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US: Weekly, Tuesdays @9am PDT
JP: Monthly, Thursdays @5pm JST
EU: Bi-monthly, 1st & 3rd Fridays
Join our Alexa SMEs, who address general developer questions, on demand.
Monthly
Listen to our monthly webinar series, Tech Talks, to hear valuable insight from our Alexa SMEs. They cover a new topic every month in 30 minutes or less.
Thursdays @9am PDT
Join Alexa host, Jeff Blankenburg, and his weekly guest from the voice community as they discuss some of the biggest challenges and opportunities in voice.
Alexa Champions is a recognition program designed to honor the most engaged developers and contributors in the community. Learn more about the Alexa Champions program and explore the Alexa Champion Gallery to meet the current Alexa Champions.
Join the community on Slack
Join the Alexa community on Slack to meet other Alexa developers and share learnings and best practices.
Get code samples on GitHub
Explore our library of code samples on GitHub to learn how to build Alexa skills, implement new ASK features, and understand specific use cases.
Ask and Answer Questions on the Developer Forum
Use the ASK developer forum to post your questions about Alexa skill development and answer questions from others. You can browse by topic and search existing conversations.
Join the Alexa builder community at an upcoming in-person, virtual, or hyprid event. Get hands-on learning at a bootcamp or hackathon, attend a presentation at a conference, or connect with other Alexa skill developers at a local meetup.
Led by some of the foremost visionaries in the ambient computing space, Alexa sponsors key in-person and virtual events that attract audiences across the voice community and globe. Join to watch keynotes from Alexa subject-matter experts, and Alexa Champions.
VOICE Summit
December 6-9, 2021
We were proud to sponsor VOICE21, one of the industry's top events at the intersection of Voice, AI, development and customer experience. Check out our recent experience with the founder of Modev and creator of Voice Summit, Pete Erickson.
CES
January 5 - 8, 2022
Las Vegas, Nevada
Learn about the latest Alexa products and take a deeper look into partner innovations at CES 2022. Get inspired and follow us on social @AlexaDevs. Visit us at the Venitian Ballrooms G-H. #AmazonCES
CodeMash
Jan 11 - 14, 2022
Sandusky, Ohio
We are proud to sponsor CodeMash 2022, a unique event that educates developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Register to attend sesssions by Chief Technology Evangelist, Jeff Blankenburg.
Run by developers and enthusiasts, local community meetups give you the opportunity to meet with others who share an interest in developing Alexa skills. Join an Alexa meetup group near you to get notified of future community events in your region.
Jeff Blankenburg
Jeff likes to take things apart and put them back together again. He's spent the majority of his career as a web and mobile developer, but loves how much learning there is yet to do with voice as an interface.
Ryan Lowe
Ryan's career and passion has been around enabling engagement at scale. His hobbies include combining various incongruent interests together like his voice-enabled, IoT connected, solar powered, family chicken coop.
