Three tech stalwarts are scheduled to host their respective annual developer conferences, one after the other, over April, May
and June. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL),
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ:
GOOGL) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) are the three companies in question.
Below is just a peek at the schedules, showcasing the three conferences.
Facebook
- Date(s): April 18–19, 2017
Name: F8
Edition: 7
Location: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California
The company suggests that the conference will have sessions, which provide the opportunity to interact with Facebook products
and experts. Specifically, the 2017 conference would feature a wide range of topics across the Facebook family of apps, with
relevance to developers and businesses.
Sessions Scheduled: Camera, Virtual Reality, Messenger, Media & Publishers, Engineering & Open Source, among others.
The F8 allows an app, downloadable at App Store and Google Play, which provides details of the full F8 schedule, save and share
sessions, videos and updates on the F8.
Facebook
also allows an option to connect at an F8 meetup for remote access, helping to connect with other developers and businesses in
one's community to watch the opening keynote and experience the excitement of F8 together.
Google
- Date(s): May 17–19, 2017
Name: I/O
Edition: 10
Location: Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View, California
I/O is touted to be an outdoor developer festival, with hands-on-learning, technical talks and Googlers on hand to share their
insights.
The themes earmarked for the current year's conference include:
- Platforms.
- Building on mobile.
- Grow and earn.
- Beyond mobile.
Click on the below link to for information on the scheduling of individual events/sessions:
https://events.google.com/io/schedule/?section=may-17
There are extended events, which include a variety of options for developers — from live streaming sessions to local demos,
hackathons, codelabs and more. These events are hosted in neighborhoods by local developers. In 2016, 600+ extended events were
held around the world.
Google allows to stream the I/O live on a blog or website using the Live Embed
Widget.
Apple
- Date(s): June 5–9, 2017
Name: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
Edition: 28
Location: San Jose, California
The conference
features sessions, hands-on-labs, consultations with Apple experts, get together with like-minded developers and Apple experts and
special events, including third-party events.
Several other developer events would be scheduled throughout the week in
San Jose.
Apple provides the opportunity to buy tickets to the conference through random selection for which registration was open until
10 a.m. PDT on March 31.
For talented students and STEM organizations members, Apple provided scholarships, which assure a WWDC 2017 ticket and free
lodging.
Meanwhile, these conferences are of interest to investors as well, as companies usually make breakthrough announcements,
introduce products and services during these events. For techies, developers, fans and investors in these companies, therefore, it
is exciting three months ahead.
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