WLP253 Online Conferences and Virtual Retreats

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This bonus episode is brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London, and it continues the conversation between Pilar Orti and</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/burgesstim/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tim Burgess</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of</span> <a href= "https://shieldgeo.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shield GEO</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, looking at what’s been happening in both companies and the events they’ve been involved with. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pilar took part in the</span> <a href= "https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> IAF conference</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which was a week-long single track event, taking place online for the first time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Very different was</span> <a href="http://2020.agiletourlondon.co.uk/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Agile Tour London</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">  - also run on Zoom, but with the community conversation centred on Slack. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, Pilar has just attended</span> <a href="https://www.repeople.co/en/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Repeople,</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">which used to be the NomadCity event in person in Gran Canaria.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also Shield GEO have run events online for their own distributed team, instead of their usual face-to-face retreats. Dividing their 17 regions into 3 blocs by timezone, they had fun online with trivia and so on, but also dived deeply into cultural exploration and learning from each other about each other’s locally lived experiences. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pilar has run webinars recently on</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/J83gVVCrFVs"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Visible Teamwork</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, and learned from participants