Panel to discuss strategies for building meaningful developer communities and how they impact tech organizations.

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud storage innovator providing a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers, today announced it will join a panel at this year’s AI DevSummit titled, “Building a Developer Community.” The invite-only panel is a part of the DevMarketing at DeveloperWeek Leadership track at the conference.

This panel, featuring executives from Zoom, Neo4j, Captivate.dev, and Catchy, will center around how these executives are building developer communities, the benefits that work has brought to their organizations, and how these communities have supported technical practitioners who engage with them. As part of the panel, Backblaze Chief Technical Evangelist Pat Patterson will share lessons from the Backblaze’s developer outreach efforts, including how the company leverages developer feedback to improve its cloud storage APIs and to build trust in the AI development community.

“At Backblaze, we’re increasingly tapping into developer communities to connect with these specific subsets of users that each have their own experiences and skillsets,” Patterson said. “We’ve encouraged our community through open-source contributions, developer-focused content like webinars, and direct engagement at events like this. These relationships have been invaluable for product feedback and innovation.”

AI DevSummit is the world’s leading AI developer and engineering conference, being held from May 28–29 in San Francisco. The panel is set for May 29, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. PT at the South San Francisco Conference Center. The conference targets software engineers and data scientists who want an introduction to AI, as well as AI dev professionals who want a landscape view of the newest AI technologies.

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the cloud storage innovator providing a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers. We deliver high-performance, secure cloud object storage that customers use to develop applications, manage media, secure backups, build AI workflows, protect from ransomware, and more. Backblaze helps businesses break free from the walled gardens that traditional providers lock customers into, enabling them to use their data in open cloud workflows with the providers they prefer at a fraction of the cost. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) was founded in 2007 and serves over 500,000 customers in 175 countries around the world. For more information, please go to www.backblaze.com

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