6 & 7
June
2019
This year we're focusing on how to serve the diversity of needs represented in the developer community, as well as the usual themes of developer relations, developer experience, developer marketing and more.
Come together with expert practitioners from across the world to join the conversation about developer experience, developer relations, developer marketing and community.
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Times are subject to change |
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GitHub Room | ||
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08.00 | ||
Registration and refreshments |
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09.00 | ||
![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome |
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09.10 | ||
![]() Leandro Margulis (TomTom) Tom Tom in its first year of dev rel |
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GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | GitHub Lounge (Floor 2) |
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What we'll be discussing | ||
DevRel fundamentals & metrics | Bird of a Feather Discussions | |
09.35 | ||
![]() Naomi Pentrel (MongoDB) Planning your team's dev rel strategy |
Discussion topic: Imposter syndrome and wellness, moderated by Adriana Cerundulo |
Discussion topic: Hackatons, moderated by Brian Douglas |
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10.00 | ||
![]() Steve Pousty (CrunchyData) Being Better At Developer Relations with Kathy Sierra's 'The Kick Ass Curve' |
Discussion topic: Imposter syndrome and wellness, moderated by Adriana Cerundulo |
Discussion topic: Hackatons, moderated by Brian Douglas |
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10.25 | ||
![]() Luke Kilpatrick (Nutanix) Building an enterprise developer marketing program from scratch |
Discussion topic: Emotions in communities and in the workplace, moderated by Adriana Cerundolo |
Discussion topic: Open Source Contributor Experience, moderated by Brian Douglas |
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10.50 | ||
![]() Claire Hunsaker (Okta) Personas: you're doing it wrong |
Discussion topic: Emotions in communities and in the workplace, moderated by Adriana Cerundolo |
Discussion topic: Open Source Contributor Experience, moderated by Brian Douglas |
11.10 - Break 1 |
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GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | GitHub Lounge (Floor 2) |
What we'll be discussing | ||
DevRel fundamentals & Leadership | Birds of a Feather Discussions | |
11.25 | ||
![]() Katie Penn (Twitch) Leading with authenticity: tips for growing and nurturing developer communities |
Discussion topic: Public Speaking and Storytelling, moderated by Jen Sable Lopez |
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11.50 | ||
![]() Avital Tzubeli (Kaltura) A shiny new developer portal |
Discussion topic: Public Speaking and Storytelling, moderated by Jen Sable Lopez |
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12.15 | ||
![]() Gerard Sans (AWS) Creating high quality communities |
Discussion topic: Dev marketing (advanced), moderated by Jen Sable Lopez |
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12.40 | ||
![]() Brandon West (AWS) Distributed developer relations |
Discussion topic: Dev marketing (advanced), moderated by Jen Sable Lopez |
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13.00 - Lunch |
GitHub Room | ||
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13.50 | ||
![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome back |
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14.10 | ||
![]() Benjamin Dunphy (Real World React) Why I bet my career on React |
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14.25 | ||
![]() Kelsey Hightower (Google) Fireside chat |
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GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | |
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What we'll be discussing | ||
Working with different personas | Enterprise use cases | |
14.55 | ||
![]() Amara Graham (IBM) One size doesn't fit all |
![]() Phil Leggetter (Nexmo) From start-up to enterprise |
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15.20 | ||
![]() Tarun Gangwani (Twitch) Embracing the hobbyist persona |
![]() John Feminella (Pivotal) Improving enterprise developer outcomes |
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15.40 - Break 2 |
GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | |
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What we'll be discussing | ||
Start and lead with your user | Leadership and managing healthy communities | |
16.00 | ||
![]() Jamie Wittenberg (Major League Hacking) How to lose a dev in three ways |
![]() Jeremy Glassenberg (Pinn) Marketplace management: managing difficult partners |
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16.25 | ||
![]() Judith Malnick (Hashicorp) First build a bookshelf: providing context for developer learning |
![]() Jamie Cantrell (SAP) Creating psychological safety in digital communities |
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16.50 | ||
![]() Adam DuVander (EveryDeveloper) Towards a more inclusive developer portal |
![]() Dmitry Vinnik (Salesforce) Kindness engineering |
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GitHub Room |
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17.15 |
![]() Jen Sable Lopez (OutSystems) It starts with you: building a diverse dev rel team |
17.40 |
![]() ![]() ![]() Closing remarks for day 1 |
17.45 |
Go to Reception on Floor 2 |
Scroll up to see Day 2 tab |
Times are subject to change |
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GitHub Room | ||
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08.00 | ||
Registration and refreshments |
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09.00 | ||
![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to day 2! |
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09.15 | ||
![]() Daniel Zaltsman (Digital Ocean) 750,000 pull requests in five years: what you can learn from Hacktoberfest |
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09.30 | ||
![]() Matthew Revell (Hoopy) Sustainable developer relations |
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09.50 | ||
![]() Lusen Mendel (Karat) How raising the bar can plug a leaky pipeline |
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10.20 - Break 1 |
GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | |
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What we'll be discussing | ||
Developer marketing and branding | Growth hacking | |
10.35 | ||
![]() Marlena Compton (Appear Works) Swinging wildly at glitter |
![]() Sydney Lai (Codecorgi) Your first 100 developers |
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11.00 | ||
![]() Brian Douglas (GitHub) Why do we have so many stickers? |
![]() Paige Paquette (Slack) Building an army of advocates without a big budget |
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11.20 - Break 2 |
GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | GitHub Lounge (Floor 2) |
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What we'll be discussing | ||
Communities in enterprise | Unconference | |
11.35 | ||
![]() Alison Yu (Indeed) What’s brewing and cooking in your open source community? part 1 |
Topic to be decided by attendees on the day |
None, floor three only |
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12.00 | ||
![]() Shilla Saebi (Comcast) What’s brewing and cooking in your open source community? part 2 |
Topic to be decided by attendees on the day |
None, floor three only |
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12.25 | ||
![]() Ana Bahr (Target) Why Target needed DevRel to attract and retain engineers |
Topic to be decided by attendees on the day |
None, floor three only |
12.45 - Lunch |
GitHub Room | ||
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13.35 | ||
![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome back |
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13.45 | ||
![]() ![]() Passion … like magnets, it can attract or repel |
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14.00 | ||
![]() Dana Oshiro (Heavybit) The defensibility and value in developer community |
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GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | |
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What we'll be discussing | ||
Innovation in developer relations | Knowledge diversity and onboarding | |
14.30 | ||
![]() Filip Hracek (Google) Candid dev rel: The Flutter Boring Show and other ways we make ourselves look human |
![]() Taylor Barnett (Stoplight) Breaking down barriers to 'Hello World' |
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14.55 | ||
![]() Andrew Baker (Twilio) How Twilio leveled-up developer training with TwilioQuest |
![]() ![]() Rethink your assumptions about your user base |
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15.20 | ||
![]() Vinicius Senger (AWS) 15 years of resumed experiences doing very live-demos |
![]() Sid Maestre (Xero) Redefining SDKs as software diversity kits |
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15.40 - Break 3 |
GitHub Room | MongoDB Room | GitHub Lounge (Floor 2) |
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What we'll be discussing | ||
Moving to developer relations | Unconference | |
16.00 | ||
![]() Ben Greenberg (Nexmo) From the pulpit to developer relations: how being a rabbi prepared me for dev rel |
Topic to be decided by attendees on the day |
None, floor three only |
Switch |
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16.15 | ||
![]() Amanda Moran (Datastax) From software engineer to dev rel: the good, the bad, and the rewarding |
Topic to be decided by attendees on the day |
None, floor three only |
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16.30 | ||
![]() Lizzie Siegle (Twilio) git fetch coffee: thoughts on interns and junior roles in dev rel |
Topic to be decided by attendees on the day |
None, floor three only |
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GitHub Room |
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16.50 |
![]() Conrad Hollomon (Techstars) Building communities for junior contributors |
17.05 |
![]() Jeff Sandquist (Microsoft) Help! The developer relations credo |
17.30 |
![]() ![]() ![]() Goodbye! |
17.45 |
After Party |
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