Dancing with Unicorns: How to Successfully Build Communities for Top Engineers

From Silicon Valley startups to multi-national enterprises, organizations of all shapes and sizes have discovered the importance of engaging with software engineers. As software eats the world, developers (and groups of them) are increasingly sought after as key resources in building our future.

But whether you want to engage developers as users of your product, builders on your API or simply to build higher quality relationships for your engineering hiring - programmers are a special breed that demand a specific approach when engaging with them.

From the lens of building high quality relationships with other engineers at scale, hear insights that will inspire you to build an engaged community of developers surrounding your platform or company, or simply how to be a better actor in the global developer community yourself.

🗓 Meetup Agenda

[19.00] Opening

[19.15] Talk by Pete Soderling, founder of DataEngConf (dataengconf.com) which will take place in Barcelona on September 25 and 26

[20.15] Discussion and networking ad libitum on the terrace with pizza🍕, brews 🍻 & views of the city

🎙 About the speaker:
Pete Soderling is a software engineer, turned founder, turned community builder who has worked in building online platforms since the earliest days of the internet. This talk will explore lessons he's learned as a geek who, over the course of his career, has built developer tools, coached CTOs in hiring, and founded a Silicon Valley social network for developers backed by engineering executives from Twitter, Salesforce, LinkedIn and others. In the picture: Pete with the data engineering team at Lyft.