James Dempsey and the Breakpoints — LIVE near WWDC Benefit Concert 2025

James Dempsey and the Breakpoints — LIVE near WWDC Benefit Concert 2024

Come join us for a night of incredible music with James Dempsey and the Breakpoints!

LIVE near WWDC is an annual live concert during the biggest week of the year for developers on Apple platforms. This year’s show will benefit Techtonica, a nonprofit that helps women and non-binary adults seeking economic empowerment to overcome barriers into tech careers. Get ready to rock out, have some laughs, and support a good cause all at the same time.

Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the amazing energy and talent of James Dempsey and the Breakpoints. It will be a night to remember!

Continuing a WWDC-week tradition that began in 2012, the annual James Dempsey and the Breakpoints show features our musical band of nerds, techies, and community luminaries coming together from around the world to perform LIVE near WWDC.

The show is a full concert of humorous, original, programming-oriented songs, including favorites from our iTunes chart-topping, #5 Billboard comedy album Backtrace.

Join us for an evening of mingling and music for a good cause with all ticket proceeds going to benefit Techtonica.

Details

• Doors open at 7:00 pm for a very happy hour. Grab a drink and mingle before the show!

• The music starts around 8:00 pm when James Dempsey and the Breakpoints take the stage.

• The show runs about two hours, with a post-show afterparty with the band until 11:00 pm.

• Tickets include admission and two drink tickets for beer, wine, and soft drinks.
• The venue, The Art Boutiki, is located between Cupertino and downtown San Jose — just a quick ride share away!
• All ticket and merch proceeds go directly to Techtonica.

Be a VIP!

By purchasing a VIP ticket, you go above and beyond to support Techtonica, plus you'll receive:

• Recognition for your generosity as part of the pre-show slide deck.
• A commemorative 11"x17" LIVE near WWWDC 2025 show poster (in a sturdy card stock envelope for damage-free packing or mailing).

Sponsors

This event would not be possible without our sponsors. Please show them your support by clicking through the links below and checking out what they have to offer!

Platinum Sponsor

Hacking with Swift

For over ten years Hacking with Swift has provided the world’s largest collection of free tutorials for Swift developers now including the 100 Days of SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency by Example, and regular What’s New in Swift posts. It’s all written by one guy, Paul Hudson, albeit with ample help from his two dogs, and the three of them are very happy to support the James Dempsey and the Breakpoints in their vital community work.

https://www.hackingwithswift.com

Gold Sponsors

MartianCraft

MartianCraft is a software design and development agency. We tackle wide-ranging projects, from enhancing enterprise software experiences to helping bring new businesses to market. Our specialties include native iOS, Android, Mac, and Backend Development. After nearly two decades and over 1,000 apps launched, we know what it takes to ship insanely great software. Our diverse team of talented designers and engineers are hand selected for each and every project to ensure the best possible fit.

https://martiancraft.com

The Omni Group

The Omni Group builds software to help people accomplish more every day. Based out of Seattle, WA, the Omni Group believes that being productive isn't just about getting more work done; it's about doing better quality work in less time. Its popular software titles include OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, OmniPlan, OmniOutliner, plus several tools freely available to the community.

https://omnigroup.com

Silver Sponsors

RevenueCat

The world's best apps use RevenueCat to power in-app purchases, manage customer data, and grow revenue across iOS, Android, and the web.

https://www.revenuecat.com

Swift Virtuoso

Swift Virtuoso develops and delivers training courses, including custom, private training for organizations. The App Performance and Instruments Virtuoso course is open enrollment for all developers and provides the most in-depth course on these topics available. The next time the course will held is Fall 2025. Sign up to be notified when enrollment opens for future runs of the class.

https://swift-virtuoso.com

Tap Forms Pro

Tap Forms Pro is a leading personal database app for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The new Pro version is the successor to Tap Forms 5, the highly rated database app used for keeping track of anything and everything, including customers, grocery shopping, book and movie collections, personal and work life tasks and projects, schedules, events, and more. Anything you want to keep organized in one way or another, Tap Forms Pro is the right tool for the job.

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