World Remit
One of the UK’s fastest-growing technology businesses, WorldRemit is disrupting the $600bn global money transfer industry. Backed by Accel Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures, two of the world’s leading technology investors, WorldRemit has grown massively since launching in 2010. Revenues have grown from £15m in 2014, to £27m in 2015 and over £41m in 2016. It processed over 700,000 transactions in August 2017; the trend is for 50% year over year growth in volumes. These is forecast to grow to 4m in the next several years.
Valued at $500m in the last equity fundraise, WorldRemit is one of Europe’s leading FinTechs and has won many awards including the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development award for Best Practice in Remittances for Development (2015), the UK’s fastest-growing technology company in Deloitte’s annual Fast 50 Award (2015) and sixth place in the Sunday Times ‘Tech Track’ (2016).
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Better Together
Featuring Niamh Power
Across the mobile industry, there is often this great divide between the two platforms, iOS, and Android. The consumer arguments of which side is better, and what phones are better regularly leak into our work and quite frankly taint our ability to make great applications for our users. As...
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Workshop: Test or Go Fishing - an introduction to TDD
Featuring Paul Ardeleanu
Whilst not a panacea for your development troubles (but certainly a headache for many), Test Driven Development (or any of its incarnations) can prove something of a silver bullet if done correctly and consistently.
Cleaner code and shorter QA cycles are two of the best benefits.In this session,...
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Workshop: Hands On Advanced Architecture for iOS
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
In this workshop you will implement one user story from scratch for a new iOS application. Distribution of the contents and scope may vary slightly, in order to maximize the understanding of the basics.
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Designing and Building With Accessibility in Mind.
Featuring Hung Truong
Accessibility is an often ignored part of iOS development, partly because much of it is “baked in” to the OS and “just works” most of the time. However, building custom UI elements and transitions can lead to a breakdown of accessibility expectations. In this talk, Hung will share with you some...
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Lightning Talk: The Stand Up
Featuring Phil Nash
Phil does some stand-up. But wait, there’s more! Come along to see how many times one can pivot during a 15 minute lighting talk.
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Lightning Talk: Domain-Driven Architecture
Featuring Sergey Shulga
Sergey will share with you ideas and approaches he and his Team are using or planning to use to scale monolith MVP startup version of their app into something that can go to scale for years to come. You will also learn how DDD and Reactive programming help them achieve this.
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The art of developing more in less time - how to not get caught by long build times?
Featuring Eliasz Sawicki
While developing an iOS application at some point you may notice, that it does not go as smooth as it used to. At the beginning everything was much smaller, it was easier to reason about, it did not take that long to build and it was much faster to switch between application and test targets. The...
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Interconnect all the things!
Featuring Esteban Torres
One of the most interesting and yet most forgotten frameworks that has given us developers is the MultipeerConnectivity framework.
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A different take on Data Model
Featuring Maxim Zaks
Data is the fuel which powers every App. However you do not give it enough thought. You slap it into CoreData, or define some class structures which mostly stand in the way, when you need to implement new features.
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