Developer Advocate AWS

Developer Advocate AWS

International Speaker

Spoken at 118 events in 28 countries

GraphQL in 2016

GraphQL London

• Founded November 2016
• GraphQL Technologies
• Driven by passion

Goals

• Meetups every 2 months
• Recordings available
• Great speakers and content
• Great atmosphere and hospitality

Community back in 2016

food

drinks

recording

top speakers

prizes

top venue

Format

GraphQL Today

Community Today

Venue

Speaker

Promotion

start

contact

run

Event

book

How a Community is made

Venue

• Difficulty: Medium
• Location, location, location
• Check-in and security
• Technical setup: audio, video
• Catering details
• Space setup and cleaning

Capacity

300

Hospitality

Location

Booking

easy

150

hard

good

80

100

hard

hard

very good

regular

regular

good

good

Sponsor

recording

food, drinks, recording

regular

food, drinks, recording

regular

no

Hype

no

yes

yes

no

Speakers

• Difficulty: Hard
• Top speakers
• Developer Advocates
• Conference speaker snitcher
• Network: venue, sponsors

@leeb

@stubailo

@schickling

Sashko Stubailo

Lee Byron

Johannes Schickling

@MirelaIclodean

Mirela Iclodean

Promotion

• Difficulty: Easy
• General announcement
• Speaker update
• Sponsor update
• Reminder
• Day-after message

Event

• Difficulty: Medium
• Pre-checks: RSVPs/security, speakers and catering
• Hosting and schedule keeping
• Prizes
• Socialising and Pictures!