GDGLx Sessions #12 - Digital Nomad Stories
This will be the last Sessions before GDGs vacation so we will take it slow and talk about soft skills
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First Speaker
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Title "What is a Digital Nomad & why it can be our future" by Duarte Madueño
Duarte Madueño
Bio: Started at 2009 as a Software developer, Duarte has added a whole lot of different skills throughout his career and understands a wide range of technical solutions, both back and front end. Team management is his passion and with that he feels comfortable and challenged.Even though he's more proficient with Javascript, NodeJS, C# and Mongo, he's open to discuss and learn any kind of technology.Apart from the tech world, he was a partner on creating and managing 2 companies, one in Tourism and the other in Food industries. One successful, the other not so much.Loves to travel, play sports and is passionate about football
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duartemadueno/
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Second Speaker
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Title: "Remote Work Culture" by Tijana Momirov
Description:
The future of work is going remote. With the current technology, there is no reason why not. As any change, it brings benefits and challenges, and in this case to both players of the remote game: the remote professionals and the remote companies. In this talk we'll go over the most important ones and share the tips for overcoming the common pitfalls.
Tijana Momirov
Bio:
Tijana is a software engineer and product manager working fully remotely and living nomadic lifestyle since 2010. As someone who witnessed the transition of remote work from a marginal and neglected space to almost a main stream movement joined by some of the most influential companies, this is one of her favorite topics to discuss. Her experience includes working as a remote professional, but also recruiting remote professionals and managing distributed teams.
Social:
https://medium.com/@tijanamomirov
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Schedule:
19:00 - 19:45 "How Digital Nomad may this well be the future of our industry" by Duarte Madueño
19:45 - 20:00 - Break
20:00 - 20:30 - "Remote Work Culture" by Tijana Momirov
20:30 - [never] - Open discussion, networking, Free Pizza and Drinks kindly offered by Toptal.
After the talks and we finish the pizzas, we will be moving to a place downtown, next to the Armazéns do Chiado to continue the conversations and network.
Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts in the world. Top companies rely on Toptal freelancers for their most important projects.
They kindly offered us pizza and drinks to all participants.
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This session will be given all in English
