We’ve posted our speaker lineup for Q1 - the headlines:
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The Right Way To Build Software: Ideals over Ideology with Jocelyn Goldfein, former Director of Engineering, Facebook + VMWare
[Host: Nick Nguyen] - Wednesday, January 27 @Mozilla MV - 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UTCBuilding -
Product with Partners with April Underwood, VP Platform at Slack
[Host: Bertrand Neveux] - Thursday, February 25 @ Mozilla SF - 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UTC -
The Role of a Product Manager - Everything and Nothing with Josh Elman of Greylock VC
[Host: Justin Crawford] - Wednesday, March 23 @ Mozilla SF- 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UTC:
Details on how to attend these here.
A refresher on the Series:
In 2015, Internal Communications invited 8 speakers from outside of Mozilla to share ideas and best practices on key themes tied to our work to Build our Core, Grow our Influence and Prototype the Future.
And while we thought the speakers offered provocative and insightful content, you voted by your attendance: on average each speaker attracted 170 folks across our spaces, 127 remote live streams and 281 additional playback views.
This, your feedback, and various stories of how the speakers directly impacted your work validated this effort. So we’ll work to improve the Series in 2016. A bit more on what we’re thinking and a quick recap of the Series to date are below.
Let us know what you think, send us your speaker suggestions, and invite your friends to these public events. Teaser: if you’ve ever wondered, wrestled with or debated over the best way to release Firefox,
you’ll probably be interested in our January 27 talk.
Diane
The 2015 Speaker Series Recap:
Top Ranked Speaker + Most Livestreams Tom Chi @ 172 livestreams
A few YVRers planned a trip to the local DMV to apply Tom’s methods.
Largest In-Space Attendance Hiten Shah @ 220 attendeesHiten’s talk on Growth Hacking
inspired some of our marketers to find the users that love us and ask them why. The work led to a study that will help inform our Product and Brand strategy in 2016.
Most Playbacks Deanna Zandt @ 552 playbacks (by a longshot) Deanna schooled us in not being jerks online. It takes some work.
Speaker Inspiring Change Kate Heddleston - Since giving her talk on the benefits of onboarding, we’ve implemented a few onboarding programs across Mozilla.
Upcoming Changes:
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Branding. We’re losing the name “brantina” (Breakfast in PST + Cantinas in Europe) because some folks want to watch these apart from a cantina. We respect that.
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Day and Time. Stellar events are the love child of logistics. We heard from some of you that 9am PT / 4pm UTC is a great time to get in that last call with Europe. Rather than interfere, we’re getting out of the way, adjusting the start time by an hour. We’ll also play with what day of the week we do these for folks with standing meetings.
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Curriculum Some of these talks are chock full of things you can apply to your job,
today. To help you do that, we’re going to work with Mozilla Learning folks to develop some actionable curriculum for these. Rumor has it a prototype will be live at this month’s Participation Leadership Summit. -
Beyond the Bay Area. We tested holding a talk in London last quarter in between Speaker Series events; we are looking at more ways to integrate speakers from around the globe this year. Send your ideas this way.
References:
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