World Congress 2025

Building a Thriving Web Development Community in a Large Tech Company

July 10, 2025 13:45 โ€“ 13:55 ยท 10 min Airstream 1

What this session covers

In a tech company with over 4,000 employees and numerous teams dedicated to web development, fostering a sense of community and collaboration is essential. In this session, we will share our journey of forming and nurturing a vibrant web development community since 2019:

  • Learn how we started the web development community to connect developers spread across many teams.
  • Discover the bottom-up organization approach that empowers developers to take initiative and lead.

  • Explore our regular online meetups held every four weeks, featuring presentations and show-and-tell sessions.
  • Understand how these meetups enable knowledge sharing and help developers tackle tricky problems together.

  • Hear about our special on-site community events, including hackathon challenges.
  • See how connecting with fellow developers facing similar challenges benefits everyone involved.
  • Gain insights from our yearly survey about the community and technology, which helps us continuously improve .
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