DevRelCon 2021

8 November, 2021

10 November, 2021

Online

The second fully online global DevRelCon event took place in November 2021, with three days of talks, workshops, and discussions on the topics of:

  • getting your started in a DevRel career
  • managing relationships and reporting metrics
  • honing your DevRel craft.

Speakers from all six continents joined from around the world, as did an engaged and chatty audience both through our live streaming platform and the event Discord.

Videos of DevRelCon 2021 talks

James Parton

Company alignment: do or die

James Parton

Founder Land and Expand

Aja Hammerly

Hiring is not hazing

Aja Hammerly

Developer Relations Manager Google

Shedrack Akintayo

Understanding and approaching developer communities in smaller regions

Shedrack Akintayo

Developer Relations Engineer Platform.sh

m4dz

Componentize your documentation

m4dz

Principal Developer Advocate DIVRiots

Zachary Powell

Using TikTok to reach a new developer audience

Zachary Powell

Lead Developer Advocate Huawei

Cory Althoff

How I created a Facebook programming group with 60,000+ members

Cory Althoff

Developer Advocate Vonage

Alison Dowdney

Your personal brand in DevRel

Alison Dowdney

Giovanni Laquidara

The job of Partner Engineering

Giovanni Laquidara

Developer Advocate Huawei

Tadeh Hakopian

Computational thinking for creatives

Tadeh Hakopian

Developer HMC

Kaitlin Carter

Technical writing the HashiCorp way

Kaitlin Carter

Education Architect HashiCorp

Suze Shardlow

Marketing is your job, too

Suze Shardlow

Developer Community Manager Redis

Ramón Huidobro

Coming to you live! Inclusive, effective, fun live streaming for DevRel

Ramón Huidobro

Head of Open Source CodeSee

Tim Messerschmidt

Value driven DevRel

Tim Messerschmidt

DevRelCon Ecosystems Lead Europe Google

Jordana Fung

How to win in arguments

Jordana Fung

Technical Engagement Manager Pantheon

PJ Metz

From educator to evangelist: how poetry got me into tech

PJ Metz

Education Evangelist GitLab

Atsushi Nakatsugawa

Sustainable DevRel strategies

Atsushi Nakatsugawa

CEO Moongift

Ricardo Ferreira

The subtle art of giving code walkthrough talks

Ricardo Ferreira

Principal Developer Advocate Elastic

Derric Gilling

DevRel metrics with product goals

Derric Gilling

CEO Moesif

Michael Heap

But why does the business care?

Michael Heap

Director, Developer Relations Kong

Karl Hughes

Technical content that resonates with developers

Karl Hughes

Founder Draft.dev

Jeff Bull

Effective leadership strategies for managing a team with diverse skill sets

Jeff Bull

Developer Advocate Manager Cisco

The GitLab DevRel career ladder

GitLab’s DevRel career ladder

John Coghlan

Manager, Developer Evangelism GitLab

Juha-Matti Santala

The most social and loneliest job: being a solo developer advocate

Juha-Matti Santala

Developer Advocate Futurice

Bradston Henry

How game development gave me a head start in my DevRel career

Bradston Henry

Developer Advocate IBM

What VCs want from DevRel

What VCs and founders want from DevRel

Cherish Santoshi

Head of Community Sawo Labs

Ankita Tripathi

Metrics to track community health

Ankita Tripathi

Community Manager Googlw

Paul Wealls

Bridging DevRel with business decision makers

Paul Wealls

Founder IoT North

Philipp Krenn

Takeaways from 500 virtual events since the pandemic’s start

Philipp Krenn

Developer Elastic

Shivay Lamba

How developer advocacy helps startups

Shivay Lamba

Developer Advocate Fabric

Felicity Brand

Felicity Brand

Channeling a community to write a book

Felicity Brand

Technical Communicator Open Strategy Partners

Nitya Narasimhan

Nitya Narasimhan

SketchTheDocs: visual storytelling for tech

Nitya Narasimhan

Senior Cloud Advocate Microsoft

Supercharge your career with a tour of duty in DevRel

Jordan M Adler

Director, Developer Engineering Onesignal

Siddharth Dayalwal

DevRel, a key role at hackathons

Siddharth Dayarwal

Hackathon and Community Evangelist

Jeremy Morgan

The secrets of content creation for DevRels

Jeremy Morgan

Senior Developer Evangelist Pluralsight

Lauren Schaefer and Megan Grant

SEO for DevRels 101

Lauren Schafer and Megan Grant

MongoDB

Alex Scammon and Caterina Rindi

A DevRel team that doesn’t sell anything

Alex Scammon and Caterina Rindi

Open Source Programs Office G-Research

CJ Avilla

Meet developers where they are with multiplexed video production

CJ Avilla

Developer Advocate Stripe

Kevin Lewis

What your event booth says about you

Kevin Lewis

Developer Advocate Deepgram

Lorna Mitchell

Starting up startup DevRel

Lorna Mitchell

Head of Developer Relations Aiven

Matt DeNapoli

First year managing a DevRel team

Matt DeNapoli

Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy Cisco Systems

Bear Douglas

Managing your first developer relations team

Bear Douglas

Director of Developer Relations Slack

PJ Hagerty

The ethics of community

PJ Hagerty

Founder/Chief Community Officer DevRelate.io

Jeremy Meiss

Community, a dish best served collaboratively

Jeremy Meiss

Director, DevRel and Community CircleCi

Fatimah Sarah Khalid

The magical art of storytelling

Fatimah Sarah Khalid

Developer Programs Engineer Pantheon

Akanksha Bhasin

My community building journey

Akanksha Bhasin

Community Evangelist Symbl.ai

Liz Couto

Creating inclusive remote hackathons

Liz Couto

Senior Product Marketing Manager Unity

Zan Markan

How many hats should a DevRel wear?

Zan Markan

Developer Advocate CricleCI

Greg Bulmash

How humor helps (or why whimsy wins)

Greg Bulmash

Principal Developer Advocate Liveperson

Vera Tiago

Specialization and career paths for advocacy teams

Vera Tiago

Developer Advocate Lead OutSystems

Layla Porter

Learning in public: live coding on Twitch

Layla Porter

Live coder, Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star VMWare

Joe Nash

Gatekeepers and pit traps in DevRel career paths

Joe Nash

Developer Educator Twilio

Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey

Diversity and inclusion for your company and community practical steps

Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey

Consultant Element of Inclusion

Kim Maida

Forging your career in DevRel: Advocate to Exec

Kim Maida

VP of Developer Relations Ionic

Naomi Pentrel

Crafting and delivering convincing demos

Naomi Pentrel

Staff Demo Engineer Twilio

Mano Marks

DevRel the heck out of internal partnerships

Mano Marks

Developer Relations Manager Google Cloud

Martin Woodward

Going from 0 to 60

Martin Woodward

Senior Director of Developer Relations GitHub

Adam FitzGerald

Practical career matrices for DevRel

Adam FitzGerald

VP, Developer Relations Hashicorp

Liz Moy

Making developers the superheroes of the enterprise

Liz Moy

Developer Evangelist Twilio

Simon Maple

From individual developer advocate to the C suite

Simon Maple

Field CTO Synk