Explore and learn cutting-edge development tools and techniques with some of the best iOS and Mac developers in the world.
Expand your reach by showing off your projects, and partying with the Australian developer community.
Come away reinvigorated to build the best apps and software in Australia.
Bjango
Marc is the founder and designer at Bjango, makers of iStat Menus, Skala and other great Mac, iPad and iPhone apps.
Marc also frequently writes design articles on Bjango’s website and has written for Smashing Magazine, including a chapter in Smashing Book 3.
He co-hosts Iterate, the mobile design podcast and occasionally talks at conferences (like this one!)
Marc will join us for a Q&A and Discussion session on his approach to software design for Apple platforms.
Kumobius
Tom is a co-founder and director of Melbourne-based game developer Kumobius.
His games have sold over a million copies worldwide and reached the top 10 charts in over a dozen countries across the App Store.
Tom's responsibilities spread across a wide range of disciplines include managing the business, game prototyping, tools development, marketing games and coordinating the production process.
Tom will deliver a keynote presentation on his work in the world of independent game development.
Perl Training Australia
Paul Fenwick is an internationally acclaimed public speaker, developer, and science educator. Paul is well known for presenting on a diverse range of topics including privacy, neuroscience and neuroethics, Klingon programming, open source, depression and mental health, advancements in science, diversity, autonomous agents, and minesweeper automation. His dynamic presentation style and quirky humour has delighted audiences worldwide.
Paul was awarded the 2013 O'Reilly Open Source award, and the 2010 White Camel award, both for outstanding contributions to the open source community.
Josh graduated with his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Tasmania in August, and has been working at Google in Sydney since the start of the year. He's given talks at /dev/world for several years, and has programmed a few successful iOS apps.
Nic has been developing on Apple platforms for the last half a decade and currently works as a Software Engineer for Canva in Sydney. He enjoys video games, talking about UX, and being the tallest person in the room. One day Nic hopes to discover the one thing that Meatloaf won't do for love.
Judit is a creative technologist based in Auckland. Aside from working for startups such as Prezi in Hungary, and when not working on new research in the field of collaboration technology, she is involved in projects around the world, including remote parts of Fiji, assisting students to learn about the use of iPads.
Jon is the co-founder of Secret Lab, a mobile game development studio based in Hobart. He is the co-author of a range of programming books for O'Reilly Media – recently including Learning Cocoa with Objective-C 4th Edition – and is currently writing Swift Development with Cocoa. He has built a range of popular apps, including the ABC Play School apps.
Christopher is a programmer from Hobart, Tasmania. He currently works as an Android developer, which means his day job involves more Java than he would like. He is strongly involved in Python community development around Australia and the world: he is an immediate past convenor of PyCon Australia 2012 and 2013, a board member of Linux Australia, and has been a fellow of the Python Software Foundation since 2013.
Ben Taylor is a mobile software developer at Shiny Things, a company making intuitive educational apps and games for kids.
Tim has had a burning passion for iOS development since he got his iPhone 3G in 2008. Currently, he works as a full-time developer of mobile applications for corporate clients at Lateral Pty Ltd in Perth, after spending a year developing in-house iOS software for pixiv Inc in Japan. In his free time, Tim is also currently working on a comic reader app for iOS called iComics, which was released during /dev/world/2012 and has since been downloaded over 50,000 times.
Gian Wild is the Director of AccessibilityOz. She has worked in accessibility industry since 1998. Her major achievements include: the very first Australian accessible web site; the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games; her six years active membership in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group; accessibility reviews of public and private web sites; conference and seminar presentations; judging web awards and the development of accessibility toolkits.
Peter Wells has been writing and talking about Apple and related technology for over seven years. Peter began at Mactalk Australia, and has since helped launch Reckoner, which won best Independent Media at the 2014 Technology Journalism Awards. He’s spent more money than he cares to admit on the App Store, and will be speaking at /dev/world/2014 as a customer, not a developer. In his day job, Peter is a OS X Desktop Engineer at UNSW Australia.
Luke is a Sydney based interaction designer with a focus on designing cross-platform experiences that are engaging a fun for users. Having the opportunity to design a couple of the countries highest trafficked responsive sites, Luke brings a wealth of knowledge about becoming a invaluable part of a collaborative team. He currently is a senior Interaction design consultant for Bilue, a mobile specialists agency in Sydney.
Adam is a veteran developer who has been making apps since the launch of the App Store in 2008. An Apple nerd through and through, he believes that building great iOS apps is pretty much the most awesome job in the world, and he strives to pass this enthusiasm on to others. His company Kabuki Vision has released a number of noteworthy apps over the years such as NoteMaster and Dressed.
Tim Nugent pretends to be a mobile app developer, game designer, PhD student and now he even pretends to be an author (he co-wrote the latest update to “Learning Cocoa with Objective-C” for O’Reilly). When he isn’t busy avoiding being found out as a fraud, he spends most of his time designing and creating little apps and games he won’t let anyone see. Tim spent a disproportionately long time writing this tiny little bio, most of which was trying to stick a witty sci-fi reference in, before he simply gave up.
Paris is the co-founder of Secret Lab, a mobile game development studio based in Hobart. He is the co-author of a range of programming books for O'Reilly Media – recently including Learning Cocoa with Objective-C 4th Edition – and is currently writing Swift Development with Cocoa. He recently completed his PhD.
Stuart has been building apps since the early days of the App Store. Currently he is the founder of Appbot, a service used by over 35,000 app developers to help track and get better reviews. Stuart is a former co-founder of the Discovr apps that achieved over 3.5 million downloads.
James is a designeloper from Perth (although, secretly, he’s a kiwi). Four years ago, after fifteen years of graphic design, he Googled “How do you make an app?”, started attending AUC events, and the rest is history. This year James received an Apple student scholarship to attend WWDC.
Matthew spends his days, slaving away in a metaphorical basement, trying to fix scary databases (no, a phone number is NOT a primary key!), maintaining terrible websites, despairing at the fourth drive failure of the day, and generally being pulled from project to project. When he’s not working on technical tasks, he’s off writing papers, organising conferences and streams (e.g. PyCon AU, OzCHI24), and designing his doomsday bunker that must by necessity be completely cut off from the Internet, ‘The Cloud is trying to kill us all!’.
Adam is an iOS and web developer from Wollongong. His passion lies in using software to create great user experiences using intuitive interaction. While not finishing off his Bachelors of Computer Science, he develops for AffinityLive – an SaaS business management tool.
Tim is a second year Masters of Software Engineering student at The University of Western Australia. He has a passion for new ideas, clever and innovative technologies and just loves having a hack round with code.
Richard currently works as a professional web developer and designer while working towards publishing his own games on multiple platforms including iOS and Android.
Steve is a developer with over 15 years experience currently working in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University. He is also a proud father and an avid retro-computing enthusiast.
Jimmy is a Ph.D student at QUT, his research investigates how to apply mobile services to enhance social interactions in public urban environments such as public transport. Learning and growing through AUC's nurture, Jimmy co-founded Eat More Pixels—a company that focuses on creating useful, beautiful and playful apps that make our lives easier and fun.
Matt is a programmer in the Marketing Office at the Australian National University. He has experience in web, iOS, Android and Mac programming, and is currently having fun playing with Arduino devices in his spare time. His house now has 12 temperature sensors logging data every 1 minute...because it's important to know the temperature in your roof to 4 decimal places.
Zac is a lecturer from Queensland University of Technology and also an iOS developer. He taught Xcode workshops for the AUC in 2012 along with Wang and Jimmy Ti. He also really enjoys Anvil Animations in Keynote.
Melanie Tarr began working at ECU too long ago to mention now, and supported the engineering department as the Mac support engineer for four years. She then moved to Macintosh technical support for WAAPA, managing all of its IT support for two years before having her first child. She is now a PhD student (ECU), and believes digital literacy includes coding and has seen that high school children are capable of this.
Justin is currently the Mobile lead at Domain.com.au after moving to Australia from Canada to become a surfer in his spare time. Justin has been an iOS developer for 4 years working on apps for top domestic and international brands such as NBC, FOX, Univision, and many others.
Dan's been an iOS developer since the original jailbreak toolchain was released. He's worked with some of Australia's biggest and best known companies to develop iOS applications. He's the co-founder and engineering lead at Proxima, a company that is using the technologies available in iOS to help Enterprise build better experiences that their employees will love.
A full programme of events, including workshops (part of your registration, but subject to class size limits), lunch, a keynote from Tom Greenaway of Kumobius, and a full afternoon of sessions. The first day concludes with a pre-dinner keynote from the amazing Paul Fenwick, and our famous dinner and quiz.
Kicking off with Marc Edwards of Bjango, the second and final day brings more fantastic sessions, and has a few surprises lined up...
Located in the RMIT City precinct, near the corner of Swanston and Victoria streets.
The RMIT Design Hub is a purpose-built event space that recently won the Green Good Design Award from the European Centre for Architecture Design and Urban Studies and Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture.
/dev/world is Australia's oldest Mac and iOS developer conference.
/dev/world/2014 runs over two days on September 29 and 30 in Melbourne.
All /dev/world/2014 tickets include:
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Available until September 24 (10PM)
Available until September 24 (10PM)
This is the standard conference rate. This rate applies to most people who have their employers pay the conference fees and charge it as a professional development expense, or for individuals who can legitimately claim it as a tax deduction.
This concession rate is reserved for College (TAFE, Polytechnic, Senior Secondary, etc) or University Students. /dev/world offers this rate as a form of investment in the future of the community. As part of the registration process, a valid student ID card or proof of enrolment must be presented to the onsite registration desk.
AUC membership provides discounts. To learn more about AUC membership, visit the AUC website.