I attended the try! Swift Tokyo 2019, which is my first attending iOS conference. I was very excited. I’ll share my experience with that.
Before I decide to attend the conference, I asked myself why I should go there? Because All of the conference videos will be upload on Youtube.
I thought If I go there, I can meet iOS engineers from the world by talking about iOS topics, and also I can ask about the presentation. Also, I can travel the Tokyo and visit the Shinjuku LINE office. That thing makes me attend the conference.
First Day
Conference Hall
They prepared the T-Shirt and Bag for attendees.
try! Swift held on for three days.
Hello Firebase!
Wow, 900 attendees!
Sponsors.
He talked about server-side swift.
He talked about Cocoa Binding.
During the schedule, each session was usually presented for 20 minutes, and the lighting session was performed for 10 minutes.
Break Time
I was ashamed to say, Hi. But I tried networking while taking a break time. 😅
Barista gives us such great coffee every break time! It’s free. ☕️
I’ve been working at LINE 😁
Dinner
After the conference, I met iOS engineers from Korea. My coworker invited me to join the dinner. There are so many tasty foods.
Cherry Blossom was so beautiful.
I met such great engineers who are working in Seoul.
Second Day
In the morning, I visited the Maruyama Coffee to eat breakfast. I highly recommend this cafe.
Maruyama Coffee
The second day started at 9:00.
IBM Kitura
He made a presentation about Kitura.
Lunch Time
I had lunch for an hour and a half. I chose the lunch box. After I ate lunch, I went to a cafe near the conference hall. It took about 5 minutes to walk.
While having a break time with coffee, I checked the conference slack channel. Someone wrote in a Slack channel that they are looking for people to go to see cherry blossoms. Slack was good at networking with attendees. 😀
Party
I had a great time at the party. There were almost 900 iOS engineers!
I talked with peoples while waiting in a row to pick some foods.
Salmon was tasty.
Third day
I attended ‘Build a Cloud-Native Swift Backend.’ It’s an IBM Kitura workshop.
It was great. I learned Docker, Kitura, and PostgreSQL.
Hello Kitura!
Peer Lab
Sponsors rent their offices for Peer Lab. Peer Lab was networking time.
Attendees brought MacBook and introduced who I am. I also introduced my self. It was a great time. We swapped business cards with each other and made friends with LinkedIn.
LINE Shinjuku office
Giant Brown 😱
Conclusion
Everything was great! I learned new things and made new friends. Conference gave me the motivation to present my knowledge and to speak English by attending Peer Lab, Party, and Workshop.