Developer Relations is an industry known by many different names. Developer Advocacy, Community Management, Developer Experience, are just a few examples. You’ve likely heard these terms being used over the last few years and there’s a high chance that someone you follow on X or LinkedIn just announced that they joined Microsoft or Amazon’s “Developer Advocate team.” This talk will help you understand not only what all of these terms mean, and more importantly, why, as a developer, you should care. Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster developer communities and has been doing so for over 10 years. Mary is the Director of Developer Relations at Camunda, a source-available and developer-friendly product that allows you to design, automate, and improve any process across your organization. She's the author of The Business Value of Developer Relations, founding host of the Community Pulse podcast, former curator of the DevRel Weekly newsletter, and co-creator of the DevRel Collective Slack community.