DevRelCon 2021

Alex and Caterina Rindi cover G-Research’s experience on finding their way with the concept of Developer Relations within an Open Source Program Office.

Paul tells the story of the evolution of a developer meet-up into a community marketplace.

How to balance a business’s need to make money with our desire to make the world better for our consumers.

How the TYPO3 community collaborated to write a book.

Ricardo explains what best practices you should follow to nail your following code walkthrough, so your talk becomes memorable.

Carmen talks about the creation of Open Source Thursdays and the lessons learned along the way.

Jeremy explores why collaborating with other communities is essential, and some practical ways to put this into practice.

Demonstrate how your DevRel effort aligns with your company’s goals.

A journey from documentation best practices to the world of components in Markdown.

Getting people to think about computation is just as important as teaching coding.

Words and slides alone aren’t the best way to convince your audience to choose your product or even to ensure they will remember you.

Remote hackathons mean no physical barriers, and more opportunity for participation, right? Well, not exactly.

Siddharth sets out his advice for how to participate in hackathons as a DevRel professional representing your company.

How to set metrics that show the value that DevRel brings and create product qualified leads (PQLs).

Google's Mano Marks discusses identifying partner teams, meeting your partners where they’re at, empathy, and other approaches to working with other teams.

You can’t have a healthy, safe, and inclusive community if the companies that support the community don’t have the right practices in place.

How to be intentional with how you communicate and how to design a communication plan and strategy.

Matt shares what he’s learned he needs to do more of, less of, and why communication is the key to being an effective team leader.

Developer Relations has grown and evolved as a discipline in recent years, but the DevRel career path is still murky.

PJ shows how his career in education led into his career in developer relations.

DevRel career paths aren’t always clear.

Joe draws on role-playing games to share a lesson on DevRel careers.

John shares how they built the job family, the structure, and how you can contribute to making it even better.

Martin Woodward takes us through the journey of DevRel at the home of Developers, GitHub.

Tech hiring has a bad reputation for a reason: it’s usually awful. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Shivay describes how Developer Relations can accelerate the growth of the community, product development, and feedback for a startup.

Bradston shares how lessons learned from game development gave him a head-start in his DevRel career.

Learn when, why, and how to incorporate humor into your presentations, blog posts, and conference talks for better results.

Marketing lessons you can use to improve all aspects of your developer relations efforts.

How hyper-fixation became an asset to James' DevRel career.

To say DevRel is many things to many people would be an understatement.

Jordana discusses tips, theories, and common pitfalls when having discussions, arguments, and other types of discourses.

Layla takes us through her journey of live coding on Twitch.

Liz Moy shares how they were able to get cross-functional buy-in and scale the program, taking DevRel tactics to a new community.

This talk is intended to be the “missing manual” for spinning up your first team.

Suze addresses some classic marketing tenets which, once mastered, will enable you to maximise the effectiveness of your DevRel strategy.

Ankita looks at metrics such as internal happiness quotient the impact of community activities, and more.

Akanksha shares her community building journey and some tips on how you can build a community from scratch and grow it holistically.

To build a DevRel organization within your company, it is essential to give your team clear guidance on how they can grow, develop, and get promoted.

Lauren and Megen walk through how to optimize your writing for both search engines and for developers.

Nitya shares how visual storytelling can benefit developer documentation.

For years, companies who invested in DevRel would have one person doing a variety of activities from speaking at conferences, engaging with the community, or writing content.

Lorna shares her journey to establish developer relations at a growth focused company.

With multiplexed video production, the team at Stripe made seven videos in seven different languages in 40 hours.

If you are you a software engineer looking to develop leadership skills, Jordan a tour-of-duty in DevRel.

How to create developer relations strategies that will benefit your company for the long-term.

Philipp shares Elastic's experience frommore than 500 virtual talks and meetups.

Learn technical writing best practices that will enable you to become a better communicator

PJ looks at what steps each of us can take to make for a better experience for our organizations, for our communities, and for ourselves.

The fundamentals of partner engineering, mixing psychology, tech stacks, and soft skills.

Alex and Caterina Rindi cover G-Research’s experience on finding their way with the concept of Developer Relations within an Open Source Program Office.

When you're the only DevRel person in your company, how do you stay excited?

Get a new set of tools to craft the right message and impress your audience.

How successful developer communities in Africa were able to gain traction.

Zachary covers some of the basics on how to use TikTok, gain a following, and share knowledge from a DevRel point of view.

Tim discusses how we can elevate developers be more successful, advance their careers, and positively impact the world.

Cherish looks at how to prove your DevRel team’s defensibility and contribute to the growth of your startup.

Kevin discusses how to put your best foot forward in both online and in-person events, and how you can maximize ROI for the effort you spend.

Gaining personal recognition can help both in securing DevRel roles and also in being more effective as a DevRel professional.