DevRel Explained and How to Become a Conference Speaker (#59)

What do people who have Developer Relations as their job description do? And how do you become a conference speaker? You'll learn in this Foojay podcast!

At Devoxx in Belgium, I got to talk to Josh Long, Baruch, Pratik Patel, and Roni Dover, who are on the stage because it's part of their job. They share many tips about being a DevRel and the plenty tasks involved in such a job. I also talked with Clo Willaerts who was my inspiration many years ago to become a speaker myself, when I saw her presentation at a marketing conference.
GuestsClo Willaerts
• linkedin.com/in/clowillaerts
• x.com/bnox
• clowillaerts.com
• clowillaerts.substack.com

Josh Long
• x.com/starbuxman
• linkedin.com/in/joshlong

Baruch Sadogursky
• linkedin.com/in/jbaruch
• x.com/jbaruch

Pratik Patel
• linkedin.com/in/prpatel
• x.com/prpatel

Roni Dover
• linkedin.com/in/ronidover
• x.com/doppleware

Content
Clo about the difference between marketing and technical conferences
Impact of ecological cost on our work
Fast changes in trending topics
How to get paid as a (keynote) speaker
Josh about being Developer Relation
How to reach the energy level of Josh
Do you have to be an expert about a topic to talk about it?
How to create a story for a new talk
Only use slides when really needed
How hard is live coding?
Baruch about the DevRel role
How to move from Dev to DevRel
The focus of Baruch
Pratik about the role of a dev team at a conference
How DevRel influences product development in their company
How Pratik became a DevRel
Good and bad of being a DevRel
Roni about the role of a DevRel
Importance of using your product (coding) as a DevRel
Back side of the job
Tip 1: Ask to be a speaker
Tip 2: Stand out!
Tip 3: The show must go on!
More tips...
One final tip from Josh
Outro
Book by Geertjan Wielenga: "Developer, Advocate!" (amazon.com/Developer-Advocate-Conversations-tu…)

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