Editing Worldwide Developers Conference (section)

==Attendance==
[[File:In line for the Keynote (3608785470).jpg|thumb|left|Attendees wait to enter [[Moscone Center|Moscone West]] to watch the 2009 keynote address.]]

Until 2020, a $1,599 ticket<ref>{{Cite web|last=Macro|first=Ashleigh|title=Complete guide to scoring WWDC 2019 tickets|url=https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/wwdc-2019-tickets-3510253/|access-date=2021-05-24|website=Macworld UK|archive-date=January 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127175543/https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/wwdc-2019-tickets-3510253/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Haslam|first=Karen|title=Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2020|url=https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/wwdc-2020-3782252/|access-date=2021-05-24|website=Macworld UK|archive-date=August 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802143552/https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/wwdc-2020-3782252/|url-status=live}}</ref> was required to enter the conference. Tickets were obtained through an online lottery. Scholarships are available for students and members of [[Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics|STEM]] organizations. Attendees must be 13 years old or older and must be a member of an [[Apple Developer]] program.<ref>{{cite web|title=WWDC18 Registration and Attendance Policy|work=Apple Developer|publisher=Apple|date=2018|access-date=June 10, 2018|url=https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/policy/|archive-date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901050239/https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/policy/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Scholarships|work=Apple Developer|publisher=Apple|date=2018|access-date=June 10, 2018|url=https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/scholarships/|archive-date=March 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190310194519/https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/scholarships/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Until 2007, the number of attendees varied between 2,000 and 4,200; however, during WWDC 2007, [[Steve Jobs]] noted that there were more than 5,000 attendees. The WWDC events held from 2008 to 2015 were capped, and sold out at 5,000 attendees (5,200 including special attendees). WWDC 2018 had 6,000 attendees from 77 countries,<ref>{{cite web|title=WWDC 2018 keynote: Apple to stop Facebook tracking on iOS 12 – as it happened|first=Alex|last=Hern|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=June 4, 2018|access-date=June 10, 2018|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2018/jun/04/apple-wwdc-2018-keynote-ios-12-iphone-update-macbook-macos-1014-tim-cook-siri-live?page=with:block-5b157170e4b0033069063c09#block-5b157170e4b0033069063c09|archive-date=July 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712125601/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2018/jun/04/apple-wwdc-2018-keynote-ios-12-iphone-update-macbook-macos-1014-tim-cook-siri-live?page=with:block-5b157170e4b0033069063c09#block-5b157170e4b0033069063c09|url-status=live}}</ref> including 350 scholarship recipients.<ref>{{cite news|title=This third-year WWDC scholarship winner built an ML model to recognize beer in one day|first=Daniel Eran|last=Dilger|work=[[AppleInsider]]|date=June 6, 2018|access-date=June 10, 2018|url=https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/06/this-third-year-wwdc-scholarship-winner-built-an-ml-model-to-recognize-beer-yesterday|archive-date=July 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712125728/https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/06/this-third-year-wwdc-scholarship-winner-built-an-ml-model-to-recognize-beer-yesterday|url-status=live}}</ref>