Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea and continental breakfast as you meet your fellow attendees.
Sign-in, pick up your materials and enjoy a continental breakfast before we start the day.
Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors!

Welcome to the 10th Annual Modern Intranets for Employee Communications Conference. 

In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers, their biggest internal communications challenges, and a few fun facts.

• Strategies for decentralizing site governance
• Building cross-functional collaboration
• Implementing hands-on training programs
• Leveraging recognition to sustain engagement
• Discover how this transformation strengthened our hybrid workplace—and how your organization can achieve similar results.

We’ve all heard the "Field of Dreams" approach to internal communications: If you build it, they will come. But in an era of notification fatigue and "pings" from every direction, simply building a platform isn't enough. To truly capture an employee's attention, your intranet needs to stop feeling like a chore and start feeling like a community.

Engagement isn't just a vanity metric; it is the heartbeat of organizational alignment. However, there is a fine line between a platform that is "fun" and one that is "functional." This session dives into why employees engage and how to use gamification, not as a gimmick, but as a strategic lever to drive long-term adoption.

In this session, you will learn how Nutanix has driven employees to the intranet through engaging competitions and challenges.

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers.

Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors and be sure to fill out your evaluation forms.

Often times, the intranet’s infrastructure isn’t the challenge – it’s encouraging multiple teams to find common ground.

In this case study, we will examine how an organization, with a decentralized model, three Division HR departments, and over 7,000 employees found a way to consolidate their information into a single micro-intranet for leaders, so that managers and HR could spend more time doing their jobs, rather than trying to find the answer. This session will provide you a toolkit for identifying the right decision makers, mapping out a technical intranet project, and setting platform permissions for specific business groups, like HR, so they can work securely and confidently in their shared, digital space.

Outdated, redundant content quickly erodes trust and turns even the best intranet into noise. This case study shows how one team used usage data, search insights, and content analytics to identify stale content, guide content owners, and make smarter decisions about what to update, archive, or remove. Learn how a data-informed governance model keeps intranet content accurate, credible, and continuously relevant.

Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants.
Don't miss this opportunity to have lunch with your peers at a local NYC hot spot!


**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

Every day at work, we face barriers, obstacles, and challenges of all shapes and sizes. We may get stuck by keeping it close to our chest or sticking our heads in the sand, hoping it will go away, or we might have too much on our plates and never find the time to find a solution.

Pinaki Kathiari, CEO of the digital communications agency Local Wisdom, brings a fresh approach to problem-solving and harnessing the collective wisdom in the room. This interactive session helps you get unstuck by introducing your problems to others to gain new perspectives and ideas. You will go through a few unique ideation exercises that utilize all attendees in a random, anonymous, fun way to generate solutions to your specific challenges. And, yes, we’ll be doing this using paper airplanes.

In this session, you’ll walk away with:

• How to craft a sound problem statement
• Powerful design-thinking exercises
• Ideas and solutions that pertain to your specific challenges

How do you elevate and maintain engagement in a workforce with countless items competing for your team's attention? How do you develop a sense of pride in the organization through inclusion and effective communication? Give them a variety of content and continue evolving your digital channels, and try new ways of telling stories that put the spotlight on them. Keep thinking fresh and never consider that you've reached the finish line. Make your intranet and other platforms like Viva Engage the first place people go in the morning and make it worth their while.

Your team is what makes your company run – without engaged team members, you're going nowhere. Team members want to be in the know and they like the spotlight to occasionally shine on them. Get their attention through compelling content and drive them to your digital platforms. Now you have an audience to communicate important, company-wide information. The best content is organic content – for your team, by your team. Keep introducing new initiatives where your team can actively participate in the discussion.

You’ll learn:

• How to create content that will get attention NOW – no waiting for money for costly campaigns.
• Strategies for sustaining growth in team member engagement and making them feel comfortable communicating.
• Success is when team members feel that internal communications is on their side, interacting with them and answering questions vs one-sided communication that just tells them what to do.

The risk isn’t that AI will “kill” the intranet—it’s that organizations may fail to harness it effectively. Employees expect instant answers, personalized content, and seamless digital tools. But standalone AI search tools and chatbots fall short without governance, communication, and cultural alignment—turning information into noise instead of clarity.

In this session, we’ll cut through the AI hype and show how leading companies are future-proofing their intranets. Learn how to combine structured communications with AI to deliver personalization, streamline workflows, and drive measurable business outcomes.

You’ll discover:

• Why AI search tools can’t replace the governance and alignment of a modern intranet.
• How to integrate AI to enhance employee experience and productivity.
• The risks of vendor lock-in and security gaps with standalone AI tools.
• Real-world examples of enterprises transforming intranets into AI-powered employee hubs.

Join us to see how AI and intranets together create a smarter, more connected employee experience.

Take advantage of this interactive break to connect with our sponsors and experience their products and services firsthand. Each sponsor will host live demos at their table—giving you the chance to explore innovative solutions, ask questions, and find the tools that best support your work.

In this "no-pressure" setting, you'll be able to ask your most pressing questions and receive honest feedback from your peers. Experienced intranet leaders reflect honestly on mistakes, surprises, and what they would change if starting from scratch.

Don't stop the conversation!

Join us at the lobby bar as you network with your peers and sponsors in the adjacent at the #ALIcomms

Participate in raffles & sign-up for dinner with your peers!

Want to keep the conversation going? Join a group of attendees for dinner at a local NYC hot spot.


Sign-up at the registration desk or during the networking reception to join a group at tonight's dine-around. Reservations have been made.


**Dutch treat.

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea and continental breakfast as you network with fellow attendees on this final day.

Together we will recap yesterday's top takeaways and set the stage for this final day of learning.

Modern intranets are becoming essential platforms for improving communication, governance, and the employee experience. This session explores how Internal Communications and Legal teams can collaborate to deliver trusted, accessible, and effective information across the organization.

Key Takeaways

• Improve collaboration between Internal Communications and Legal teams
• Streamline policy, governance, and employee communications
• Create a more accessible and trusted employee experience

This fireside chat features a candid conversation with Kyle Pearson on leading colleague communications in a large organization. Kyle will share insights on leadership, employee trust, and managing high pressure moments, along with how modern intranets support connection and culture during change.

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers.

Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors and be sure to fill out your evaluation forms.

The intranet homepage is not the future. AI-powered, personalized content delivery is. The question is not whether this shift is coming. It is whether your organization will be ready for it when it arrives.

This session helps you figure out exactly where you stand. Whether you are still building the foundation or already thinking three years ahead, you will walk away with an honest picture of where your intranet is on the journey from destination to intelligence, and the clearest possible sense of what your next move should be.

The intranet is no longer just a place to post updates—it’s becoming central to how work gets done. As expectations rise and tools multiply, organizations that don’t evolve risk fragmented communication and low engagement. This panel explores how teams are transforming intranets into dynamic platforms that drive clarity, connection, and real business impact.