Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2006 is to kick off on August 2006. The event will feature Steve Jobs as its keynote speaker. A preview of the Mac OS X "Leopard" will also be shown by Jobs come August 7, 2006 at the San Francisco's Moscone West.

During the WWDC 2006, there will be special sessions on performance optimization using the development tools of Apple software. The developers will also be receiving detailed information on developing applications that take advantage of the Intel-based Macs' performance.

This annual developers conference will be attended by other Apple executives like Bertrand Serlet, senior VP of Software Engineering, Philip Schiller, senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, and Scott Forstall, VP of Platform Experience. The conference, which is to last five days, will cost $1600 per attendee.