How to “work the room” at DevRelCon NYC 2026

DevRelCon NYC 2026 happens today and tomorrow! DevRelCon was created by the developer relations agency Hoopy and began in London in 2015. It’s since grown into an international series of conferences with editions in London, Prague, San Francisco, Tokyo, China, Latin America, and online. I’m speaking at this event, which is organized by Mike “Swift” Swift and Major League Hacking, the global community for early-career developers and software creators. It’s positioned as the premier conference for anyone working to grow developer adoption, spanning developer relations, developer experience, product marketing, platform product management, and everyone’s favorite three-letter acronym, GTM. In other words, it’s a room full of exactly the people my talk is about, which is either the best or the most terrifying possible audience for a talk on what the DevRel job market is really telling us. (Probably both.) I’m here as of the many, many people you can meet. But meeting people requires a…