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Remote teams can come with some new complexities like communication gaps, time zone challenges and even lack of transparency. Agile teams new to remote work need to rethink their practices without the advantage of face-to-face communication. 2020 has taught us one important lesson we need to be prepared to adopt and adapt to new ways of working. The Pandemic, which could serve as a metaphor for the uncertainty that characterizes our environment, makes working with cross-functional, self-organized teams that are able to incorporate remote working practices with the agile mindset, more valuable than ever.

Having worked for over 20 years helping companies across geographies (Africa, Middle East, US and Canada) and various industries, this session will inspire you to learn how to overcome the toughest cultural challenges of large-scale agile transformation in distributed companies.

Governments need to provide the infrastructure and processes for supporting remote work. This session will help you understand how countries can

• Prepare their local workforce to work remotely.
• Prepare their infrastructures or take advantage of existing ones.
• Review their policies to make them more remote worker-friendly.

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This session will show you how the way your team meets drives your culture and success. By gaining awareness and clarity over how meetings impact culture, Elise will inspire you with two simple game-changing practices that underly all effective meetings, so you would never have an unproductive meeting again.

With great power comes great responsibility. 

Facilitators hold great power in helping people make better decisions collaboratively.

In this session you will hear Michael's stories of how he discovered facilitation, what his greatest failures have taught him and the underlying principles that help him and his students become great online facilitators and avoid making the most common mistakes.

You will also learn about a framework through which you can build rapport as a remote facilitator and help people trust you more easily.

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Remote teams can collaborate by exchange of long texts such as emails and wiki pages or short texts such as Slack messages. But there are much more powerful ways to use all of our human senses and accommodate different learning styles. Visual communication is proven to be the most effective way to convey information... believe it or not it is in fact more effective, powerful and memorable than face-to-face exchange of verbal sentences. 

Laïla will share a unique example of how she fosters camaraderie in a fully distributed organization that is spread from Argentina to Europe.

The world as we knew it before 2020 has changed. What do teams of the future look like? What does being agile and operating outside of the norm mean in this new world?

Jeremy will share real life stories of how remote agile teams at world leading organisations such as Herman Miller to startups such as Typewise use technology to build new teams in a new world.

In this session, you get to listen to stories about how technology can help support, empower and engage new remote teams in a new world and how it can ensure velocity, effectiveness and productivity against the challenges of remote working.

• What does it mean to "hold space" for others?
• Why is inclusion the most essential element in creating a strong container ?
• How does participating in community allow healing?

The Integral Agile Transformation Framework has brought empowering change to the world of agile. Join this session to listen to personal and professional stories of how this framework has helped dozens of leaders and facilitations around the world to hold space for their remote agile teams. Holding space can simply be the most powerful tool for any online facilitator.

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Having been an entrepreneur since the age of 15 Elisa has mastered the remote work mindset. She believes that successful remote leadership requires similar skillset to that of an entrepreneur. She will share stories surrounding the skills and tools every remote worker needs to master to be efficient and productive with no office.

Asad Safari is one of the most influential people driving the agile movement in Iran. He has led numerous agile transformations in his 14+ years of experience as an Agile/Lean coach. 

He believes in relying on facts and separating facts from fiction as well as societal beliefs of the work culture. Asad has founded a concept called outcome-driven Agile Transformation. 

In this session, he will share inspiring and educational stories of his experience as a coach and trainer in Iran to help you find the answers to these three questions:

1. What can we do to make sure that the transformation fails?
2. What are the main three types of Agile transformation?
3. How can we start an outcome-driven Agile transformation?

Scaling agile in distributed organizations requires leaders to emerge from within the organization. Working with multiple organizations in multiple industries, Alex has always had a vision with which he has built high performing and successful global teams over and over.

In his years of experience he has collected many stories about what Taylorism* has trained people to do. Through his stories, Alex will challenge your pre-existing assumptions and will inspire you to truly understand

• How being persistent fosters unlearning.
• How patience builds the ground for learning new behaviors.

*Taylorism: he principles or practice of scientific management and work efficiency as practised in a system known as the Taylor System.

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