If you're giving a Lightning Talk on Tuesday evening, signup is open and runs through Tuesday lunch. Bring three minutes of something you care about.
If you've been on the fence about a last-minute ticket to SwiftCraft 2026: it's not too late. swiftcraft.uk
🗓 Monday 18 – Wednesday 20 May · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
For everyone arriving in Folkestone today: welcome. Leas Cliff Hall is on the seafront, a short walk from the High Street and the harbour. The town is small in the best way — you'll keep running into people you came to see.
🗓 Monday 18 – Wednesday 20 May · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
Tomorrow morning at 09:00, five workshops kick off Monday at SwiftCraft 2026 — @dimsumthinking's full-day Apple Intelligence session, Phil Zakharchenko's Mac app workshop, Leo Dion's Swift automation, Murali Kathiresan's Swift Concurrency, and @joannis's Swift on embedded Linux.
If you've been on the fence about a last-minute ticket: it's not too late.
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
🗓 Monday 18 – Wednesday 20 May · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
A practical Wednesday afternoon talk at SwiftCraft 2026 — for engineers who actually have to ship.
@n0rthk1n9 gives StoreKit 2 for Indie Devs: The Monetization Playbook at 12:05 — a working playbook for iOS indies trying to turn an app into a sustainable business, by someone who has done it. StoreKit 2 changed the game; this is the talk that walks through the new game.
🗓 Wednesday 20 May 12:05 · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
A practical Wednesday afternoon talk at SwiftCraft 2026 — for the engineer who actually has to ship.
Richard Topchii gives Keychain Unlocked: Mastering Advanced Security for Smarter, Safer Apps at 14:50 — practical security for the everyday iOS app. If the words "biometric authentication," "secure enclave," and "Keychain access groups" make you nod and then quietly hope nobody asks you to implement them, this is your talk.
🗓 Wednesday 20 May 14:50 · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
A craft-of-the-work talk at SwiftCraft 2026 by another angle with an eye for what we owe the code.
@bugorbn gives The Modern Craft of AI-Assisted iOS Development: Metrics, Methods, and Reality on Tuesday afternoon — a working iOS developer's view of what AI tooling actually does to the day-to-day, with metrics rather than vibes.
His talk is for engineers who think about how they write code, not just what they ship.
🗓 Tuesday 19 May 15:55 · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
A craft-of-the-work talk at SwiftCraft 2026 by an angle with an eye for what we owe the code.
Lucy Galik gives This should have been a struct. The case against enums. on Wednesday morning — a programming-language talk for engineers who reach for enum cases by reflex and have started to wonder if it's a habit worth examining.
Lucy's talk is for engineers who think about how they write code, not just what they ship.
🗓 Wednesday 20 May 10:55 · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
Frank Solleveld is giving a Wednesday afternoon talk at SwiftCraft 2026: Building Beyond Mistakes.
Every working engineer has a graveyard of decisions they wish they'd made differently — the architecture choice that didn't scale, the dependency that turned into a maintenance burden, the abstraction that hid the real problem. Frank's talk is about what we do with that graveyard. Not "how to avoid mistakes" (you won't), but how to build beyond them — practically, professionally, without losing your nerve or your team's trust.
Frank is based in the Netherlands and co-organises @ARCticConference.
🗓 Wednesday 20 May · 14:15 · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
@oliver_binns is giving a Tuesday afternoon talk at SwiftCraft 2026: A Strong Foundation?
Oliver is an Apple Alliance Development Lead at Deloitte Digital in London, was shortlisted for BCS Engineer of the Year 2024, and is a two-time WWDC Scholar. He's worked on the NHS COVID-19 app and apps for airlines, healthcare organisations, and government departments. He's spoken at ServerSide.swift, iOSDevUK, and SwiftLeeds.
If you're in Daniel Steinberg's Foundation Models workshop on Monday, this is the talk that pairs with it — same domain, different question.
🗓 Tuesday 19 May · 14:50 · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
@oliver_binns is giving a Tuesday afternoon talk at SwiftCraft 2026: A Strong Foundation?
Apple is widely considered to be behind on AI. But are they really? And does it actually matter? Oliver's talk is the take from a working iOS engineer who's looked at the alternatives, looked at what Apple shipped, and thought hard about whether the gap is what people say it is. Whether you're an AI sceptic or already building with Foundation Models, you'll leave with a clearer picture of what to actually use, and when.
🗓 Tuesday 19 May · 14:50 · Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
🎟 https://swiftcraft.uk
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