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 Willaertshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/clowillaerts/ https://x.com/bnox https://clowillaerts.com/ https://clowillaerts.substack.com/   Josh Longhttps://x.com/starbuxman https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlong/   Baruch Sadogurskyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jbaruch/ https://x.com/jbaruch   Pratik Patelhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/prpatel/ https://x.com/prpatel  Roni Doverhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ronidover/ https://x.com/doppleware   Content00:57 Clo about the difference between marketing and technical conferences 02:49 Impact of ecological cost on our work 04:56 Fast changes in trending topics  07:33 How to get paid as a (keynote) speaker 12:53 Josh about being Developer Relation 14:53 How to reach the energy level of Josh 15:42 Do you have to be an expert about a topic to talk about it? 18:34 How to create a story for a new talk 19:02 Only use slides when really needed 22:29 How hard is live coding? 23:48 Baruch about the DevRel role 24:52 How to move from Dev to DevRel 25:44 The focus of Baruch 27:57 Pratik about the role of a dev team at a conference 29:50 How DevRel influences product development in their company 31:36 How Pratik became a DevRel 32:40 Good and bad of being a DevRel 34:38 Roni about the role of a DevRel 35:54 Importance of using your product (coding) as a DevRel 37:35 Back side of the job  38:43 Tip 1: Ask to be a speaker  39:31 Tip 2: Stand out! 41:01 Tip 3: The show must go on! 42:31 More tips...  48:08 One final tip from Josh 48:16 Outro Book by Geertjan Wielenga: "Developer, Advocate!"