DevRelCon London 2018
7 November 2018 to 8 November 2018
QEII Centre, London, UK
Switching to a two day programme for the first time, the 2018 edition of DevRelCon London saw a day of unconference sessions at the Microsoft Reactor in Shoreditch followed by the main conference at the QE II Centre in Westminster.
Talks from DevRelCon London 2018
Five tips for developer content marketing
Making sure that what you’re writing is useful, interesting, and timely isn’t easy when you’re juggling a full dev rel programme.
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An API spec driven developer experience journey
An OpenAPI spec is about more than auto-generated reference docs.
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Applying visual design principles to API design
API design might seem to be entirely non-visual but Ably’s CEO [Matthew O’Riordan](https://twitter.
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Building your internal army
Building developer relationships isn’t a solo mission—stop drowning and start collaborating with the people already around you.
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Confessions of a nervous public speaker
Advice on how to handle giving talks in DevRel when you're a nervous public speaker.
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Cultivating community through events
Couchbase’s senior developer community manager [Laura Czajkowski](https://twitter.
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Design your content strategy with data
Using data to inform your content strategy can give you insights into what to write, who to write to for and when to publish.
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Dev rel and enterprise sales: an unlikely partnership
Directly partnering with your sales team can have a dramatic effect on your product’s value both to your community and your company.
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Documentation as practical empathy
Beautifully crafted documentation takes practice and skill.
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Getting intentional about educating developers
Joe shares the benefits of devising tailored programmes, the four learning principles, and the achievements of the award-winning GitHub Campus Experts.
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Kicking the hornets' nest
Don draws on his previous career as a philosophy academic to ask some awkward questions about developer relations.
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Open source and the DevRel origin myth
Simon Phipps explains why software freedom is at the very core of developer relations.
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Pass the torch and drop the ball
A robust replacement plan is a great resource with benefits for you, your replacement, and your community.
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ROI is a trap!
Steve suggests ROI is a trap and offers alternative ways to steer the discussion to a more useful focus.
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Rules for creating great developer CLIs
Heroku’s Nahid Samsami and Jeff Dickey are behind the Heroku developer CLI and the Open CLI framework.
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Surviving 1,000+ PRs from Hacktoberfest
How the SendGrid team handled an overwhelming response to their Hacktoberfest participations.
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Sympathy for the DevRel
Empathy is a big theme in developer relations but we've got to remember that it goes both ways.
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The Art of Talk Design
Drawing on her extensive experience of conference speaking, Mel shares insights that are a must-see for anyone working in developer relations.
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The four archetypes of developer champion programmes
When choosing a developer champion programme there are four archetypes to build on: reward and motivate, force multiplier, content factory and land and expand.
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What Mean Girls taught us about building communities
When it comes to building your community, there are some lessons to learn from the movie Mean Girls.
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