Swift Rockies 2026 | The iOS Retreat in the Wild
Swift Rockies
A retreat-style iOS developer conference in the heart of the Rockies
📍 Calgary, Alberta
📅 July 22-23, 2026
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Our speakers have built products at
Shopify<br>Figma<br>Wealthsimple<br>Lightspeed<br>theScore<br>Steamclock<br>Tuist
Not Your Typical Conference
Designed for Real Conversations
There's a stage, and there are two large screens so every seat has a clear view. But instead of classroom rows, everyone sits at round tables . The energy feels closer to a dinner party than a lecture hall.
There's no speaker green room. Speakers join tables before and after their talks, asking questions, trading stories, and having the kind of unscripted conversations that change how you think about your work.
Between sessions, we encourage everyone to switch tables. By the end of day two, you won't just know names. You'll know the people behind the apps you use every day.
The best ideas at Swift Rockies don't happen on stage. They happen at the table, over coffee, between two people who would never have met at a 5,000-person trade show.
What You Leave With
Depth, not breadth
Single-track. No breakout rooms, no schedule conflicts. Every attendee sees every talk - built for practitioners, not executives. This year's topics include:
Swift Concurrency's Pit of Success
Swift beyond Apple: Making Software for the Physical World
Faster Builds With Xcode Compilation Cache
Scaling Swift Development
...and 15 more talks across 2 days
Access, not an autograph line
180 seats. No speaker green room. Speakers sit at round tables before and after their talks. By Day 2, you'll have had real conversations with people whose work you've shipped against for years.
A trip worth making
The Calgary Zoo in July. Round tables instead of classroom rows. The zoo's pathways are your hallway track - coffee break conversations in a setting unlike anything on the conference calendar. You'll remember this one.
The Founder<br>Hi, I'm Raman.
Founder, Swift Rockies · Lead iOS Engineer, theScore Bet
11+ years on Apple platforms. I currently work on live streaming and advanced search infrastructure at theScore Bet. Before that, I built the DRM system that powers digital lending for the New York Public Library.
I started Swift Rockies because Canadian iOS engineers don't have a serious, single-track, retreat-style conference of their own. I'm not a professional organizer - I'm a working engineer (and a busy dad) who wanted this to exist. So I'm building it the way I'd want to attend it: 180 seats, round tables, no filler, and speakers I personally want to spend two days with.
2026 is our inaugural year. There's something special about being in the founding cohort - and I'd love for you to be part of it.
More about Raman →<br>Connect on LinkedIn →
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Group Pricing
Bringing your team?
Groups of 3 or more get special pricing - and everything your manager needs to say yes.
Discounted group rate for 3+ engineers
A Request-to-Attend letter ready to forward to your manager
Concurrency, profiling, modularization - skills your team ships Monday
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The Speakers
Engineers from Shopify, Figma, Wealthsimple, and the open-source Swift community, sharing what they've learned the hard way
4 more speakers will be announced soon. We can't say who yet, but you'll want to be sitting down.
In Their Own Words
Why speakers chose Swift Rockies
Live Podcast Recording
A bonus live panel to close out Day 2, recorded for the Launched podcast.
Launched
Live at Swift Rockies
A live panel on Swift development in 2026, hosted by Charlie Chapman with Abbey Jackson, Krishna Satya, and Nick Wilkinson. Hear it live and ask the questions you've been saving up - you have to be in the room.
Host
Charlie Chapman
Abbey Jackson
Krishna Satya
Nick Wilkinson
When: Day 2, 3:30 PM<br>Format: 90-minute live panel
Speakers in Progress
We're working on confirming these amazing speakers
Workshops
Small-group, hands-on sessions with the experts who built the tools you use every day
Labs
WWDC-style open sessions where you bring the code and the expert solves the problem, live, in front of you
Schedule
Four days of programming. Two days of single-track talks at the core, with optional workshops on either side.
Every slot in this schedule was chosen for a reason.
The 90-minute blocks align with the brain's...