Join us for the Virtual Working Summit in October 2020.
Featuring short audio interviews with inspiring virtual leaders, at a time to suit you, one per day, it also gives you the chance to interact with the other participants online. This is a unique way for you to develop your skills without travelling. There is no charge to register to listen in to each speaker via the web each day. The theme for 2019 was ‘Innovation and Virtual Working’.
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Once you’re registered, we’ll give you access as soon as the Summit opens.
Who should attend? People who manage a team or projects across cities, countries or continents. Professionals who work with clients, or sell to them, remotely. People facing travel restrictions. People who need to build trust and engage others, despite the distance between them. Teleworkers and digital nomads. People who want to work smarter, not harder.
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These are the speakers from the 2019 Summit, to give you a flavour of the summit
Penny Pullan
Virtual Leadership and Innovation
Monday 22 October 2018
Elizabeth Bieniek
How Extended Reality (XR) Changes Everything and Nothing in the Future of Work
Tuesday 23 October 2018
Nancy Settle-Murphy
Moving from Ideas to Action in a Virtual World
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Julie Holmes
Little Big Bangs: Incremental Innovation for Dynamic, Virtual Results
Thursday 25 October 2018
Graeme Codrington
The Secrets to Building an Innovation Culture, and how this Works in a Virtual Environment
Friday 26 October 2018
Virtual working? It can be tough with bad lines, inaudible voices and technology that only works some of the time. On top of that, it can be really tricky to keep engaged and focused when you can’t see people’s faces and you don’t know the people on the other end of the line. And we haven’t even mentioned the misunderstandings that happen across cultures!
But it doesn’t need to be like this!
Take your virtual meetings from frustrating timewasters to effective ways to work together across the world, while saving time and money. Learn how to work with your team when you can’t be with them face to face.
How? You’re in the right place! Sign up now for the Virtual Working Summit 2020.
Our team of inspiring virtual leaders share their thoughts, ideas, and experience with you, so you can:
Learn how virtual leadership can support innovation and creativity with your virtual colleagues and teams.
Hear how emerging technology will make virtual working more real through extended reality.
Explore the latest thinking on how to harness innovation virtually once you have the brilliant ideas.
You can put your own questions to each of these speakers during the summit.
Meet Our Speakers
Penny Pullan
22nd October 2018
Virtual Leadership and Innovation
Dr Penny Pullan is your Summit Host and the author of ‘Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Making the Best of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams’. She will kick-off your summit on 15th October with introducing the summit as a whole and then she will answer your questions on virtual leadership and innovation.
Penny has worked across industry sectors from banking and finance, through to telecoms and pharmaceuticals. She enjoys making a difference with people grappling with tricky projects. Tricky means anything from risky, with ambiguous requirements, to having disinterested stakeholders, probably with a team dispersed around the world. If that’s your world, that’s where Penny is too.
Penny is a director of Making Projects Work Ltd, and she has hosted Virtual Summits since 2010. Her latest book is ‘Virtual Leadership: Practical strategies for getting the best out of virtual work and virtual teams’. She is also the co-editor of the book: ‘Business Analysis and Leadership: Influencing change‘ and ‘A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management’ co-authored with Ruth Murray-Webster. You can contact Penny on Twitter at @PennyPullan or by responding to the summit e-mails.
Elizabeth Bieniek
23rd October 2018
How Extended Reality (XR) Changes Everything and Nothing in the Future of Work
Elizabeth Bieniek is an active day dreamer, continually experimenting with combinations of ideas, people, and practices to find new ways of doing old things better, easier, and with a lot more fun. She focuses on the interface of people and emerging technology and how to make the lives of the former happier by efficiently and invisibly applying the latter. A problem-solver at heart, Elizabeth believes “impossible” just means no one’s done it yet. She relies on her previous experience in industries as varied as technology, art, publishing and education, as well as life and travel experience, to bring a unique flair to challenging conventional thinking and inspiring teams to achieve unprecedented results. She currently leads bleeding edge innovation exploration for Cisco Collaboration’s CTO office.
Connect with Elizabeth via email, on Twitter as @verbositE and LinkedIn
Nancy Settle-Murphy
24th October 2018
Moving from Ideas to Action in a Virtual World
Nancy helps distributed teams work more effectively by helping leaders and members alike to find new ways to build trust, cultivate healthy relationships and collaborate more successfully across time, cultures and distances. A renowned expert in the fields of virtual leadership, remote collaboration and navigating cross-cultural differences, she is the author of Leading Effective Virtual Teams published by CRC Press, and is a frequent contributor to articles, blogs, white papers and newsletters, including her own online newsletter, Communique.
As an active member of the International Association of Facilitators and the Association for Talent Development, Nancy is a frequent trainer and presenter for organizations interested in virtual team leadership, creating more engaging virtual meetings and training sessions and navigating through cross-cultural tripwires.
Find Nancy on Twitter.
Julie Holmes
25th October 2018
Little Big Bangs: Incremental Innovation for Dynamic, Virtual Results
Julie Holmes is an inventor, founder, entrepreneur and corporate survivor. An award-winning speaker, Julie has designed and launched everything from million-dollar software solutions to tiny Bluetooth microphones – all with remote teams. But, her creative expertise isn’t limited to products. She has helped organizations like Expedia, EY, and FedEx to leverage incremental innovation thinking to improve their teams, leaders, and sales processes.
While innovation sounds like it requires lots of time, money, and work, it doesn’t have to. Instead of going big, go small. Little Big Bangs are incremental innovations that deliver dynamite results without all that collateral damage, so you can keep your customers happy, drive higher levels of engagement, and deliver new ideas that boost the bottom line right now.
Graeme Codrington
26th October 2018
The Secrets to Building an Innovation Culture, and how this Works in a Virtual Environment
Graeme specialises in the future of work and has helped companies across the world to understand the forces that will shape our lives in the next ten years. He’s worth listening to because he has five degrees, five best selling books and lectures at five international universities including London Business School and Duke. But don’t worry, he’s not a boring academic; he’s steeped in business knowledge having worked at KPMG, for an IT start up and in the charity sector. And he is an entrepreneur – he’s one of the founders of strategy consulting firm TomorrowToday Global. He works in over 20 countries every year with some of the world’s top companies.
Here’s Why You Should Sign Up for the 2020 Virtual Working Summit
Attend from the comfort of your own home or office
All the interviews can be listened to online. There’s no travel or hotels to book, saving you money and avoiding you having to take time off work and arrange cover to attend, and spending time away from work and your family.
Online Access to the Interviews
The interviews will be available online, for free, on the appropriate day of the summit so you can listen to them at your own convenience.
A panel of hand-picked expert speakers
Your expert speakers have been chosen by your host, Dr Penny Pullan. They will expand your thinking and provide tools and techniques for you to try out, safe in the knowledge that they’re coming from experts.
The Chance to Upgrade
To gain access to all the interviews, forever, and one to one interaction to discuss each session with the Summit host.