Apple has once again announced their highly anticipated annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. This year it will run June 2-6 and will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone West. It’s an annual five-day pilgrimage for developers to help them learn about the future of iOS and OS X and give them the latest tools and technologies to create apps and more, which each year is oversubscribed in a heartbeat.
You can’t just buy tickets; you need to apply for them. Entries are drawn from a random selection, which starts now through Monday, April 7 at 10:00pm PDT, and you’ll know at the latest by 5:00pm PDT (8pm EDT) April 7th.
Apple is also offering up 200 Student Scholarships, giving students around the world the chance to earn a free ticket. (Applications are being accepted from April 11 at 10:00 AM PDT (1:00 EDT) to April 14 at 5:00 PM PDT (8:00PM EDT). This year the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and its alliance partners will also help promote scholarships to female engineers and coders.
As it does every year, WWDC will feature more than 100 technical sessions, over 1,000 Apple engineers, hands-on labs to help developers integrate new technologies and fine tune their apps, as well as the Apple Design Awards which showcase the best apps from the past year. It’s also a great place to connect with other developers, take in a number of related activities and listen to a host of inspirational guest speakers.
“We have the most amazing developer community in the world and have a great week planned for them,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Every year the WWDC audience becomes more diverse, with developers from almost every discipline you can imagine and coming from every corner of the globe. We look forward to sharing with them our latest advances in iOS and OS X so they can create the next generation of great apps.”
The always-anticipated opening keynote will kick off the event on Monday, June 2nd. That event, as well as the Apple Design Awards will be streamed live via the WWDC website.
If you want more information as well as updates on WWDC 2014, visit the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 website. And if you want to apply for a ticket, do it now. You might just win the WWDC lottery.
Photo courtesy Apple Inc.
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