Swift TO Conf - Aug 10/11 2023

📣 Talks and photos are now posted on the website 🙏 We are so grateful for our speakers. A big round of applause for everything they put into this! Over the next few weeks we will post about their amazing talks one by one. 👀 View it all here: buff.ly/2ZVPA8T

@iOSConf @twostraws @pHelement @SwiftConf @DeepDishSwift @iosconfsg No turn downs, however multiple speakers agreed on conditions of our D&I commitments to speaker line up as well as scholarship tickets. Sometimes I think we are forgetting just how bad tech conferences used to be for women not so long ago. This is absolutely necessary correction.

@twostraws @pHelement @SwiftConf @DeepDishSwift @iosconfsg @swiftconfto We’ve had 1 person decline on grounds of wanting to step aside for a more diverse candidate. Best part is, person bought a ticket the minute after that email exchange.

Dear men: If you are invited to speak at a conference, it’s a huge privilege and I hope you’re excited. But please pause before you accept to check the other speakers – too many Swift events are happening with the most extraordinary gender imbalance, and it’s bad for everyone.

@peja_1616 @twostraws @__JoshuaJRoot__ Conferences are about community spirit, not just the talks. It’s really important to foster a welcoming culture for all. The idea that diversity and inclusion is “woke ideology” is cheap rhetoric. Many attendees actually demand these values because it impacts event energy.

Why would you ask for the speaker list in the first place? The entire point of your original post was to encourage some sense for diversity, even though it is uncalled for at a tech conference and has no place there. You can try to mask your agenda behind such sarcastic responses, but it’s apparent from the other reactions to this tweet that you made yourself look stupid

the snippet is from excellent talk about state of swift concurrency by @mattie Everyone should watch it before put "actor" in its codebase youtu.be/HqjqwW12wpw?si…

All content is finally edited, uploaded and captioned so it will be posted and formally announced tomorrow, including new improved audio on the Thursday talks 🙉. Thanks for your patience as we worked through these content hiccups. Missing files led to some delays.

Friday talks edited and rendering. Content delivery process had a couple of hiccups. We are investigating whether better audio can be recovered for the Thursday talks also and they will be re-uploaded if there’s anything we can do 👍

🗣️ Our Thursday talks are now posted 📸 Photo Gallery also now available ⚙️ Friday talks will be published very soon, we just received some missing camera content this morning 👀 Check it out: buff.ly/2ZVPA8T

We just got the video content delivered this morning as a few large files and now need to review, edit and upload the 17 talks. Hopefully should have everything posted within a week 🤞, thank you for your patience.

@timmitra @BlueJays So glad the dome was open and no rain! Proper jays experience

Incredible performance from James Dempsey and the Breakpoints. Fantastic stage presence, humor and supporting slides. We were so lucky to have you close the first day into party

@Sommer Thank you that really means a lot, particularly that it felt inclusive ❤️

Had an ✨amazing ✨time presenting at @swiftconfto on this stunning stage. Thanks to everyone who put on this fantastic and inclusive conference! 🧡

What a way to close day one ✨of @swiftconfto with a concert by @jamesdempsey 👨‍🎤and the Breakpoints with @designatednerd 🎸@Sommer 🪈!

Heading to the city for day 2 of @swiftconfto Couldn’t help but notice “Combine” across the street after @dimsumthinking’s talk on day 1 (2 blocks south from TIFF Bell Lightbox :)

I met lots of talented devs today at @swiftconfto: @mbrandonw @coder_pilot @Sommer @podomunro

Navati ⁦@navbarbar⁩ is doing great 👏as MC 🎙️of ⁦@swiftconfto⁩

Off to a great start ⁦@swiftconfto⁩! Met some old friends and made some new ones as well! Having a great time ❤️with ⁦@coder_pilot⁩ ⁦@navbarbar⁩ ⁦@dvrzan⁩ ⁦@joshdholtz⁩. Thanks 🙏 to ⁦@dvrzan⁩ for organizing the women’s dinner 🌮

Vui Nguyen (@sunfishgurl) presenting Easily Reuse Custom SwiftUI Design Elements With Swift Packages. #SwiftConfTO

Brandon Williams (@mbrandonw) of @pointfreeco presenting “Control your dependencies, don't let them control you” also got to take photo together #SwiftConfTO

Claudia ⁦@coder_pilot⁩ reminds us about what’s important when developers work on design. It’s all about solving problems for the users! ⁦@swiftconfto⁩