates in visionOS 27, tell us that Apple continues to be invested in and optimistic about the future of spatial computing and the Apple Vision Pro. Oliver will provide a perspective from the global visionOS Professionals community and explore the key updates in visionOS 27 from a developer, designer and customer perspective.
About the presenter
Oliver was a key community organizer during the early days of iPhone, and he’s brought that same energy to spatial computing and visionOS. Through co-authored academic research, events like Aussie visionOS Days, and speaking engagements at conferences around the world, he explores how spatial computing is reshaping the way we interact with technology and each other. His UX research and design work spans visionOS client projects globally, and he also mentors UX designers finding their footing in this new medium.
10:05am
STRENGTHENING YOUR CORE
Quentin Zervaas
In a year when so many announcements are about laying the groundwork for AI and the future of coding, Quentin will talk about something less flashy: getting your own app in shape. Modernising it to take full advantage of the platform. The polish and bug-fixing that quietly keeps users around; adopting the features that make your app feel current and let the new Siri actually find it; and finding where LLMs genuinely earn their keep beyond writing code.
About the presenter
Quentin is the developer of Streaks, which has been on the App Store since 2015 and won a coveted Apple Design Award in 2016.
10:40am
MORNING TEA
11:05am
EVERYTHING INTERESTING IN SECURITY AND PRIVACY FROM WWDC & MORE
Louis Cremen
The world changed quickly for developers. Many people are using AI for programming, but attackers are looking for ways to turn that to their advantage. The world is becoming more strict for privacy, which usually means higher compliance for your employer or your customers. Join me as we discuss what's new for developers in security and privacy from an Apple platforms perspective, and some of the ways we can program securely with AI as our coding buddy.
About the presenter
Louis is one of two /dev/eryworlders that has been to every /dev/world. He's known by people as the BrainDevSec guy as his interests are Neuroscience, Coding and Information Security. He's currently the lead cyber instructor at Lumify Work, Cyber Training Business of the Year (CyberDaily) and he teaches most of the well-known security certifications to companies all over Australia and New Zealand.
11:40am
ADAPTING YOUR APP TO ANY SCREEN SIZE
Zach Simone
iPhone apps are about to get resized, and it's your job to be ready. At WWDC26, the message from Apple couldn't have been clearer: Stop designing for fixed devices and orientations, and prepare for your app to run on screens of varying sizes and aspect ratios. This talk explores what was said directly in the sessions about app adaptability, what iOS 27 itself hints at, how this is handled on other platforms, and concrete ways to modernise your app with SwiftUI code examples and suggestions for adapting to wider displays. By the end, you'll have a feel for where things might be heading, along with a practical starting point for adapting your own apps today.
About the presenter
Zach is an iOS developer and organiser of the Sydney CocoaHeads meetup. He has experience working on all kinds of apps for companies large and small, and has multiple indie apps of his own that happen to be perfect for trying out the latest in iOS development technologies.
12:15pm
LUNCH
1:00pm
BUILDING MODERN APP ICONS
Marc Edwards
The design and capabilities of app icons have evolved dramatically throughout the history of Apple’s platforms. The introduction of Icon Composer in 2025 marked one of the most significant shifts, fundamentally changing how icons are created, delivered, and experienced. We’ll explore the past and future of app icons, dive into the new .icon format, and discover how to create better app icons.
About the presenter
Marc Edwards is the founder and designer at Bjango. Marc currently works on Skala, Pinwheel, iStat Menus and other apps at Bjango, including new audio plugins like Robot Rocket
1:35pm
THE INTELLIGENCE OF A GOOD WORKOUT
Amy Delves
Over the years Apple has released a range of different frameworks that work amazingly well independently, though really shine when they are used in combination with each other. This talk will look at how to bring together frameworks such as HealthKit, WorkoutKit and FoundationModels to create an amazing experience for users to help them plan their workouts and reach their goals. There will also be some detours into looking at SwiftUI, SwiftData and MapKit because we all know that the workouts which are the most fun involve the challenging hills to climb.
About the presenter
Amy is an iOS and macOS developer with a love for health tech and creating products that improve peoples lives. She is often out traveling the world and loves meeting new people.
2:10pm
BIGGER IS BETTER. BRINGING YOUR IPHONE APP TO IPAD
Tim Oliver
In recent years, the number of iPhone apps that don’t have an iPad version has been steadily increasing. From a business perspective, it just didn’t make sense to invest in one. Now, as Apple has announced iPhone apps will now be expected to be resizable in iOS 27, the business perspective has officially changed!
This talk discusses how to take a mature iPhone-only codebase to a resizable app capable of running on iPad. It covers tips and tricks, and pitfalls along the way, with an emphasis on keeping changes foundational, so it doesn’t get in the way of daily work!
About the presenter
Tim is an Aussie iOS developer from Perth, WA. He's been a huge fan of making iPhone apps since the 3G era and has been presenting at /dev/world since shortly after. He spent several years working for Instagram at the Meta office in Tokyo, Japan, and is now Principal Engineer at Third Intelligence, an AI research and product development company also in Tokyo.
2:45pm
AFTERNOON TEA
3:10pm
LEARN TO SPEAK APPLE
James White
Apple’s priotities and decisions have a huge impact on developers who work with and on their platforms. Each year at WWDC Apple opens its doors, physically and proverbially, to provide insights into those priorities. Sometimes the messages are overt - new platforms, devices, frameworks and APIs. And sometimes the clues are folded in more subtly. Learning to speak Apple isn’t about deference, and it doesn’t have to mean making decisions for our apps that we wouldn’t otherwise make. But experienced Apple platform developers have learned that paying attention to these messages can make our lives easier, give us a head start with new devices, platforms and frameworks, and ultimately, make our apps better. James White has been designing and developing for Apple platforms for 15 years. While by no means fluent, he speaks at least conversational Apple, and will help you to do the same.
About the presenter
James is a long time AUC member who has attended /dev/world, and spoken at it, numerous times. He's an iOS [designer || developer] who spends a lot of time thinking about how to make nice apps
3:45pm
CODE, CONNECTION AND COMMUNITY
WWDC is a focal point each year for the Apple developer community. But it's far from the only time developers can get help and support. Hear from Apple's developer relations team, AUC Chair Tony Gray, and CocoaHeads organiser Zach Simone about how to make the most of the opportunities, resources and community support available to developers.