Summit
“Summit” is what we call our annual face to face team meeting. It’s one of the highlights in the balena calendar year. This is the time of the year that all balenistas get together in one place and spend one week aligning on our vision, brainstorming, hacking, getting to know each other better, reflecting on the past year, and shaping the company’s roadmap and future.
Summit recordings
We strongly encourage every new balenista to spend some time watching past summit recordings to better understand our vision, our current areas of focus, as well as how we work together at balena. These will give you some background and context, and help you understand balena better. You can chat with your buddy to get some help around which recordings might be more relevant and helpful to you and your area of work. It would be helpful to start with watching some of the keynotes from the last summit or hack week to get up to speed with current work and goals.
For more information, head over to the Essential presentations page.
Summit 2018
During Summit 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, the focus of the team was on renaming the company; a great activity to do when you're all in the same place together. Find out more in this blog post.
Summit 2019
We have run a few summits over the years. Since the beginning of 2019, and especially after completing our Series B funding round in July 2019 we've been focusing on growing our globally distributed team. The strength of our team is never more apparent than at our annual week-long summit. Check this blog post about summit 2019 which took place in Barcelona, Spain for the second year.
Summit 2020
Summit 2020 ended up looking quite a bit different than we had originally planned and as such, it ended up being our first-ever virtual summit! Check this blog post for more info on how we ran our virtual summit 2020.
Vision Week 2021
Six months after our virtual annual summit in September 2020, we held what we called a Vision Week, or a sort of virtual mini-summit. It was a chance for us to catch up on what we’re building, why we’re building it, and how we’ll build it, without waiting a full year between summits. The goal was to refresh and converge on our vision and priorities for the upcoming year and beyond. It was a good opportunity to zoom out and add important context and perspective to help guide our work.
Summit 2021
Summit 2021 was our first attempt to run a hybrid Summit! We had smaller teams that met in London, Seattle, Athens and Delhi during Summit week, while about half of the team attended remotely. We did have some challenges as expected and we learned a ton. You can check out all the Summit 2021 recordings here.
Vision Week 2022
Due to the success of our last vision week in 2021, we decided to bring it back for 2022. This was a fully remote event where we focussed on the idea of productization and product building.
Summit 2022
Summit 2022 was our first in person Summit following the remote era. We had most of the team meet in Cancoon, Mexico for a week, whilest some of the team attended remotely. We had an amzing time talking to each other and getting to know one another! We also had a significant change since our then CEO handed over the company to our current leadership team. You can check out the Summit 2022 recordings [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1Nm2pIsitmnP7iC-XK0y8Q1isV38yBLUy.