In this session you will see how working in VR feels and looks like.
The session starts with a brief look at how working together with others has developed over time, how existing methods and tools that people use today help us to collaborate remotely,
and how the new developments in technology and specifically virtual reality are going to affect the way humans work remotely in the future. You will see a demo of what that future might look like.
Join us in this session and get a taste of the future.

Bringing together the siloed functions is one of the toughest challenges of any large-scale agile transformation.
In this talk you will learn how a large distributed company with a lot of legacy systems and processes and vastly decoupled business functions has overcome these challenges to successfully transform to agile ways of working. 

Mob-programming is proven to be one of the most effective ways to reduce the number of new defects introduced into software products. It is being practiced in many successful agile organizations today. 
In this talk you will learn how to solve complex problems with mob-programming and ensure higher quality software. And you will learn how to do so effectively if you are remote and/or when your team is geographically distributed.

Her latest book (co-authored with Mark Kilby) is called From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Inspired by the discoveries revealed in this book and her decades of experience as a lean and agile expert, in this session Johanna will teach you how to help people think and work as collaborative teams, how to visualize when people can't collaborate and how to gain and show an agile mindset as a leader.

Look for information on how to join in the day's e-mail or in Slack.

Marsha is the first person to teach an ICAgile facilitation course online. She has over a decade of experience in online facilitation and what you will learn in this session is inspired by psychology of teams. Her teaching style is one of a kind. In this session, you will be introduced to techniques that will help you be more adept at identifying communication challenges in groups and help them unlock the wisdom that resides within the group.

Don't miss this session if you ever facilitate conversations whether you do online or in-person.

Starting new teams and scaling up innovation is more important than ever. The key to success is applying different practices in different stages of the innovation lifecycle. What works for a
new business does not work for a mature one, and vice versa. In this talk, we will nosedive into the major good practices for business leaders and product teams, from the moment they have an innovative idea to the day they will scale it up (or screw it up). Everything depends on the lifecycle stage of the new product or service.

Robert is one of the most well known facilitators of design sprints, a user-centric approach to innovation that can help any company solve a challenging problem in less than a week.
In this session you will learn, how to make decisions quickly without excessive dialog or conversation, how to run your own lightning decision jam for various situations and how to empower your team to own both their decisions and their successes.

Abby is the most prominent face of the agile movement in Africa. With her understanding of the cultural differences between the western world (where agile is more established), and that of some African companies, she has helped the agile scene of Nigeria stay on par with the rest of the agile world. In this interview, you will get an understanding of Requisite Agility, how to transform an organization with the consideration of its work culture, and a clear understanding of cultural barriers in Agile Transformations. If you work with companies in Asia, Middle East or Africa, this session is a must for you..

Look for information on how to join in the day's e-mail or in Slack.

With his amazing product Remo, he is changing the way people interact over video online. In this session he will tell you how he got the idea of Remo and how he has pivoted the product by truly listening to customers' feedback. You will also get to experience working and meeting in Remo. 
In this session you will learn how to host a virtual networking event, and how to do virtual team building.

Arundhati has a fascinating background in Clinical Social Work which she is using today in her role as as startup founder and agile practitioner. She brings diverse international perspectives to her talks and workshops from her experience of living and working in 8+ cities in USA and India.

In this session you will learn how concepts from psychotherapy can help you build thriving remote teams, understand the root issues that remote team members are likely to face and how to address them and you will leave this session with actionable insights to apply at your teams. right away.

The Responsibility Process® is known to most of you in the agile community. If you have not heard of it before, you will get an introduction to this impactful model during this interview. 
In the rest of this session you will learn how to identify your own mental state with regards to this model and will get actionable advice from The Responsibility Process® guy himself who is building a remote team, on how to bring responsibility to your distributed  teams.

Mia Kolmodin has a background in UX and, design and product development. She has worked in Agile teams, Lean Startups and scaled Agile setups for 15 years. You might know her from the Agile in a Nutshell series of infographic posters.

In this  session she will talk to you about the trends and strategies on how to organize and lead customer-focused product organizations in a way that makes use of the brain power of cross-functional and autonomous teams that will deliver products and services that users love. 
If your boss thinks it is wasteful to bring UX designers into the agile teams, invite him/her to watch this session with you.

Look for information on how to join in the day's e-mail or in Slack.

In this session you will learn from a remote work expert who has often worked in remote agile teams in which agile is so integrated that they do not even refer to their way of working as agile; to them it's just work!

In this session you will hear from Laïla about the process of building a company culture in a fast-growing startup with a distributed team, the challenges of remote leadership and how being agile has helped her People Ops team create a better employee experience.

Michael is one of those rare talents who not only brings decades of experience to his work, but has also consolidated his learnings into several books that are truly educational and quite frankly must-reads for anyone who ever calls for a meeting or facilitates one.

In this session you will get A LOT of actionable advice on
   - How to address the most difficult issue with remote meetings

   - Managing dysfunction

   - Keys to keeping people engaged 

Make sure you have a notebook to take notes.

Michael has a fun style of teaching and engaging his online workshop participants. In this session you will learn about different styles of communication people have and how that impacts the way they show up in meetings. You will learn practical steps to apply to yourself and your remote team in order to help your entire remote team go through the team development stages and outperform any collocated team.

Design teams rely heavily on whiteboards, brainstorms, critiques, design studios and labs to build cohesively. This talk will cover frameworks and tools that allow you to collaborate effectively when remote. You will also learn how to incorporate design thinking methods into a distributed agile team.

Information available in Slack and e-mails.

In this session you will learn about the most common challenges in bringing agile to remote teams, you will learn a few techniques to overcome these challenges and also a few tips on how to address the personal difficulties of remote work.

​Correct integration of UX experts and tasks saves time and money, increases productivity and efficiency, creates the best idea execution for the target customers, and keeps the changes of the engineering department and rebuilds to a minimum. In this session you will learn how UX specialists conduct user research; design your entire product, app, website, or system; validate it through user testing; iterate to fix flaws; and deliver vetted blueprints so you can build once. You will gain insights into how User-Centered Design fits into project timelines and development methodologies including Agile and Lean.

In this live panel discussion, Molood will ask your top voted questions from your favorite speakers.

Read the instructions in your email to learn how to submit questions during the week prior to this panel discussion and how to join the session.

THANK YOU for the bottom of my heart for attending the summit up until the very end.
In this session, you will get a quick overview of the summit and will get some practical tips on how to get engaged in the next steps of Remote Forever so that both you and others in the community can continue to learn and grow together.
And of course instructions for our online open space (unconference) on Saturday Nov 23, 2019.