M101: The Human Side of the Way We Work

Paul D’Arcy
Head of Marketing, Miro

Katherine von Jan
Chief Strategy Officer, Salesforce

How have our feelings about — and, thus, their engagement with, relationships at, and perceptions of — work shifted in recent years? In our Distributed ‘22 keynote, Paul D’Arcy, Chief Marketing Officer at Miro, unveils insights from our in-depth exploration of the evolving behavior, preferences, and priorities of today’s employees. Walk away with actionable solutions for fostering humanity in the modern workplace. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English. ASL will also be available.

M113: My Day in Miro

Jennifer Clark
Manager, Miro Academy

See what happens when we take you through a typical workday — with Miro at the center. Jennifer Clark, Manager of our Miro Academy, will demonstrate how to prioritize tasks, build a deliverable for a project, and leave feedback for your team all in one tool. Find out how to achieve your professional goals while getting more from Miro — and learn a few Miro secrets along the way.

M118: Miro for Developers: Building Miro Apps & Integrations

William Bishop
Developer Advocate, Miro

Addison Schultz
Developer Advocate, Miro

Join Miro Developer Advocates Will and Addison to learn how you can use the Web SDK, REST API, and Live Embed to fully customize and enhance the Miro experience for millions of users. You’ll get tips and best practices while having a look under the hood of existing builds with these capabilities. You’ll be on your way to building your own apps and integrations with the Miro Developer Platform. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M120: How Salesforce Agile Coaches Do More with Miro in Google Meet

Brent Barton
Director of Agile Delivery, Salesforce

Himali Tadwalkar
Head of Partner Programs and Marketing, Miro

Brent Barton, Salesforce, shares his experience on how he approaches his work as an Enterprise Agile Coach both on his own team as well as those he serves. He will showcase how the integration between Miro and the Google Workspace provides the best alternative to in-person meetings for agile workflows, and bring all relevant information from Docs, Sheets or Slides together in one place.

M136: Why Your Brain Loves Stories: The Science of Storytelling

Elliot Rayner
CMO, Arion

Join us for an interactive experience exploring scientific experiments that highlight the true power of storytelling — all on a Miro board. We’ll use videos, animations, and real-world examples to illustrate how storytelling has a unique power to influence the way we all think, feel, and act. And even you can learn how to tell stories and unlock individual and team creativity.

M105: Helvetica the NFT

James Sommerville
Founder, KnownUnknown

Bill Connolly
Sr. Director of Partnerships & Community, Monotype

Join James Sommerville, Founder of KnownUnknown, and Bill Connolly, Community and Partnerships at Monotype, for a workshop centered on collaboration using the world’s most famous typeface. Learn about the creative process, typography in culture, and emerging technology like NFTs are driving access and community across the creative landscape. Co-create a tapestry of Helvetica-inspired designs and leave with a limited-edition goodie.

M127: Using Miro To Grapple With the Beautiful Mess (of Product)

John Culter
Product Evangelist & Coach, Amplitude

Behind the simplicity of a product exists a “mess” of assumptions, beliefs, and facts. Over-simplify and you’ll lose your most passionate problem solvers. Go too deep and you’ll lose the rest of the company. It’s not easy… especially when distributed. Join me as I share how Amplitude helps our customers finetune strategies using Miro. My goal is to inspire your team to tame the beautiful mess! Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M131: Maintaining Playfulness & Exploration for Remote Employees

Douglas Ferguson
President, Voltage Control

Innovation and retention need a little more creativity, and a lot more play. These aspects often get lost in remote and hybrid working environments. To sustain innovation, build real, meaningful relationships, and foster a bit of connection, we’re creating new tools for teams.

M125: Turning “Meetings” into “Experiences”

Chris Stone
Enterprise Agile Coach, Virtually Agile

An interactive exploration about turning “Meetings” into “Experiences” — engaging, playful, remotely inclusive sessions that people enjoy. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M138: Nostalgia at Work: Building a Team’s Future By Looking Backward

Tess Dixon
Director of Design Operations, Conde Nast

According to an April 2021 Harvard Business Review article, nostalgia helps people “cope with life’s stressors, build strong relationships, find and maintain meaning in life, and become more creative and inspired.” You can harness this power with a few examples of I’ve put this into practice at Condé Nast by way of slide decks, Slack icebreakers, printed zines, and, of course, Miro. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M108: Facilitation Can Get You a Seat at the Table

Jake Knapp
Author of “Sprint”, Co-Founder at Character VC, Advisor at Miro

Shipra Kayan
Product Evangelist, Miro

The word “collaboration” shows up in almost every job description. Leaders have to unite teams across cultures, manage across geographies, and gather input across practices. However, most meetings are designed around presentations – a communication tool not a collaboration tool. Jake will share three basic facilitation techniques that will transform your meetings into active collaboration spaces.

M117: Using Tech To Supercharge your Agile Practices

Peter Parkes
Group Product Manager, Agile, Miro

Lisa Freitag
Agile Coach & Release Train Engineer, BSH Home Appliances Group

Matt Tse
Principal Product Manager, Atlassian

Join this fireside chat with Atlassian and Miro to learn more about how you can play to the strengths of the tools in your toolbox and get the most out of them across different product development lifecycle stages and unlock the true power of cross-functional collaboration. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M111: Fostering Engagement with Your ERGs

Ashley Jenkins
Events Manager, Black Excellence ERG Lead, Miro

Grace Larrea
Global Procurement Manager, Somos Miro ERG Co- Lead, Miro

Employee Resouces Groups, like any community, use engagement to foster a sense of belonging. From icebreakers to celebrating heritage months, join Miro’s ERG leaders as they share how they leverage their online whiteboard to engage and stay connected with their members year round.

M113 – Replay 1: My Day in Miro

Jennifer Clark
Manager, Miro Academy

See what happens when we take you through a typical workday — with Miro at the center. Jennifer Clark, Manager of our Miro Academy, will demonstrate how to prioritize tasks, build a deliverable for a project, and leave feedback for your team all in one tool. Find out how to achieve your professional goals while getting more from Miro — and learn a few Miro secrets along the way.

M132: Creating Equitable Career Progression for Distributed Teams

Barbra Gago
Founder & CEO, Pando

Hollie Castro
Head of People, Miro

Supporting teams in their career goals has only become more difficult with hybrid work. In this session, we’ll talk about how career frameworks lay the foundation to engaging teams and helping them perform. You’ll leave the session learning how to start your frameworks, the elements of a good career framework, and how to build a rubric. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M122: Cozy Juicy Real: Interactive Networking Experience

Jed & Sophia Lazar
Cozy Juicy Real

Join Cozy Juicy Real, a virtual board game experience you don’t want to miss! Cozy Juicy Real is an introvert-friendly game with a very ungame-like purpose: To kindle fun, authentic, and truly connecting interactions. You’ll get to know others in the Distributed community and possibly meet your next collaborator, client, or cofounder in the process.

M110: The Next Rules of Distributed Work: Mindset/Skillset/Toolset

Gary A. Bolles
Author of “The Next Rules of Work”

The “great reset” of modern work has created a new world of distributed teams — and a world of new challenges. In this rapid-fire session, Gary A. Bolles, author of “The Next Rules of Work,” and Chair for the Future of Work with Singularity University, shows how a “next” mindset, skillset, and toolset can empower teams to come together and solve the problems of today and tomorrow. You can find Gary’s book, “The Next Rules of Work: The Mindset, Skillset and Toolset to Lead Your Organization through Uncertainty”, on Amazon or other book stores for purchase. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M146: How We Built This: The Miro Shop

Lauren Booker
Head of Community Marketing, Miro

Miro Merch, here we come! We partnered with a community member to help us build our new retail site that we’re debuting here at Distributed. Come find out how we collaborated to map our ideas and develop our first swag shop. Get access to the new site and an exclusive discount code to snag some swag.

M106: Racial Inequality Needs Action. How Can Tech Help?

Bhavna Devani
Consultant, McKinsey & Company

Jan Shelley Brown
Partner, McKinsey & Company

Recent events have driven employee demand for more corporate social responsibility (CSR) and adoption of new tech. We held a racial equity hackathon that combined these two topics. In this session, we’ll explain the practical solutions it led to and how we helped teammates adopt the tools. We’ll also look at how any org can pair CSR topics with educational opportunities to bring about change.

M145: The 1970s Called, They Want Their Office Model Back

Lisette Sutherland
Founder, Collaboration Superpowers

In this interactive session, we’ll explore how digital nomads, virtual entrepreneurs, and global organizations are reaching through the screens to collaborate seamlessly at a distance. You’ll walk away with new ideas about what it means to be “present” at work and how to create that sense of team even when you’re virtual. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M102: How Organizations are Using Miro to Create a Better World

Jovonee King
Customer Education Facilitator, Miro

Kyle Chipman
Chief Process Officer, Chipman Design Architecture

Christopher Zink
Vice President, Conservation International

Miro’s infinite whiteboard isn’t just for businesses. Countless nonprofit organizations around the world use Miro to develop and run innovative programs to serve their communities and the planet. In this session, we’ll meet a few of these organizations and see how they keep Miro at the heart of their work as they strive to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English. ASL will also be available.

M103: Innovation in the Modern Workplace

Varun Parmar
Head of Product, Miro

Briana Rogers
Head of Product Marketing, Miro

For our Day 2 keynote, we’re looking to the future. Our Heads of Product and Product Marketing will share exciting product announcements that create even better spaces for teams to collaborate and enable new ways of working — all to unlock your team’s potential. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English. ASL will be available.

M135: How Visualization of Work Builds High Performing Teams

Anna Ciula
Senior Engagement Lead, Red Hat

In this session, we’ll learn how the use of information radiators and sharing infectious enthusiasm by walking the walls can transform the organization’s ways of working, improve underlying communication, and lay foundations for a culture to blossom. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M133: Bridging the Empathy Gap to Create More Valuable Products

Krasi Bozhinkova
Strategic Design, Owtcome

The approach to empathy in product development and design thinking requires a reset! Empathy is more than putting yourself in the customers’ shoes. While it begins there, designers and product teams need to take it one step further. What are some practical ways to activate empathy? In this workshop, we explore the empathy gap and ways to shrink it using a unique collaborative tool.

M139: Expanding Miro’s Magic: Building Miro Apps is Revolutionary

Max Harper
Chief Vision, Refractive

Bentley Davis
Technical Consultant, Refractive

Miro is magic and its dev platform lets us write our own spells. Explore this powerful wizardry with a team that builds Miro apps full-time. The Miro Developer Platform empowers all of these workflows and more through integrations with its workflow-adjacent apps or plugins that add computational leverage to in-Miro workflows. Be ready to extend Miro’s magic in many directions… Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M141: The Power of Mental Models

Maja Voje
Founder, Growth Lab

Scale your ideas with Miro templates and empower the world to use your brain power. We’re going to share the importance of systemizing what we learned from mental models in Miro to scale professionally and share knowledge in an open and accessible way.

M121: Turning Complex Ideas Into Clarifying Diagrams

Hannah Fawcett
Senior Associate, PwC

Turner Pijpers
Product Marketing Manager, Miro

Join one of our customers for real-life examples of how they used Miro’s collaborative diagramming solution to boost engagement with their clients and differentiate themselves from competitors. You’ll also hear from Product Marketing how our latest mind map and diagram improvements can help teams transform complex, vague thoughts into clarifying visuals that everyone can access and understand. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M113 – Replay 2: My Day in Miro

Jennifer Clark
Manager, Miro Academy

See what happens when we take you through a typical workday — with Miro at the center. Jennifer Clark, Manager of our Miro Academy, will demonstrate how to prioritize tasks, build a deliverable for a project, and leave feedback for your team all in one tool. Find out how to achieve your professional goals while getting more from Miro — and learn a few Miro secrets along the way.

M122 – 2nd Live Session: Cozy Juicy Real: Interactive Networking Experience

Jed & Sophia Lazar
Cozy Juicy Real

Join Cozy Juicy Real, a virtual board game experience you don’t want to miss! Cozy Juicy Real is an introvert-friendly game with a very ungame-like purpose: To kindle fun, authentic, and truly connecting interactions. You’ll get to know others in the Distributed community and possibly meet your next collaborator, client, or cofounder in the process.

M140: How to Theme Your Retros

Dave Westgarth
Project Manager, Attraqt

Retros are a great tool in your delivery manager arsenal for improving quality and effectiveness, increasing team cohesion, and adding more of the human element to your role and work life. This session will cover how to theme, frame, and revitalize retros. From sports to video games to Netflix and music, you can use almost any subject matter to spice them up and drive team engagement. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M116: One Canvas, Any Content, Anytime

Amanda Botha
Platform Partnerships Lead, Miro

Swarna Krishnaswamy
Lead Product Manger, Platform, Miro

Join us as we showcase through real-world examples how to get an enriched collaboration experience by bridging multiple sources of content into one hub while ensuring the content always stays up to date. Learn how to bring your team together and break down barriers to knowledge through useful, relevant interactive visual frames of reference for more contextualized, faster decision making. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M123: How Do You Communicate User Research Findings With Impact?

Are bullet points enough to create empathy, inform decisions, and inspire action? Canvases like persona maps or user journeys are a great way to summarize user research findings, but even these canvases can be filled with assumptions instead of evidence. In this session, we’ll work together to draft and create a brief story to communicate your findings with impact. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M124: Forgetting the Screen Between Us

Myriam Hadnes
Founder, workshops.work

The pandemic has taught us what seemed impossible before: We can create deep connections, community, and friendships — and maybe even fall in love — online. We can be creative, solve problems, and collaborate through the screen as if we were in the same room. This magic doesn’t happen by coincidence. It requires some effort, some skills, and lots of care. In this session, we’ll explore how to forget the screen between us and transition into a world without them.

M119: The (A)sync Game

Vihar Parikh
Product Manager, Miro

Leonardo Doin
Engineering Manager, Miro

Sophia Chia
Product Marketing Lead, Miro

Srecko Dimitrijevic
Product Designer, Miro

As knowledge workers, we often ask, “Does this need to be a meeting?” When the answer is no, we are faced with the challenge of asynchronous communication. In this interactive session, we’ll play a game where we will decide and discuss how to communicate and collaborate with others at work: sync or async. You’ll also get a taste of Miro’s latest asynchronous collaboration feature: Talktrack! Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M147: The Neuroscience Behind the Emotional Power of Typography

Terrance Weinzierl
Creative Type Director, Monotype

Designers know that type can impact how people feel, but how can we improve design choices with that understanding? Monotype recently partnered with applied neuroscience company Neurons to uncover the power of type. Join this session to learn how typeface choice can boost positive consumer response by up to 13%, while we explore the subconscious, emotional impact of type.

M144: Situation Normal, Everything Must Change

Simon Wardley
Researcher, DXC

This session is an exploration of how industries are changing through the medium of Wardley maps. The work is an active research project, covering diverse industries from defense to healthcare — with over 200 participants, co-ordinated through 12 Miro boards.

M104: Working Smarter Through Your Tech Stack

Steve Wood
SVP Product, Platform, Slack

Emma King
Director of Business Development, Dropbox

Hollis Kool
Partner Marketing Manager, Miro

Sanjana Tandon
Head of Strategic Partnerships, Miro

There’s no amount of tools that can resolve systemic collaborative inefficiencies like communication siloes, ineffective meetings, or time spent looking for information. Join leaders from Slack, Dropbox, and Miro who are thinking about how to enable all teams across an organization, and how you can best optimize your own collaboration stack to make work easier, more engaging, and innovative. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English. ASL will also be available.

M137: Neighborhood Faces: Research & Government Participation

Tirelle Barron
Content Review Specialist, Founder, Snap Inc., & The Barron Review

With so little time and so many problems in our communities, how do we collaborate constructively to create holistic solutions? There’s a significant disparity between a diverse and multi-skilled workforce and public systems that do not value them as stakeholders. We’ll look into this relationship and highlight organizations and individuals who are working to bridge the gap.

M129: Moving Minds: Exploring Conversation Maps in Miro

Joshua Davies
Conversation Architect, Knowmium

Too many conversations in the workplace are like treadmills, endless going without getting anywhere. As trainers and facilitators, how can we use Miro to lead workshops that build better conversations? In this session, we’ll weave together three practical board-based techniques for increasing conversation salience and dialogue agency — giving them greater ability to collaboratively come unstuck. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M128: What Is My Impact?

Véronique Carbonneau
Associate & Coach in Impact and Strategic Clarity, Garrow&Evoy

Lara Evoy
Managing Partner, Garrow&Evoy

Stephanie Garrow
Principal, Garrow&Evoy

The Theory of Change template is like a roadmap for your organization. It shows you the best route to implement your vision of changes, as well as the forks in the road along the way. In this workshop, we’ll talk about what is a Theory of Change and how it helps you define objectives — internal and external — and develop the strategies to meet them.

M148: Building Blocks for Brainstorming

Jason Craig
Principal Designer, Sitich Fix

Let’s explore some fundamental components and strategies for running an effective and engaging brainstorm activity. From building simple and intuitive templates, to helpful tips that keep things running smoothly, this session will cover how to set up your teammates — and yourself — for success. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M142: Navigate Ambiguity with More Confidence & Clarity

Maureen Carroll
Researcher/Lecturer, Stanford d.school

Frankie Kok
Founder and Learning Experience Designer, The Creative Gym

Laura McBain
Co-Interim Managing Director of the School of Design, Stanford d.school

From the global pandemic to climate change, we live in a time with constant changes, unknowns, and ambiguities. What if we could recognize, rethink, and embrace ambiguity as an opportunity to learn and grow? Let’s learn about the stories, ideas, and tools that can help us better navigate ambiguity — together.

M126: How to Be More Interesting than Your Learner’s Inbox

Ashton Cousineau
Learning & Development Professional

How many times have you been asked over the last two years to “digitalize” learning that was previously delivered only in person? It was one of the theme songs of 2020, and many still have that tune stuck in their head. Humans want to interact — we are social creatures — and to make online learning more engaging, we need to tap into that desire. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M113 – Replay 3: My Day in Miro

Jennifer Clark
Manager, Miro Academy

See what happens when we take you through a typical workday — with Miro at the center. Jennifer Clark, Manager of our Miro Academy, will demonstrate how to prioritize tasks, build a deliverable for a project, and leave feedback for your team all in one tool. Find out how to achieve your professional goals while getting more from Miro — and learn a few Miro secrets along the way. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.

M130: Miro Improv Madness: Battle to Win!

Rachel Davis
Workshop Experience Designer & Facilitator, Your True Tribes

Jonathan White
Founder, Hiro Studio

Put your Miro genius to the test. For this special Miro Improv Madness session, you’ll create a Miro activity and battle against others in an epic quest to become the Miro Improv Champion.

M112: Retro Retro

Brittney Reyes
UX Researcher, Miro

Join us as we complete a “retro”-themed retrospective on Distributed ‘22. Whether you’re a 70s, 80s, or 90s fan, you’ll be sure to have a fun time looking back on your event experience and providing insights for next year. Live Voice Over language translation will be available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Close Captioning will be in English.