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Running Remote May 2022

World’s Largest Remote Work Conference 17—18 May 2022 | Montreal, CA Join Community Access recordings Days : : Numbers 0 Sessions 0 Speakers 0 Partners 0 % said the event

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Running Remote Online May 21 2021

Running Remote Online May 2021

Running Remote online conference was planned to run in multiple time zones, allowing 15 hours of expert presentations, break-out sessions, and networking opportunities. As part of the event, attendees got to take part in a virtual tour of Venice’s famous canals and historical landmarks.

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Running Remote Online August 2020

Fully online August 12th, 2020 Running Remote’s free online conference in August 2020 had over 2000 registrations.  More than 600 new connections were made, helped people connect face-to-face forging meaningful

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Remote AID

Fully online April 20th, 2020 Telecommuting during coronavirus? Remote AID is for you. Helping You Get Through Remote Work Challenges We believe in the power of remote work, and as

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Running Remote Conference 2019

Running Remote 2019

Running Remote 2019 was held on June 29-30, 2019 at beautiful Sofitel Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, a magnificent beach venue. With over 400 attendees and 28 speakers, Running Remote

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Running Remote Conference 2018

Running Remote 2018

23rd and 24th June 2018 -Bali Running Remote 2018 was held on June 23-24, 2018 at Fivelements, Bali, an award-winning eco-conscious luxury wellness destination. 250 attendees along with top remote work leaders gathered

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Talia Goldberg

Partner
@Bessemer Venture Partners
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Talia Goldberg is a partner in Bessemer Venture Partner’s San Francisco office and invests across early and growth stage software and internet.

Talia joined Bessemer in 2013 and has since become the youngest elected partner in firm history. She has partnered with ServiceTitan, Shippo, Papaya Global, Discord, Dashlane, Toss (Viva Republica), Newfront Insurance, Pinterest, and Stubhub/Viagogo among others. She was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital and recognized on Business Insider’s Rising Stars list.

Prior to joining Bessemer, Talia worked at Foursquare and Simple Finance. Talia graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. She grew up in Portland, Oregon and will forever be a Blazers fan.

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Talia Goldberg
Partner
@Bessemer Venture Partners
Claire Lew
Claire Lew
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Claire Lew

CEO
@Know Your Team
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Claire Lew is the CEO of Know Your Team, a software tool that helps managers become better leaders. Know Your Team’s tools help managers hold effective one-on-one meetings, build rapport in their teams, get honest feedback, and share status updates for 15,000+ people in 25 countries at companies like Airbnb and Kickstarter.
Claire’s mission in life is to help people become happier at work. She speaks internationally on how to create more open, honest workplace environments, and has been published in Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Inc, Fortune, among others. Claire is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at her alma mater, Northwestern University.
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Claire Lew
CEO
@Know Your Team
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Karen Mangia

Vice President of Customer and Market Insights
@Salesforce
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Karen Mangia is an internationally-recognized thought leader whose TEDx appearance, keynotes, blogs and books reach hundreds of thousands of business leaders each year. She is the author of Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You (Wiley), Listen Up! How to Tune in to Customers and Turn Down the Noise (Wiley) and also Success With Less (Marie Street Press). A prolific blogger and sought-after media interview, she has been featured in Forbes and regularly contributes to Thrive Global and ZDNet.

As Vice President of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce, she engages current and future customers around the world to discover new ways of creating success and growth together. She serves on the company’s Work from Home Taskforce, where she is helping the company’s 50,000+ worldwide employees to better adapt to a work-from-home environment. Passionate about diversity and inclusion, she also serves on the company’s Racial Equality and Justice Taskforce.

Prior to Salesforce, she spearheaded Customer Satisfaction and Experience at Cisco Systems.

Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work For You

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Karen Mangia
Vice President of Customer and Market Insights
@Salesforce
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Andreas Klinger

Investor
@Remote First Capital
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Andreas Klinger is an Investor at Remote First Capital. A group of remote founders, operators and early investors
investing in the next generation of remote work. By the community, for the community.  Remote First Capital looks for Startups that improve remote work and Startups that leverage remote work in a unique way.

Andreas is also known for his work with @AngelList. AngelList has over 1 Million candidates looking for remote roles and several thousand companies looking for global talent.

Previous to AngeList, Andreas was founding team member and CTO at ProductHunt and VP of Engineering at CoinList. He led the tech team at @ProductHunt (now part of AngelList). Andreas Klinger, currently Head of Remote HR at Angel List is going to give us a tactic heavy presentation on building an engineering team remotely. In his position at Product Hunt, he led the development team and he’s going to bring you through how he grew that team, what he learned from other startups and the framework you will need to do the same inside your own companies.
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Andreas Klinger
Investor
@Remote First Capital
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Chris Herd

Founder & CEO
@Firstbase
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Chris Herd is the founder and CEO of Firstbase, an all-in-one provisioning platform that lets companies provide all the practical equipment remote workers need at the touch of a button.

He believes that replicating office working styles remotely rather than leveraging the advantages of remote will lead to bad outcomes. The synchronous-first instantaneous gratification that adult kids club offices encourage destroys productivity, while remote empowers workers to do deep focused work without distraction. The latter is what he passionately believes needs to emerge for remote to deliver on its promise.

Previously Chris founded a remote-first FinTech startup and installed physical equipment in the most remote environments on the planet. He regularly shares his thoughts on remote through twitter, his blog, and speaking engagements.

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Chris Herd
Founder & CEO
@Firstbase
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John Eckman

CEO
@10up
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John Eckman is the Chief Executive Officer at 10up, a distributed digital agency with a focus on building great web publishing experiences on open source platforms, primarily WordPress.

10up has been 100% distributed from day one. John has lots of experience with the operational, cultural, and practical opportunities and challenges at our scale. Today 10up employs 175 full time remote staff.

Previously John was a Managing Director at ISITE Design, a Senior Director at Optaros, Director of Application Development at PixelMEDIA, and held a number of different roles (across front-end development, software engineering, and user experience) at Molecular. (Actually I joined TVisions, which became Molecular – and was later acquired by Isobar).

John received a BA from Boston University, an MA & PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an MIS from Northeastern University.

He also blogs at Open Parenthesis on many things related to work: open source, web design, and general internet culture stuff.

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John Eckman
CEO
@10up
Davit Baghdasaryan
Davit Baghdasaryan
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Davit Baghdasaryan

Co-Founder & CEO
@Krisp
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Davit is the CEO & Co-Founder at Krisp.ai.
Krisp is best known for its AI-powered noise cancelling app that works with Zoom, Teams, Meet, Loom and 1000+ other apps. Before Krisp, Davit was the head of product security at Twilio. Davit co-founded Krisp in 2018 with a mission to enable people to better express themselves in their daily voice and video interactions.
Remote work is possible because of the amazing tools that have emerged in the last decade (Zoom, Slack, Loom, etc). While the remote work is growing tremendously new tools will make this transformation faster and smoother.
As someone who worked and lived in different places in the world, he recognizes there is a big gap in communication skills throughout the world and it’s one of the greatest barriers for making people successful in the new era of remote work. By fixing this gap with technology, he believes that, we will make a leap towards the dream of making Remote Work ubiquitous in the world.
Davit was born and raised in Armenia and then moved to US and lived in the Bay Area for 10 years. Currently he is  back in Armenia and running a company of 70 people distributed globally.
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Davit Baghdasaryan
Co-Founder & CEO
@Krisp
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Morgan Smith-Lenyard

People Ops Business Partner - Talent Management
@Help Scout
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Morgan is a People Operations Business Partner, with a focus on Talent Management at Help Scout and Founder of Dismantled.work. She finds the most enjoyment in helping every individual on the team bring their best and whole self to work.
Morgan has 5 years experience in employee engagement, culture building, and recruitment in the tech and startup space. Creating and fostering close, honest, manager and individual contributor relationships and opening safe space for women of color to use their voice are Morgan’s greatest passion.
Morgan is an enthusiastic blogger, budding public speaker, and above all, a hands-on and devoted mom of 2!
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Morgan Smith-Lenyard
People Ops Business Partner - Talent Management
@Help Scout
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Shane Mac

CEO
@Assist

Shane Mac is the CEO & Co-founder of Assist which was acquired by Conversocial in 2019. He is also the Senior Vice President at Conversocial.

He spent 7+ years at Assist building the future of AI and the talking internet with partners like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Twitter. Assist powers Fortune 500 companies like T-Mobile, Fandango, 1-800-Flowers, Sephora, Best Buy, MGM hotels, and many more.

In 2017, he co-founded Squared Away to employ military spouses as executive assistants.

He worked on Gist.com, which was acquired by BlackBerry for over $40 million. Gist was one of the first social CRM companies and grew to over 100 million people by 2010.

Shane has been featured in the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, NPR’s All Things Considered, Forbes, USA Today, and more.

He likes spending time with people who are in the arena.

Shane Mac
CEO
@Assist
Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy
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Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy

Global Head—Zoho for Startups
@Zoho Corporation
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Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy aka Kuppu is the Global Head—Zoho for Startups at Zoho Corporation.

She has been part of Zoho’s growth story for about a decade, and bridging the gap between businesses and technology has been her core area of work.

She is a sought-after keynote speaker on topics like future skills, emotional intelligence, and human element of technology.

Her extensive experience of being a softskills and communication trainer and a voice & accent specialist, strengthen her expertise in story telling, and she is a great fan of  the “explain-it-like-I am-five” concept.

Kuppu believes that the best way to live life is to be useful to others, and she strives to find a balance between giving and taking. She is an active volunteer with various social-impact projects, and is a chief trainer and mentor for Project PUTHRI – that works to empower ten-thousand girl children from underprivileged backgrounds, every year.

She is an ambivert, reads a lot of non-fiction, writes, sings, paints, dances, practices sustainable living and is also a foodie who can cook.  She is a hands-on mom to a super-active 7-year-old, and has plants for pets.

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Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy
Global Head—Zoho for Startups
@Zoho Corporation
Aydin Y Mirzaee
Aydin Y Mirzaee
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Aydin Y Mirzaee

CEO
@Fellow.app

Aydin Y Mirzaee is the CEO at Fellow.app — helping managers and their teams work better together.

He is a tech loving entrepreneur with a passion for building great products, leadership and people.

Previously , he was the co-founder and co-CEO of Fluidware, maker of FluidSurveys.com and FluidReview.com. With a team of incredibly talented people, they grew Fluidware (without external Angel/VC) into a very profitable and rapidly growing SaaS business with over $10M+ in annual recurring sales and over 75 people in staff. They subsequently had a very successful acquisition to the world’s largest survey company: SurveyMonkey.

After spending some time helping with the integration of FluidSurveys into SurveyMonkey, he served as General Manager of FluidReview and the Ottawa office.

Throughout his career, Aydin have had the opportunity to lead teams in Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering Management, Outbound & Inbound Sales, Enterprise Sales, Customer Onboarding, Customer Services, Churn Management and Growth Marketing: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing (paid acquisition), Lead Nurture, Content Marketing / Demand Generation, Conversion Optimization.

He is a big believer in fostering entrepreneurship and spends most of his time outside of work with organizations such as Fresh Founders, Invest Ottawa, SaaSNorth Conference, University of Ottawa Engineering and C100.

Aydin Y Mirzaee
CEO
@Fellow.app
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Andrew Jernigan

CEO
@Insured Nomads

Andrew Jernigan is the CEO of Insured Nomads.

Andrew is justice driven and is passionate about protecting people, those from every country, and every type of work style. He is leading the first insurtech for global benefits and international insurance to provide expats, digital nomads, remote workers, travelers, world schoolers, and international citizens with a frictionless solution-set as required for the successful international lifestyle. He partnered with Not For Sale to support their work of providing intervention, rescue, protection and education – empowering vulnerable communities so that the exploitation of humans for trafficking is stopped.

 

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CEO
@Insured Nomads
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Sahin Boydas

CEO & Founder
@Remote Team
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Sahin Boydas is the CEO and Founder of Remote Team.

He is a serial entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. He co-founded movie marketing platform MovieLaLa and sold it to Gfycat. His second company is one of the most successful consumer-facing Augmented Reality apps: Leo AR. Sahin has built and managed 100% remote teams for over a decade.

As CEO and founder of RemoteTeam.com, he is working to solve HR and operational problems related to remote work.

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Sahin Boydas
CEO & Founder
@Remote Team
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Ally Fekaiki

Founder
@Juno

Ally is a 30 year old British-Iraqi entrepreneur. Ally founded Juno in 2019, after his personal experiences at work made him realise that giving people a more autonomous and tailored employee experience would make the world a much better place.

Ally Fekaiki
Founder
@Juno
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Samar Singla

CEO & Founder
@Jugnoo
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Samar Singla is a serial entrepreneur and a physicist by education.

He has previously worked as a researcher at IBM and CERN. He is one of the industry’s foremost speakers.

Samar founded Jugnoo in 2014 with the vision to transform the Indian auto-rickshaw sector.

Apart from Jugnoo, Samar also founded Click-Labs, a profitable SaaS technology solution provider of Business suit called ‘JungleWorks’.

He is an avid traveler and amateur photographer who likes to document the everyday world. Samar’s personal website calls him ‘Someone somewhere in a garage’ which clearly portrays his love and penchant for building new things.

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Samar Singla
CEO & Founder
@Jugnoo

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