WWDC Lighting Talks & Adrianne Wortzel w/ Robotics on Swift

Location & RSVPs

Please use the 55 Prospect St. entrance as the Etsytorium is across the street from the office. Food and drink will be provided.

** PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs will be checked at the door so please include your real name **

SPOT 1 - WWDC Lightning Talks

The conference is over.. but the fun is just beginning! As we all start trying out the newly announced and reviewed items from WWDC.. let's share our learnings with the community.

Brooklyn Swift & Etsy will host a lightning talk event where 7 presenters will have 5 minutes each to give a brief talk on a topic of their choosing.

Speakers & Topics

Angelica Bato - AR Tracking and Detection Updates

Eduard Levshteyn - Embracing Algorithms

Zoufishan Mehdi - Intro to Natural Language Framework

Samantha John - Advanced Debugging with Xcode and LLDB

Quinn McHenry - Create ML

Eric Schmidt - Accessibility & VoiceOver

SPOT 2 - Robotics, Swift & the MekaMon

Adrianne Wortzel is a robotics artist working with the swift playground-enabled, non-humanoid known as MekaMon, manufactured by Reach Robotics. Adrianne is participating in an arts residency program run by ThoughtWorks Arts and is exploring the expressive potential of the MekaMon to develop a social and psychotherapeutic tool for nonverbal expression through gesture. All of this driven by an open-sourced platform enabled by Swift and Swift playgrounds. Adrianne is seeking Swift engineers to participate in her exploration and further their knowledge of Swift while also exploring the edges of robotics & creative tech.

This will be a less formal presentation. Adrianne will give a demo of the MekaMon capabilities and will show a video describing her project. Followed by some hands-on Q&A with the MekaMon!