CocoaHeads Montréal brings together iOS and Mac developers every month for drinks and talks about anything Apple-related.

Past Events

February 2020

Frank Courville
How to Learn New Things
Anthony Plourde
Localization Automation on iOS (slides)

November 2019

Yannick Stephan
Siri Shortcuts in iOS 13 (slides)
Matt Massicotte
A Guided Tour of Crash Reporting (slides)

September 2019

Olivier Collet
Propagating events on iOS (slides)
Luc-Olivier Dumais-Blais
Bye Bye HockeyApp 👋 (slides)

June 2019

Angel Genov
Differentiable Programming in Swift (slides)

May 2019

Bob Quenneville
Server-side Swift with Vapor (slides)
Vincent Bernier
SwiftFormat, Improving the Xcode Extension (slides)
Frank Courville
How to get views to size themselves (slides)

March 2019

Matt Massicotte
Language Server Protocol (slides)
Frank Courville
Network Layers in 2019 (slides)

February 2019

Paul Aigueperse
Introduction to Bitrise and Sonarqube (slides)
Philippe Casgrain
Introducing Sescenti (slides)

January 2019

Christophe Richard
Code Entropy - Explain the Use and Need of CI (slides)
Dennis Hills
State of Modern App Development on AWS (slides)
Ali Pourhadi
iOS App Security Tip and Tricks (slides)

November 2018

Kyle Ilantzis
Snapshot testing at Motivate (slides)
Vincent Bernier
View Decorator: Exploring Possibilities (slides)

October 2018

Rad Azzouz
How to Reduce Stress at Work by Communicating Properly (slides)
Juan Garcia
Testing your Swift application with Cuckoo (slides)
Frank Courville
Beyond Interface Builder (slides)

September 2018

Sherief Abul-Ezz
How to Build Better Apps With Beta Testing (slides)
Christopher Forbes
Open Source 101 (slides)
Olivier Collet
Building Unsplash for iOS (slides)

June 2018

Felix Lapalme
Hopper (The Disassembler) (slides)
Amir Ganjeii
How to Get Installs With Minimum Budget (slides)

May 2018

Marc-Antoine Sauvé
What Code Generation Can Do for You? (slides)
Séraphin Hochard
Simple Ways to Optimize Revenues on Mobile Apps (slides)

November 2017

Shelley Tran
Tout commence par l’écriture (slides)
Olivier Collet
Enum Factories And Generic Data Sources (slides)

October 2017

Romain Pouclet
How apps are actually built (slides)
Florent Vilmart
Values, Protocols and Codables, Rebuilding the Parse SDK with Modern Swift (slides)

September 2017

Juan Garcia
Bringing Jukeboxes to Life With CoreML and ARKit (slides)
Thibault Wittemberg
Let's Weave Your Application (slides)

April 2017

Dennis Hills
Building Secure and Scalable Mobile Applications on AWS (slides)
Séraphin Hochart
Planning & Shipping Side Projects : A Developer's Tale (slides)

March 2017

Kathy Tavel
Making Meetup (slides)
Frank Courville
Supercharge your Apps with NSOperations (slides)

February 2017

Ehsan Rezaie
Realm Mobile Platform: Cloud Persistence The Easy Way (slides)

December 2016

Philippe Casgrain
Implementing a WatchOS 3 Complication (slides)
Frank Courville
DRY Data Sources (slides)
Jean-François Duval
Swift migration, again! (slides)

November 2016

Guven Bolukbasi
Building native VoIP apps on iOS (slides)
Romain Pouclet
How to Release a Closed Source Swift Framework (slides)

October 2016

Richard Martin
Google Firebase (slides)
Florent Vilmart
Parse-Server, the open source effect (slides)

May 2016

Elliot Sinyor
Intro to Bluetooth Low Energy on iOS (slides)
Florent Vilmart
Obj-C / Swift Interop (slides)

April 2016

Naoufal Kadhom
An Introduction to React Native (slides)
Aurore Jard
Don't Lose Your Way Optimizing Maps Rendering (slides)

March 2016

Philippe Casgrain
Empathy for the Data (slides)
Marvin Nguyen
ReSwift

February 2016

Frank Courville
Tools of the Trade
Olivier Collet
Give Your App a Brain With a Flow Controller (slides)

January 2016

Chuck Shnider
A look back at Apple ][ gamedev (slides)
Alexandre Boyer Laporte
Ease your code with Swift protocol extensions (slides)

December 2015

Shelley Tran
The Hook Model (slides)
Frank Courville
Freelancing: Starting and Succeeding

November 2015

Romain Pouclet
Save Countless Hours of Work with This One Simple Trick (slides)
Neale Van Fleet
Designing with Prototypes (slides)
Christopher Stott
buddybuild

October 2015

Séraphin Hochart
Focus on tvOS (slides)
Philippe Casgrain
Hardware-assisted debugging (slides)

August 2015

Kevin Clark
Antifragile Design
Florent Vilmart
Our POP Rocks!

July 2015

Alexandre Boyer Laporte
Easy Backends with Azure Mobile Services
Romain Pouclet
Taking a Peak at ReactiveCocoa 3.0

April 2015

Tim Murison
Intro to Apple Pay
Frank Courville
Mocking as a service with Apiary.io

March 2015

Sami Dalouche
Event Logging and Reactive Programming using iOS at #OMsignal
Florent Vilmart
AVFoundation mystical API
Serge Nguyen
7 Lessons Product Designers can learn from The Force Awakens teaser

February 2015

Romain Pouclet
Managing your dependencies using Carthage
Hassanain Idris
Debugging Memory Leaks
Radawan Azzouz
Extensions in 1Password

December 2014

Philippe Casgrain
TrainScan: Behind the Music
Rick Fillion
Sync. It's easy. (Conflicted copy)

November 2014

Frank Courville
Advanced Flow Controllers
Romain Pouclet
Xcode Bots

October 2014

JP Simard
Realm: A modern database for iOS
Serge Nguyen
Wearable interfaces: it's about Time!

March 2014

Philippe Casgrain
MapKit Overlays by example
Serge Nguyen
App Store Best Practices

February 2014

Frank Courville
Defy Gravity: How analytics can help you get where you want
Olivier Collet
Enliven your app with custom transitions
Romain Pouclet
Automated testing : a tale about trust and confidence

January 2014

Rick Fillion
OpenStep to Cocoa
Sebastien Morel
From idea to App store: a developer's point of view

December 2013

Fred Brunel
Demystifyng iBeacon (slides)
Neale Van Fleet
Design Choice

November 2013

Florent Vilmart
Your xcodeproj can do more than you think (slides)
Renaud Boisjoly
Room with a UIView: Spark Inspector & Reveal

October 2013

Olivier Collet
It's not obvious to everyone - UX for mass market apps (slides)
Rick Fillion
Sandboxing & Security Scoped Bookmarks (slides)
Serge Nguyen
How game design influenced iOS7’s new paradigm (slides)

September 2013

Diana Sule
Introducing UIKit Dynamics to UICollectionView (slides)
Rob Phillips
Increasing Sales with App Store Optimization (slides)
Romain Pouclet
Qualité logicielle et intégration continue pour iOS (slides)

April 2013

Frank Courville
Cocoapods: external dependencies made easy
Guy English
That time when I launched Napkin like a boss
Samuel Tremblay
How to write less code using storyboard

March 2013

Rene Ritchie
Packaging your apps: How to market what you make (slides)
Sam Vermette
Why and how to Release Open Source Code (slides)
Séraphin Hochart
Using Parse for Data & Push Notifications

December 2012

Sebastien Morel
How to Avoid the Flying Spaghetti Code Monster!
Thomas Unterberger
Responsive Typography (slides)

May 2012

Guillaume Campagna
New Objective-C features in LLVM 4.0 (slides)
Mikael Cho
Ooomf
Olivier Collet
Storyboard for IB haters (slides)

April 2012

Rene Ritchie
Marketing matters: how to get your apps noticed
Sam Vermette
Designing The Transit App
Sebastien Morel
Demystifying the Objective-C runtime (slides)

February 2012

Éric Trépanier
Localizing xibs with ibtool and Cocoa Auto Layout
Fred Brunel
Mobile API Design
Guy English
Sneak Peak

January 2012

Luc Vandal
Marketing tips for indie devs (slides)
Scott Morrison
Reverse Engineering with Mach-O-Scope (slides)

November 2011

JP Martineau
Epic Synth
Olivier Collet
Working with constraints
Sam Vermette
Snapping the pixels
Séraphin Hochart
iScales