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Factory Berlin’s Women and Solopreneurs Circles are inviting you to this event to learn more about the ins and outs of online negotiation. Some dread it, some love it, but everyone would agree, that negotiation skills are essential if you are an entrepreneur, a freelancer or self-employed. The most common form of negotiating has been face-to-face interactions. However, as in the last few months almost everything moved online, so did the process of negotiation.

Factory Berlin’s Women and Solopreneurs Circles decided to address this situation. We have invited negotiation experts to share their knowledge and experience of how best to transfer the usual face to face techniques into online negotiation. How and when can we use various digital channels to our advantage? What to keep in mind, and what to avoid? Online negotiation creates special challenges. With email, instant messaging, and text messages, negotiators typically lack visual, verbal, and other sensory cues to interpret how their counterpart is feeling. And while video conferencing—via Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts, and so on—adds many of these cues to the picture, it’s still an imperfect solution (limited visibility, technical difficulties. privacy and security challenges). At our interactive online event, you shall learn the theory and practical tips of online negotiation, hear personal experiences, and also test your newly acquired skills with each other. This event will be hosted online on Zoom. On the day of the event you will receive an E-mail with Zoom log-in details. The Event is open to Factory Berlin members and external guests.

In a climate of financial instability, we’re taking a look at how ripe the market is for digital disruption.

At the Futures Forum innovators and business leaders look to the future, which is more important than ever in current times. Through expert talks, we’ll set out to learn new insights and discuss strategies for a changing social, economic and technological landscape.

What opportunities does a crisis like COVID-19 present for growing FinTech businesses, and what are the challenges associated with startups and SMEs in the space? How important is collaboration between corporate incumbents and agile newcomers? And exactly what does this collaboration look like?

These are all the topics and questions we look to answer.

Steering a $500 million company through shifting social and economic realities.

Co-founder and CEO Hanno Renner joins us to share his story of steering Personio, its employees and company culture through shifting social and economic realities.

Since 2015, the Munich-based company has grown from an idea into a 450 person operation that helps 2,000+ startups and SMEs to modernise and digitize their HR processes. Straight from business school and yacht skippering jobs, Hanno Renner co-founded Personio and has remained at the helm of the operation since, leading Personio to raise nearly $130 million investment since its launch.

Join us for a conversation with Hanno about his experiences as a founder and the lessons that he has learned about HR best practices from his clients, as well as his own burgeoning company.