Sydney CocoaHeads

CocoaHeads July 2026

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads July 2026!

Join us this month to hear from:

Neil Cossor on “WIP (Yacht Assist)”, discoveries while playing with an indie boating app.
Zach Simone on “Adapting Your App to Any Screen Size” - iPhone apps are about to get resized, and it’s your job to be ready.

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads June 2026

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads June 2026 - WWDC Special!

Fresh from the excitement of WWDC26, this month’s event was focused on all things WWDC!

🎨 WWDC In Review, presented by Peter Watling

💬 Panel discussion with:

Peter Watling
Christian Mitteldorf
Sergio Blanco

The panel covered the latest announcements, what excites us, and how we think they’ll impact our work building software for Apple platforms.

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads May 2026

Thu, 21 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads May 2026!

Join us this month to hear from:

Simon (Yixiang) Zhang on “Agentic Coding on iOS: Bash xcodebuild vs XcodeBuildMCP”.
Amy Delves on “Modern verification of your codebase”.

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads April 2026

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads April 2026!

Join us this month to hear from:

Oliver Weidlich, just back from the world’s biggest Apple Vision Pro conference, Let’s Vision in Shanghai. He’ll share his favourite talks, how the visionOS community is coming together, the interesting side projects he saw, and his visit to the Apple Developer Centre in Shanghai.
Zach Simone on “What to Do When Your Live Activity Doesn’t Start”, a short journey into debugging problems with Live Activities failing to start.

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads March 2026

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads March 2026!

This month we’re collaborating with Brisbane CocoaHeads for International Women’s Day.

Join us to hear from:

Christian Mitteldorf on “TDD With a Twist: Exploring Type-Driven Design”.
Oliver Jones on his experience volunteering at #SheHacksSwift (live-streamed from Brisbane).
Sarah Moran on International Women’s Day Action (live-streamed from Brisbane).
Wei (Lene) Huang on “Storytelling in Engineering”.

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads February 2026

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads February 2026!

Join us this month to hear from Amy Delves on visionOS.

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads End of Year Event 2025

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads End of Year Event 2025!

No formal talks this month - instead, join us for the CocoaHeads December quiz!

We’ll be back in February 2026.

CocoaHeads November 2025

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads November 2025!

Join us this month to hear from:

Adam Lyttle on “How app development changed my life”.
Amy Delves on “What’s the name of that place again?” This talk will look at PlaceDescriptor and other ways of identifying places in MapKit.

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads October 2025

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads October 2025!

Join us this month for two great talks:

⛲ History of Waterfall presented by Jan Plešek

📱 Live Activities Part 2 presented by Zach Simone

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.

CocoaHeads September 2025

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:30:00 +0000

CocoaHeads September 2025!

Join us this month for two great talks:

♟️ Chess AI on the mobile presented by Ted Wong

🤖 Ups and downs of Apple Foundation Models presented by Christian Mitteldorf

A recording of the event is now available on YouTube.