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We talk to people in the developer community about developer relations, public speaking and community events.

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Sébastien Blanc

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Sébastien Blanc

Today, we’re speaking to someone who’s been doing DevRel since before DevRel was a term anyone knew. Sébastien Blanc is the Developer Relation Engineer at Port IO, an internal developer portal that gives developers the opportunity to do all their engineering in one place.

Joan Mulvihill

Richard speaks to Joan Mulvihill, Digitalisation & Sustainability Lead at Siemens. This conversation is particularly relevant to CEOs and business leaders feeling under pressure to deliver a digital transformation in their organisations.

Daniel Bryant

Daniel Bryant is the Head of Dev Rel at Ambassador Labs. In this fast paced conversation, Richard and Daniel discuss several aspects of developer relations and developer advocacy. From changing attitudes to swag through to the art of positioning (hat tip to April Dunford).

Suze Shardlow

Suze offers great insight in to the relationship between sales, DevRel and how you have to be careful in your organisation not to position DevRel as just another part of the sales funnel because nothing turns off developers and damages a community of developers as trying to sell to them directly!

Matthew Revell

This year, DevRelCon is in Prague from Dec 6th, but this interview, carried out before the pandemic, gives wonderful insight in to Matthew's own interest and pedigree in events, but also the genesis of DevRelCon. Listen to Matthew's perfect description of developer relations too!

Eoin Boylan

In this episode we are in a detailed conversation with Eoin Boylan the CTO of Evervault, a company that does encryption as a service. This is a Developers Relations how-to guide!

Matteo Collina

Matteo is well known from his Fastify, one of the fastest webservers written in Node.js. Matteo has just launched a start-up Platformatic and in this podcast he'll discuss how his experiences led him to not only form the company, but to structure it and grow his community in very specific ways.

Asim Aslam

Asim Aslam is a CEO who codes. His company M30.com offers a universal suite of microservices, offering a full business logic layer for building applications; the purpose of microservices! This conversation openly & honestly discusses the challenges and experiences of maintaining open source projects

Joe Drumgoole

Joe is a senior dev rel person at MongoDB. We talk about the development of developer relations, how critical it has been to the success of MongoDB.

Caelen King

In this episode Richard speaks to Caelen King, Angel, advisor to start-ups and founder. They discuss advice for non-technical founders and domain experts seeking to build their MVP. Listen for two important learnings.

Ovidiu Matan

Richard chats with Ovidiu Matan a creator of technology events and conferences. Ovidiu sources speakers and content through his successful Today Software Magazine. Based in Romania, Ovidiu explained to Richard in February 2022 about the impacts of the pandemic on his business.

Willie Nicol

Willie Nicol is a life coach with an unusual background – he was a police officer in the Scottish police force for thirty-one years. In a Fireside Chat with Richard that crackled with dynamism, he shared his no-nonsense approach to life coaching

Mike Acker

Mike Acker is a man on a mission to teach the world to speak without fear. He's written a bestselling book, Speak With No Fear, and coaches people to break down the fear barrier around public speaking. He reveals that public speaking isn't just about skill – it's about mental preparation.

Christina Aldan

Christina Aldan

Christina Aldan is definitely a woman who follows her own path. She struggled with computers at college, but she's now a digital advertising consultant with Arana Software. And one of her first professional talks was a TEDx talk.

Jock Busuttil

Jock Busuttil is a product manager who believes that if there was more common sense in the world, there would be no need for product managers! This blend of honesty and humour was a feature of his Fireside Chat with Richard.

Courtney Stanley

Courtney Stanley

Courtney Stanley has a background as an event planner and she specializes in the technology and marketing behind successful events. She’s now also known as a keynote speaker and MC. In her Fireside Chat with Richard, she talks about taking a strategic approach to speaking and event management.

Public Speaking