Agenda

This year's Distributed agenda features fresh ideas and expert insights — from our opening keynote to interactive workshops and insightful stories. Explore and get inspired by how the Miro community is reshaping the way we work.

9:00 AM CDT
Keynote
Navigating tomorrow with Miro

Distributed teams face unique challenges in competitive environments, but one thing is certain: teams that innovate under these circumstances win. See how Miro's newest releases bridge the gap across areas of innovation and tackles challenges across distributed teams. Whether it's AI-powered inspiration or communicating, planning and executing on a shared vision, you'll learn how Miro will help you create the next big thing, regardless of where or how you work.

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9:00 AM — 9:50 AM CDT

Varun Parmar

Chief Operating Officer | Miro

10:00 AM CDT
Centering the customer experience
Streamlining everyday workflows with Miro’s Developer Platform

Join Miro's Developer Relations team and learn how to enhance your everyday workflows. Miro's Developer Platform can help you quickly boot up apps that make your life easier. In this session, you will learn more about the Web SDK and the art of creating Miro Apps. Whether you're a Miro user or a seasoned developer, you'll be able to build Miro apps of your own in no time.

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10:00 AM — 10:25 AM CDT

William Bishop

Staff Developer Advocate | Miro

Centering the customer experience
Behavioral systems: How to make change stick

Discover how to use systems thinking to tackle behaviour change challenges and learn from two projects that boosted the financial confidence of consumers and shifted behaviours in a large corporation.

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10:00 AM — 10:25 AM CDT

Charlie Rowat

Senior Innovation Manager | Salesforce

Designing a shared vision for the future
AI in innovation: Shaping stories for the future

In a world of endless possibilities, embracing AI's transformative power is key to shaping a future beyond our imagination. Speculative Business Design merges design and intelligence, uncovering uncharted territories and inspiring alternative realities. As designers, we must collaborate with customers, challenge conventions, and unlock boundless potential. Let's utilize AI to propel us to surpass our wildest dreams.

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10:00 AM — 10:25 AM CDT

Sandra Heinzen

Design Lead | Salesforce

Delivering products at speed
Next level Miro shortcuts and workflows

Learn insider tips, nifty time savers, and hidden features that will elevate your Miro skills to the next level. Discover how to save time and leverage Miros features for maximum efficiency. Uncover hidden shortcuts, innovative workflows, and unleash the true power of Miro, all while reclaiming precious hours in your day.

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10:00 AM — 10:50 AM CDT

Daniel Wirtz

CEO, Co-Founder | Facilitator School

René Nauheimer

Co-Founder, Facilitator | The Facilitator School

10:30 AM CDT
Designing a shared vision for the future
Writing a compelling product vision using story co-creation

Creating a compelling vision statement can be daunting. Despite their best efforts, teams often settle for evergreen statements that lack connection and resonance. Making team members feel disoriented when it comes to executing your vision. Using narrative methods, such as story co-creation, to craft a vision statement can provide an effective structure to incorporate the missing element. In this session, we’ll showcase a vision workshop using narrative techniques.

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10:30 AM — 10:55 AM CDT

Sandy Pretzer

OKR Coach and Consultant, Team Coach | Self-employed

Centering the customer experience
How to use empathy to foster empathy with Miro retrospectives

Join the Miro product team to hear the story of how Private mode (where sticky note content is hidden until users are ready to share) was built. In this session, get a sneak peek into how Miro builds products. Learn about Miro’s evidence-based product development, agile design process to iterate quickly and how to conduct research as a team sport.

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10:30 AM — 10:55 AM CDT

Yogesh Sharma

Product Manager, UX Research and Design Workflows | Miro

Bo Liu

UX Researcher | Miro

Hui Lin

Product Designer | Miro

Delivering products at speed
Grow a discovery tree to plan and track emergent work in Miro

Agile teams commonly invest a lot of time upfront in backlog refinement, research spikes, sprint planning, and tasking work into smaller units of value for delivery. But not all work is knowable or decomposable upfront - lots of innovative, research or emergent work defies easy planning. Try Discovery Trees, a simple and logical way to map out work without investing any time upfront with research spikes and detailed tasking. Move faster and deliver value quicker using this simple method.

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10:30 AM — 10:55 AM CDT

Steve Kuo

Senior Consultant | Industrial Logic, Inc

David Ross

Agile Product Evangelist | Miro

11:00 AM CDT
Delivering products at speed
Exploring App integrations and AI advancements with Miro

Uncover the power of Miro's AI and App integrations in this session. Learn how to step up project delivery and support user-centred design. Explore how Miro generates user stories, acceptance criteria, and mind maps. Experience the ease of automated affinity sorting for research analysis. Discover Miro's wire-framing apps for mocking up ideas and testing low-fidelity prototypes.

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11:00 AM — 11:25 AM CDT

Steven Sampson-Jones

Principal Delivery Manager | The Visual Facilitator

Centering the customer experience
Talktrack: Revolutionizing workplace communication for fewer meetings and greater connection

An inspiring session on Miro’s latest video walkthrough feature – Talktrack! Hear real stories from Miro users who've leveraged Talktrack for efficient async collaboration. Learn insights, connect, and dive into the world of seamless teamwork and communication.

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11:00 AM — 11:25 AM CDT

Sophia Chia

Product Marketing Lead | Miro

Webs Weber

Product Owner | Edmentum

Vihar Parikh

Product Manager | Miro

Robert Spellman

CIO | QTC

Designing a shared vision for the future
Future of collaboration: Co-creation with Miro AI

Prepare to dive in and fully engage in a journey to foster team synchronization through collaborative exercises and creative activities. With Miro AI, you can experiment with co-creation to enable team alignment, purposeful work, and efficient brainstorming. Explore and immerse yourself in the envisioning process.

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11:00 AM — 11:50 AM CDT

Indra Kusuma

Facilitator | Learnly Society

Designing a shared vision for the future
50 Shades of Retro - Upping your continuous improvement game

Are you tired of the same old retrospective format? Finding it challenging to turn insights into actions? Do you struggle to create a safe and inclusive environment for your team? In this highly interactive session, discover top tips, strategies, and hacks for continuous improvement that you can immediately implement with your team. This session is designed like a "choose your own adventure" experience where you can influence where we focus and what we discuss. This is your time and your talk.

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11:00 AM — 11:50 AM CDT

Chris Stone

Chief Improvement Officer | Virtually Agile

Centering the customer experience
We built it, why aren’t they buying? An interactive method for clarifying your market message

Punch up your technical content—don’t dumb it down. This session is for teams at start-ups and scale-ups that struggle with messaging that overwhelms their audiences. Create content that gets noticed, gets remembered, and gets results. And, it’s all done with a seemingly simple deck of cards—which we show you how to transform into a virtual Miro experience!

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11:00 AM — 11:50 AM CDT

Rachel Davis

Workshop Experience Designer, Facilitator | Independent Consultant

Joel Benge

Principal | MessageSpecs Consulting

11:30 AM CDT
Delivering products at speed
Make product planning seamless and swift on Miro

Join the Miro product team to discover new ways of running your Product development practices on Miro. Whether it's for PI, big-room planning, sprint planning or road mapping - in this session, you’ll discover our new feature bundle, how you can use them for your unique use-case and get evidence-based insights on how some of the biggest brands in the world are planning on Miro.

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11:30 AM — 11:55 AM CDT

Rosanna Knottenbelt

Lead Product Manager | Miro

Delivering products at speed
Design thinking: From UX to Productization

Join Philip Wallage as he shares his journey from web designer to productization specialist. Discover how Design Thinking played a pivotal role in this transition, aiding him in untangling intricate challenges and transforming services into scalable products. This enlightening talk offers valuable insights through personal experiences, and practical techniques. Attendees will discover how Design Thinking on Miro can be a source of inspiration, driving change, and empowering freelancers.

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11:30 AM — 11:55 AM CDT

Philip Wallage

Productizer | philipwallage.com

12:00 PM CDT
Delivering products at speed
Leverage Collaborative DevOps to accelerate development and deployment

Empowered engineering and infrastructure teams have embraced "Collaborative DevOps" to improve the speed and impact of innovation by streamlining their architecture design and project management workflows with the added layer of enterprise-grade security and management. Join experts from AWS and Miro as they discuss how powerful tools fuel remarkable product development work and foster innovative, high-performing teams.

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12:00 PM — 12:25 PM CDT

Sean Winters

Platform Architect | Miro

Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath

Senior Developer Advocate | Amazon Web Services

Margot Mazur

Group Product Marketing Manager, Partner Ecosystem | Miro

Designing a shared vision for the future
Power your work with Miro integrations

A hands-on showcase of Miro’s key integrations and how they solve some of the most common user pain points. Making everyday working in Miro smoother & more efficient, with the help of our friends (partners).

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12:00 PM — 12:25 PM CDT

Kristina Terziyska

Lead Product Marketing Manager, Platform and Integrations | Miro

Scott Hutchins

Vice President, Solutions Engineering | UserTesting

Ayuba Audu

Product Manager | Coda

Melanie Zhao

Group Product Manager for Confluence Integrations | Atlassian

Kathy Zhang

Business Development Manager | Microsoft

Designing a shared vision for the future
Facilitating the future of work

​We've seen a significant shift in the way we work - remote and hybrid setups, more inclusive and flexible work norms, and distributed teams bring both challenges and opportunities. Facilitation is critical to nurturing human connection and effective collaboration within teams, creating a brighter, more enjoyable future of work.

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12:00 PM — 12:25 PM CDT

Lete Hulscher

Founder, COO | Mischief Makers B.V.

Emily Hinks

Founder, CEO | Mischief Makers B.V.

Delivering products at speed
Cultivating company rituals for better hybrid collaboration

Join our highly interactive workshop to discover innovative skills, techniques, and Miro boards that can help you achieve tangible results. You will engage with state-of-the-art board designs currently used by change-makers, leaders, and innovators in organizations such as SAP, the Gates Foundation, and LEGO. Leave with a Miro template tailored to your specific needs to make a significant impact on your next project.

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12:00 PM — 12:50 PM CDT

Ole Qvist-Sørensen

Author, Facilitator | Bigger Picture

Loa Baastrup

Author, Facilitator | Bigger Picture

Delivering products at speed
Explore, solve, create: Online escape room as a Miro board

Join Lucie and Said as they tune into the magical side of their brains to bring you creative ways to make Virtual Escape Games in Miro. Featuring a feast of visual design and practical examples to maximise the power of Miro to create engaging collaboration experiences. Together, we're going to enjoy some live interactive gameplay before diving behind the scenes to see how it all works and how it was made. Bring your A-Game, and we'll bring the Games! 🎲

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12:00 PM — 12:50 PM CDT

Said Saddouk

Facilitainer | the Facilitainer

Lucie Agolini

Visual Experience Designer | Agolini Creative

12:30 PM CDT
Designing a shared vision for the future
Creating visibility for org agility

In the current climate, the need for Organizational and Business Agility is growing. Organizations are rapidly realizing that Agility is not confined to just the software teams. However, the biggest challenge for closing the gap is the lack of visibility across the Organization. Join Hallie and Bhavani to learn how Increasing Visibility can help you uncover problem areas, design strategies, and track progress towards achieving Organizational and Business Agility.

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12:30 PM — 12:55 PM CDT

Bhavani Krishnan

Agile Transformation Coach | Agile Velocity

Hallie Greenawalt

Technology Consultant | Southwest Airlines

Designing a shared vision for the future
How Salesforce Technical Architects use Miro for collaborative diagramming

A unique challenge for architects creating solutions with Salesforce is the fundamental flexibility of the platform. Join us for a hands-on session with two Technical Architects from Salesforce, as they demonstrate how they use Miro to collaborate with clients and create architecture diagrams in a seamless manner. This approach helps deliver stakeholder value quickly and efficiently.

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12:30 PM — 12:55 PM CDT

TARUM FRAZ

Solutions Engineer | Miro

Jaydeep Tase

Technical Architect | Salesforce

Stefan Zepeda

Technical Architect | Salesforce

Brad Weiger

Solutions Engineer | Miro

Delivering products at speed
Building the perfect product backlog

Agile teams rely on product owners to identify the most valuable requirements, describe features at the appropriate level of detail, and continuously adjust product backlogs to meet changing needs. Is your team measuring progress towards an ineffective business solution? In this session, learn how to translate high-level requirements into actionable features, use value-driven prioritization to manage your backlog, handle requirement dependencies, and keep everything in sync with new information.

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12:30 PM — 12:55 PM CDT

Jamie Cooke

Director, Strategic Enablement Owner and Public Sector | Trimble

1:00 PM CDT
Centering the customer experience
Five common mistakes teams make when User Story Mapping (from the author)

Jeff Patton is synonymous with User Story Mapping, having written the seminal book on the subject. Jeff has helped teams of all sizes incorporate product thinking and an outcome-oriented mindset. In this fireside chat, Miro's product evangelist, Shipra Kayan will interview Jeff Patton on the common mistakes teams make during user story mapping, highlighting behaviors that can help teams focus on outcomes over outputs and products over projects.

 

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1:00 PM — 1:25 PM CDT

Shipra Kayan

Principal Product Evangelist | Miro

Jeff Patton

Chief Troublemaker | Jeff Patton & Associates

Delivering products at speed
Save time uncovering insights from user or customer research with Miro AI

Learn how to optimize Miro AI for user research with Turner Pijpers and Sam Valentine. Discover prompt-engineering techniques to deliver high-quality work in less time and focus on your strategic decision-making. This exclusive behind-the-scenes session shows how Miro AI can help you save time on manual work with practical examples that can be implemented in any product or service development team. Don't miss out on this chance to make your work more efficient and strategic with Miro AI.

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1:00 PM — 1:25 PM CDT

Turner Pijpers

Product Marketing Manager | Miro

Sam Valentine

Employee Experience and Culture Manager | Miro

Designing a shared vision for the future
Rethinking psychological safety in hybrid teams

Psychological safety is crucial for high-performing teams, but often overlooked in our business strategy. With hybrid work, building it in distributed teams is even harder. Let's prioritize this topic and re-evaluate how we establish psychological safety in remote teams to boost team performance.

 

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1:00 PM — 1:25 PM CDT

Lois Newman

Enterprise Customer Success Manager | Miro

Designing a shared vision for the future
Exploring a state of play: Experiments in visible rethinking

Escape the confines of the past and envision a brighter future. Create spaces that foster exploration and play, as it breeds confidence in trying new things. As Jake Orlowitz said, "It's play that makes people unafraid to fail and confident to try new things." Tools like Miro help visualize old thinking, paving the way for fresh, limitless possibilities.

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1:00 PM — 1:50 PM CDT

Joshua Davies

Conversation Architect | Knowmium

Nurul Fathiyah Muen

Learning Facilitator and Transition Coach | Mindaku Ventures

1:30 PM CDT
Designing a shared vision for the future
Immersive UX: United’s approach to innovation with Miro

For those tasked with innovation, how can you bring people together in the now while envisioning what might come next? In both the shipping of design to development and the more conceptual work of charting multi-year horizons, the team at United is approaching things differently. Hear from a panel of United leaders and UX practitioners on how they leverage digital and immersive workspaces to innovate every day and plan for the future.

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1:30 PM — 1:55 PM CDT

Jorie Sax

Head of Innovation Lab | United

Michael Marshall

UX Researcher | United

Derrick Wilkinson

UX Director | United

Brad Weiger

Solutions Engineer | Miro

Libby Johnston

Sr UX Strategist | United

Designing a shared vision for the future
How VMware powers immersive collaboration with Miro & Slack

VMware's Director of Unified Communications & Collaboration, Bryan Hope, uses Miro and Slack to connect teams, foster agile practices, improve communication with customers, and streamline product development. Learn how to create engaging hybrid environments at scale in this session.

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1:30 PM — 1:55 PM CDT

Bryan Hope

Director of Unified Communications & Collaboration | VMware

Yousaf Sajid

Solutions Marketing | Slack

Daniel Slovis

Strategic Customer Success Manager | Miro

2:00 PM CDT
Delivering products at speed
Using Miro to supercharge your SAFe PI Planning sessions

Discover the efficiency revolution in SAFe PI Planning as we explore the transformative power of Miro. Learn how we transitioned from sticky notes to Miro, batch copying from Excel, integrating JIRA cards, and leveraging the Program Board feature. Unleash the potential of Miro to streamline and elevate your PI Planning sessions like never before.

 

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2:00 PM — 2:25 PM CDT

Gabriel Chaverri

Software Project Leader | Headstorm LLC

Centering the customer experience
Bringing value back to the office: Creating hybrid workspaces

56% of teams have hybrid work arrangements and spend one to four days per week in the office, whereas 7% work fully remotely. Hybrid work is here to stay, and successful teams have to invest in the right tools to promote easy collaboration and inclusivity. In this session, Neat and Miro will expand on in-office technology best practices, how to set up an office that works for everyone, and how the correct collaboration practices can help your team connect from wherever they are.

Due to their interactive nature, these workshops have a capacity limit. Once capacity has been reached, you may join the view only session to watch it live, or check out the recording available on-demand after the event.

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2:00 PM — 2:50 PM CDT

Sid van Wijk

Head of Miro Discovery Center Programs | Miro

Hellene Garcia

Vice President of Emerging Technologies, GTM | Neat

Daaf Serne

Head of Workplace Services | Miro

Designing a shared vision for the future
Charting new realms: Exploring human-AI collaboration in the next era

In a world brimming with AI-powered tools, the challenge lies in discerning tasks best suited for human cognition. To gauge the strengths of humans versus AI, we must select problems that showcase their unique attributes. Join our session, where your team engages in a strategy-based simulation, pitting against AI to achieve specific objectives. Together, we'll judge who excels at what!

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2:00 PM — 2:50 PM CDT

Jon White

Founder | Hiro Studio

Hilary Jenkins

Lead Designer | Hiro Studio

2:30 PM CDT
Delivering products at speed
How to use Miro’s Draw.io integration to design technical diagrams

In this session, Andrey and Turner will demo how you can use the Miro-built Draw.io integration to create and collaborate on any type of diagram, bringing technical documents and people together in one workspace. This deep-dive session will show you all the steps you need to know, from installing the Draw.io app to import and export diagrams and all the powerful diagramming capabilities you now have access to.

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2:30 PM — 2:55 PM CDT

Turner Pijpers

Product Marketing Manager | Miro

Andrey Ozornin

Software Engineer | Miro

Centering the customer experience
Leveraging collective intelligence using Miro

In this session, we will discuss research processes to enable a customer-centric approach to product design and development using Miro for innovation, incubation, and growth.

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2:30 PM — 2:55 PM CDT

Becky Priebe

Leader, Research | Cisco

3:00 PM CDT
Community showcase
3:00 PM — 3:25 PM CDT
Miro Hall of Fame

Join us for our closing session at Distributed '23 as we celebrate the remarkable creations and contributions of 2023 with the Miro Hall of Fame Awards. Here we recognize our community's contributions and innovative achievements.

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Lauren Booker

Head of Creator Marketing | Miro

Eleanor Hooker

Head of Community | Miro