{"id":2309,"date":"2016-06-23T16:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2023-09-11T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T07:39:04","slug":"taking-part-in-the-lead-developer-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/taking-part-in-the-lead-developer-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Developer Conference London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to let everyone know that I will be taking part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.theleaddeveloper.com\/\">Lead Developer Conference<\/a> in London on June 24th to present on \u201c <em>How to deal with the culture divide and internal advocacy within a distributed team<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leaddev.png\" alt=\" leaddev\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2016\/06\/leaddev.png 600w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2016\/06\/leaddev-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2016\/06\/leaddev-20x9.png 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m personally excited to speak at {#Lead Dev } because having working from home for almost 5 years and working within a distributed team I have been very fortunate to learn new skills and ways to work and \u00a0I&#8217;m very happy to share this information with more people!\u00a0It&#8217;s not just the timezone issues, international flights, planning logistics, communication and dealing with different cultural norms, working with teams distributed across the world provides challenges to overcome \u00a0but it also is a great way to learn how to work in a \u00a0effectively in different direction.<\/p>\n<p>Scaling company culture is hard enough when the majority of your company is in the same office. 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