Operations Events Calendar [old website version]

Join us for a special evening to mark this milestone!

A live Front demo designed to tackle the biggest operational challenges faced by high-growth companies.

A practical, jargon-free session tailored for Series A and beyond! With real-world examples, some horror stories, a lot of expert insight, an interactive Q&A + an optional follow-up resource guide. 

The critical legal considerations during your Pre-Seed and Seed stage that you really, really don't want to f*ck up.

The ONLY conference in Europe that is designed for YOU: the COOs, VPs of Operations, Heads of Operations, and Operations Managers who want to connect with people who get it.

Join us for a fun and meaningful evening of connection with fellow operations leaders!

Chats about everything ops over some drinks & light fare at BrewDog!

Join us for an evening of learning and curated connection that focuses on the importance of Operations - from the perspective of non-Ops people. 💡

We hosted an engaging workshop in collaboration with Qatalog, where we explored the current landscape of Generative AI and discussed practical applications for its use in today's operations.

Together with Qatalog

Together with ops leaders from our community we explored the synergy between military operational practices and startup operational strategy, including the power of resilience and innovation. 🔥

This workshop is designed for those new to AI, skeptics, and non-users alike. Led by Minisha Goel, founder of AI by MG, this session marks the beginning of a series exploring practical applications of Generative AI and Automations. Participants will learn how to utilize ChatGPT effectively to enhance productivity, covering topics like crafting quality prompts, real-life examples, and addressing security and limitations of AI. The goal is to educate attendees on AI's impact on business and work, providing insights and skills to stay ahead in the evolving AI landscape.

As operations leaders in fast-paced startups, we often juggle multiple responsibilities, and a significant one is paying our team — a task typically overseen by HR and People Ops but before our companies grow to the point where we can fire ourselves from this role and hire a full-time Head of Ops, we want to do a decent job at it ourselves.

Lila wrapped up International Operations Festival with a Fireside Chat, answering questions ranging from how operations leaders can gracefully lead their organisations to do more with less human and financial capital, to how AI is changing operations within and across organisations.

Jeff shares invaluable practical advice tailored for wartime ops leaders, focusing on achieving more with limited resources.

Tom Gell and  Will Beaton (Chief of Staff at Notpla, formerly Head of Ops at MyTutor) chat about: • Why is data protection important to your business?  • Where do you get started? What types of policies and practices do you put in place first?  • What are some of the common challenges faced at Series B and beyond?

By Operations Nation and Trust Keith

To office or not to office? That seems to be the question everyone keeps asking - and more and more often, the answer lies somewhere in-between.

By Operations Nation x Hubble

Our guest speakers Jeff Courtney (a serial COO, now Partner at Avantage Reply) and Christian Barr (experienced marketing and GTM leader) teamed up to deliver an event on GTM ops.

By Operations Nation 🎟️ RSVP HERE

The first International Ops Fest, uniting all operations communities and people around the world.

By Operations Nation SAVE THE DATE (tickets coming soon)

Organiser: Operations Nation (For ON Community members only)

Organiser: Operations Nation (For ON Community members only)

New Year, New Ops: Getting the Right Documentation Systems In Place Documentation is essential for business and career growth. By setting up good documentation systems and processes, you can: • Offer 30-hour workweeks and attract talent • Onboard new employees quickly, to increase revenue faster • Easily see, agree on, and improve your processes • Iterate and experiment more efficiently Yet so often, documentation is still looked at as a nice-to-have - or worse, a chore - and gets banished to the bottom of our priority lists.Ops often leads the charge in getting documentation systems in place - and with the start of a new year, it's the perfect time to start off strong and do some clean-up that will make everyone's lives easier. Guest Speaker: Jen Bergren, Former Head of Operations at Remotish, a HubSpot RevOps & WebOps agency

Organiser: Operations Nation 🎟 Registration 🌐 Online event

Scaling authentic, thoughtful, and efficient customer outreach is a massive undertaking that often falls on...you guessed it...operations. In this interview, Brandon Beall, Director of Client Success Operations at Cvent will walk listeners through his model to scale a successful customer outreach program with an emphasis on meeting customers where they are. RSVP to listen in and ask Brandon your questions!

Organiser: AdaptivOps 🎟 Registration 🌐 Online event

Please join us for Tech Nation’s online Ops Debate panel discussion session. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are one of the most talked about management tools of the 21st century. It's widely known that Google adopted them in their early days, and they've come to seem like something that all tech businesses should have. If you're leading a scale-up, you've probably got them, or you're thinking about using them, or you tried them and found they didn't work. Articles arguing the case for and against OKRs are everywhere. Advocates praise their ability to create focus and cross-functional alignment. Skeptics criticise the difficulty of maintaining them and the way local targets cause people to lose sight of the big picture. So - who's right? We bring both sides of the debate together for a lively conversation, with plenty of practical takeaways. Speakers: Sarah Touzani, Co-founder & CEO of Waggle Paul Doran, Chief Marketing and Customer Officer, Nuon AI Kristen Shannon, CEO, Highliner Technology

Organiser: Tech Nation 🎟 Registration 🌐 Online event

Over the last decade, we've seen a general increase in the recognition of how important People Strategy and People Operations are to an organisation. It's no longer just about the compliance of stereotypical HR tasks like contracts, compensation, and benefits, but the fine art of attracting, hiring, onboarding, managing, and progressing staff through their employee life cycle. As such, it turns out that COOs and other operations leaders are often accountable for people operations, either directly or indirectly. 👥 Please join us for what will be an exciting cONversation with Janie Links, Founder of High Calibre People! With Janie’s help, you can find out how to act as a Chief People Officer when your company doesn't have one. 👀 We'll discuss: • How do you help your company create a functional leadership team, especially when other leaders are behaving dysfunctionally? • How do you design a company-wide org structure with clearly defined functions, without creating silos? • What phases of the employee journey are the most important to build processes around as you scale your business? • And any other questions you have! 💬

Organiser: Operations Nation 🎟 RSVP here 🌐 Online event

A global two half-day virtual conference specifically designed for startup and scaleup operations professionals to discuss the many challenges encountered along the path to “operational excellence”, hear from seasoned ops leaders, and connect with other ops folks from across the globe.

Organiser: Operations Nation 🎟 Registration 🌐 Online event

Operations roles have been on the rise, including that of the Chief Operating Officer. The COO role is incredibly exciting but also complex. It differs vastly depending on the industry, company size and stage of the business, not to mention the strengths and weaknesses of their "other half", the CEO. At Operations Nation, our main goal is to help operations professionals to thrive at every stage of their operations career. Therefore we’re incredibly excited to partner with Jeff Szczepanski, a seasoned COO and successful entrepreneur. Drawing from his unique experience, at this event Jeff will be diving deeper into the following topics: - Why do companies need COOs? - Why the rise of this role over the last decade? - Do companies need COOs or...someone else? - What's the difference between a COO and other operations leadership roles? - What is the COO supposed to do, i.e. what's the job?

Organiser: Operations Nation 🎟 Register here 🌐 Online event

All about the operational challenges and solutions of remote working, with a focus on payroll, HR, tax and compliance.

Organiser: Operations Nation 🌐 Online event

The first ever global conference for startup and scaleup operations professionals. Half-day event featuring two panels with operations leaders, fireside chat with Allison Pickens (investor, former Gainsight COO) and Hari Raghavan (CEO and Founder of AbstractOps), ops specialities focused roundtables, networking sessions, and operations awards ceremony.

Organiser: Operations Nation 🎟 Register here 🌐 Online event

Over the last couple of years, operations roles have been on the rise. Actually wait...that's an understatement. The demand for operations professionals has been crazy and through the roof. We're definitely not complaining...but we want to understand the reasons why. Is it that companies suddenly realised that, in our increasingly competitive world, innovative ideas coupled with subpar execution is not enough and operational excellence is everything? Or is it something else? 🤔 In the months to come, we'll dig deeper into what the future holds for operations, not forgetting to look back and where we're at right now. We'll discuss: • How operations evolved over the last decade. • How the perception around it changed, which aspects of it are timeless, and which ones should be discarded. • What still needs to be improved and the tradeoffs. • What's the trajectory for the operations field in the next decade. • How can we, as a community of current and future operations leaders, build a brighter future for ourselves?

Organiser: Operations Nation 🎟 Register here 🌐 Online event

The role of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) is extremely hard to define and multi-layered. It often differs greatly depending on the company size and industry. There are very few books, articles or resources to help answer the question "What does a COO actually do?" Professionals with varying backgrounds ascend to the COO role and succeed in it. But what do they all have in common? What makes a good COO? And what do you need to know/do to become a great one? This event was for both aspiring COOs and current COOs who are looking to further their career development and network with other professionals who are passionate about operations. This is an insightful panel of five amazing operations leaders at different stages of their career, each sharing their experiences scaling their respective businesses. This is a rare opportunity to learn how to best prepare for and succeed in an ops career path.

Organiser: Ops Stories & COOhort 🎟 Register here 🌍 London, UK