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CocoaConf Speakers

CocoaConf speakers include well known trainers, authors, and professional iOS and OS X developers.

Josh Abernathy

Josh started doing Cocoa programming before it was cool. Even though he sometime...


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Chris Adamson

Chris Adamson is an independent writer, editor, and developer, living in Grand R...


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Ameir Al-Zoubi

Ameir Al-Zoubi is an experienced software developer who took the plunge into the...


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Brandon Alexander

Brandon is an author, speaker and developer. He lives in Atlanta, GA with his wi...


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Mike Ash

Mike Ash has been programming for Apple platforms for over two decades and for M...


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Ken Auer

RoleModel Software Ken Auer is the founder ...


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Randy Beiter

Randy Beiter, owner at Plugh Studios, Ltd. has been an iPhone developer for 3 ye...


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Jeff Biggus

Jeff Biggus is the founder of HyperJeff, Inc., producing Unix, Mac, iPhone and i...


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Jonathan Blocksom

Jonathan Blocksom is the Managing Director for the Big Nerd Ranch in Washington...


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Heath Borders

Heath has been a full-time iOS developer for 2.5 years at Asynchrony Solutions,...


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Tim Burks

Tim Burks is a freelance iOS developer based in Palo Alto, CA. Originally train...


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Patrick Burleson

Patrick Burleson is an independent iOS and Mac Developer living in the Dallas ar...


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Rene Cacheaux

Rene is a Senior iOS Engineer at Mutual Mobile, where he is known for his expert...


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Craig Castelaz

Craig Castelaz is a full-time husband and father who programs, teaches, and writ...


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Step Christopher

Step Christopher has travelled the world. First in a submarine, doing the job th...


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Kevin Conner

Kevin Conner is an iOS developer at Two Toasters in Durham and an independent ga...


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Jack Cox

Jack Cox is a software developer, systems architect, and Director at CapTech Ven...


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Brian Coyner

Brian Coyner is a software developer passionate about software simplicity. For n...


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Mark Dalrymple

Mark has been a Mac programmer since 1985 and a professional Unix programmer si...


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James Dempsey

James Dempsey is a fifteen-year Apple veteran gone indie.  At Apple, he worked o...


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Collin Donnell

Collin Donnell has been creating apps for iOS and Mac OS X full time since May 2...


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Aaron Douglas

Aaron was that kid taking apart the mechanical and electrical appliances at five...


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Matt Drance

Matt Drance is a developer, consultant, author, and part-time stay at home dad l...


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Bill Dudney

Bill Dudney is an iOS/Mac indie developer. In addition to his own apps he helps ...


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Nathan Eror

Nathan loves creating software and helping other developers hone their skills. A...


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Jason Felice

Jason Felice is an XP developer on the LeanDog boat off the shore of Cleveland, ...


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Mattieu Gamache-Asselin

After developing his first iOS app in school, Mattieu fell in love with the mobi...


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Mark Gilicinski

Mark has a Computer Science degree from Ohio State and an MBA from the Universit...


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Geoffrey Goetz

Geoffrey Goetz is currently the Director of Marketing at dBase, founding member ...


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Kevin Harwood

Kevin Harwood is a Consulting Architect at Mutual Mobile, where he has led numer...


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Aaron Hillegass

Aaron Hillegass is the founder of Big Nerd Ranch, a leading training and consult...


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Pete Hodgson

Pete Hodgson is a consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he's spent the last few ye...


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Andy Hunt

Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He has author...


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Jason Hunter

Jason Hunter is the Deputy CTO at MarkLogic. He's the author of "Java Servlet P...


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Andria Jensen

Andria Jensen is the co-founder of Appsolute Genius, a custom app development co...


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Josh Johnson

Josh Johnson is an iOS developer at Two Toasters. Over the last 15 years, he has...


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Christopher Judd

Christopher M. Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, ...


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Peter Kananen

Peter is a developer and partner at Gaslight, a web and mobile design and develo...


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Jeff Kelley

Jeff Kelley is a senior-level iOS developer with experience in a wide range of i...


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Kevin Kim

After graduating Carnegie Mellon University, Kevin was first exposed to the NeXT...


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Dave Koziol

Dave Koziol has been building Cocoa Apps since long before it was cool. He's wor...


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Ben Lachman

Ben grew up running through the woods of Southeastern Ohio and poking at compute...


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Jeff LaMarche

Jeff LaMarche is a Mac and iOS developer with more than 20 years of programming ...


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Brad Larson

Brad Larson is a founder of SonoPlot, Inc., where he develops Mac-based robotic ...


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Jonathan Lehr

Jonathan is the founder of About Objects, a company that has specialized in iOS ...


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Mac Liaw

Mac Liaw entered The Ohio State University's Masters Program in Computer Science...


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Steve Madsen

Steve shipped his first commercial software product his senior year of high scho...


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Scott McAlister

Scott McAlister owns and operates 4 Arrows Media, an iOS development shop based ...


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Bob McCune

Bob McCune is an iOS developer and instructor. He's the the owner of TapHarmonic...


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Sean McMains

Sean McMains loves to make awesome stuff: cannons, software, trebuchets, music, ...


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Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer is a software craftsman at 8th Light, where he has been programming p...


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Justin Miller

Justin Miller is a Software Engineer at Development Seed, where he works on the ...


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Saul Mora

A software journeyman, Saul thrives on creating well crafted code on his continu...


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Kevin Munc

Kevin Munc (@muncman) has been coding professionally for 15 years, working in en...


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Rob Napier

Rob Napier is co-author of iOS Programming Pushing the Limits. Before coming to ...


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Jaimee Newberry

Jaimee is an independent strategy + design consultant , writer and speaker that ...


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Joshua Nozzi

Joshua Nozzi is a combination full-time and indie Mac developer. He contracts fo...


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Janine Ohmer

Janine's first computer was an Apple IIe, which allowed her to dial in to school...


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Daniel Pasco

Daniel works as the CEO of Black Pixel, happily spending his time contributing t...


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Jonathan Penn

Jonathan Penn is a mobile and web app developer with a long history of quality w...


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Charles Perry

After three years of part-time development, Charles Perry launched Leaf Hut Soft...


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Boisy Pitre

Boisy G. Pitre is a senior software engineer with Nuance Communications, where h...


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Mark Pospesel

Mark began programming in BASIC on an Atari 800 while in junior high. With a div...


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Manton Reece

Manton Reece is a Mac, iOS, and web developer from Austin, Texas. For the last 1...


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Jared Richardson

Jared Richardson is a Principle Consultant and a member of the core team at Role...


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Kyle Richter

Kyle Richter is the founder of Dragon Forged Software an award winning iOS and M...


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Chris Risner

Chris Risner is a Windows Azure Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. Chris is focu...


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Cesare Rocchi

Cesare Rocchi is a speaker, writer, UX designer and developer specializing in we...


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Jonathan Saggau

Jonathan Saggau started intensely programming iPhone apps before the official SD...


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Ben Scheirman

Ben Scheirman is a software developer from Houston with more than 15 years of ex...


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Chad Sellers

Chad Sellers is the founder and solo developer of Useful Fruit Software in Colum...


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Brent Simmons

Brent has been writing apps for Apple computers for over 30 years, since his fir...


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Michael Simmons

Michael Simmons co-founded Flexibits, a Mac and iOS software developer. A vetera...


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Doug Sjoquist

Doug Sjoquist started college in the late 70s having never seen a computer in pe...


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Josh Smith

Josh is a Systems Engineer at Lextech Global Services (http://lextech.com/). We...


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David Smith

David Smith is an independent iOS and Mac developer based in Herndon, VA. Since ...


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Daniel Steinberg

Daniel Steinberg has spent the last three decades programming the iPad and iPhon...


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Conrad Stoll

Conrad Stoll is a developer, backpacker, and photographer from Austin, TX. He jo...


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Brittany Tarvin

Brittany Tarvin is the co-founder and a Cocoa developer at FadingRed, a mobile a...


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Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth has been breaking software products since 1993. She was described by o...


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Mattt Thompson

Mattt Thompson (@mattt) is a developer and designer working at Heroku in San Fra...


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Jay Thrash

Jay Thrash is a software developer who got his start on a Commodore VIC-20 and h...


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Michele Titolo

Michele Titolo is a Senior Mobile Engineer for Prolific Interactive, a mobile ag...


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Josh Twist

Josh is a Program Manager on the Windows Azure team and was the first full-time ...


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Walter Tyree

Walter Tyree owns and runs Tyree Apps, LLC, an IT Consulting and iOS software sh...


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T.J. Usiyan

A writer, musician, and developer interested in crafting interesting and artful ...


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Ray Wenderlich

Ray Wenderlich is an iPhone developer and gamer, and the founder of Razeware LLC...


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Whitney Young

Whitney Young is the co-founder and lead developer at FadingRed, a Mac and iOS s...


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Marcus Zarra

Marcus S. Zarra is co-owner of Empirical Development, LLC, based out of Colorado...


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