My experience with the iOS developer community in Tokyo ● Have been in the community for the last 4-5 years ● Attended lots of meetups & conferences, sometimes as a presenter ● I’m going to highlight some of the ways the community operates 3
iOS meetups in Tokyo ● So many meetups ● Each meetup has about 30-100+ attendees ● Meetups are organized by person / community / company ● Fluid because some start and some become inactive ● Search “iOS” or “swift” at connpass.com 11
Diverse meetup examples swiftc meetup ● About Swift Compiler ● Has met 14 times since 2018 ● About 30 attendees per meetup ● Discord channel 12 iOS Test Night (by DeNA) ● About Testing on iOS ● Has met 11 times since 2016 ● About 100 attendees per meetup ● “CI/CD Test Night” started from this
Big annual conferences try! swift ● 900 attendees ● 30 talks, single track ● in English & Japanese (simultaneous translation) (Numbers are from 2019) 13 iOSDC ● 800 attendees ● 133 talks *, multiple tracks ● in Japanese ● 540 proposals * including 40 LT (Numbers are from iOSDC 2018)