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What about your community?
Hello! I’m Laurens, and I specialize in building developer communities. Over the past years, I’ve developed and managed developer programs for companies in the IoT space, often focusing on open-source technologies.
I’m available to share my experience with building thriving communities and running successful developer relations programs. Get in touch.
Previous Customers
Previous Customers
Services
Developer Relations
Engage with your developers to ensure longevity of your brand. Invest in the relationship with your users, support them with enhancing their skills and provide the tools to make them flourish using your technology.
Community Building
Bring people together and emphasize their common motives to keep them actively engaged with your brand.
Think about growing your reach by initiating ambassador groups, running a Forum to reduce the number of support queries, involving users with bug reporting, reducing the churn rate by increasing the developer experience or increasing user’s engagement by launching certification programs.
(Virtual) Tech Events
With experiences of running events up to 1500 physical and 5000 virtual visitors, we can support you with running high-quality events with a personal touch. Let's talk about management, organization or production of physical, hybrid and virtual events.
Experiences
Online Educational Programs
Virtual Summer Academy organizer with 2500 students and creator of an online LoRaWAN trainer program. As well as an online course tailored to equip students with understanding of the Lightweight Machine to Machine (LwM2M) protocol
Image courtesy of The Things Industries
Developer Events (virtual and in-person)
Organizer of The Things Conference from 2018 to 2020 with up to 1500 visitors, as well as a virtual event with 5000 visitors from 100+ countries.
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Certification Program
Creator of an IoT certification program, leading to 1000 certified developers.
Developer content creation
This includes hosting webinars, creating video content about new features, managing technical documentation, and writing targeted content specifically for developers.
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Ambassador Programs
Responsible for the global rollout of The Things Network, an open IoT network, with the help of 600+ local ambassadors.
Community Moderation
Manager of one of the largest IoT Forum as of today: The Things Network Forum