10 - 11
December
2019
10 - 11
December
2019
DevrelCon San Francisco 2019
DevRelCon London 2019:
The fifth edition of DevRelCon London focuses on how developer relations, developer marketing, community management, and developer experience can learn from each other and from other disciplines.
This year, we’re adding dedicated documentation and community tracks alongside developer relations, developer community, and developer marketing.
Everyone participating in DevRelCon agrees to abide by our code of conduct.
The amazing speakers at DevRelCon London 2019.
MongoDB Room
08:00
Registration
09:20
Welcome
09:25
Make the most of DevRelCon
Avery Rosen (MongoDB)
09:30
Design thinking methodology: how do you design programs for diversity?
10:00
The grand unifying dev rel theory
10:30 – Break 1
MongoDB Room
Twitter Room
Spotify Room
Dev rel strategy
Day to day dev rel
Documentation
11:00
From enterprise to start-up
I messed up and they are going to fire me!
Inspiring and empowering users and techies to become great writers, and why that’s important
11:30
Operator disconnected: is developer relations forgetting the people who run the software in production?
Luke Kilpack and Max Lavi
Ultimate cheat codes for happier travel
GitHub is your documentation landing page
12:00
Don’t create, re-use! How to repurpose a common business metric for your team’s success
Planning your dev rel career
Docs as engineering: an intro to developer experience engineering
12:30
Get executive buy-in …. or else
Scaling adoption with developer targeted video content
From bits & docs to experiences & publishing: modernizing Red Hat’s enterprise developer program
12:55 – Lunch
MongoDB Room
13:55
Welcome back
14:00
Twitter API: story of a new beginning
Aurelia Specker (Twitter)
14:05
How to scale a developer relations team
MongoDB Room
Twitter Room
Spotify Room
Dev rel strategy
Developer outreach
Documentation
14:40
Dev rel and enterprise: when developers are not buyers
The art of story design
A11y pal(ly): crafting universally good docs
15:05
Who? Where? Why? Using data to understand your audience.
How to rock a technical keynote
Empathy flavoured docs: A recipe with human values
15:35 – Break 2
15:55
Measuring dev rel programs far beyond marketing activities
How to get the most from running hackathons
Documentation tooling the open source way
16:25
Communities aren’t funnels: try the Orbit Model instead
Using external events to bolster internal community building
Commit messages vs. release notes: they’re important, they’re not the same, and they’re not for you
MongoDB Room
16:40
Dogfooding developer products: gathering insights from internal hackathons
Josh Brown (Spotify)
16:45
Engaging 9 year old software developers
16:55
Passion … like magnets, it can attract or repel
17:05
Open Source is Broken
17:35
Day 1 closing remarks
17:40
Reception at QEII, sponsored by:
MongoDB Room
08:00
Registration
09:30
Welcome
09:35
Why corporate dev rel teams must act like a startup
Mo Haghighi (IBM)
09:40
Mental health and wellbeing in online communities
MongoDB Room
Twitter Room
Spotify Room
Community management
Developer experience
New ways of thinking about dev rel
10:15
Help, I’m taking over an award-winning developer program!
The value of being told you suck
How dev rel is failing communites
10:40 – Break 1
11:10
Mentored sprints for diverse beginners: a retrospective and future plans
How to embed UX thinking in your next API
Thoughtful tech: how far does your ethical responsibility stretch for the tech your devs create?
11:40
How to capture community relationships as a dev rel professional, without being “creepy” about it
Guide to crowdsourcing code samples
Supporting low resource regions with your dev rel strategy
12:10
#include <C++> – lessons learned creating an inclusive space in a decades-old community
Developers love webhooks, you should too
Green developer relations
12:35 – Lunch
MongoDB Room
13:50
Welcome back
13:55
Enhancing developer relations with AR
Nikita Jotwani (Bose AR)
14:00
Managing the burnout burndown
MongoDB room
Twitter room
Spotify room
Community management
Developer experience
Unconf sessions
14:35
Communities of practice – crafting the brand
Approaching dev rel as an educator: creating content that invites your users to learn
Common pitfalls & labyrinths: a dev rel choose your own adventure” moderated by Jeremy Meiss, Mary Thengvall and Rain Leander
Topic to be set
15:05
Don’t ship your community without C.A.R.G.O
Empathy for the developer – making 22 year olds love 26 year old software
15:30 – Break 2
16:00
Going global by staying local
The hero’s journey: how we are solving internal technical documentation at Spotify
Unconf
Unconf
MongoDB Room
16:35
How not to do a startup
Joe Drumgoole (MongoDB)
16:40
17:00
Conference closing remarks
17:30
Karaoke party (location to be announced at event). Sponsored by Bose AR
Reach the unique DevRelCon audience by sponsoring DevRelCon London 2019.
Join previous sponsors, who have included GitHub, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and many others.
Developer relations, developer experience, and developer marketing training.
Join us on December 9th in London for a day’s training covering developer relations strategy, developer experience, and developer community.
You’ll learn from well known expert dev rel trainers, with a choice of modules so that you can hone the specific skills that interest you. Get your training tickets now at the early bird price.
Schedule - AM
Cristiano Betta and Alyss Noland
Cristiano is a senior Developer Advocate and Developer Experience designer at Box.
Matthew Revell
Whether you’re responsible for a mature developer community or you’re starting out with something brand new, it can seem as though there’s no roadmap to help you decide what to do and when.
Mary Thengvall
How do you know the work you’re doing is having an impact on the business?
Lunch provided
Schedule - PM
London 2018
DevRel Awards 2019:
The DevRel Awards recognise the very best of developer relations and developer experience.
This year’s awards will take place at DevRelCon London and nominations are open now for awards in:
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE.
Talk to us about developer relations training, strategy, research, and execution support for your team.
