DevRelCon San Francisco 2019

Senior Technical Evangelist at AWS, Vinicius Senger, has delivered hundreds of talks.

After transitioning to dev rel from backend development, Avital Tzubeli became the first developer evangelist at Kaltura.

As lead Community Engineer at Stoplight, Taylor Barnett focuses on inclusive, empathetic developer experience.

You’re looking to create a diverse and inclusive space for your developer community.

Paige Paquette leads developer marketing at Slack, focusing on growing the number of developers who are building on the platform.

Luke Kilpatrick from Nutanix has been in dev rel since transitioning from web development to managing tech communities in 2007.

Conrad Hollomon is Program Director of a Techstars accelerator and has built software development teams.

Gerard Sans is Senior Developer Advocate at AWS and has built meetup communities from the ground up.

As a certified change manager, Jamie Cantrell understands the practicalities in behavioral change.

Distributed teams are increasingly common in tech and developer relations is no exception.

Why and how to embrace the hobbyists in your developer community.

Lizzie outlines when, why, and whether you should hire recent graduates or interns for your DevRel team.

Jeff explores DevRel as helping developers through content and connections.

Ben explains how life as a rabbi prepared him for the field of developer relations.

Jamie walks through various issues in documentation that can alienate new users of your platform, and how to address them.

Developer training often follows a familiar model, but with TwilioQuest, Twilio's Developer Education team have tried a very different approach.

Kelsey Hightower shares his personal DevRel career story..

Dmitry Vinnik explores kindness and how you can use empathy to get the best out of your community.

Jeremy explains what you need to understand in order to handle difficult personalities in your partner community.

Amara explores how to make sure your content is enabling your community.

Tamao Nakahara and Baruch Sadogursky explore how to make constructive connections with developers.

Claire Hunsaker looks at how to apply personas to developer audiences.

Naomi walks through the key steps in the strategy planning process.

Learning developer tools can mean taking on some pretty tricky concepts.

The challenges in building SDKs to support a diversity of programming languages on your platform.

Aileen and Ryan run through some of the friction they faced through the learning and hiring process.

Some of the changes we need to make for developer relations to be more sustainable.

Marlena shows how design thinking can help to figure out how to use your company's approach to swag as a tool in relationship building with your customers.

Dana runs through the key metrics and startup stages to understand as a developer relations contributor.

As Developer Advocate on Google's Flutter team, Filip Hracek created The Boring Show to show that all developers share similar frustrations and moments of confusion.

Learning something new is hard enough already but very often the developer experience of a product doesn't do enough to acknowledge and smooth that.

Twitch's Katie Penn shares her “Top 10 List” for how to interact authentically with developer communities.

How TomTom's developer relations are transforming location-based services and empowering the global developer community.

Adam explores creating inclusive developer portals by addressing overlooked users and making content accessible to all.

Daniel Zaltsman from DigitalOcean talks through some key lessons from a program that creates opportunities for people of all experience levels to contribute to open source.

Strategy, metrics, and learning from a global program of both internal and external community events.

Shilla Saebi from Comcast walks through a variety of internal and external metrics for community growth and open source contributions from an extensive program of events.

Brian Douglas explores GitHub and streetwear branding stories.

Getting developers to sign-up for API keys isn't the only form of DevRel.

Syndey outlines the math and practicalities in growing a new tech community, referencing case studies along the way.