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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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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Keynote: Sustainable Releases, a Tale of Teams and Automation
Featuring Danielle Tomlinson
In this talk you will learn about building a release process that works for you, your team, and your business. Danielle will share with you her own experiences from building, and releasing client side, SaaS, and enterprise software over the last ~10 years. During the talk you will also get an...
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Understanding language on iOS
Featuring Martin Mitrevski
The evolution of user interfaces in mobile apps continues with the most natural way of expressing the user’s wishes - their voice. Understanding what the users say is not an easy task.
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Nuke It From Orbit: How to Deal With Massive View Controllers Once and For All
Featuring Paul Hudson
Everyone knows that MVC done badly inevitably leads to massive view controllers, but it doesn't need to be that way. In this talk you'll learn how design patterns from Cocoa Touch and how Swift can help you simplify your code, reduce coupling, and make your maintenance easier.
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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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Lightning Talk: How Modern Mobile Technology Helps us to Enhance Business Applications
Featuring Ian Thain
You live in an app driven world so mobility is not only a necessity for consumers but also for businesses. In this lightning talk, Ian from SAP will explain how modern mobile technology can help enhance your business applications. You will learn about a couple of use cases and how you can...
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Keynote: Applicatives - The Forgotten Middle Child
Featuring Daniel Steinberg
This is not just another talk on Monads and Functors. You’ll begin with examples of higher order functions and focus on map and flatMap in Swift. But there’s something between a functor and a monad that is more powerful than a functor and more flexible than a monad. you’ll look at Applicatives...
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Beyond animations with Core Animation
Featuring John Sundell
Core Animation is one of those essential technologies that power any iOS app, whether or not you use it directly. In this talk, you’ll go beyond animations, and explore how Core Animation’s many powerful features can enable high-performance rendering, creation of complex shapes and backgrounds -...
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