Daniel Steinberg
Author and trainer, Dim Sum Thinking
Author of more than a dozen books on Swift and SwiftUI, and the trainer for our Foundation Models workshop.
Workshop: Foundation Models
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The Grand Gathering of Apple Developers in Southeast Asia
iOS Conf SG 2027 · 20–22 January · Singapore
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Three days with the people building the future of Apple apps
Swift, SwiftUI and Apple Intelligence, from the people who teach the frameworks, write the books and ship the apps.
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- Foundation Models
- App Intents
- Siri & Shortcuts
- Visual Intelligence
- Private Cloud Compute
- Agentic coding in Xcode
🎟️ Get your ticket, from S$60
+Daniel Steinberg, Vince Davis, Vincent Pradeilles, Adam Lyttle and 8 more
+Daniel Steinberg, Vince Davis, Vincent Pradeilles, Adam Lyttle and 8 moreWorkshop day Wed 20 · Talks Thu 21–Fri 22 · 📍 Alliance Française
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Meet your speakers
Your favourite authors, speakers and developers from all over the world are packing their suitcases for Singapore.
Vince Davis
Senior iOS Developer, United Airlines
Vince loves all things SwiftUI. At iOS Conf SG 2025 he showed how App Intents and Live Activities change the way people use an app, and he’s back for 2027.
Vincent Pradeilles
Software Engineer, Photoroom
Vincent has been building iOS apps since 2011. On his YouTube channel, he’s shared nearly 400 videos with practical tips to help developers sharpen their iOS and Swift skills.
Adam Lyttle
Indie Developer
Adam creates apps for fun and profit. With 50+ apps on the App Store, he’s building a million-dollar app portfolio in public.
Vidit Bhargava
Creator of Deck-Man
Vidit has been making apps for Apple platforms for more than 15 years, from the award-winning LookUp: English Dictionary to, most recently, Deck-Man. His work explores creative uses of emerging technology.
YJ Soon
Co-founder, Tinkercademy
YJ is a former high school teacher who cofounded Tinkercademy to create iOS apps, Swift curriculum, and the next generation of makers and coders. Unfortunately for the company, he subscribes to every AI coding plan he comes across.
Aryaman Sharda
iOS Engineer, Luma AI
Aryaman builds tools that make developers’ lives easier, like Universal Link Validator and Indie Watch, and writes about iOS, Swift and Xcode at Digital Bunker.
Khoa Pham
Senior Software Engineer, DNB
Khoa is behind some of the most-starred iOS projects on GitHub, like awesome-ios-architecture, awesome-ios-animation, DeepDiff and the PushNotifications app. Lately he’s been building MCP servers in Swift, so AI assistants can work with your tools.
Rian Putra Mantovani
Engineering Manager, iOS, Vidio
Rian leads the iOS team at Vidio, the Indonesian streaming platform, in Jakarta. He has been shipping iOS apps for years and writes about the tooling and test infrastructure that keeps them moving.
Joy Chen
iOS Engineer, Cloud Invoice
Joy is an iOS engineer working on Cloud Invoice and an organiser of iPlayground. She believes in learning through sharing, and hopes to help fellow developers grow through open exchange and collaboration.
Ian Choo
CEO, SG Code Campus
Ian founded SG Code Campus, which helps enterprises, government and academia design and run agentic AI systems. He holds degrees from Stanford and UC Berkeley, teaches at SMU Academy, and brings Singapore’s agentic coding community along.
Amelia Citra Dewi
AI Engineer, Apple Developer Institute for AIML
Amelia turns everyday problems into practical apps, like Tensie, a published iOS app that uses on-device AI to read blood pressure monitors.
More than talks
What YouTube and AI agents can’t give you
AI can write the code. It can’t sit next to you, look at your app and tell you what it really thinks. These are the parts of iOS Conf SG you only get by being in the room.
All conference
iPhone Duo Open Lab
Try the best new apps on iPhone Duo, bring your own, and ask the developers who’ve already shipped how they handled the bigger screen.
Thu 21 – Fri 22 Jan
Ship It Friday
Start something on Thursday, finish it by Friday afternoon and show it on stage. Indie developers who’ve shipped plenty of apps will be around to help when you get stuck.
Workshops · Wed 20 Jan 2027
Get hands-on before the talks
Wednesday is our hands-on day, before the talks begin: real code, on your own Mac, with trainers who know these frameworks inside out. The workshop day is included in every pass with “Workshop” in its name, and in the Individual Sponsor Pass.
Half-day workshop
Foundation Models
Bring Apple Intelligence into your own apps
Every team is being asked where AI fits in their app. The Foundation Models framework gives you direct access to the on-device model behind Apple Intelligence, straight from Swift. It runs on the device, so your users’ data stays private, it works offline, and there’s no server to run or per-request bill to pay. That makes features like summaries, smart suggestions, tagging and natural-language search practical to build into the apps you already ship.
What you’ll do and what to bring
- Experiment with the model in #Playground, right inside Xcode
- Write prompts and instructions, and tune the output with generation options
- Stream responses as they’re generated, so your app feels fast
- Use @Generable to get well-formed Swift types back instead of raw text
- Build tools that let the model pull in data from across the Apple ecosystem, like maps and weather
Bring: A Mac with the latest macOS and Xcode, an iPhone on the latest iOS if you’d like to test on device, and an idea or two you want to try.
Daniel will confirm the final outline closer to the day.
Your trainer
Daniel Steinberg
Dim Sum Thinking
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Daniel has been writing apps for iPhone and iPad since the very first SDKs. Through Dim Sum Thinking he teaches Swift, SwiftUI and Apple’s newest frameworks, and he’s the author of more than a dozen books, including A Swift Kickstart, A SwiftUI Kickstart and his latest, on App Intents. Over the past year he has taught Foundation Models workshops at conferences across Europe and Asia.
A second workshop will be announced soon.
Run by iOS developers for the community since 2015.
The 2021 Swift Community Awards named iOS Conf SG the Best Conference.
- 12th edition
- 211 videos on YouTube
- Developers from 30+ countries
177 speakers on our stage since 2015
Authors, engineers and founders from 11 editions. Many keep coming back.
Paul Hudson
8 editions
Tim Oliver
8 editions
Daniel Steinberg
6 editions
Vincent Pradeilles
5 editions
Omer Iqbal
5 editions
Charlie Chapman
3 editions
Pradnya Nikam
3 editions
Maciej Piotrowski
3 editions
Mugunth Kumar
3 editions
Roxana Nagy
2 editions
Donny Wals
2 editions
Jeff Watkins
2 editions
Watch a talk from a past edition
Tickets
Pick your pass
Food is included with every pass. Supporter passes add S$100 that goes straight into running the conference.
| Same passes + S$100 to support the conference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ConferenceConference PassS$60Buy | Workshop + ConferenceWorkshop and Conference PassS$160Buy | SupporterSupporter Conference PassS$160Buy | Supporter + WorkshopSupporter Workshop and Conference PassS$260Buy | |
| Keynotes and talksThu 21 – Fri 22 Jan | ||||
| Keynotes and talksThu 21 – Fri 22 Jan | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Light breakfast, lunch and coffeeBoth conference days | ||||
| Light breakfast, lunch and coffeeBoth conference days | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Workshop on Foundation Models and SwiftWed 20 Jan | ||||
| Workshop on Foundation Models and SwiftWed 20 Jan | Not included | Included | Not included | Included |
| Conference t-shirt | ||||
| Conference t-shirt | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Your name listed on our website | ||||
| Your name listed on our website | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Your name shared during the keynote | ||||
| Your name shared during the keynote | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
Why only S$60?
This year, almost everywhere we went, developers told us they’d love to come to iOS Conf SG but couldn’t justify the ticket on top of the trip to Singapore. Pricing people out never sat right with us, so we’ve cut the ticket to S$60, down from S$200–300 for our previous 11 editions. Your S$60 covers your food; sponsors and donors cover the rest. If cost kept you away before, please come. We’d love to meet you.
No early-bird or group discounts. The price is already as low as we can take it.
Venue
Alliance Française de Singapour
Sponsors & partners
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Partner with us
If the people you want to reach are iOS developers in Southeast Asia, iOS Conf SG is where you’ll find them.
Every year, hundreds of iOS and Swift developers join us in Singapore, from across the region and more than 30 countries. As a sponsor, you can:
- Meet them face to face, between talks and at the after-party
- Show them your product, SDK or developer tool
- Talk to developers you’d want on your team
- Back a community that’s been running since 2011, and help keep tickets at S$60 so more developers from the region can come
All the packages are in the prospectus. Questions? Email [email protected] or [email protected].
Download Sponsorship ProspectusSupporting as an individual? The Individual Sponsor Pass (S$899) is the Workshop and Conference Pass plus your name and profile on our website, a shout-out in the keynote and an invitation to the Speakers’ Dinner. Get it on Tito
