World Remit
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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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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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: Pull Requests are Language
Featuring Abizer Nasir
In this Lightning Talk Abizer will share some knowledge to establish conventions and build a team by arguing over code.
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Lightning Talk: Understanding Your iOS Product Before Looking to Scale
Featuring Jillian Kowalchuk
Learn how Safe & The City, a crowdsourcing navigation app creating safer walking routes, took a phased approach using React Native perfecting the iOS build before looking to scale across platforms.
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Lightning Talk: DIY DI
Featuring Sam Davies
Enterprise Java and .NET developers spend a reasonable proportion of their lives banging on about inversion of control (IoC) or dependency injection (DI) frameworks. Are mobile developers missing out on anything here? What problems do these frameworks solve? What can we learn from them?
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Understanding Code Signing
Featuring Pravara Kant
Code signing issues is something that every iOS and OSX developer has experienced. You have spent lot's of hours to make them work. In most of the cases, the error messages are not very clear. Sometimes a missing entry in entitlements, or simply expired development / provisioning certificate...
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Storyboards Revisited
Featuring Paul Stringer
Storyboards are a powerful yet sometimes maligned tool for controlling the flow of your iOS app through configuration instead of code.
The storyboard approach in theory allows a clean separation of flow and presentation that provides greater flexibility to change. The reality though is that view...
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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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