Practical guide
to WWDC
Michał Waśniewski,
Schibsted Tech Polska
@mwasniewski
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Agenda
• Three months before
• Conference days
• Beyond the sessions
• Things to see
• Tips
• Expenses
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Disclaimer
Personal opinion about
2016 edition.
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Three months before
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Three months before
• Go to Warsaw, apply for
a U.S. Visa
• Apply for a WWDC ticket in
mid April by entering lottery
• Book flights & hotel, great
connection through
Stockholm?
• Buy ticket for night tour
in Alcatraz
• Plan your trip
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The lottery
• Only 5000 tickets
• Sold out quickly in 2013,
lottery since that year
• Randomly selected
• ~30 ppl on FB group
Polskie WWDC
• If you don’t win, you can
consider AltConf as well
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Ideas for longer trip before/after WWDC
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photos by unsplash.com
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Conference days
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Sunday
• Prepare your ticket in
Wallet App before
• Collect your badge in the
morning, don’t lose it, because
Apple won’t re-issue it
• Join WWDC hike around
San Francisco from Lands End
to Fisherman’s Wharf (~15 km)
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Reveal meetup
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Monday
• Queue for Keynote starts
forming at 1 AM, join if you
want to meet people
• Keynote - in 2016 everyone
could go in (~7000 seats)
• State of the union
• Design awards
•
Beard Bash by Loop and
Jim Dalrymple
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Tuesday
• Conference moves to
Moscone Center
• Breakdown Sessions,
many details revealed
• Great time to download
and try new software
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NSHipster Quiz,
run by Nate Cook
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Wednesday
• Sessions
• Lot of meetups
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Yelp, Flurry, Diversion
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Thursday - Bash, by Apple with Good Charlotte
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Friday
• Sessions
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No meetups :(
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Octoshop
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Beyond the sessions
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Lunch break talks
Very inspiring
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Labs - each day different one, check app
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UI Design labs
• Signup super early
(7:00:00 AM)
• One to one session
• Prepare your questions, apps
etc
• No recording possible
• Try more than once
• There are also AppStore labs
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Things to see
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San Francisco: Cable cars, Golden Gate Bridge,
Lombard St., Fisherman’s Wharf, Museums 21
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Pier 39
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Alcatraz: tickets at least 1 month before, buy morning one,
go directly to cell house, https://www.alcatrazcruises.com/ 23
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Apple mothership (check store!), Google HQ, Steve Jobs house, HP Garage
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Test drive Tesla, San Jose
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General tips
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• Get an USD account with debit
card, buy currency at online
exchange
• San Francisco ‘Summer'
• Book hotel as close to
Moscone as possible,
watch out for some districts
• Buy local SIM card
(AT&T in CVS Pharmacy)
• Signup for parties really
quickly! Get the app:
Parties for WWDC By
Genady Okrain
• Remember you're under NDA
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Expenses
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San Francisco‘s
housing is expensive http://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-things-people-do-to-survive-san-
franciscos-housing-prices-2016-4/?IR=T/#according-to-real-estate-marketplace-
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Expenses
• In total: ~5000+ USD
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• Ticket 1599 USD
• Flight ~1200 USD
• Hotel ~2000 USD (from Apple’s
list), no breakfast included
• Breakfast 10-15 USD, lunch
15-20 USD (price, tax, tip)
• Converse shoes are cheap ;)