Deep Dish Swift 🍕 2026

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome Jon Shier 🎉

25 years on Apple platforms, Alamofire maintainer for over a decade, and board member of the Alamofire Foundation 🔥

Mistakes I Made In Alamofire 5 🍕

🚨 Super Cool Ticket Alert

If you haven't gotten a 2026 ticket yet, go check out the Appfigures newsletter 👀

Theres a special link in there that'll get you a free private ASO teardown by Ariel Michaeli 📈

Only 5 available (for now)

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📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @atow@mastodon.social 🎉

Three decades of building on Apple platforms and now a full-time indie shipping MixEffect, ActionPhrase, and more 🛠️

Playing the Long Game 🍕

Have you seen... er... heard this yet?!

"Slices: The Deep Dish Swift Podcast" is back 🎉

Listen to some episodes and get to know the speakers before the event!

And huuggeee thanks to @malinsundberg and @kaidombrowski@mastodon.social for the hours/days they put into these 🫶

https://deepdishswift.com/slices/

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome Ben Rosen 🎉

Ben will show how SongShift went from cooking everything on-device to running a fully serverless Swift backend in the cloud ☁️

From Food Truck to Deep-Dish Kitchen 🍕

Extra Saucy Swift Audio APIs is coming to Deep Dish Swift 2026!

Carlos Mbendera — former Apple engineer, WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge winner, and indie dev — is bringing a practical tour of the latest audio and speech ML APIs on Apple platforms.

Transcription, diarization, on-device models... this one's going to be good.

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @peterfriese@iosdev.space 🎉

Peter will take us on a deep dive into AsyncStream and how async APIs have evolved — from callback delegates to closures to modern Swift concurrency 🔄

Don't call us - we'll call you 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @ProjectEmbers@mastodon.social 🎉

Raj will explore why the most meaningful projects are sometimes the ones that never get published — and how hobbies make us better developers ✈️

Slices of Life: How Hobbies Make Us Better Developers 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @ioloro@mastodon.social 🎉

John Marc will share how to validate your indie app idea before writing production code — taste the sauce before you serve the pizza 🧑‍🍳

Before the Code: Testing & Building a Business 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @ikenndac@mastodon.social 🎉

Daniel will share the reality of going all-in on Swift across iOS, Android, and even Windows 🖥️

Betting the Farm on Swift: Adventures in Extreme Crossplatforming 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @joeallen@iosdev.space 🎉

Joe will show how a small, well-nurtured audience can help your indie apps launch, survive, and grow 📈

Building an Audience for Your Apps 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome Erica Engle 🎉

Erica will show how to level up your app with the tools your users never see 🔧

Debugging Tools: how to level up your app behind the scenes 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @david@tnku.co 🎉

David will show how to keep your app working even when the cell connection isn't 📱

Surviving in low connectivity — one bite at a time 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @pedro@mastodon.pepicrft.me 🎉

Pedro will share how Tuist evolved from solving his own build pain to a developer productivity platform used by Fortune 500 companies 🚀

Real numbers, real mistakes, real learnings for engineers thinking about the founder path 💡

📣 Podcast Announcement

Slices is back! 🍕

The Deep Dish Swift podcast returns with your hosts @malin@mastodon.social & @kaidombrowski@mastodon.social 🎙️

Get ready for more conversations with the speakers of Deep Dish Swift 2026 — behind-the-scenes stories, indie insights, and everything Swift 🎉

🎧 https://deepdishswift.com/slices

#DeepDishSwift #iOS #Swift #Podcast #IndieDev

📣 Speaker Announcement

From building Delta, we're thrilled to welcome @rileytestut@mastodon.social 🎉

Riley will share the unexpected, decade-long journey behind Delta — how a simple passion project to replay Pokémon Emerald became the most popular retro game emulator on iPhone 🎮

It's part technical adventure, part design challenge, and part celebration of what's possible when you push iOS to its limits 📱

#DeepDishSwift #iOS #Swift #IndieApps #Delta

📣 Speaker Announcement

From building indie apps like Tasks & Karo, we're thrilled to welcome @mufasayc@mastodon.world 🎉

Mustafa will take us from zero to sync with CloudKit — covering containers, databases, and real-world lessons learned ☁️

Expect practical tips, honest insights, and a lot of laughs along the way 😄

#DeepDishSwift #iOS #Swift #CloudKit #IndieApps

📣 Speaker Announcement

From 5 years at Apple to indie apps, we're thrilled to welcome @jazzychad@definitely.social 🎉

Chad will take us on a journey reverse engineering the macOS Genie animation and the beauty of Bezier curves 🪄

Expect SwiftUI tricks, Metal shaders, and maybe some jazz 🎷