Developer Program Leaders: Main Challenges in Developer Relations
Time to look at the insights from the Developer Program Leaders survey. Access data and insights to better understand developer program, relations, advocacy and tooling professionals and their challenges.
In this session, we will look at:
1. How do developer relations practitioners spend their time?
2. What are the challenges DevRel practitioners are facing?
3. How will these challenges evolve over the coming years?
4. Is there anything we can do to reduce the impact of these challenges?
5. How can we make it easier to justify developer relations efforts?
It will also feature a short presentation from WeAreDevelopers and Q&A.
The latest Developer Program Leaders survey is now live. Have your say: https://sdata.me/DPL11_Sess
Data presented by
Richard Muir, Senior Market Research Analyst, SlashData
Richard is a Senior Market Research Analyst with over five years’ experience working in a range of industries, from government policy to automotive. He is responsible for finding and interpreting actionable insights from SlashData’s developer surveys.
Presentation by
Chris Heilmann, Director of Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers
Chris Heilmann dedicated the last 25 years of his life to make the web work and thrive. As a lead developer on some of the largest web products he learned that knowledge is not enough without teamwork and good handover. He worked at Yahoo, Mozilla and Microsoft, building the web platform, browsers and developer tools. He strives to make code and coders work efficiently. He is the author of several JavaScript books and the Developer Advocacy handbook (http://developer-advocacy.com). He is currently director of developer relations at WeAreDevelopers and spends a lot of time pondering how machine learning and AI can aid humans and replace jobs we are too important to do.