The World's Northernmost Apple Developers' Conference

March 11th - 13th 2025, Oulu, Finland

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Programme

Get inspired and increase joy in your daily work

What?

One day of workshops, two days of tech-talks, memories made every evening.

Learn about the latest trends, best practices, and strategies for developing apps in Swift across Apple's platforms.

Sauna, ice swimming, northern lights, and drinks to help you forget about work and connect with like-minded professionals.

Speakers & Workshop Hosts

Workshops

Talks & Schedule

Talks

See speaker profiles for more information about the talks.

Ben Scheirman: From Independent to Big Company iOS

Aurelius Prochazka: 10 Years of Magic and Bliss (Just Kidding)

Paul Hudson: TBA

Alaina Kafkes: Long live the code comment!

Pol Piella Abadia: Tuning your app using Xcode’s instruments

Chris Price: When Content is King

Mikaela Caron: Let's Table That: Creating Games with TabletopKit for visionOS

Daniel Steinberg: What the heck happened to generics while we weren’t looking

Priyal Porwal: Building Maintainable iOS Apps with Swift Macros

Hidde van der Ploeg: Less AI, More Magic

Vidit Bhargava: Action Centered Design - A new approach for designing applications in the Apple Intelligence Era

Klemens Strasser: What Video Games Can Teach us about Accessibility

Joel Kin: iOS Staff+

Ellen Shapiro: An AI Skeptic Implements Apple Intelligence

* A few more talks may be announced, and there could be slight adjustments to the talks listed above.

Schedule

Tuesday

09:00

Full-day workshops begin and half of the half-day workshops begin

13:00

Rest of the half-day workshops begin

18:30

Evening programme and registration

Wednesday

08:30

Doors open and registration

09:00

Conference begins

12:30

Lunch

19:00

Live music: Iterum Nata

Thursday

08:30

Doors open

09:00

Conference begins

12:30

Lunch

18:00

Evening programme

* There may be slight changes to the schedule, but we'll do our best to keep it as close as possible.

Tickets

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Ticket includes

  • Gift bag (Early Birds will be rewarded with extra goodies for their enthusiasm)

  • Workshop of your choice on Tuesday

  • Ticket to the main conference on Wednesday and Thursday

  • Lunch, coffee, snacks, and drinks during the main conference days

  • Something special every evening (live music, sauna, drinks etc.)

Unless sold out earlier, Regular Bird tickets are available for:

 

Blind bird

399 €

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Early bird

449 €

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Late bird

549 €

Last chance for getting a ticket

All prices include 25.5% VAT.

Location

Oulu - City of creative and laid-back people

Silicon Valley of the North

Oulu is known of its vibrant tech-scene and innovation ecosystem.

Local companies and research institutions have been major players behind technologies such as 5G, GSM, IRC, heart-rate monitoring, and wearable fitness devices.

The Venue

The conference will take place in the historic Theatre Rio.

It's located in the heart of the city - walking distance away from hotels and restaurants.

Less than 8 hours of flying from any European capital city.

The night train from Helsinki is also quite cozy and it has one of the best bars in Finland.

Additional information:

FINNAIR LUFTHANSA VR

Accommodation

Stay where everybody else is staying

Sokos Hotel Arina has offered us a limited amount of rooms for a fixed price.

It's a four-star hotel and it's located less than two minutes walk away from the main venue.

Rates include breakfast and are available for a limited time.

Original Sokos Hotel Arina

Prices with code BAPPLE

Night for one 135 €

Night for two 155 €

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Skiing trip

We are going to a skiing resort with the speakers and there's still room in the bus!

Post-conference weekend trip to Iso-Syöte

Skiing, snow shoeing, snow mobile safaris, karaoke, fat biking, pantsdrunk, sauna, jacuzzi, hiking, board games - some ideas what the weekend could be.

You'll have to self-book your accommodation, but we'll promise

that you'll be in great company if you decide to join us!

You'll have to self-book your accommodation, but we'll promise that you'll be in great company if you decide to join us!

Accommodation

We recommend booking a cottage together with the other attendees, because it's cheaper and there's a great chance for making lifelong friends.

If your colleagues are not coming, and you're not familiar with the international Swift community yet, you can try your luck in finding flatmates in the conference Slack.

SYÖTE BOOKING CENTRE

There are also two hotels at the resort:

HOTEL ISO-SYÖTE KIDE HOTEL

Transportation

The bus will leave on Friday 14th at 10:30, and return to Oulu on Sunday 16th by 13:00.

A return ticket costs 20 €.

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