Many of us dreamt about escaping the daily commute, working remotely and flexibly, and having an entire world of career options available to us. However, we didn’t realize that this ideal would become a reality so quickly.
We’re currently unlearning the practices of decades of colocated office work as we adapt to our new found flexibility. It’s now time to form new habits, and fast. We need to understand how to work efficiently and effectively, how to structure our work and our teams, and how to grow our careers in this remote and hybrid world.
In this track, we’ll explore the great opportunities and challenges that remote work brings to our companies and our industry. We’ll dive deep into the tools and strategies that we’ll need to embrace as we shape our future together, and you’ll walk away with actionable tools and techniques for team and company to make your work better, wherever you are.
From this track
Successful Leadership in Hybrid Environments: Powerful Principles, Practical Steps, and Poignant Examples
Monday Oct 24 / 10:35AM PDT
Being a technical- or people leader in a hybrid work environment can be extra challenging: While on paper, it may look like hybrid work combines the “best of both [remote and co-located] worlds”, the reality often looks drastically different:
Lena Reinhard
Founder, Coach, Consultant @Lena Reinhard Leadership Coaching & Consulting, Previously VP of Engineering @CircleCI @TravisCI
Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World
Monday Oct 24 / 11:50AM PDT
The switch to remote-only and hybrid has unlocked so much potential for the world and our companies: we can hire the best, people can live where they want, and we can form teams based on skills and interest instead of location.
Jesse McGinnis
Senior Development Manager @Shopify and Author of Embracing Uncertainty
[Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now?
Monday Oct 24 / 01:40PM PDT
The panelists have all been part of organizations that have fully embraced hybrid or remote work, and some were leading that charge. The question is, how do we go back to work next week and start making real changes for the better?
Lena Reinhard
Founder, Coach, Consultant @Lena Reinhard Leadership Coaching & Consulting, Previously VP of Engineering @CircleCI @TravisCI
Jesse McGinnis
Senior Development Manager @Shopify and Author of Embracing Uncertainty
Alexandra Sunderland
Senior Engineering Manager @fellowapp
Brian Elliott
Executive Leader, Future Forum & SVP @Slack | Author, How the Future Works
Unconference: Hybrid Work Strategies
Monday Oct 24 / 02:55PM PDT
What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.
Shane Hastie
Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com
Leveraging Hybrid One-on-Ones for Better Connections
Monday Oct 24 / 04:10PM PDT
One of the most difficult challenges to overcome in a hybrid or remote work environment is the lack of social connection between team members—and worse, the often insufficient time that managers spend individually with their reports.
Alexandra Sunderland
Senior Engineering Manager @fellowapp
The Future of Work: How Flexibility Unlocks Potential for People and Organizations
Monday Oct 24 / 05:25PM PDT
The last two years created a massive discontinuity in how we work, and now the debate rages: are we going back to the way things were, or investing to move forward?
Brian Elliott
Executive Leader, Future Forum & SVP @Slack | Author, How the Future Works
