IS REMOTE WORK HERE TO STAY?

Project Management Tools Product Demos

Toggl Plan, beautifully simple project planning.
Teambook, with this tool you say goodbye to painful team planning!
FunctionFox, timesheet & project management software for creative professionals.
Teamdeck, plan and measure your team’s work.
Happy Scribe, a tool for automatic transcription and subtitles.

Communication Tools Product Demos

MeetingRoom, a virtual space as a service for location-less teams
Yabbu, a simple communication app to process meetings asynchronously.
Chanty is a single intuitive communication tool for everyone.
Toasty, a tool to drive conversations and collaborations in virtual meetings.

Tips to change the way you think about Remote Management

Remote Management is a new science, but it has already accumulated a few too many clichés.
Sharon Koifman will try to “decliche” some of those ideas and introduce different ways to perceive remote working so you can become a really exceptional virtual leader.

Happeo Product Demo

Change the way your company communicates!

Learning Tools Product Demos

WebinarNinja, better webinars, no worries.
Hone, all-in-one training solution for modern teams

Building a Tech Unicorn from Romania (Leadership)
(recorded, How to Web 2018)

Daniel Dines is co-founder and CEO of UiPath, a robotic process automation company valued by investors at $7 billion.

Dines started DeskOver in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.

He later renamed it UiPath and moved its headquarters to New York City in 2018. It became Romania`s first tech unicorn and currently is after a $10 billion valuation.

Customers like Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank or Toyota North America can spend millions on UiPath’s virtual “robot” that can automate complex, repetitive tasks.

Knowledge Tools Product Demo

XWiki is an open source tool which allows you to create & organize knowledge.
Guru is the knowledge management solution that delivers.

Building Teams – Decentralized Teams, OKRs, Change Management
(recorded, How to Web 2019)

Bogdan is currently in charge of a tech team of 70+ people, striving to achieve a democratic way of working.

He’s “into organizational design, engagement, open-source, building disruptive products, and shipping awesome software”. He’s also mentored a team of teens at Made by Teens incubator.

Previously, he was a mentor at MVP Academy and SeedCamp (Prague and Dublin).

People Tools Product Demos

Shield Geo is a tool for international employment made simple.
Toggl a tool for beautifully simple time tracking by and for remote teams.

How to Build a Dream Team
(recorded, How to Web 2019)

Alan Clayton is a startup expert and the chairman of Alan Clayton Associates.

Alan also serves as the SOSV Business Coach. He works directly with teams across all SOSV accelerators and focuses much of his time on HAX Growth companies, growing hardware distribution and sales networks globally.

Alan is also the creator of the “Wholebrain Startup” methodology, which focuses on fully utilizing the intellectual resources of startup founders and teams.

With experience in both founding and mentoring hundreds of startups across the globe, Alan brings a wide range of expertise to team building, product development and sales, marketing, and global distribution channels.

Support Tools Product Demos

Klaus is a QA platform for support teams
GitDuck an online meeting tool for developers.

Becoming a Problem Solver (Leadership)
(recorded, How to Web 2019)

Michael Perry is Director of Product, Marketing Technology at Shopify. In his role, he specializes in product development for SMBs, relating to tools that would simplify marketing.
As an entrepreneur himself, Perry founded Kit, the virtual employee app for small businesses, which was acquired by Shopify in 2016.

The Future of Work – A Venture Capital Perspective
(recorded, How to Web 2018)

Marvin Liao is a former partner of 500 Startups, with over 19 years of experience in venture capital, technology businesses, and startups.

He was an investor at 500 Startups from 2014, running the accelerator program in San Francisco as well as investing in direct seed deals.

Previously, he was an executive at Yahoo! for over a decade. He is known as a “Polymath but really just Generalist” which describes his knowledge and competence in a wide range of areas.

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Paymo Product Demo

With Paymo you work better, wherever you are

Mirro Product Demo

Your all-in-one performance management software

Office Not Required

Founder of Basecamp and author of “REMOTE: Office not required”, Jason Fried has been for the last 15 years one of the most emblematic and well-known ambassadors of the remote movement.

In his Q&A will ask Jason about his principles on building and managing Basecamp’s remote team, the processes behind that, and the way he manages his day-to-day schedule and why he thinks running remote is the best option for any company in the world.

Forecast Product Demo

An intelligent professional service platform for improving your company’s financial & operational performance

Framework for the Next Decade of Internal Comms

This presentation is the culmination of a year full of research with over 80 Internal Comms professionals.

These findings are collected into one slide deck, creating a brief snapshot of the current state of Internal Communicators as professionals, their main challenges, and a glimpse at solutions for the future.

The next section details a new framework to perform Internal Communications – a way to bring a method to the madness, and make measurable reports easy.

We call this the Change Communications Methodology.

Jobful Product Demo

Gamified recruitment platform for double digit conversions

How to Rewire Your Team for Remote Work

Working remote is nothing like working in an office.

As a new set of challenges rises and your team’s processes and culture need to adapt to make it work.

Based on his experience, Iwo shares with us key struggles and fixes so don’t have to discover them yourself.

Google Drive Product Demo

Store, access, and share your files in one secure place

Is Remote for Me?

One of the world’s foremost experts on remote work, having started a remote-only company more than a decade ago, Martin is one of the people many ask advice from when it comes to the key question “Is remote for me?”

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Workplace from Facebook Product Demo

Where teams connect to get work done

KPMG Office Check-In App Product Demo

On-premises application which helps organizations manage where employees work from, post COVID-19

Setting Up Your Remote Team Processes

If you’re part of a 10 people remote team, your processes should have the same level of detail as for a 50 people in-office team.

Andreas Klinger, Investor @ Remote First Capital, will join us for a live conversation about the key processes you should set up for your remote team.

Loop Team Product Demo

Virtual Office for Distributed Teams

The Four Pillars of Remote Work

There are four main areas that individuals and companies need to re-invent to thrive in this new work from home / remote working environment.

Toggl Hire Product Demo

Hire better, faster, and fairer with skills tests

Building A Remote Startup Team

Jeroen founded and runs Salesfare, an innovative CRM tool, from the lovely city of Antwerp.

The Salesflare team has been remote since the beginning and has step by step put in place all the processes needed for good communication and results.

During his talk, Jeroen will share with us the milestones along the way that have led to today’s remote framework.

Humano Product Demo

Real time actionable employee insights with no effort

How to Use Your Culture to Build an Effective Remote Recruitment and On-Boarding Process

Ever since Reid Hastings published the now-infamous 125-page Netflix culture slide deck in 2009, numerous companies have discovered that a “culture deck” is a highly effective tool for defining and communicating their cultures to current and potential employees.
In this book startup and high-growth company culture expert Bretton Putter on a journey through some of the most effective and thoughtful culture decks illustrating how companies think about their culture – from household names like Netflix, LinkedIn and Etsy to companies on the cutting edge of culture like Next Jump, Valve and HotJar.
Reading this book will give you the pieces you need to create a culture deck that captures and defines your own unique company culture.

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