Developer Relations Mini Conference

Welcome! I decided to do a half day conference that runs through the evening to get a good feel on the attendance and participation.

Snacks sponsored by Cloudinary!

Schedule:

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM - Meet and Greet! Snacks available duration of this event!
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM - Introduction by Tessa Mero
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM - Talk title: Burnout: The non-glamorous part of DevRel by Dawn Parzych
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM - Break, Snacks
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - PANEL/GROUP: Measuring DevRel Success -
7:00 PM - 7:15 PM - Break
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM - Talk title: Engineering Equity: Stories from the Science of Interviewing
8:15 PM - 9:00 PM - Network/Chat

9:00 PM - Event Over!

Talk title: Burnout: The non-glamorous part of DevRel
Presenter: Dawn Parzych
Abstract: Flying to speak at one conference after another and becoming internet famous is the glamorous life of DevRel. But this lifestyle comes at a cost—burnout.
We praise teams and individuals for going the extra mile, booking back to back trans-atlantic flights, working on the weekend. We label these people the go-to person or rockstar. Our competitive nature kicks in and we work harder so we can be seen as a hero, creating a vicious cycle of people trying to out-do each other.
But, what happens when colleagues fail to meet deadlines or flub a talk? We ridicule, shame, or even fire them. This is not healthy and leads to burnout.
You can only give 110% for so long before burnout and other mental or physical health issues rear their ugly heads.
This talk will explore what we can do to avoid burnout in ourselves and others:
Check-in on people’s mental and physical wellbeing.
Recognize signs of anxiety and stress in ourselves and others and encourage one another to take a break.
Mentor and teach others to improve.
Show appreciation for the little things as well as the big.
Experience more positive events than negative.
Bio: Dawn is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly - a feature management platform that software teams use to build better software faster - where she uses her storytelling prowess to write and speak about the intersection of technology and psychology. She enjoys helping people be more successful at work and in life. She makes technical information accessible avoiding buzzwords and jargon whenever possible. Dawn has spoken at DevOpsDays, Velocity, Interop, and Monitorama. Her articles have appeared in numerous technical publications. When not writing or speaking she serves as a chapter organizer for Write/Speak/Code.

Talk Title: Engineering Equity: Stories from the Science of Interviewing
Presenter: Kasey Champion
Abstract: Karat is on a mission to build the world’s most consistent and unbiased interview. After 25,000 interviews, we’re ready to share our learnings to help organizations and individuals alike improve their technical interviews. By applying scientific analysis and engineering best practices we’ve uncovered subtle but impactful changes to the traditional technical interview to improve equity in interviews and as an extension our entire industry.
Bio: Kasey Champion is a software engineer turned teacher. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and worked for the Computer Science Department as a Teaching Assistant for 3 years. After graduation she joined Microsoft as a software engineer, spent her mornings volunteer teaching computer science at local high schools through the TEALS program, and then joined the Microsoft Learning team full time to develop computer science courseware. She now runs a technical interview question creation laboratory at Karat.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaseychampion/