Evangelism vs Advocacy with Colin Loretz

A fan of webhooks, API specs, markdown, and static site generators, Colin loves to teach and explore new technologies. His career has revolved around building, documenting, and, often, breaking API integrations. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Discord. He has a winding journey of starting and building communities online and IRL, such as coworking spaces, conferences, and local meetups. These include Reno Collective Coworking, /dev/reno, Ignite Reno, Startup Weekend, and Hack4Reno. When he’s not in front of a computer, he can be found playing D&D with friends, running, or camping.

Erin Mikail Staples is a very online individual passionate about facilitating better connections online and off. She’s forever thinking about how we can communicate, educate and elevate others through collaborative experiences.

Currently, Erin builds community and thinks about the philosophy and tooling of the community and developer advocate world. Much of her day is spent empowering individuals to build, foster, and embrace healthy communities. Outside of her day-job, Erin is a comedian, graduate technical advisor, no-code content creator, triathlete, avid reader, and cat parent.

Most importantly, she believes in the power of being unabashedly “into things” and works to help friends, strangers, colleagues, community builders, students, and whoever else might cross her path find their thing.

Brian Rinaldi leads the Developer Relations team at LocalStack. Brian has over 25 years experience as a developer – mostly for the web – and over a decade in Developer Relations for companies like Adobe, Progress Software and LaunchDarkly. Brian is actively involved in the developer community running virtual meetups via CFE.dev and in-person events as President of Orlando Devs. He’s also the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and the author of a number of books.