Our History
Speakers featured in the past
Past Event Highlights
All Our Past Speakers
Eric Schuetzler
Eric Schuetzler is the senior executive highly skilled in Innovation & Product Development Strategy. He has the consumer insight to create in-market points of difference, demonstrated by a proven track record of successful products and process in the marketplace across a variety of consumer packaged goods.
He specializes in innovation, holistic product design & development, Design to Value, Commercialization/Stage-gate processes, coaching/mentoring, partnering across functional/organizational boundaries.
At present his role is VP – Global Research and Development at Beam Suntory.
Andrew Filev
Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a collaborative work management platform.
Under his leadership, the company has been consistently recognized for its excellent product, tremendous growth, and top-rated work environment. In 2019, Wrike was included on Deloitte’s Technology Fast™ 500 list and selected as a top workplace by the Bay Area News Group for the fifth consecutive year.
In 2018, Wrike was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave on Collaborative Work Management Enterprise Tools for the second time.
Andrew has more than 15 years of experience in the technology sector and his insights on entrepreneurship, productivity, and the future of work have been featured in leading business publications, including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., and The New York Times.
He is also an accomplished speaker, having led talks at numerous conferences, including the Project Management Institute Global Conference, SaaStr Annual, CeBIT, Google Cloud Next, and Montgomery Summit.
Joe Blair
Joe is an investor at Cota Capital, an industry- and stage-agnostic investment firm based in the Bay Area with $500M AUM. Joe has worked on deals from Seed through Series B, with a special focus on startups implementing technology to solve real-world problems while leveraging disruptive business models.
Joe is also founder and host of the Epic Human Podcast, a podcast featuring risk-takers and high-performers from all walks of life.
Outside of investing and podcasting, you can find Joe racing triathlons, practicing yoga, and chasing around his three children.
Cassie Torrecillas
Cassie, is co-founder and CEO of Bucketlist Bombshells™, a multi-million dollar online educational community that equips millennial women with the confidence, skills and business foundation to start a service-based online business that gives them the freedom to work remotely.
Bucketlist Bombshells teach and mentor their community of over 70,000 women from 60+ countries around the world and have been featured in Forbes, CNBC and Greatist for paving the path of remote work for millennial women. The Bucketlist Bombshells Academy™ is filled with interactive online courses that teach sought-after online skills in design, tech and online business skills with a portion of profits empowering girls at the Kopila Valley School, the most sustainable school in the world, located in Nepal.
Jen Raines-Loring
Jen Raines-Loring currently serves as VP of People at Springboard Retail, the leading POS and retail management software company. Jen operates a full time remote team of 50 people and will be sharing her experience transitioning from an office in Boston to a fully remote company in 12 months.
Jen is a commercially-oriented human resources executive who combines a strong strategic and operational background with a true passion for people and talent functions. She pursued a career in HR after a decade of success in direct-to-consumer commerce companies including Lilly Pulitzer, Swarovski, and Greycork.
Jen specializes in developing scalable, efficient people operations, employer brand building, full cycle talent acquisition, and remote work. She has been featured in Money Magazine, Authority Magazine, Thrive Global and via various conferences and industry-leading blogs, including Namely and SparkHire.
Jen resides in the greater Boston area with her husband and daughter. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Zach Boyette
Zach Boyette is the co-founder and managing partner at Galactic Fed, a Growth Marketing Agency headquartered in Chicago.
Founded in 2017, the Galactic Fed is a 100+ member team of Growth Marketers working remotely.
Zach is an ex-Google employee with deep expertise in digital marketing, and has built paid media programs for several top tier companies.
Previously he was Head of Paid Media at Toptal, and worked at branding powerhouse Procter & Gamble. He is also a full-stack software developer and growth hacker who is generally obsessed with internet technology.
Zach has scaled Galactic Fed to 100+ employees in less than 3 years. Additionally while building his company he has traveled to 45+ countries as a digital nomad, rarely spending longer than a week in a place.
Wade Foster
Wade Foster hit the headlines when he announced a $20,000 payout to his employees for “de-location” from his San Francisco office. Now the team is more than 200 remote people, based all over the world. Wade is also one of the biggest proponents and contributors to the remote work movement.
Checkout their guide to successful remote operations !
Nick Francis
Nick Francis co-founded Help Scout in 2011, a customer service tool used by more than 10,000 businesses. Help Scout’s team of about 90 people is all remote, with people working from 70 cities globally.
Nick’s mission in life is to build things that stand the test of time: products people love, a place people want to work for, and a business with a far-reaching impact.
Nick lives in Boulder, CO with his wife Anastasia and dog Elvis. They love going on long walks and traveling whenever possible.
Jeff Robbins
Jeff Robbins co-founded Lullabot, a Drupal-focused digital strategy, design, and development agency whose clients have included The GRAMMYs, MSNBC, Tesla Motors, Intel, Fast Company, Harvard University, Syfy, Sony Music, and many others. He helped build Lullabot to 65 remote employees before exiting the company in 2017.
He is a man of many talents, and along with being founder of Yonder.io, he is an expert podcaster and writer.
These days, Jeff provides business coaching and mentorship services for a variety of company leaders, helping them to better understand how to create effective, productive, rewarding, and happy work environments for their employees and themselves.
Lara Owen
For almost a decade Lara Owen has been an advocate for flexible work solutions, and has a proven track record of designing operations and spaces that foster both inclusivity and autonomy for a distributed workforce. At GitHub, Lara enhanced their work from home reimbursement program to provide both a competitive amenity and recruiting tool, built a high-functioning Workplace Experience team from scratch, developed a global remote-first real estate strategy, oversaw the design and build of several award-winning offices, and helped the Physical Security team define their duty of care for home office workers.
Lara has also spoken at conferences and written articles about her failures and successes creating a hybrid culture, and loves to nerd out with anyone willing to discuss office design and remote work.
Dominic Price
Born in the harsh Manchester Winter of ’77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC. Today Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, as the Head of R&D Program Management where his responsibilities span five global R&D centres.
Dom claims Atlassian is the indisputable home of the most intelligent t-shirt wearers in business…
Atlassian are behind famous collaboration apps such as Jira, Trello and Hipchat.
A keen traveller, he has traversed over 50 countries so far, but calls Australia home.
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
Dmitriy Zaporozhets lives in Ukraine and cofounded Gitlab in 2011 with Sytse Sijbrandij to build open source tools to help teams of developers collaborate more easily and review and deploy code on the go using features such as wikis and tracking.
He loves a good Martini and a merge request that can be accepted without comments. He is the lead author of GitLab CE and CI. He is also made it to the Forbes list of the 30 most successful people in the world under 30-years-of-age in the Enterprise Technology sector in 2017.
Since its launch and its participation in the famous Y Combinator business incubator, GitLab has taken on more than 140 employees and raised $25.6 million from investors like August Capital, Khosla Ventures and Ashton Kutcher.
Indrek Pallo
Enterprise Estonia Singapore office fosters business relations between Estonia and Singapore, but also Malaysia and Indonesia. The special focus is on trading and export, but as well on investment attraction, start-up financing and e-Residency promotion.
Before setting up the Enterprise Estonia Singapore office in August 2016 Indrek occupied the Director of Estonian Investment Agency position and ran the dynamic team that attracts foreign direct investments to Estonia and supports Estonian exporters abroad. This innovative team also included the Estonian e-Residency programme, e-Estonia Showroom as well as Estonian country EXPO team and 15 offices around the world.
“Named ‘the most advanced digital society in the world’ by Wired, ingenious Estonians are pathfinders, who have built an efficient, secure and transparent ecosystem that saves time and money. E-Residency is a new digital nation for global citizens, powered by the Republic of Estonia. Establish and run your business online“
