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# Coffee with Developers


- **Date:** Wednesday, Jul 9, 2025
- **Time:** 14:30–15:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Airstream 2
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Description

A live recording of our "Coffee with Developers" podcast, this time with Jenn Looper of MSFT/AWS fame, now talking to us how it is to be back in DevRel and what the future might hold for Academia.

## Speaker

### [Christian Heilmann](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@christian-heilmann)

Open first, great comes later - VP Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers


## Related talks at this congress

- [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/756-empowering-thousands) — Bastian Heilemann, Bruno Margula
- [WeAreDevelopers Live Show](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/470-wearedevelopers-live) — Christian Heilmann, Daniel Cranney
- [We Are Developers: Inside the Tribe of Code, Keyboards, and Community](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/556-we-are-developers) — Francesco Napoletano
- [Tooltime](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/479-tooltime) — Christian Heilmann, Daniel Cranney