During this networking session we encourage you to turn on your camera to "meet" your IC peers from across the nation. You'll have this opportunity to discuss your challenges with your peers and find commonalities for what you're experiencing.

The Wells Fargo digital workplace, Teamworks, supports more than 266,000 employees who work in 32 countries and territories. In addition to using Teamworks, Wells Fargo employees use on average four to five different role-based or administrative systems every day. The result is a disjointed digital employee experience.

This session will share how the Wells Fargo Digital Workplace team is connecting data and systems from across the company into one integrated digital employee experience, including:

• More about the microservices technology used to enable integrations
• How the team is simplifying the employee experience through aggregation and common patterns in digital workplace experiences like Notifications, Profile, and Search
• How employee data is used to deliver a highly-personalized user experience

Are you tired of being a private publisher? Do you find yourself writing mostly reactive stories? Do you spend your time putting out fires instead of changing behavior? Do you have too many vehicles with no idea of what’s working and what’s not? Then this interactive workshop is designed for you!

The old corporate way of communicating just doesn’t work anymore. Boring, stiff, jargon-filled corporate stories won’t cut it. You’ve got to find a way to grab your audiences’ attention. You’ve got to take the ‘corporate’ out of corporate communication and replace it with ‘creative.’

Dive in with your peers as you design a plan for strategic creative communications, including how to:

• Take those tired, old stories and flip them upside down — so that people pay attention to them
• Make the important interesting
• Start using the new tools available to communicators — including social media and multimedia channels
• Find and tell the kinds of stories that will cut through the information clutter that is so rampant in your organization
• Develop the right research strategy so you know what works and what doesn’t work.
• Understand the basics of ‘Guerilla Research’ so that you constantly have a read on your audiences’ needs

This will be a one hour break allowing you to catch up with your work and grab a bite to eat.

Feel free to join your peers in a breakout room at any time to continue the conversation.

Learn how UPMC automated key intranet processes including content approval workflows, staff event submissions, and user support using Microsoft 365 tools.

Leave this session knowing:

• Anyone can use Microsoft 365 tools to improve processes, regardless of technical background.
• Automation allows your team to focus on strategic priorities and spend less time on daily tasks.
• How to make the best of the tools available to you at your organization.

Learn how a local in-person festival with more than 1,500 attendees, converted into virtual variety shows broadcasted to employees around the world. By coupling Microsoft Teams Live and Slido trivia, we created an interactive employee experience.

Come see how this virtual experience connected employees on a global scale, plus:

• Discover a virtual formula for converting events from in-person to online and interactive
• See examples of small to large scale virtual events to keep remote work fun and engaging
• How to leverage Microsoft Teams, Slido and other apps

Your employees have information coming at them from all directions. How do you make what matters get through? Not just skimmed over, but consumed and action taken?

Hear from your peers and strategies they have used that work.

Panelists:

Leyla Goodsell, Sr Communications Specialist, Entergy

Kimberly Henderson, Digital Technologies - Digital Workplace Lead, Mars

Jenny Fasolino, VP Internal Communications, Blue Yonder

Margaret Cerilli, AVP/Senior Manager, Intranet and Internal Communications, Putnam Investments

Moderator:

Pinaki Kathiari, CEO, Local Wisdom

Wrap-up of Day 1 and opportunity for more Q&A led by your conference chair.