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Running Remote 2026

27-29 April 2026
Austin, TX

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Remote work experts from innovative SMEs and enterprise across live, virtual and hybrid stages were presenting in Austin. 
 
 
 

Gianna Driver

Chief People Officer
One Workplace
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Gianna Driver has over two decades of experience as a human-centric people leader passionate about the intersection of culture and performance. Gianna is the Chief People Officer of One Workplace, and has been Chief Human Resources Officer at Lattice, OpenTable as well as Exabeam, a global cybersecurity company, managing the strategy and processes related to building, investing in, and retaining talent. Gianna is a recognized HR industry speaker and is frequently quoted in the media, including publications such as Fortune, Forbes, US News and World Report, Insider, and The Wall Street Journal. She loves HR and the intersection of people and business!

Gianna Driver
Chief People Officer
One Workplace

Nadia Vatalidis

Head of People Ops
Doist

Nadia Vatalidis is a Senior People & Culture Executive with extensive experience in building and scaling distributed teams. As Head of People at Doist, creators of the award-winning applications Todoist and Twist, she oversees people strategy and culture for a 100+ person team distributed across 35+ countries, supporting 45 million users worldwide. With over a decade of experience scaling remote-first organizations, Nadia has helped multiple industry-leading companies grow from dozens to thousands of employees while maintaining strong cultural foundations. Her expertise spans remote-first organizational design, international expansion, and building self-enabled cultures in distributed environments. She has an impressive track record of scaling global teams – growing Remote.com from 70 to 1000 employees in 80+ countries and GitLab from 75 to 1,300 employees in more than 60 countries, culminating in their successful IPO.

Nadia Vatalidis
Head of People Ops
Doist
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Nick Francis

Co-founder & CEO
Help Scout
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Nick is the founder and former CEO at Help Scout, a customer support platform with more than 12,000 customers worldwide, and a thought leader on remote work for 15+ years.

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Nick Francis
Co-founder & CEO
Help Scout
Wade Foster

Wade Foster

Co-Founder & CEO
Zapier
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Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the most connected AI orchestration platform. Zapier connects teams, tools, AI, and agents across more than 8,000 apps to automate critical workflows, with flexibility, scale, and control. Prior to Zapier, Wade worked in marketing at Veterans United and IdeaWorks. He has degrees in industrial engineering and business administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

 

Wade Foster
Wade Foster
Co-Founder & CEO
Zapier

Topics

Recruitment & HR practices

Learn the key strategies and technologies to recruit, manage and scale your remote/hybrid team effectively.

Company culture

Build a cohesive, vibrant and happy team culture, so that both your hybrid & remote team members feel equally valued and nurtured.

Managing Hyper-Growth

During hyper-growth, a remote company faces communication problems, slower decision-making, and a loss of the agility they had at an earlier stage.

Communication strategies

Boost your team’s efficiency and avoid zoom fatigue with a balanced async/sync communication strategy.

Head of Remote

Does your company need to hire a Head of Remote? Understand issues related to remote work to consider what’s best for your business.

Leadership

Optimize your leadership in the “new normal” — what does good look like?

Sara Fell
Sara FellFounder & CEO | Flexjobs
I couldn’t recommend Running Remote more for companies interested in having a remote-friendly company culture and entrepreneurs interested in remote work culture. They’ve put on a fantastic conference!
Darren Muprh
Darren MuprhHead of Remote | Gitlab
Running Remote conference is all about meeting smart, kind people across remote and workplace sectors and having real conversations with them. I formed and strengthened a lot of relationships that will edify me (and hopefully them!) for years to come.
Morgan Legge
Morgan LeggeOperations | Convert
This event is absolutely critical for any organization's remote/hybrid/asynchronous work toolbox -- for contributors at every level. At RR you're not just learning tips and tricks -- you're probing deeper to understand the why and how behind organizational change. Plus the networking is amazing!

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