AltConf is a free, community-driven and supported event, held in downtown San Francisco alongside Apple's WWDC.
GET TICKETSAltConf is a community-driven event, assembled to serve developers and a product driven community. Held in downtown San Francisco at the AMC Metreon with 1,000 seats spread over 3 theatres, and live streamed, AltConf is an annual event timed alongside Apple‘s WWDC, June 8-12, 2015.
AltConf cannot happen unless everyone is safe and welcome. If anything happens to make you feel unsafe or unwelcome, let us know, and we will fix it.
AltConf is organized by volunteers as a service to the community. We care about what the community cares about, so we actively work to increase diversity at our conference and in our industry by providing a stage for under-represented people and ideas around Apple's platforms.
Social interaction is hard, and conferences bring so many different types of people together. We have as much to learn from each other as from the speakers. If we want to bring people together and help them understand each other, everyone must be safe and welcome.
AltConf is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers.
Harassment includes verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, or anything, really; sexual images in public spaces; deliberate intimidation; stalking; following; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; inappropriate physical contact; and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately. Conference staff can be identified by their official volunteer t-shirts.
Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact the authorities, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference.
If you want to know more about the thought behind this policy, check out Geek Feminism
If you have any question or concerns, please contact help@altconf.com.
AltConf is a great way to meet people in the community
Although AltConf has been completely free for the past four years, some participants in recent years have requested paid tickets. Because of the high demand, this year a limited number of paid tickets are available at $300 each. Hero supporter tickets will provide guaranteed seating to speaker sessions, a swag bag, and a reason for your employer to approve your attendance.
Because AltConf allows both free and guaranteed entry tickets, Hero ticketholders will be guaranteed entry up to 15 minutes before sessions begin in the morning and the afternoon. A limited number of seats will also be reserved in each speaking auditorium for all sessions for Hero ticket holders. Hero ticket holders get guaranteed entry to speaker sessions, but not the viewing room. Free entry tickets are not a guarantee of entry to AltConf, and entry using these tickets is on a first come, first served basis depending on availability. In fact, you don't technically need a ticket to get in, you just need to turn up and there to be space. But having free tickets lets us predict demand a bit.
We’ve been lucky enough to be sponsored by some amazing companies, without whom we wouldn't be able to put this on. Interested in becoming a sponsor?
Email sponsors@altconf.com
In addition to our own great lineup of speakers, AltConf is excited to offer sessions from other conferences in the Viewing Room. The Viewing Room gives you the opportunity to see great content from some of the best conference in our industry.
The schedule for The Viewing Room is subject to video availability and will change frequently. Consult the schedule to get the latest information on which sessions will be shown and when.