Bio
Leo Dion runs BrightDigit, a company which specializes in software development in the Apple space: iOS, macOS, and watchOS as well as server-side. He has over 10 years of experience developing in iOS and has been developing in, blogging about and speaking about Swift since day 1. He lives in Michigan with his wife Betsy and 6 adorable kids. If you want to check out more content he currently runs empowerapps.show, a bi-weekly podcast on Apple stuff, Swift and business as well as his other talks here.
My Talks
Building a Fitness App for the App Watch
Since the Apple Watch was released in 2015, it has become the premier smart watch device. Above all, it’s fitness and health where the Apple Watch has become increasingly popular. In this presentat...
Get Started Developing Server Side Swift with Vapor
While Swift has been on the iPhone and iPad and in the last few years it has started to reach Linux. This has allowed Swift to move from clients to servers. In this talk, Leo describes developing w...
How to Get Started with Swift in 2019
Swift is now a half decade old since its introduction at WWDC 2014. With Swift 5 and ABI stability, Swift has matured into a language ready for new adopters. In this talk, Leo gives an introduction...
The Multi-Threaded Asynchronous Parallel World of Swift
Languages such as JavaScript and C# thrive with asynchronous and parallel syntactic sugar. How can Swift developers take advantage of multi-core processors using parallel operations?
In this talk,...