Heavybit helps its member companies take developer products to market. Members like Stripe, PagerDuty and RainforestQA look to our advisors, alumni and staff to help shape their businesses. As part of this program, we host a number of half-day conferences. Your audience includes:

• LIVE: 150-200 topic-based practitioners and early founders at Series Seed to Series B developer, SaaS, enterprise and infrastructure companies
• POST-EVENT VIDEOS: 50-60K video viewers specifically interested in learning about topics relevant to Series Seed to Series B developer and enterprise company go-to-market

• DevGuild
  • 20 Min Presentations, no Q&A
  • 30 Min Fireside Chats, no Q&A
  • 30-45 Min Panels (up to 3 panel participants and 1 moderator), no Q&A

Note: While we appreciate the offer to contribute to Heavybit, we also reserve the right to refuse submissions. In some cases, suggested topics are inappropriate to our stage of company, or a topic has been presented in the past. We do not accept product pitches, breaking news, pieces targeted at a specific individual or hyper-specific situation, or anything counter to our Code of Conduct. We reserve the right to edit or unpublish speaker video based on our content and fact checking policy.

• A Strong POV: You believe there is a right way to build developer companies and communities. Offer that opinion and use specific early-stage examples from developer and SaaS companies to persuade us.
• Tactical Advice: Offer tips, metrics, best practices, tools and resources. We want to implement your advice this week. What can our teams implement today that isn’t already well-known?
• Personal Stories: Forget sweeping generalizations and abstract concepts. Where possible, we want to hear about your real failures and successes. Get personal and give us insider knowledge about a major company or project. Slides with examples of specific strategy docs, user flow models, and real campaigns are super useful.
• A Tailored and Well-Structured Presentation: Offer a logical progression and framework, peppered with examples related to developer companies and products. Talks often include an intro, a problem statement or POV, supporting examples/points, and a take away/conclusion slide.

• Presenters: You’ll be asked to do a dry run of your talk and submit your slides in aspect ratio of 4:3 well ahead of an event. We also neeed to know if you'll be using a video embed in your slides to ensure we're able to run this with our live A/V. All slides will be merged into a master deck.
• Panelists & Fireside: Typically it’s the job of the moderator to provide you with questions ahead of your talk. We’ll ensure those questions are informed via a pre-event survey to our portfolio companies. Typically, panels end on a final question from the moderator -- namely, what final tips do you you have for those in attendance? We'll ask you to book a time ahead of the event to connect with your moderator.

Advisors and writers sometimes contribute because they are considering new job opportunities, are curious about formal board advisor roles, or are building new consulting businesses. We require that you disclose any potential conflicts or potential material gain before posting or engaging in an advisory relationship with our members.