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Christian

Heilmann

Vice President of Developer Relations

WeAreDevelopers

Chris Heiilmann wrote the developer advocacy handbook, ran DevRel departments in Yahoo, Mozilla and Microsoft and now uses the network he built speaking at 30 conferences a year to now make WeAreDevelopers happen. He lives in Berlin, misses his time in London, enjoys geeking out immensely in movie trivia and 8 bit computing. He is currently trying to buy a house because what he really wants is a huge dog.

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19 November 2025 09:45 - 10:15

Cat herding with lions and tigers - How we organised a 15,000 attendee developer conference

The WeAreDevelopers World Congress is a 15,000 developers, 10 stages and 600 presentations event. Let's take a look at how a 30 people company and a 5 person DevRel/Events team manages to get world class speakers, run the event and deal with 2400 hours of 4k recording footage to release two months afterwards. Prepare for tales of woe and wow.