Apple World Wide Developers Conference
Popularly known as “WWDC”, this is Apple’s official developer conference. If you live around the area this is a must attend. All the cutting-edge programming topics are taught here. WWDC is the Mac daddy of all iPhone conferences.
360|iDev is the premiere iPhone, iPod touch developer conference in the world. Every year prior to the show they have a call for papers, if you want to make a debut as a conference speaker.
iPhoneDevCamp is the brainchild of Raven and Dom. The event format is “unconference” or Barcamp-style, featuring content from the participants themselves. There are satellite events held all over the country. The next one is this August.
Popularly know to all as GDC – this conference is for all game developers, and there’s an increasing number of mobile app game developers. If you’re a game developer or want to be one, this is the one game developer conference to go to. When the boom in the mobile sector happened they branced out and now have a separate 3 day event called GDC Mobile, that contains separate tracks and events related purely to the mobile gaming space.
This is more of a general developer conference and is not just for iPhone developers. The good part aobut this conference is that it’s in multiple venues and dates, and it will set you back by only $99.