🕵️♂️ re:compass #36: Work or Not?
Navigator for events during 25–31 January 2021
Don’t know about you, but my January work schedule is completely out of hand. It’s a bit weird seeing my friends having holidays or celebrating slava (greetings to Balkans!) while workaholic in me has to be forced to close work-related tabs at 10 PM.
Tracking events for the next week reminded me of a conversation I had with my team about scheduling of online events. Some were arguing for having online sessions during the work time explaining that people do not want to be exposed to this kind of content after working hours. Evenings should be for walking a dog, making a dinner and binge-watching Netflix. Others were on the opposite spectrum by arguing that nobody has time to attend online events during working time, especially the ones that share knowledge and have edutainment content.
It’s difficult to draw the line here. If you have specific insights about online event scheduling, please leave a comment or get in touch.
As for me, I usually experience little spark of joy if event of interest is in late afternoon hours. It means that bulk of my work can be finished before I tune into an interesting conversation online. And next week is promising some interesting evenings.
When: 25–29 January 2021
Access: €49 — €599
Type: online conference
Place: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Join the global, week-long virtual LoRaWAN conference to level-up your skillset, get access to top-notch LoRaWAN products and services, and have thousands of professional connections at your fingertips. There is a Virtual Wall of Fame that allows attendees to experience LoRaWAN sensors virtually, curated matchmaking and virtual networking with LoRaWAN community.
💡 Fireside chat with Martin Babinec
When: 26 January 2021, 13:00 GMT
Access: free
Type: online session
Leicester Startups in conversation with Silicon Valley CEO, candidate for congress & author of bestseller ‘More Good Jobs’, Martin Babinec. Martin Babinec founded and helped build TriNet, a company listed on NYSE now worth billions. He is Upstate New York’s most active early stage tech investor, started a non-profit dedicated to accelerating growth of startups across the region and even ran for US congress as a third party candidate. Now, he has authored ‘More Good Jobs: An Entrepreneur’s Action Plan to Create Change in Your Community’. In this fireside chat, Martin will share the story behind his journey and his new playbook for people who are ready to make changes in their own community.
When: 26 January 2021, 14:00 GMT
Access: free
Type: webinar
Emerge Academy will be hosting Episode 1 of their webinar series called ‘Journey of a CEO’. This episode is focused on topic ‘How to raise funds for your start-up’, and will feature Anthony Rose, Founder & CEO of Seedlegals. The aim of the webinar series is to inform up-coming and aspiring entrepreneurs about the entrepreneurship journey and what it takes to be successful.
🧟 Deal with Tech Debt as a Product Owner with Co-Founder & CEO of Stepsize
When: 26 January 2021, 18:30 CET
Access: donation
Type: online session
An interesting session for the Product People: learning to understand and manage product tech debt together with Alexandre Omeyer, Co-founder & CEO, Stepsize. Event is free but donations are appreciated. Join Livestream on Facebook.
💦 How we grew Sweatcoin to £100m…
When: 26 January 2021, 18:00 GMT
Access: free
Type: online session
Listen to how Ranbir Arora, Sweatcoin’s ex-Chief Growth Officer, helped build on of the worlds fastest growing fitness app, ever. Sweatcoin has over 50M users with over 7M using the app weekly. It has consistently ranked as #1 Health&Fitness app in the UK, US, Canada and Australia, and has raised over £5m, backed by Goodwater Capital, Greylock Partners, Seedcamp. Join this session to learn about: How SweratCoin were one of the first to leverage micro-influencers for growth? Lessons from bootstrapping growth? How to maintain startup culture, managing a team of 50+ people?
👁️🗨️ Digiday Brand Summit LIVE
When: 27–29 January 2021
Access: $249 — $1199
Type: online conference
An event for everyone who works with brands. Especially right now, brands need to pivot faster, message more accurately and embody purpose. As they navigate the next stages of what their identities look like under those challenges, how are they reaffirming their commitments to consumers? What channels are they using to reach consumers and where are they seeing opportunity? At Digiday’s Brand Summit LIVE, leading experts will share how they are strategizing for the year to reconnect and re-establish key relationships with consumers as they reaffirm their new and improved identities.
🚀 SaaStr University: Spring Semester
When: 27 January 2021, 15:00 GMT
Access: free
Type: online conference
SaaStr University Spring Semester is starting 2021 with their 100% digital and free one day conference. During this event SaaStr University will bringing you the How-To’s and Playbooks from the leading B2B / SaaS and Cloud experts from companies like Salesloft, Snowflake, Shopify, Zoom and more. Agenda includes topics “The Twists and Turns Along the Way to Building a Unicorn” with Salesloft CEO Kyle Porter, “How To Raise Your Next Round” with Point Nine Capital Co-Founder and Partner Christoph Janz, and “How to Exceed $100M ARR” with Active Campaign Chief Customer Officer Milos Srdjevic.
🙏 Free Mental Health Support for Founders and Entrepreneurs
When: 27 January 2021, 18:00 GMT
Access: free
Type: online session
Burnout and mental health issues are prevalent in society and are not spoken about enough. Founders and entrepreneurs are likely to suffer because they struggle to make time for such conversations and it is difficult to find people who can really understand. Founder Therapy is an initiative hosting free online sessions for founders and entrepreneurs to come together and support each other with their mental wellbeing. Session is facilitated by startup founder and BACP qualified counsellor, Alex Wilding. Free for the SeedLegals community.
🛎️ TBD (Technology. Behaviour. Data.) Conference
When: 28–29 January 2021
Access: £25 — £1,000
Type: online conference
Place: London, UK
Always appreciate a good copywriting from the organizers: “A global pandemic raging, looming mass unemployment, a fractured political landscape, economic disruption, restless new superpowers, and a delayed Adele album; the world has never seen this level of uncertainty before.” So, TBD is a two-day conference specifically designed to help focus, reframe and plan for what the foreseeable future (and a little bit further) brings our way. And to spice things up, this year’s theme is ‘resilience’ aka ‘mollitiam’ in Latin.
🔨 [Sifted] How to manage culture when your startup goes remote
When: 28 January 2021, 15:00 GMT
Access: free
Type: online session
Just about every company was forced to go remote in 2020 — and plenty of startups will stay that way well into 2021. there are many open questions about managing remote teams. How can remote-first startups maintain — and build — a great company culture? And when the team does meet up, what works best? Join this session to tackle those questions together with Courtney Seiter, VP of people at Hologram, Natasha Lytton, Head of brand at Seedcamp, and April Hoffbauer, senior manager at GitLab.
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