Join us for a fun chat between our founders, Job van der Voort, CEO, and Marcelo Lebre, COO. Job and Marcelo have scaled the company from two to more than 1,000 people in three years. They’ve done it by staying true to our mission of enabling individuals everywhere to build wealth for themselves by providing access to greater opportunities. Even throughout such an intense period of growth, they stuck to our values of Kindness, Transparency, Ambition, Excellence and Ownership. Get inside the heads of these two fearless leaders, but be warned, it might get weird.

After experiencing success building The Huffington Post into a publishing powerhouse, Arianna Huffington endured a prolonged period of burnout. This set Arianna on a new path to learn and understand more about navigating leadership while staying healthy. Arianna is here to share her insights: not just for finding better ways to work, but to help leaders and their teams become better people. Expect strategies and practical ideas that you can use to start building a better way to work and live.

As the world shifts faster towards a more globally distributed working environment, so many aspects of more traditional workplace cultures need to be unlearned, reshaped, and reimagined. Adam is an expert in the science of behavioral change and organizational innovation. In this conversation with Remote’s VP of Growth, Elisa Rossi, Adam will share his expertise in driving organizational innovation, finding motivation at work, and building healthy workplace cultures.

Join Remote’s VP of Finance Pedro Barros and Airbase CFO Aneal Vallurupalli as they discuss developing and leading finance teams within globally distributed organizations. Aneal shares how to develop a strategy for financial operations and align it to the long term vision of the company, while setting shorter term targets. He also discusses how Finance can deliver value and insights to the rest of the organization and how to balance hiring generalists versus specialists as the company matures.

Together with Remote’s VP of Finance, Pedro Barros, global finance leaders Pavla Munzarova and Daan van Cann, will share their expertise in developing and leading finance teams within globally-distributed organisations. Expect expert insights on securing funding to fuel fast global growth, building the foundation for a global team, and lessons learned while trying to juggle ambitious short term targets with sustainable, lasting financial success.

Bruce cares deeply about improving the workplace of tomorrow. His work is focused on reshaping our perception of work for the better, helping leaders and managers to find specific, practical, and evidence-backed tactics to improve workplace culture. The passion Bruce exudes for his work is infectious, and you’ll learn some of the 30 ways to fall in love with your job again that are outlined in Bruce’s best-selling book, The Joy Of Work during his chat with Remote’s VP General Counsel, Sam Ross.

Join Remote and some of their key strategic partners as we discuss: Hiring and retaining globally distributed teams and how to take advantage of ‘the great resignation’.

Charles will share his advice on how leaders can successfully confront and deal with issues of trust in the context of a globally distributed workplace. You’ll learn actionable tactics to help you in instances when you need to rebuild trust, mediate conflict, and drive collaborative innovation. Charles will walk us through his framework of analyzing organizations as a network of conversations that effective leaders need to navigate, and in the right ways to find sustainable success.

CEO and co-founder Job van der Voort wraps up the day and shares what to expect from day 2 of Remote's first annual conference.

Nadia Vatalidis welcomes everyone back to a second day jam-packed with insights from leaders around the world.

After Remote Connect’s Day One session with Charles and Remote’s VP of People, Nadia Vatalidis, you’ll have the opportunity to pose a question for Charles and Nadia. To start out Day Two of Remote Connect, we’ll tackle the most important and engaging questions with Charles to get his insights and advice. Expect a collection of practical tactics that you can adopt and transfer into action after the event.

Chris co-founded and currently leads Giga, a UNICEF-ITU initiative to connect every school in the world to the internet. At Remote, we’re  committed to giving anyone, anywhere, the access to their dream job. Both of these missions involve serious collaboration, ingenuity, and innovation. Join us for this conversation with Chris hosted by Remote’s co-founder and COO, Marcelo Lebre. Hear about Chris’ unique experiences collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders to deliver fast and impactful positive change on a global scale.

Companies and organizations are looking back at a year of cancelled in-person retreats, and holiday parties, among many others. As we enter the next normal, how do we re-gather? How do we ease the apprehension? How can companies develop a hybrid meeting and event culture? In insightful conversations with companies and groups from across all industries, Priya Parker answers important questions on how to rethink and rebuild a post-pandemic approach to gathering.

Building innovative products in a fully-remote or hybrid business model within a globally distributed team requires specific and intentional operational practices. At Remote, we are constantly evolving the way we collaborate, communicate, and work together. Asynchronous work and a constant quest to automate are the two pillars of our engineering organization.

Automattic’s stated purpose is to fight for a free and fair internet. Matt’s entire career has been focused on achieving this mission in contrast to so many other founders and CEOs in the tech industry desperate for revenue growth and product-market fit above all else. Remote’s Founder and CEO, Job van der Voort will speak with Matt to share his unique perspective on the future of work and the learnings of building a truly global team.

In this fireside chat, Nadia Vatalidis, VP of People at Remote together with Colm O'Cuinneain and Kalifa K. Oliver will discuss how HR is shifting away from being just an administrative function to becoming the architects and caretakers of a company’s culture. These trailblazing People leaders will share their experiences scaling international teams and bridging between different cultures to create a cohesive value-driven organizational culture.

We’ve hand-picked a panel of workplace culture experts and remote work leaders to take a peek into their crystal ball and share their predictions on the future of work. Our panel will translate these predictions into potential solutions you can adopt to future-proof your business. We’ll talk about the strategies leaders can use to influence decision makers to embrace and adopt flexible work practices.

CEO and co-founder Job van der Voort wraps up the event with a call to action to all watching.