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

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Since 2018, Richard has been chatting to an international and diverse mix of speakers events organisers and software development advocates, mining for nuggets of wisdom.

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Stacey Kruczek

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Stacey Kruczek

When Stacey Kruczek joined Aerospike.com, their community building needed a little TLC from a developer relations expert. These days, the community is 12,000 people strong, and she knows exactly how to prove DevRel’s business value. In this episode, we chat with Stacey about all this and more.

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.

Dan Ram

Dan Ram has worn so many hats in his career that he could stock a department store, but he’s best known as a professional speaker and MC. He shows wannabe speakers how to dominate the world of the screen, and his specialty as an MC – secret handshakes with speakers.

Jay Allen

Jay Allen, who has a military background and also ran a health & safety business, became a professional public speaker overnight when he was asked to step into the breach at a charity event. This is a Fireside Chat that crackled with dynamism and energy.

Rachael Robertson

Rachael Robertson

In a Fireside Chat that packed a punch, Rachael Robertson shares her experience of leading a team of ‘crazy people’ in the Antarctic, where she learned that being respected is more important than being liked for leaders – respect trumps harmony.

Stephan Murtagh

Stephan Murtagh

Stephan Murtagh is best known as the Exhibition Guy, the guy who shows exhibitors how to make trade exhibitions work for them. In a full-throttle Fireside Chat with Richard, he tells Richard that audiences are more interested in relevant content than in famous speakers.

Paul Savage

Paul is Chief Operating Officer of Conjura, an innovative start-up that helps other companies harness the power of their data. He’s also a veteran of the speaking circuit and credits elocution lessons for his success as a speaker.

David Gonzalez

David Gonzalez is a dynamo, a DevOps engineer, lecturer and public speaker who’s not afraid to take risks during his talks. His attitude is, if it hurts, do it more, and he encourages wannabe speakers to just go and do it – and if it hurts, do it more.

Public Speaking