Fireside with Voxgig for Professional Speakers
Daniel Bryant
Episode: 129
Letting this podcast episode from last year bubble up to the surface. Daniel Bryant walks the walk of developer relations and community building and events. This includes a discussion on swag and a general enthusiasm that is both infectious and informative! Enjoy.
Today I am speaking to Daniel Bryant, who has got me into a lot more conferences than I care to admit, who is head of dev rel for Ambassador Labs. Daniel was pretty much there from the start and has had the experience of building an integrated developer relations function inside a company that works really well with all the other functions within the company.
But we start our discussion with the banal: swag, the place of swag in the modern developer conference. A question of great importance for your times. I don't know where I would get my T-shirts from if there was not swag.
We then get a little philosophical, because the word community has come to mean a great may tings and almost nothing now. And what does it mean to have a developer community, and what does the word community mean in that context? Daniel talks about why he prefers the word ecosystem.
Finally, we talk about product-led growth and how creating the right operational structures, and in particular, working really well with your data science team, can be super effective at making the whole organization work together functionally.
