DevRelCon London 2019

10 December, 2019

11 December, 2019

QEII Centre, London

The fifth edition of DevRelCon London took place towards the end of 2019 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in the heart of Westminster, London.

Over two days, people from across the world gather to hear talks, take part in the unconference sessions, sing karaoke, and meet one another. Speakers included Google’s Uttam Triapthi, Facebook’s Elisha Tan, Help Scout’s Anjuan Simmons, and Camunda’s Mary Thengvall.

Videos from DevRelCon London 2019

Asim Hussain

Green developer relations

Asim Hussain

Lead for Green Cloud Advocacy Microsoft

Kassian Wren

Kassian Wren

Approaching DevRel as an educator

Kassian Wren

Developer Advocate Cloudflare

Mark Lavi and Luke Kilpatrick

Mark Lavi and Luke Kilpatrick

Is developer relations forgetting the people who run software in production?

Mark Lavi and Luke Kilpatrick

Nutanix

Nicolas Grenie speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

Developers love webhooks, you should too

Nicolas Grenie

Developer Advocate Typeform

Ankit Gadgil speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

Documentation tooling: the open source way

Ankit Gadgil

Senior Software Engineer Red Hat

Eva Parish

Eva Parish

Commit messages vs. release notes: they’re important, they’re not the same, and they’re not for you

Eva Parish

Senior Technical Writer Squarespace

Olja Rastic-Dulborough

Olja Rastic-Dulborough

Empathy for the developer: making 22 year olds love 26 year old software

Olja Rastic-Dulborough

Software Engineer IBM

Adelina and Caroline

Adelina and Caroline

Thoughtful tech: how far does your ethical responsibility stretch for the tech your devs create?

Adelina Chalmers and Caroline Lewko

Joe Schram

Joe Schram

Modernizing Red Hat’s enterprise developer program

Joe Schramm

Red hat

Avery Rosen

Avery Rosen

How to rock a technical keynote

Avery Rosen

Head of Developer Communications MongoDB

Jessica Rose

Jessica Rose

Planning your dev rel career

Jessica Rose

David G Simmons

David G Simmons

I messed up and I’m going to get fired

David G Simmons

Senior IoT Dev Evangelist InfluxData

Sangeetha Alagappan

Sangeetha Alagappan

A11y pal(ly)- crafting universally good docs

Sangeetha Alagappan

Technical Writer Google

Carl and Matt

Carl and Matt

Scaling adoption with developer targeted video content

Carl Callewaert and Matt Schell

Unity

Jo Cook

Jo Cook

Inspiring and empowering users to become great writers, and why that’s important

Jo Cook

Lead Metadata Consultant Astun Technology

Josh Brown

Josh Brown

Dogfooding developer products: gathering insights from internal hackathons

Josh Brown

Developer Advocate Spotify

Elisha Tan

Elisha Tan

Design thinking methodology: How do you design programs for diversity?

Elisha Tan

Founder TechLadies

Max Kahan

Max Kahan

Engaging 9 year-old software developers

Max Kahan

Software Engineer IBM

Alison Yu

Alison Yu

Using external events to bolster internal community building

Alison Yu

Open Source Community Manager Indeed

Cristiano Betta

Cristiano Betta

Docs as engineering: an intro to developer experience engineering

Cristiano Betta

Senior Developer Advocate Box

Peter Chittum

Peter Chittum

Lessons learned from a regional developer relations journey

Peter Chittum

Senior Director of Developer Relations Salesforce

Shy Ruparel

Shy Ruparel

Dev rel and enterprise: When developers are not buyers

Shy Ruparel

Developer Evangelist Contentful

Alyss Noland

Alyss Noland

Ultimate cheat codes for healthier travel

Alyss Noland

Senior Developer Advocate Box

Alex Radu

Alex Radu

Communities of practice: crafting the brand

Alex Radu

Community Manager JP Morgan Chase and Co

Lorna Mitchell

Lorna Mitchell

GitHub is your documentation landing page

Lorna Mitchel

Developer Advocate Vonage

Jessica West

Jessica West

Get executive buy-in … or else

Jessica West

Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis

How to get the most from running hackathons

Kevin Lewis

Director Underland Events

Tania Allard

Tania Allard

Mentored sprints for diverse beginners

Tania Allard

Developer Advocate Microsoft

Sy Brand

Sy Brand

Lessons learned creating an inclusive space in a decades old community

Sy Brand

Developer Advocate Microsoft

Gary Niemen

Gary Niemen

Solving internal technical documentation at Spotify

Gary Niemen

Product Manager Spotify

Uttam Tripathi

Uttam Tripathi

How to scale a developer relations team

Uttam Tripathi

Head of Global Program, Dev Ecosystems Google

Anjuan Simmons speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

Managing the burnout burndown

Anjuan Simmons

Engineering Coach Help Scout

Mary Thengvall speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

Repurposing a common business metric for DevRel

Mary Thengvall

Consultant Persea Consulting

Ana Jimenez Santamaria speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

Measuring dev rel programs far beyond marketing activities

Ana Jimenez Santamaria

Software Marketing Specialist Bitergia

Adrian Speyer speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

Don’t ship your community without C.A.R.G.O.

Adrian Speyer

Head of Community Vanilla Forums

Josh Dzielak speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

Communities aren’t funnels

Josh Dzielak

Co-founder Orbit

Melinda Seckington

The art of story design

Sarah Thiam speaking at DevRelCon London 2019

How to capture community relationships

Sarah Thiam

Cloud Advocacy Program Manager, Asia Pacific Microsoft

Don Goodman-Wilson

Open Source is broken

Don Goodman-Wilson

Board Member Maintainerati

Darren Gough & Dr Richard Graham

Mental health and wellbeing in online communities

Darren Gough and Dr Richard Graham

Andreas Constantinou speaking at DevRelCon London 2020

Who? Where? Why? Using data to understand your audience

Andreas Constantinou

CEO Slashdata

Phil Leggetter

Phil Leggetter

From start-up to enterprise

Phil Leggetter

Senior Director of Platform and Developer Experience Vonage

Steve Pousty

Steve Pousty

The grand unifying dev rel theory