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A massive thank you to everyone who attended Operations Nation's virtual cONference last week!
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We had a great turnout of operations professionals from across 11 countries, including the UK, US, Germany, Nigeria and Kenya.
We've captured a few of the highlights below, but first off, we'd like to give a MASSIVE thank you to our incredible speakers and sponsors, without whom this conference would not have been possible. 👏
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The Discover panel , moderated by Ben Gateley, CEO and former COO of CharlieHR, and a host of The Culture Ops Podcast, focused on four unique specialities within operations: People Ops, Product Ops, Revenue Ops, and Chief of Staff. The panelists defined each of these verticals and discussed what success looks like within each area.
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As ops professionals ourselves, we are huge fans of identifying the best software and services that make our jobs more efficient, so at the cONference we had a Virtual Expo featuring:
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Trust Keith, combining real humans with technology to seamlessly manage your data protection.
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JBM, a values-driven search firm placing exec talent & future leaders into tech startups and scaleups.
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Next Matter, an all-in-one platform that makes orchestrating, tracking, and executing operations easier and faster than ever.
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Onside Accounting, accountancy and tax service providers for high-growth businesses in the UK.
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Elate, the leading strategic planning software built to help high growth companies communicate their vision, create alignment, and track performance all in one place.
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The Grow panel , moderated by Charlene Chen, Co-Founder of Operations Nation, featured operations leaders at different phases of their ops careers speaking about the various decisions and challenges they have faced in their journeys and providing advice on how to approach these opportunities. Our panelists were:
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We were thrilled to wrap up the day with a Fireside Chat featuring Allison Pickens, Investor and Former COO of Gainsight, and Hari Raghavan, CEO of AbstractOps and former fintech COO.
Allison and Hari shared incredible insights on how operations has evolved over the years and how we as operations professionals need to have a wide range of skills, not only at a micro level but at a systems level.
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We opened up the day with 5-minute Speed Networking , and are pleased that there were over 80 networking sessions across all attendees. We sincerely hope that you will stay connected and continue building bridges across our extended network of operations professionals.
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After the Discover panel, we broke out into Roundtable Discussions :
This was an opportunity for attendees to meet other professionals working within the same ops speciality and to ask our Discover panelists additional questions.
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One of the many things we're passionate about is celebrating the people, systems, and tools that sometimes receive less recognition and airtime than functions supposedly sexier than operations. So, we decided to host our first annual Operations Nation Awards .
A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our nomination survey. In case you missed the cONference awards ceremony, these were this year's winners:
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We are grateful to all attendees who have already provided us with feedback - it's not too late to complete the event survey.
As ops geeks, we are always keen to learn and improve from all that went well and all that could have been improved. For those of you who missed this year's cONference, have no fear, we will be back with another conference in 2022, as well as other exciting events.
In the meantime, we wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!
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Operations love ♥️
Astrid, Aušrinė, and Charlene
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Stay tuned as we keep exploring the operations landscape.
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