Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is Back in its All-Online Format
March 30 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Submissions for the Swift Student Challenge are open now
through April 18
Apple® today announced it will host its annual Worldwide
Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online
format. Free for all developers, WWDC21 will offer unique insight
into the future of iOS, iPadOS®, macOS®, watchOS®, and tvOS®.
Building on the record-breaking participation and learnings from
last year’s online conference, WWDC21 is an opportunity for
developers to learn about the new technologies, tools, and
frameworks they rely on to build innovative and
platform-differentiating apps and games. Apple also announced that
this year’s Swift® Student Challenge, an opportunity for young
developers to demonstrate their coding skills by creating a Swift
playground, is now accepting submissions.
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference
kicks off online beginning June 7, 2021. (Graphic: Business
Wire)
“We love bringing our developers together each year at WWDC to
learn about our latest technologies and to connect them with Apple
engineers,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of
Worldwide Developer Relations and Enterprise and Education
Marketing. “We are working to make WWDC21 our biggest and best yet,
and are excited to offer Apple developers new tools to support them
as they create apps that change the way we live, work, and
play.”
As customers rely on Apple products more than ever to work,
learn, express their creativity, entertain, and be entertained,
WWDC21 will provide Apple’s worldwide community of more than 28
million developers, as well as the next generation of app
developers, with the information and tools needed to turn their
ideas into reality. This year’s conference will include
announcements from the keynote and State of the Union stages,
online sessions, 1:1 labs offering technical guidance, and new ways
for developers to interact with Apple engineers and designers to
learn about the latest frameworks and technologies.
Apple will continue its long-standing tradition of supporting
students who love to code with this year’s Swift Student Challenge,
inviting them to create an interactive scene in a Swift playground
that can be experienced within three minutes. Swift Playgrounds® is
a revolutionary app for iPad® and Mac® that makes learning the
Swift programming language interactive and fun. Now through April
18, students can submit their Swift playground to the Swift Student
Challenge. Winners will receive exclusive WWDC21 outerwear and a
customized pin set. For more information, visit the Swift Student
Challenge website.
To support the local economy, even while WWDC21 is hosted online
and as part of its $100 million Racial Equity and Justice
Initiative, Apple is also committing $1 million to SJ Aspires, an
education and equity initiative launched by the City of San José.
Focused on enabling youth in underserved neighborhoods to set goals
and chart a path toward receiving a college education, SJ Aspires
offers a performance-based scholarship program that educates
students about their college and career choices, and provides
individual mentorship and advising as well as online tools to help
reduce the barriers Black and Brown students face in accessing
academic opportunities. This builds on Apple’s multiyear
partnership with the City of San José and the San José Public
Library Foundation in support of technology programming.
Apple will share additional program information in advance of
WWDC21 through the Apple Developer app, on the Apple Developer
website, and via email.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and
tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and
empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store,
Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000
employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and
to leaving the world better than we found it.
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