George served four of his 13 years at Salesforce as COO, where he owned all major shared operational functions for the company. He also served in a variety of other management roles including VP of Product Marketing, SVP of Applications, EVP of Products, and Chief Marketing Officer. After leaving Salesforce at the end of 2014, George founded a workplace feedback startup called Peer that was acquired by Twitter in 2016. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College and a master's degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. George was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.This is an example bio for Twilio's host.
George served four of his 13 years at Salesforce as COO, where he owned all major shared operational functions for the company. He also served in a variety of other management roles including VP of Product Marketing, SVP of Applications, EVP of Products, and Chief Marketing Officer. After leaving Salesforce at the end of 2014, George founded a workplace feedback startup called Peer that was acquired by Twitter in 2016. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College and a master's degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. George was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.This is an example bio for Twilio's host.
Join us virtually for our Twilio Relay Developer Conference! Connect with fellow developers worldwide, share what you’ve built, learn from leading voices, and celebrate what it means to be a developer, creator, and builder. Sessions will focus on inspiring developer content and feature Twilions, Champions, and leaders in the developer community. Whether you're just starting out, struggling with a bug, or maintaining a project you've had running for years, we can’t wait to show off what you've built!
We will be selecting various projects to highlight and some project creators will even be given the chance to speak on-screen with a Twilio Developer Evangelist about your project (potentially with the sharing of code) for 20-30 minutes! Those selected to speak who are not Twilio employees will be eligible for an honorarium. We will work out the details and do a tech check with you ahead of the event.
Submit your project or community for consideration by registering for the event and sharing the details of a Twilio-related project or community you have built within the registration form by April 20th.
Attendees
Twilio Relay is an event for developers, creators, the code-experts, the code-newbies, and the code-interested. We're excited to welcome builders with diverse backgrounds and perspectives from around the world and especially encourage people who have identities underrepresented in tech and/or non-traditional backgrounds to join us.
We will donate up to $5 per registration to nonprofit organizations selected to speak about how they use Twilio. The first 250 registrants in locations with Twilio-approved food delivery services will also receive $20 towards lunch on us.
Accommodations
If you need an interpreter or another accommodation, please let us know in the registration form.
Media
Photos and videos may be taken at this event and shared online with the #TwilioRelay hashtag.
Code of Conduct
By registering, you agree to our Code of Conduct.
Special Prize Drawing
When you register, you can enter into a drawing for a special prize!
Looking to get answers from subject matter experts on Twilio specific topics? Join our Twilio Collectives on Stack Overflow! If you’ve been loving the non-troubleshooting parts of Forums—like the announcements, AMAs, and other miscellaneous shenanigans, join us on Twitter and Twitch for more of that.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Welcome and pre-show with Corey Weathers (he/him), Nathaniel Okenwa (he/him), and Michelle Glauser (she/her)—join us as we kick off the day's content. We'll set the tone with some interviews featuring some of the faces you'll see onscreen, walk through the schedule, and line up a few surprises to kick the day off right
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM: TwilioQuest Part 1 with Michelle Glauser (she/her) and Kevin Whinnery (he/him)—what you can do with it, along with a demo and next steps for how TwilioQuest operators can create custom content on their machines
12:30 PM - 12:55 PM: Serial entrepreneur Danielle Baskin (she/her) talks to Nathaniel Okenwa (he/him) about Dialup, her app that connects thousands of people around the world in surprise phone calls
1:00 PM - 1:25 PM: Judy Tuan (she/her) will share an SMS-to-voice article lookup app she built that won a Wikipedia hackathon with Nathaniel Okenwa (he/him)
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM: Artist Showcase—Liz Moy (she/her) and Tilde Thurium (they/them) will talk to Corey Weathers (he/him) about how artists use Twilio and get people excited about participating in their Artist Showcase initiative
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Christine Sunu (she/her) will have an interactive conversation featuring Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (he/him) the developer talking through different projects he's worked on, followed by a recap
3:00 PM - 3:25 PM: Ifat Ribon (she/her) speaks about her janitorial services app to Craig Dennis (he/him)
3:30 PM - 3:55 PM: Mel Feuerman (he/him) speaks with Craig Dennis (hehim) about his app that teaches people how to say common phrases in different languages like French, German, and Spanish
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Coding Relay Race—why not toss a Relay Race in the middle of Relay? We're going to load up some teams and get us a relay race going for this fun segment led by Lizzie Siegle (she/her) and Corey Weathers (he/him)
5:05 PM - 5:25 PM: Naomi Quinones (she/her) speaks about her app Just Say In, which translates text into multiple languages, with Michelle Glauser (she/her)
5:30 PM - 5:55 PM: Projects spotlight—Michelle Glauser (she/her) and Corey Weathers (he/him) will show off some of the projects submitted by attendees!
6:00 PM - 6:50 PM: TwilioQuest Part 2 with Tilde Thurium (they/them) and Kevin Whinnery (he/him)—more about creating custom content
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: A relaxing wrap-up happy hour with Corey Weathers (he/him), Lizzie Siegle (she/her), and Michelle Glauser (she/her)—we'll do a bit of developer news brief (recapping the latest developer news) and play a few interactive games with the audience!
A serial entrepreneur and a software developer, Jeff co-founded Twilio in 2008 to bring communications into the world of software. Prior to Twilio, Jeff was co-founder & CTO of NineStar, founding CTO of Stubhub.com, co-founder, CEO & CTO of Versity, and one of the first product managers for Amazon Web Services. Jeff grew up in Detroit, started his first company at age 12 doing event video production, DJ’d his way through college, and graduated from the University of Michigan. He is a father of two young boys, enjoys photography, and always makes time to hack on new software and hardware projects.
Danielle Baskin is a multimedia artist, product designer, and serial entrepreneur who founded Dialup, an app that connects thousands of people around the world in surprise phone calls. She also makes whimsical products and experiences like faux stained glass window covers that turn airplanes into a place of prayer and masks that look like realistic faces. She's currently based in the Bay Area where she organizes public spectacles like LineCon, Oracle OpenWorld, and pop-up tarot readings through her window—centered around serendipitous conversations between unexpecting strangers.
Ifat Ribon is a senior software developer at LaunchPad Lab, a design and development agency headquartered in Chicago. Ifat brings her consulting background to software development, and enjoys collaborating with her teams and clients to bring new digital products to life. She is known as a “problem-solver to her core,” with the ability to identify multiple solutions in real-time, triage them, make a call, and execute on that call. Away from her computer, Ifat is an avid runner. You can often find her on Chicago’s lakeshore path bearing the elements throughout the year. She built a janitorial services app that got a lot of use to provide messaging capabilities during the pandemic.
Judy Tuan became a software engineer through an apprenticeship at Blazing Cloud with the founder of RailsBridge. She has since worked as a software engineer and engineering manager at Indiegogo and Techtonica. During the last eight years, she has helped people join tech through her work with Learners Guild, RailsBridge, and Women Who Code. She currently volunteers with the Tech Workers Coalition, which is a group building workers’ power.
Melvyn Feuerman, a.k.a. Mr. Mel, is an 81-year-old developer whose primary hobby is building Twilio apps. Mel cornered Twilio CEO, Jeff Lawson, to demo his Hal 9000 psychoanalysis chatbot at an Engage event three years ago. He’s been a fixture of the New York City Twilio developer community ever since.
Chloe is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft who is passionate about bringing people with non-traditional backgrounds into the world of tech.
Pre-engineering she was a professional musical theatre performer. Since her graduation from Hackbright Academy in December 2016, Chloe has worked with a wide variety of developer communities and loves to help developers’ lives easier. In 2018, Chloe was featured in the Grace Hopper Conference gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org.
Meredith Hassett is a Developer Advocate at Velo, a rapid development platform by Wix, where she shares her experience and knowledge in web development. She has worked on applications for financial institutions, nonprofits, and travel groups. Meredith currently works out of San Francisco and spends her days finding new ways to blend her other passions with technology.
