Working in Geographically Dispersed Teams. Life Hacks from IN and DE Leaders

Welcome to our panel discussion - ''Working in Geographically Dispersed Teams. Life Hacks from IN and DE Leaders''

📍Topic description
What does it take to work effectively across cultures, different time zones and languages? In today’s world, Solaris as many other international organisations work across different cultures every day. Solaris has 10 offices around the world where work 76 nationalities. With offices around the world, projects that cross borders or simply a diverse workforce, understanding how to work with people from different backgrounds, regions, countries or continents is becoming an ever more valuable skill.

Join Solaris Tech Leadership Team discussion where you'll know tricks and tips how to manage multicultural teams. Team will share experience, successful cases and lessons they leaned from working in an International FinTech company.

Who will be interested in attending the event?
Tech enthusiast and everyone interested in working with international teams.

🎤 Moderator: Raj Ramakrishnan, Managing Director @Solaris (Chennai, India)
Raj has more than 20 years of experience as a technology executive, working to drive transformation and focused on building and scaling global organisations. Raj joined Solaris in 2021 after living in USA for over 20 years where he mostly worked with fortune 500 Banking and Insurance companies and as a consultant with IBM, Cognizant and Gartner. Raj has a Masters in Computer Information Systems and an MBA.

🗣Speaker #1:Bina Aghera, QA Lead @Solaris (Ahmedabad, India)
Bina is working with Contis/Solaris since 9+ years. Currently she is leading and managing the QA team as QA Manager in the card section. Apart from this she is also working on solution discussions, automation of applications, product training and recruitment process for QA department.

🗣Speaker #2: Sreekesh Venkitasubramony, Senior Product Owner @Solaris (Chennai, India)
Sreekesh is part of the Core Banking team within Solaris, working along with a team of awesome engineers based in India.After completing his MBA he started his career as a banker with a leading private sector bank in India. Later, he switched to technology domain when he joined in as a Business Analyst for a US based MNC. Before joining Solaris, he donned the role of a Product Owner for a leading MNC bank which has a strong franchise across Asia, Middle East, and African markets.

🗣Speaker #3:Carina Grühser, Director of Engineering @Solaris (Berlin, Germany)
Carina is working almost two years with Solaris, now in the role of Director of Engineering for the Identity teams. In the past she worked as an engineer and team lead mainly developing image recognition and geomechanical simulation systems with C++. Working with her teams and team leads, she drives continuous improvement and collaboration. On the latter - collaboration within the teams, one of the great challenges is working with engineers from different tech hubs around Europe and India.

📅 Agenda: (CET)
13:30 - Guests Arriving
13:35 - Welcome! Who’s in the room and Intro to the topic
13:40 - Panel Discussion
14:20 - Q&A
14:30 - Closing

Format of Meetup
This meetup will take place virtually on Zoom. Link is shared with the confirmed attendees.
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About Solaris Group:
Solaris is a technology company with a German banking license, with headquarter in Berlin, Germany. Our Banking-as-a-Service platform has everything you need to build your own banking products.
https://www.solarisbank.com/en/