This article is part of the series "Around the World with Bazel in Watercolors".
I cannot call New York a trip, as it’s my home, but we do have customers, team members and future customers here. This led to a few events that included working with the team and bringing customers and friends together over food with a touch of Bazel!
EngFlow has multiple entities around the world, one of which is in Colombia. This year we’ve chosen Colombia as the site for our 2025 Leadership Summit, and I added a few days and weekends to explore the country with our team members, see how they live and meet their families. It’s been an incredible experience visiting Medellin, El Retiro, Itagui, Cali and Bogota, and I’ve captured a few learnings from this trip in a blog.
This article is part of the series "Around the World with Bazel in Watercolors".
The Sydney to New York route was strategically scheduled via San Francisco to connect with our customers, employees and future customers there—and do some watercolors!
This article is part of the series "Around the World with Bazel in Watercolors".
As the images hint, I was mostly inspired by the rich Tasmanian landscape, which is where we went on a family vacation. I did, however, sandwich that week between working for a week in Sydney and a week in San Francisco. In Sydney I couldn’t pass on an opportunity to meet with our customers while visiting family, and to gather local engineers passionate about Bazel (all 10 of them! 
) from Canva, Splunk, Snap, MongoDB, and more for a Bazel meetup.
This article is part of the series "Around the World with Bazel in Watercolors".
One of the challenges of leading a globally distributed company with employees and customers on 6 continents is making time for meaningful connections with people. I’ve embraced this challenge and turned it into an opportunity. That means combining travel with industry conferences, team summits, customer and future customer relationship development, and product discovery. So far this year, that includes 12 cities (Sydney, San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Boston, Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle), 71 customer and future customer visits, and gathering a total of 231 engineers at our events, plus meeting up with EngFlow team members.