Chris Adamson

Chris Adamson is the co-author of iPhone 10 SDK Development (Pragmatic Programmers) and Learning Core Audio (Addison-Wesley Professional). He's also an independent iOS and Mac developer, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also writes the Time.code() blog at subfurther.com/blog and hosts livestreams at invalidstream.com. Over the years, he has managed to own fourteen and a half Macs.

Jonathan Blocksom

Jonathan Blocksom is a lead software engineer working on iOS projects at Capital One in McLean, VA. Before joining Capital One, Jonathan taught Advanced iOS and OpenGL for the Big Nerd Ranch. A seasoned industry veteran, he has been developing iPhone software since the app store opened and 3D graphics software since OpenGL was just little bitty gl.

Janie Clayton

Janie Clayton is an author and independent iOS developer. Janie is the author on several books on iOS and Swift development, including the forthcoming Metal Programming Guide. She records her journey down the rabbit hole on her personal blog at redqueencoder.com. Janie lives outside of Madison, Wisconsin with her attempted grumble of pugs and multitude of programming books.

Curt Clifton

Curt Clifton is a software developer with the Omni Group, where he primarily works on OmniFocus for Mac and iOS. Curt came to the Omni Group from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where he was an associate professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Curt once procrastinated for three months on his PhD dissertation by scripting OmniOutliner to work as a task management system. Being a bright guy, the irony was not lost on him.

Curt blogs occasionally at curtclifton.net. When not programming or writing, Curt can be found on the roads and trails around Seattle wearing out another pair of running shoes or hiking boots.

@jamesdempsey / jamesdempsey.net

Session: TBA

Liz Marley

Liz Marley is a Software Engineer at the Omni Group. She also has 10 years of experience testing Omni’s software. Her idea of summer vacation is to help middle schoolers learn to make software at App Camp for Girls. And if you catch Liz away from a computer, she's probably knitting, watching a soccer game, or both.

Justin Miller

Justin has worked in Apple programming environments for fifteen years, and up and down the tech stack for longer, across LAMP stack systems administration and web development since the 90s, and most recently, leading development of mobile tools for Mapbox. He ran a solo consultancy for five years during the early days of the app stores, creating apps for clients and for sale. In his free time, Justin enjoys world travel, photography, hiking, baking pies, and restoring and camping in his vintage VW van. 

Chris Parrish

Chris is one of the founders of Aged & Distilled, developers of the popular Mac application Napkin. Chris has been programming for Apple's platforms for over 3 decades, starting with assembly language on an Apple II+. He has contributed to dozens of high profile applications including Postage, the 2009 Apple Design Award winning iPhone app. In addition to his development work, Chris is the co-host of The Record podcast with Brent Simmons.

Jon Reid

Jon has been practicing TDD since 2001, and has applied it to iOS development since 2010. He began writing about programming at work, then giving talks, then teaching classes for employees. Eager to share more broadly, Jon started the Quality Coding blog, and began giving external talks and training. Jon is available on a limited basis to bring his training and coaching on-site to your teams.

Wil Shipley

Wil has been producing software for the NeXT and Apple ecosystems since the extinction of the dinosaurs. In 1991, Wil co-founded The Omni Group, and developed software for the NeXTSTEP operating system, Rhapsody and later Mac OS X. While at Omni he won a record five Apple Design Awards for his company's products. He went on to found a second notable software firm, Delicious Monster, in 2004. Delicious Library, the company's flagship product, won three more Apple Design Awards.

Nowadays, Wil writes software, blogs occasionally, and thinks about life. Wil has only three cats.

Brent Simmons

Brent has been writing apps for Apple computers for over 30 years, since his first Apple II Plus in 1980. His professional apprenticeship was at UserLand Software where he worked on Frontier and on Manila, an early blog platform. Later he created apps such as NetNewsWire, TapLynx, Glassboard, and MarsEdit. Brent lives in Seattle with his wife Sheila and his cat Papa, who’s named for both Ernest Hemingway and the great designated hitter Edgar Martinez.

@dimsumthinking / dimsumthinking.com

Session: When am I ever going to use this?

T.J. Usiyan

A writer, musician, and developer interested in crafting interesting and artful things. Developer of the iOS app Chordal Text, and AU Additive Synthesizer Partial. TJ is working to create innovative and intuitive solutions to musical problems. He is a graduate of Eugene Lang College and Berklee College of Music.