Speaking · the conference wall

Talks, stages, and the occasional microphone.

I speak about developer relations, communities, and building with AI, and I've organized a conference or two myself. If you're putting an event together, I'd love to hear about it.

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01Featured talks

RenderATL · 2026
The Content ROI Shift: Is AI-Scaled Technical Blogging Your New Growth Moat?

How AI-assisted long-form technical content can drive growth for developer-facing products, with a practical workflow for articles that rank on Google and influence AI-generated answers.
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MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru · 2026
Why Agents Make Different Decisions With the Same Tools

Practical testing and development practices for MCP servers that make AI agents meaningfully more reliable. Presented with Jyoti Bisht and Animesh Pathak.
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All Things Open · 2025
Does Your Tech Company Even Need A Community?

A framework for evaluating your company's readiness to launch community initiatives, before you burn goodwill finding out the hard way.
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DevRelCon London · 2023
Overcoming stage fright

An honest talk about stage fright, and the techniques that let you get up and speak anyway.
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02For organizers

Speaker bio · copy freely

Aditya Oberai is the Developer Relations Lead at Appwrite and an avid tech community and hackathon enthusiast. Having worked with various web and cloud technologies, he has spent the last seven years empowering student and tech communities in India and beyond.

Aditya has been an active Microsoft MVP since 2022. He was awarded "Best Developer Relations Professional of the Year" at the CMX Community Industry Awards 2024 and led the organisation of the first-ever DevRelCon in India in 2024.

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I speak about developer relations, community building, technical writing, open source, developer education, AI-driven development, storytelling, product ideation, startups, web development, cloud computing, API development, and the places where they overlap.

03Every talk

2026 The Content ROI Shift: Is AI-Scaled Technical Blogging Your New Growth Moat? RenderATL How AI-assisted long-form technical content can drive growth for developer-facing products, with a practical workflow for articles that rank on Google and influence AI-generated answers.2026 Why Agents Make Different Decisions With the Same Tools MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru Practical testing and development practices for MCP servers that make AI agents meaningfully more reliable. Presented with Jyoti Bisht and Animesh Pathak.2025 Does Your Tech Company Even Need A Community? All Things Open A framework for evaluating your company's readiness to launch community initiatives, before you burn goodwill finding out the hard way.2025 Introducing the Developer Relations Foundation Open Source Summit India An introduction to the DevRel Foundation, a Linux Foundation project working to define and advance the practice of developer relations.2025 Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP): Revolutionizing LLM Integration Analytics Vidhya DataHour How MCP enhances language model interactions with external knowledge: benefits, limitations, real-world examples, and building a simple MCP server hands-on.

2024 Effortless Language Translation with Serverless Functions and GPT-4o ServerlessDays Bengaluru How GPT models can support event-driven consumer use-cases like language translation, demonstrated with serverless architectures.

2024 Balancing Community Health and Open Source Growth: The Contributor's Role GitTogether Bengaluru What a healthy open source community looks like, and how contributors can sustain it while collaborating better with maintainers.2023 Understanding Role-Based Access Control with ASP.NET Web APIs .NET Conf Building custom role-based access control in .NET 8 Web APIs, beyond what the framework gives you out of the box.2023 Build AI-Enabled Apps with .NET MAUI and Azure Cognitive Services Global Azure Bengaluru Adding vision, speech, and language features to cross-platform .NET MAUI apps with Azure Cognitive Services.2023 How Can DevRel Enable Engineering? DevRelCon Yokohama How developer relations can serve engineering as much as marketing: the feedback loops and collaboration models that make it work.2023 Overcoming stage fright DevRelCon London An honest talk about stage fright, and the techniques that let you get up and speak anyway.2021 Why DevRel Needs More Students To Lead DevRelCon Tokyo Why student communities are an untapped source of developer relations talent, and how DevRel teams can give students room to lead.

Also: organized DevRelCon Bengaluru 2024, the first-ever DevRelCon in India.

04Podcasts and streams

2026 Aditya Oberai from Appwrite First Principles · Episode 2 2025 How to Build a Global Community for an OSS Product Hackmamba 2025 Expert Talks with Aditya Oberai The Tech Sharmit Podcast · S1E98 2024 What Do DevRels Do? Breaking Prod with Vivek · Episode 4 2024 A Fireside Chat with Aditya Oberai on DevRel at Appwrite The Manik Diaries 2024 Open Source DevRel Major League Hacking 2023 Learn Healthy Contribution Practices GitHub Education on Twitch 2023 Building Appwrite Functions Nick Taylor 2023 Inspiring Journey of a Developer Advocate and Microsoft MVP ScholarHat 2023 Community Dude Podcast with Aditya Oberai Community Dude Podcast · Episode 1 2023 From Student Hacker to First DevRel Job DevRelCon 2022 Tech Interview Prep with Aditya Oberai W. Ian Douglas 2022 A Short Intro to DevRel Julia F Morgado 2022 Tech Podcast Series with Aditya Oberai Azure Developer Community 2022 Don't Let Your College Brand Stop You The Developer's Cafe 2022 Journeying from Hacker to Organizer Hacking Hackathons · GitHub Education on Twitch · S01E06 2021 Cracking DevRel Roles Tech Interviews Simplified · GitHub Education on Twitch · S01E08 2021 #MyStartInTech Story .Tech Domains x Major League Hacking