Events

We've got some great members running remote-first and remote-friendly companies in this community and we want to help you

an app that will automatically pair participants for 6-minute one-on-one chats with others.

Imagine if Zoom had been designed with fun, excitement, and real human connection in mind. That’s Gatheround! 

It's a fun and low-stress way to meet several people quickly!

Tuesday, 13 July, 6pm CET / 9 am PST / 12 pm EST to

🤝  Get to know other folks in the Running Remote community

💡  Learn what others in the community are up to

​📓  Share your learnings about running a remote company

 on what to expect when joining Gatheround event. 

, you’ll need to create an account and sign in.  

Running Remote Community Virtual Meet & Greet

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Running Remote Monthly AMA + Networking session - September

Special Guest - Tara Vasdani, Founder & Principal Lawyer @ Remote Law Canada 

Tara Vasdani is the Principal Lawyer and Founder of Remote Law Canada. In 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, she has been nominated for Canadian Lawyer's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada as a 'Young Influencer' and 'Changemaker' in the legal industry. In 2020, she has been awarded as one of the Top 10 Remote Work Advocates and Leaders and Employment Law Firm of the Year by Canada's Prestige Awards.

9.00 - 9.50am -  AMA with Tara Vasdani, hosted by Liam Martin, Co-founder @Running Remote

9.50 - 10.30am - Networking with the speaker

AMA with Tara Vasdani, Remote Law Canada

Running Remote Monthly AMA + Networking session - October

Special Guest - Chase Warrington, Head of Remote @ Doist

Managing 100+ Employees Across All Timezones

Chase Warrington is the Head of Remote at Doist, a remote-first team with 90 employees in 30+ countries. He is also a regular contributor to many of the leading remote-work courses, conferences, and publications, as well as the host of his new podcast, About Abroad.

9.00 - 9.50am - AMA with Chase Warrington hosted by Liam Martin, Co-founder @Running Remote

9.50 - 10:30am - Networking with the speaker

AMA with Chase Warrington, Doist

Running Remote Monthly AMA + Networking session - November

Special Guest - Sally Thornton, Founder & CEO @ Forshay

Executive Hiring For Remote Teams, Inclusion & Diversity 

An instigator on how to thrive in the future of work, Sally founded Forshay in 2011 to connect the Bay Area’s most innovative companies with exceptional talent through executive recruiting, project-based work, and improving the system of work through increased diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Forshay was awarded #290 on the Inc. 5000 “Fastest-Growing Private Companies”; list for 2015.

12.00 - 12.50pm -  AMA with Sally Thornton, hosted by Liam Martin, Co-founder @Running Remote

12.50 - 1.30pm - Networking with the speaker

AMA with Sally Thornton, Forshay

Running Remote Monthly AMA + Networking session - December

Special Guest - Job van der Voort, CEO @ Remote.com

, a platform for international payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance for businesses, big and small. The company is valued at over $1 billion and it's remote since it was founded in 2019. Their mission is to simplify how companies employ the best talent globally and help remote organizations do their best work. 

Job previously worked as a neuroscientist before leaving academia to become the VP of Product at GitLab, the world’s largest all-remote company, where he hired talent in 67 different countries.

Remote was ranked as one of the best companies for remote workers by Quartz in 2021. 

, a video networking solution that matches remote team members for short, timed conversations. twine is easy to use, simple to setup and can be used to power impactful conversations that help break down silos, connect your remote team, and foster camaraderie.

9.00 - 9.50am -  AMA with Job van der Voort, hosted by Lawrence Coburn, CEO & Co-Founder at 

AMA with Job van der Voort, Remote.com

Running Remote Monthly AMA + Networking session - January

Special Guest - Alex Beller, Co-Founder & President @ Postscript

Optimising your recruitment process, decreasing employee churn and everything in between

Postscript is the leading SMS Marketing platform for Shopify stores and has grown from 50 to 225 last year, all remote. It was voted one of the Best Tech Work Culture, Small-Medium Employers in the 2021 #TimmyAwards.

Alex the leads people teams at Postscript and he will share how to 

optimise your recruitment process, decrease employee churn and everything in between.

Postscript is backed by YCombinator, Greylock, OpenView, and other top investors and it powers SMS for over 6,000 brands including Native, Brooklinen, and Olipop. 

9.00 - 9.50am - AMA with Alex Beller hosted by Liam Martin, Co-founder @Running Remote

AMA with Alex Beller, Postscript

Running Remote Monthly AMA + Networking session - February

Special Guest - Milena Berry, CEO/Co-Founder @ PowerToFly

9.00 - 9.50am - AMA with Milena Berry hosted by Liam Martin, Co-founder @Running Remote

AMA with Milena Berry, PowerToFly

Running Remote Monthly AMA + Networking session - March

Special Guest - Sienna Brown, Global Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion @ PowerToFly

Tips for Building a More Inclusive Workplace in 2022

Sienna Brown is the Global Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at PowerToFly where she has built out a fundamental department committed to elevating the company mission of economic equality for historically marginalized communities.

 is a community of working women created to fast-track economic equality by upskilling and connecting underrepresented talent to roles in highly visible sectors. 

Women-led, they are fully remote global team with 100+ team members spread across 27+ countries and is proud to give careers to women in Palestine, Egypt, Argentina, Botswana and Ecuador among many others.

AMA with Sienna Brown, PowerToFly

Webinar with Ally Fekaiki, Founder @ Juno

Following Ally’s talk at Running Remote 2022, we’ll take a deeper dive into the topic of ‘work life blend’ with a focus on the data behind the benefits of an employee wellbeing programme inside and outside of work. This will cover:

We will also announce the winner of the digital wellbeing month challenge at the end of the webinar!

Finally quantifying employee wellbeing

Workshop: Ensuring team wellbeing in a climate of digital exhaustion

Speaker - Lavinia Iosub, Managing Partner @ Livit International

, a support ecosystem for entrepreneurs, startups and remote workers who build exciting tech/digital businesses. Livit has been incubating and nurturing remote-capable teams, projects and companies for the last 10+ years. They’ve worked with over 1000 clients from across the world, and their partner portfolio at any given time spans 10-25+ countries.

, are amongst the 2% happiest and most engaged teams worldwide according to OfficeVibe, and a 

top 3 Best Workplace in Indonesia in 2022 according to Great Places To Work®

Livit has 20 people in the core team as well as 20 other support and part time team members and contractors. They also manage 100+ other team members for their emerging startups.

Lavinia focuses on clarity, alignment, trust & treating people like adults, human connection, quality work “infrastructure” (tools, systems, equipment) and feedback

. Autonomy and authority is distributed across the team and their values are at the base of all the people and governance systems (e.g. hiring, promoting, decision-making). 

Livit runs several wellbeing related policies and programs, including Sabbatical, paid personal development & wellbeing time & expenses, Livit Time2Give & many more

. The team takes pride in being a "place" where people perform, play, grow, and explore new ways to live and work.

This workshop is part of a series for the Running Remote community 

a highly interactive deep-dive workshops into practical tips, concrete tools, frameworks, methods, and strategies to solve common challenges remote companies face.

How our enterprise company transitioned to remote in 12 months

AMA with Paul McKinlay, Head of Comms & Remote Working @ Cimpress & Vista

Paul leads corporate communications for the world’s leading mass customization business, 

, as well as internal communications for its subsidiary, 

, the expert design and marketing company for small businesses, together employing over 2100 remote-fist team members (15% of Cimpress and Vista’s total population) across 15 countries.

Paul has led their joint transition from being remote-averse to remote-forced and finally towards a remote-first model

"Our vision is to make how and where we work a towering strength of our culture and a competitive advantage. 

We’ve invested in a 7-person team dedicated to remote-first team member success

 and also formed a cross-functional remote leadership team focused on evolving and optimizing policies, practices, tools for our remote team."

He is ready for your questions! Ask Paul anything about:

1. What they’re doing to become a great company for their team members to 

2. The charter and responsibilities of a Remote-First Team Member Success team, including:

- Creating, from scratch, and managing a 100-day global remote onboarding program

- Learning & development tailored for remote team members

- Meeting culture, async communication, and knowledge management

3. How to give team members a seat at the table in designing the remote program.

4. Developing a remote strategy that can be scaled to other parts of the business with different operational needs.

5. Why in-person collaboration is a huge part of the remote-first vision, and how they’re evolving their real estate strategy and investing the savings in remote team member experience.

Let's get you transitioning to remote work with excellence.

AMA with Paul McKinlay, Cimpress & Vista

Workshop: Rethinking ops at each stage of scaling from 30 to 200 employees

Speaker - Melissa Mauk, Director of Business Operations @ Hotjar

Hotjar started in 2014 and has grown from a team of 5 to a team of over 

. Hotjar’s has managed to scale by creating a culture led by our core values, implementing and iterating on our operational processes, and by helping our team focus on what matters most to the business. 

Learn which operational processes we focused on as the company grew, which processes held up and which are being reworked for a larger company.

Director of Business Operations at Hotjar

. She joined as a Financial Analyst in 2016 when the team was 20 people and there were no financial processes in place. She has helped put in place financial and operational processes as the Hotjar team has grown. Her team is responsible for projects, processes, tools and meet-ups that the whole company uses or where there are multiple stakeholders across the company.

Workshop: Managing Transition: Scaling and systematizing change

Speaker - Douglas Ferguson, Founder & President @ Voltage Control

In this interactive and participatory workshop, Douglas will share insights and tools from Voltage Control’s Change Programs designed to 

help organizations humanize, scale, and sustain change

 to help guide you on your path. Then, you’ll have an opportunity to learn from fellow attendees as everyone shares their maps in small groups while Douglas coaches and provides live feedback.

We’ll also have time to unpack some of the challenges and roadblocks that impede your path.

Come and meet other Running Remote Community members in Lisbon! 

Let's plan for some casual coffee introductions (I will be there a bit before 10am) with co-working and we can have a social lunch break as well. Looking forward to meeting you. 

Running Remote Community meetup - Lisbon

Join the Running Remote community meetup and meet other members in APAC!

Running Remote Community meetup - Online | APAC

Come and meet other Running Remote Community members in Barcelona! 

Running Remote Community meetup - Barcelona

Te damos la bienvenida al (aparentemente), ¡primer meetup de Running Remote en español!

Al comenzar la sesión votaremos para discutir en el grupo sobre uno de estos tres temas:

Running Remote Community meetup - Online | In Spanish 🇪🇸

On the first Wednesday of every month we will open our doors to talk about anything remote related.

​Maybe you have challenges you'd love to explore.

​Maybe you'd like input on certain ideas.

​Maybe you want to provide some updates on what you've been working on.

​Whatever it is, we will be here to talk.

​This is not recorded, but we will take any relevant notes.

Community Chat

Workshop: Build your first compensation strategy

Speaker - Catherine Nascon, Head of Compensation  @ Zapier

Guest Speaker - Brandon Sammut, Chief People Officer @Zapier

Zapier is a software automation platform 

with an 800-member, all-remote team in 40+ countries.

 They believe that their employees should be rewarded 

, using practices that are simple and transparent. 

In this interactive workshop Catherine will guide participants in 

creating their own compensation guiding principles & annual compensation cycle

. She will share practical tips on market data and pay position and a 

 has specialized in Compensation for the past 15 years. She joined Zapier in 2021 to 

manage and redesign Zapier’s Compensation Philosophy

 and pay structures, and to implement the company’s first Annual Salary Review. 

, currently building at Zapier. Brandon believes in the power of distributed work to expand both individual opportunity and business impact. In this work, Brandon draws on prior experience in talent acquisition, talent development, strategy consulting, and venture capital. 