Welcome to the 7th Annual Modern Intranets For The Digital Workplace Conference.

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

Current Intranet: Google Sites + Jira

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) play a crucial role in promoting diversity, inclusion, and support within an organization. However, many ERGs struggle with visibility and engagement. In this session, we will cover 10 ways to spice up your ERG landing page and capture the attention of potential members.

You will learn the importance of a well-designed landing page, the elements necessary to convey your ERG's mission and values, and how to create a sense of community and urgency. Whether you're a seasoned ERG leader or an Internal Communications Specialist, this session will provide practical tips for creating a landing page that truly resonates with your target audience.

By the end of this session, you will have a clear understanding of how to make your company's ERG landing page effective, engaging, and impactful.

Internal communication has a direct impact on an organization’s success. When done well, it builds employee engagement, company culture, and trust in leaders. Part of any good strategy is being able to recognize and solve for some of IC’s biggest challenges. In this session, learn strategies, insights, and tactics for tackling some

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

Visit your sponsors to check out some of the latest tools and innovations supporting internal communications.

As a communicator, you can produce more effective employee communications by developing a deeper and more emotional understanding of your audiences. In this interactive workshop, you will come away with a unique methodology to move from theory to action and build strategic communication campaigns that will engage stakeholders at all levels of your organization. You will learn how to harness the collective insight of your internal communication and design teams by using a collaborative mapping technique and human-centric approach to strategy development. This renowned technique has resulted in successful enterprise-wide programs for companies such as Gap Inc., GE, Starbucks, Oracle, and Genentech.

In this comprehensive and hands-on workshop, you will leave with tools to help you:

• Apply the basics of a human-centric communication planning methodology
• Integrate thinking models from change management, learning, and communications design
• Discover new ways to identify and meet the needs and preferences of your audiences and stakeholders
• Select and integrate new technology into your organization’s culture, based on specific learning styles and audience preferences
• Build multi-dimensional campaigns that sustain mindshare and momentum while aligning attitudes, behaviors and business objectives

In today's fast-paced business environment, employee engagement is more critical than ever.  Drawing on his expertise, Colin will provide practical tips and best practices for building an engaging and supportive workplace culture that drives employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention. Attendees will learn how to leverage technology to create engaging internal communications, create a culture of recognition and reward, and establish a feedback mechanism that promotes continuous improvement. Whether you're a communications professional, HR leader, or business executive, this session will provide valuable insights into transforming the internal customer experience and achieving rapid employee engagement in the digital age.

• tips/takeaways from the session:
  • Automate your intranet onboarding processes
  • Creating communities of practice to crowdsource support
  • Tooling to assist in site/content management
  • Measuring for impact
• Current Intranet Software:
  • Microsoft 365
  • SharePoint Online
  • Power Platform

You’ve built an intranet, identified content owners, and taught them how to use the system. Now what? Staying engaged with your content contributors is key to maintaining an up-to-date and evolving intranet or digital workspace.

This workshop will share ideas on how to create and cultivate a content contributor culture that is replicable for users of any platform!

Attendees will learn:

• How to stay connected with your content contributors and administrators
• Strategies for fostering a contributor community
• Best practices for motivating and educating those who you rely on to keep your site evolving and growing by encouraging ownership

Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants.

Don't miss this opportunity to have lunch with your peers at a local Chi hot spot!

Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

Within the last five years, more companies are beginning to create roles and entire teams focused on the developer or engineering experience. What started primarily at companies in the tech industry has gained traction in all industries as technology innovation has become a critical business driver and competitive advantage. What exactly is ‘engineering experience’ and how is it different from ‘employee experience’? Christy Punch, Sr. Mgr., Product Owner of Engineering Experience at Liberty Mutual will talk her role and share how her team’s focus on delivering digital experiences where an engineer is able to do their best work is accelerating value for the business and for Liberty Mutual customers.

What you’ll learn:

• What is ‘Engineering Experience (EngrX)’
• Why is EngrX an important part of the overall digital employee experience, and what employee roles are in scope (hint: it’s not just ‘engineers’)
• The EngrX strategy at Liberty Mutual, along with examples of how the EngrX team is improving the internal engineering experience (and what they’ve learned along the way)

EJ Sepp is the Intranet Manager for global law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP where he oversees the data and design implementation for the firm’s new intranet rebuild in SharePoint Online

In This Session:

• History with SharePoint intranets (2007, 2013, 2016 and SPO)
• Comms to Intranets
• Overall Design Features:
• Including the 2013 platform’s design limitations
• The significance of prior migrations building on a ton of outdated content
• Bad habits that have been reinforced and spread over time
• To describe some of the features in SPO that will facilitate a rebuild as opposed to a migration
• The business needs driving the new intranet design ideas

With the variety of tools available it's hard to navigate and choose the one that is best for your organization.

In this fast-paced session you'll have the opportunity to see demonstrations of top digital workplace and communications tools of your choice.

We'll alert you when it's time to switch—grab a sweet treat on your way.

Collaboration is a team sport! In this session, learn the fundamental digital literacy skills your staff needs to be their best team players in a modern hybrid workplace!

A workplace can be a diverse mix of tenures ranging from new hires to decades-long employees, a mix of generations from millennials to baby boomers, and vary on many other aspects too. That’s a lot of different perspectives and experiences that people bring to work with them every day. But can they all agree on how to collaborate?

• I’ll share a six-pillar model that will help you organize the teamwork and productivity training and communications that you share with your workforce.
• I’ll introduce you to the concept of a Collaboration Contract and how teams use it to work better together.
• Leave with a better idea of what people need to know and how to drive the behavior changes needed.

Moderator: Preston Lewis, Found & CEO | Intactic

In this "no-pressure" setting, you'll be able to ask your most pressing questions and receive honest feedback from your peers.

More panelists TBA!

Don't stop the conversation!

Join us for networking with your peers and sponsors overlooking the river at the #ALIcomms reception.

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 Chi hot spot.

Sign-up with an ALI team member to join a group at tonight's dine-around. Reservations have been made.

Everyone is on their own financially.

Join us as we explore the future of work through the lens of artificial intelligence and modern intranets. Best-selling author Geoff Ables will guide you through real-life examples of organizations that have transformed their customer and employee engagement with technology. We'll discuss the critical role that big data, analytics, processes, collaboration, and culture play in creating a people-centric workplace. You'll learn how the leaders are leveraging modern intranets to drive transformation, and what differentiates successful organizations from those who struggle. Leave inspired and equipped with new ideas to bring positive change to your own organization.

You’ll leave inspired, informed and full of ideas that will drive change - even transformation - in your organization.

"Profit is the pulse of a company. People are the heart."

Learn how Teach For America, a national non-profit with staff spread across many teams and sites, leveraging the 2020 launch of their Igloo-based Intranet Homeroom to improve information reliability, lessen noise, and embrace a truly multichannel internal communications strategy.

• Search Capabilities
• Consistent Metadata
• Content Quality & Value
• Expert Findings

Internal knowledge is one of the most valuable assets that a company has. Being able to understand what knowledge is available and how to quickly access it is key to serving customers effectively and efficiently.

Learn how the Alvarez & Marsal knowledge management (KM) team designed and launched a new global intranet in a close partnership with IT and other internal groups. David Lee leads the KM Operations team at A&M, which is responsible for the day-to-day management of the intranet, which serves as the firm’s primary knowledge management system.

In this session, he will discuss the following topics:

• Why KM should be a part of your intranet strategy.
• The challenges of building an intranet for a dispersed global firm with multiple systems for storing knowledge.
• KM principles that guided the design and ongoing maintenance of our intranet.
• How our intranet combines internal communication and knowledge management to support our employees across multiple regions and business units.

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.

Microsoft has recently made significant upgrades to Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer) to enable organizations to give every employee a voice, reach deskless workers, and create better digital engagement. In this session you’ll learn about Viva Engage, including a brief demo, and you’ll hear Silver Oak’s story on a recently launched pilot program to better engage their retail tasting room teams using Viva Engage.

A strong and positive company culture is key to driving employee engagement, productivity, and retention. However, engaging employees who don’t have access to company communications can be challenging and make it difficult to create a cohesive and collaborative work environment. In this conference session, we'll explore how a mobile-optimized intranet solution can be a game-changer for enhancing company culture. By providing all employees with easy access to company news, resources, and collaboration tools, a modern intranet can create a sense of community and connection among team members, regardless of their physical location. We'll discuss best practices for designing and implementing a mobile-friendly intranet that meets the needs of a diverse and dispersed workforce. Join us for this session and learn how to revitalize your company culture with the power of technology.

Moderator: Pinaki K | Local Wisdom

You've submitted your biggest challenges, you've continued to submit questions over the past 24 hours, and this is your opportunity to get answers to those questions. With an expert speaker panel with a variety of experience levels—you're bound to takeaway practical ideas that will immediately enhance your digital workplace and communications strategies.

More panelists TBA

Thank you for joining us for the 7th Annual Modern Intranets For The Digital Workplace Conference.

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You will receive a link to OneDrive next week with copies of all presentations.