# [[GLPDE - Developer Advocacy Kickoff]]
![[GLPDE - Developer Advocacy Kickoff.svg]]
speakers:: "[[David Allen (DevRel)]]"
- Business & strategy
- Changes
- PM re-organization
- Product marketing/re-positioning
- Grafana Japan
- Positioning: what IS Grafana?
- Business observability
- Act 3 and cross-product workflows
- Though we're not really talking about Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 anymore
## People & Team
![[grafana-plde-da-kickoff.png]]
> We're often the people who plant the seeds; we're seldom the ones who reap the harvest.
- How do we do this?
- Expand the crew: Use community
- We're the only team in Grafana who can expand our team without expanding our headcount
- Expand who can play
- Lisa, Imma, Liudmila working on OTel
- Ewa driving the mentoring program
- More content, more focused
- Ronald working on golden paths
- Smarter, faster, better at distribution
- We'll have a new joiner this quarter and we'll have another DA in Japan
- Something to keep an eye on: timezone issues, especially with the Japanese DA
- Good: Fika, fun questions on the weekly, banter channel, "what did you do last weekend?", learning sessions
- "As above, so below." : the culture we have is the culture we'll spread. We externalize our culture to the community, so it's super important to maintain our culture too.
- Our offsite in Lisbon
- ✅ How to measure our impact
- ✅ How to connect learning with product
- Where and how to help GTM
- Webinars
- Demand-gen personalization (without giving away PII)
- More ideas needed (maybe stuff regarding enablement and helping [[Mitch Seaman]] grow in his new function)
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