{"id":1185,"date":"2022-12-19T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infobip.com\/developers\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2023-09-11T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:32:19","slug":"devrelcon-2022-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/blog\/devrelcon-2022-prague","title":{"rendered":"DevRelCon 2022 Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"DevRelCon<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So this article makes a little more sense, let me introduce myself;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi, I\u2019m Mike, long-time listener first-time caller. I\u2019m a new member of the Developer Relations team here at Infobip, and I\u2019m still learning all the ropes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, one of my first big things has been to travel with my colleagues to Prague to attend DevRelCon in Prague! The full line-up and details can be found at https:\/\/prague-2022.devrelcon.dev\/<\/a>. The tl;dr for the event is that it\u2019s the industry conference for the developer relations space covering everything from developer content to tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of giving a summary of all the talks given at the event, as in the not-too-distant future all the videos will be available at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DevRel<\/a> under a playlist, I thought it\u2019d be more interesting to gather everyone\u2019s takeaways from the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Elsmore: Developer Advocate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The two talks I\u2019ve taken to heart the most were on the first day, the first of which was Ben Greenberg\u2019s (https:\/\/twitter.com\/RabbiGreenberg<\/a>) which was highly entertaining but my key takeaway from it was \u201cmake sure your fundamentals are solid\u201d. For me and our team that means making sure we provide a brilliant Developer Experience and provide top-tier support to our ever-growing developer community at Infobip. My other favourite was Don Goodman-Wilson’s (https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEGoodmanWilson<\/a>) in which he took a neurochemistry view of community building, with the occasional dark twist. They covered the neurotransmitters around our work, and how they work and how easy it is to undo great work. So we better keep the good work coming!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanna Suau: Developer Educator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The talk I enjoyed a lot, because it was applicable to more than just DevRel, was Karin Wolok\u2019s \u201cTurning Users into DevRels\u201d talk explaining how to pull a user deeper and deeper into collaboration using different tactics. As a content creator, I know first-hand how difficult it is to find a person willing to sacrifice their time to collaborate on content-related tasks, so the talk gave me some solid ideas how to find and promote the idea of collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another important talk I found interesting was Amy Mbaegbu and Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan\u2019s talk on internal advocacy. Their job is to make sure all developers at their company have equal access to all important information, like new features, updates, dev tools, etc., acting as middlemen between different teams to make sure the information flow is constant and uninterrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beatta Lovre\u010di\u0107: Developer Events Specialist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hi everyone, Beatta here. Similarly to Mike, haven’t been in the DevRel team for too long. What\u2019s not so similar to Mike is that I am completely new to the DevRel world overall, so DevRelCon was really interesting for me and full of BRAND NEW INFORMATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is brand new information Friends meme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, the talks I enjoyed most are the ones that gave me the most “how-to” knowledge on how the DevRel world works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those talks was given by Karin Wolok and was about Turning Users Into Advocates, at Scale. Since Infobip itself is preparing to launch a Champions program<\/a> (more info on that soon :D), I really enjoyed every piece of knowledge Karin was kind enough to impair. The gist of it is showing gratitude to your contributors; giving them recognition; differentiate your users (from low to high contributors), but make everyone feel included in the community; make a game out of it (we’re all here to have fun – show your users how to level-up and EARN their exclusive swag).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great talks on Championships programs were given by both Ully Sampaio from Elastic and Rebecca Marshburn from Common Room.
Ully gave us a step-by-step guide on how to start building a Champions program – by being very open about the feedback our community gives us and teaching us how to improve our own products based on said feedback, and then repeat and scale that magic.
Rebecca talked more about why we all need some kind of a Championship program and shared some pretty convicing numbers on why she’s right \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A thing that you didn’t want to miss was the panel discussion about what defines developer success. As it turned out, half an hour wasn’t nearly enough to come to a common denominator about what developer success is and means, because every panelist defined it differently. Although there isn’t a sentence that can summarize all of the stated opinions, there have been some points all could agree upon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n