DevRelCon San Francisco: 2019

GitHub Room
Times are subject to change
08.00
Registration and refreshments
09.00
Welcome Matthew Revell, Tamao Nakahara, Nilay Yener
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)
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
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
13.00 - Lunch

GitHub Room
13.50
Welcome back Matthew Revell, Tamao Nakahara, Nilay Yener
14.10
Benjamin Dunphy (Real World React) Why I bet my career on React
14.25
Kelsey Hightower (Google) Fireside chat
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GitHub Room	MongoDB Room
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
15.40 - Break 2

GitHub Room	MongoDB Room
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
17.15
Jen Sable Lopez (OutSystems) It starts with you: building a diverse dev rel team
17.40
Closing remarks for day 1 Matthew Revell, Tamao Nakahara, Nilay Yener

17.45

Go to Reception on Floor 2

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GitHub Room
Times are subject to change
08.00
Registration and refreshments
09.00
Welcome to day 2! Matthew Revell, Tamao Nakahara, Nilay Yener
09.15
Daniel Zaltsman (Digital Ocean) 750,000 pull requests in five years: what you can learn from Hacktoberfest
09.30
Matthew Revell (Hoopy) Sustainable developer relations
09.50
Lusen Mendel (Karat) How raising the bar can plug a leaky pipeline
10.20 - Break 1

GitHub Room	MongoDB Room
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
11.20 - Break 2

GitHub Room	MongoDB Room	GitHub Lounge (Floor 2)
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
13.35
Welcome back Matthew Revell, Tamao Nakahara, Nilay Yener
13.45
Passion … like magnets, it can attract or repel Tamao Nakahara, Baruch Sadogursky
14.00
Dana Oshiro (Heavybit) The defensibility and value in developer community
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GitHub Room	MongoDB Room
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 Ryan Morris, Aileen Morris
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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
15.40 - Break 3

GitHub Room	MongoDB Room	GitHub Lounge (Floor 2)
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
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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
16.50
Conrad Hollomon (Techstars) Building communities for junior contributors
17.05
Jeff Sandquist (Microsoft) Help! The developer relations credo
17.30
Goodbye! Matthew Revell, Tamao Nakahara, Nilay Yener