Deep Dish Swift 2025
Josh Holtz founded Deep Dish Swift in September of 2022 out of a deep love for developer conferences.
Deep Dish Swift is hosting its third conference in Chicago in 2025. The conference aims to bring together developers of all experience levels and backgrounds in an inclusive environment to share knowledge and experience from a diverse set of speakers.
We are currently working with our sponsors and venue to determine the final number of tickets we can offer. Join the Waiting List and stay tuned for updates!
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Deep Dish Swift is Chicago's premier Swift developer conference, bringing together developers from around the world. Started in 2023, we've grown into a vibrant community focused on sharing knowledge, fostering connections, and celebrating Swift development.
Our conference features a unique mix of technical talks, indie development sessions, and social events - all while showcasing Chicago's famous hospitality and deep dish pizza culture.
Join us at the Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL - our home for three years running.
The venue's hotel is now fully book. We can recommend these nearby hotels to stay at:
Registration, opening keynote, and Swift speakers
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 11:00am to 12:45pm | Registration opens |
| 12:45pm to 1:00pm | Event intro |
| 1:00pm to 1:45pm |
Opening Keynote - "Chasing Fun: Creating a Career You Love"
with Michael Flarup
|
| 2:00pm to 2:45pm |
"The History of iOS App Development"
with Adam Shaw
|
| 3:00pm to 3:30pm |
TBD - Swift Tips
"Why Didn't I Know That? Hidden Gems for Swift and SwiftUI Developers"
with Stewart Lynch
|
| 3:30pm to 4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00pm to 4:45pm |
"Code That Survives 'The Handoff'"
with Jacob Rakidzich
|
| 5:00pm to 5:45pm |
"Prompt Engineering for Accessibility"
with Allison McEntire
|
Swift speakers, indie dev speakers, and live podcast
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 7:30am to 8:55am | Breakfast |
| 8:55am to 9:00am | Morning welcome |
| 9:05am to 9:45am |
"From Overwhelmed to Confident: Understanding Swift Concurrency"
with Antoine van der Lee
|
| 10:00am to 10:45am |
"I'm the Problem, It's Me"
with Adrian Eves
|
| 11:00am to 11:45am | TBD - Contributing to Swift Compiler |
| 11:45am to 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm to 1:30pm |
Indie Talk - "Make Nice Things: An Engineer's "Made-Up Guide to App Design"
with Daniel Gauthier
|
| 1:45pm to 2:15pm |
Indie Talk - "Learning in Public: My Journey to 10"
with Danielle Lewis
|
| 2:30pm to 3:00pm |
Indie Talk - "Pizza will save your startup"
with Vidit Bhargava
|
| 3:15pm to 3:45pm |
Indie Talk - "The Roast of your App's Design"
with Hidde van der Ploeg
|
| 4:00pm to 4:30pm |
Indie Talk - "Live ASO Roast: You Bring the App, I'll "Tell You What's Wrong"
with Ariel Michaeli
|
| 4:30pm to 5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm to 5:45pm | Launched Live with Charlie Chapman and Ryan Ashcraft, Neem Serra, and Edward Sanchez |
Swift speakers, performance, closing keynote, and closing thoughts
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 7:30am to 8:55am | Breakfast |
| 8:55am to 9:00am | Morning welcome |
| 9:00am to 9:45am |
"App Intents, Actions, and Personal Context - Oh My!"
with Matthew Cassinelli
|
| 10:00am to 10:45am |
"Serving Slices of Your App: The Underrated Potential of App Clips"
with Matt Heaney
|
| 11:00am to 11:45am |
"Shaders: The Secret Sauce of Modern Visual Interactions"
with Laksh Chakraborty
|
| 11:45am to 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm to 1:45pm | TBD - Macros and Architecture |
| 2:00pm to 2:45pm |
"How I built a Vapor website without HTML, CSS, or JavaScript"
with Tyler Thompson
|
| 3:00pm to 3:45pm |
"Coordinate Spaces and You"
with Harlan Haskins
|
| 4:00pm to 4:45pm | Musical performance by James Dempsey and the Breakpoints |
| 5:00pm to 5:45pm | Closing Keynote |
| 5:45pm to 6:00pm | Closing Words |
The schedule will generally look like this but may reorder or shift slightly.
A successful Apple platform developer and designer with over 13 years of experience in making apps for Apple platforms. Vidit's app LookUp: English Dictionary is a modern day dictionary app that enables English learners to learn new words in innovative ways through illustrations and interactive quizzes
Bio coming soon...
Staff Engineer for Nuuly, a clothing rental subscription service from Urban Outfitters.
A software engineer with a deep passion for Swift and Kotlin, focusing primarily on iOS application development. Aside from mobile applications, and experience as an AWS Solutions Architect. His goal is to craft code that's not just functional but is a place you WANT to spend time in.
Harlan currently leads engineering at typo.inc. Previously, he worked on UIKit and SwiftUI for visionOS for Apple and the Swift compiler.
Lover of Swift, developer, and manager with about 18 years industry experience. Worked at companies both big and small. Regular contributor to the open source community and creator of Afluent, an open source Combine replacement built for Swift concurrency.
Been in the world of iOS development for over 5 years now, and in 2024 finally got the chance to begin doing it professionally. Recently graduated from NYU with a degree in Computer Science, and currently work at Typo* building a collaborative messenger designed for media-centric professionals
Bio coming soon...
Bio coming soon...
Bio coming soon...
Definitely not Josh! The Deep Dish Swift logo was made by the amazing Matthew Skiles ❤️
There was. The hotel is now fully booked. However, we can suggest the Aloft Chicago O'Hare, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago O'Hare Airport - Rosemont, or Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel.
There is a free shuttle running every 15 minutes between O'Hare and Loews 24 hours a day.
The shuttles can be tracked live. Pick-up for all flights is located at Terminal 2, on the lower-level for Arrivals, in the middle lane between doors 2A and 2E. Exits to the shuttle pick-up are located by baggage claim. Follow airport signage.
Yes, the event will be streamed and recorded. All sessions will be published after the conference.
Yes! The conference and venue are fully accessible, including wheelchair access and compliance with ADA standards. If you have specific access needs or questions, please email us at team@deepdishswift.com.
We're here to help! Reach out to us via:
team@deepdishswift.com
@DeepDishSwift
