iOS Developers Conference
We finally decided what to do with that last time slot of the day…
A speaker panel of Ask Me Anything.
We’ve asked
Kyle Richter
Marcus Zarra
Jaimee Newberry and
Andria Jensen
to spend that last session of the day on Wednesday before we all go home, answering questions from the audience on anything. Presumably things they can answer :)
It should be a fun way to wrap up the conference.
See you next week! Only 5 tickets left.
Our friends at Mapquest have 12 seats at the 360|iDev Night Of Meat, taking place Sunday (the 9th) night at 6:00.
We’re helping them find good homes for those Night of Meat seats. To win one just leave a comment here. First 12 comments are the winners.
Please make sure you can actually attend the Night Of Meat. It’s Sunday night in Downtown Denver. The organizers are working out ride sharing but you could also light rail up for about $4. While you don’t have to be an attendee to get in on Night Of Meat, why wouldn’t you be attending?
Just answer this question the comments.
Where and what year was the first 360|iDev?
That’s it. easy right? :)
Took a little longer than normal, but we’ve locked in all the details for the parties during 360|iDev. They’re listed below, and also in the conference app int he “reception” track
Sunday night.
The Welcome Reception, sponsored by Gold Sponsor Millennial Media and Telerik starts at 6pm in the main foyer. This is your chance to have a beer, meet other attendees before everyone’s brains turn to mush with new information!
Monday night.
Push.io, Technical Integrity, Double Encore and others are sponsoring a night of beer drinking Mini-Golfing fun just down the street from the hotel. They’ve got a shuttle lined up, and the hotel shuttle will also help get people there and back. Make sure you practice your putting before hand!
Tuesday night.
Xcellent Creations and Lextech are sponsoring our truckless foodtruck bash. Food trucks can’t park in the hotel, and beer can’t go outside it, so… the hotel has created three unique “trucks” that will be in rooms throughout the conference space. There’ll be music, lots of different places to hang out, and more. It’s fun, bring your adventurous appetite!
Wednesday night.
Well we don’t do a party Wednesday night, most folks are already on planes. BUT we do usually do a straggler dinner of some sort. It’s a fun way to end the conference with one last meal with friends old and new.
Make sure each night you thank these awesome folks. Parties aren’t easy or cheap and it’s because of these great companies that we can have them.
There’s not many tickets to 360|iDev 2012 left! Get yours now! Before it’s too late!
So yeah rumors are flying like crazy that there’s gonna be an Apple event on the 12th, which of course is the last day of 360|iDev 2012… Coincidence? Actually yeah I wish we had that kind of juice, but it’s a total coincidence :)
We’re working on an alternate schedule for Wednesday that would allow us to do a general session at 11am (typically when Apple events are held Mountain time) so we can watch the love blog action. So if for some reason you thought being at 360|iDev would mean you’d miss the announcement, don’t sweat it. We’ll make sure we’re all watching it. And really, watching the live blog with a few hundred other iOS geeks, is way more fun than watching it along :)
Lunch might be early on Wednesday, but otherwise, we’ll make the schedule work around the Apple Event if it takes place on the 12th
See you next month! We’re doing to 50 tickets, have you gotten yours?
You read that right, we’re just under a month from 360|iDev 2012 and there’s 60 tickets left. Not 60 for an event with 150 people or 200 people. 360|iDev is gonna be (we’re gonna sell out! I know it!) 350 of the best developers, designers and indie iOS folks around.
If you’re waiting to get your ticket, you’ll be sorry. Last year we sold out the week before the conference. Our goal this year is to do it sooner! We’ve got two weeks! Take a look at the chart here on the left. Denver is the third cheapest place to get to. Airfare has always been cheap to Denver which was one reason we like hosting the conference here. It’s also a beautiful place :)
Remember if you’re flying in and want to carpool/ride share you can leave a comment with your email, etc on this post. This year’s conference is south of Downtown, and sadly not the easiest route from the hotel but there are great Super Shuttle options, especially if you have a group all going the same place.
360|iDev happens once a year, missing it would suck for you! :) Don’t do that to yourself, you owe it your career and professional network, both of which are proven to benefit in huge ways from being at 360|iDev.
We saw this at Microconf earlier this year with Websites. It was awesome. People called out their domain name and the speaker(s) on stage gave an honest critique, asking questions about why something was where it was, or the thought behind the layout, etc. it was great. it’s so easy to get inside your own head or product that you make assumptions on what people do and don’t know. we do it all the time with the conferences, forgetting we get so many new attendees that some don’t know something because they didn’t attend the previous year, etc. This type of tear down from someone who’s (most likely) never used your site/service is a great way to force you back out into the real world.
So we’re taking the idea, and tweaking it a bit. Not websites, but apps. Maybe yours is in the store, or maybe it only runs on your dev device. Doesn’t matter. We’ll have an ELMO set up, you’ll load the app up and let the speaker who’s running that session critique. It’s not a lengthy 30 minute review, it’s 5-10 minutes or so.
What this isn’t is a “Let’s tear down this app in the store because it’s ugly or sucks” it’s not a design or app review session of what to do or not to do. It’s attendees in the room, showing their apps.
Sure you can have a boring old conference shirt, with conference name, date, sponsor logo(s) etc on it and it’s likely to be a gym shirt.
Or you can get creative. We really kind of pride ourselves on our conference shirts. Letting sponsors take active roles in the design of the shirt, etc. This year is no different and while I’m not gonna show you the entire mock up I’ll show ya a sneak. Mainly because i like the shirt to be a little bit of a surprise when possible, but also because i want those who’re attending to see the design first.
Mad props to Stephen Ives of Cocoa is My Girlfriend (our shirt sponsor) for coming up with a really cool design. Can’t wait to show everyone.
See you in September. Don’t miss out on the iOS conference of the year :) Register now!
For amy this won’t be news at all.
Unicorn Rush was born in 2010 in San Jose, at 360|iDev. It was a Game Jam game, prototyped and built (mostly) in the course of one caffeine and sugar fueled night.
Stuff like this is why we support and love having the game jam at 360|iDev. Seeing folks build something new, completely from scratch in just a few hours, and then actually taking it live to the App store later, is so much win.
Keith and Natalia did it during the Denver 2009 360|iDev (IIRC) with Hippo High Dive as well. There’s more, many more, but you get the point. Whether you’ve got 10 or 0 apps in the App Store when you arrive at 360|iDev on Sunday, there’s a very good chance you can leave with one nearly ready to submit if you want.
so if the Game Jam wasn’t something you were thinking about doing, maybe you should re-think that :)
The Game Jam is also independently run from the conference, we believe it’s better to let the community run the Jam. So check out their page, and by the way they still need some sponsors to cover food, snacks, etc. It’s a great and inexpensive way to support the community.
See you in September! Register now before it’s too late!
I was talking to Tom about what has always made 360|iDev so awesome. Especially in light of there being so many other conferences out there now.
Part of it was competing with excellence. WWDC and many of the other conferences out there are excellent. So is 360|iDev but that makes it hard to differentiate, choosing between one awesome thing and another.
But then we got to talking about what we always thought was awesome about the conferences. The people, and the opportunities, the magic of so many people doing awesome things, hanging out together.
We often hear from attendees, how much the conference meant to them. Maybe it got them started in iOS, maybe it got them a gig at Apple, maybe they’re new contract is awesome and they met the client during a party at iDev. That’s why we do it, and we want to hear your story. If you’re too shy for video, type up a short note about your story and email that to us.
Record it and put it on youtube or just email us a download link. Hopefully we’ll get a lot (I know there’s lots of stories!!) and make a cool montage video for the opening keynote of 360|iDev 2012.
Share your story. Help me show others why 360|iDev is the conference to be at.
You can also use this handy little form i through together!
It came up over the weekend that some folks are staying elsewhere and rented cars to get to the conference hotel. While we’d rather everyone stay at the Marriott we understand when that’s not possible. So if you’re staying elsewhere or thinking of staying elsewhere, post a comment in this post if you’d like to share a ride. Whether you’ve got the rental car or need a ride just post below.
We’re hoping folks stay with us at the Marriott, we need to make sure our room block is full in order to not get hit with a penalty, but if you can’t, might as well help each other out with carpooling :)
See you in September! Tickets are moving fast. Have you gotten yours? Register now!
