Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea and continental breakfast as you meet your workshop leader and fellow attendees.

Stop by the registration desk to sign-in and pick up your materials for the next 3 days.

We'll kick things off at 8:30!

Many internal communication teams’ origin stories start with a few passionate people tossed into the role and responsibility of managing the communications for an organization. The pressures of everyday communication and constant business change make it difficult to develop your teams’ capabilities, processes, and strategies; moreover, there’s no framework or roadmap to serve as guidance.

Pinaki Kathiari, CEO of digital communication agency, Local Wisdom, built an Internal Communication Team Maturity Model to help communication managers and directors identify where they are, envision where they want to be, and plot a course to get there. This engaging and interactive group therapy session gives you access to the Maturity Model framework, diagnoses your level using a simple five-minute assessment, and facilitates deep group discussion allowing you to harness the wisdom in the room. Whether your comms team is well-established or starting from scratch, you’ll walk away with solutions and resources to level up.

In this session and discussions, you’ll gain:

• An overview of the maturity model's levels and layers
• An assessment of your level
• An understanding of the challenges your peers face
• Tips and solutions to level up your comms team capabilities

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers as we switch over to the next workshop.

Employees can be an organization’s best advocates and ambassadors since they are the conduit for conducting business and ensuring success. Therefore, it is essential for every organization to ensure their most valuable public is engaged, informed, and heard. The session will focus on how organizations can effectively engage and activate employees in a digital landscape.

In the past, employers could focus primarily on what employees had in common. Today, employers must also respond to differences within and between employee populations. Attendees will learn from a hands-on, data-driven workshop focused on creating a more effective employee experience using organizational intranets and other channels.

This workshop will include:

• Attendee ice breaker and introductions
• Overview of Integral’s recent findings related to employee experience, digital tools, digital transformation, and organizational intranets
• Case study of digital tools and transformations: the risks and rewards
• Customized questionnaire and table exercise focused around communication, collaboration, and culture in a digital work environment with report outs and group discussion

Attendees will learn:

• Assessing and addressing gaps in understanding employee use of digital tools and preferences
• Organizational rituals that build and reinforce values, connection, and positive behaviors
• Cultivating communication channels using managers to bring non-managers in more deliberately
• CommTech tools that matter

The key insights and takeaways will help communication leaders adjust and rethink their approach to the employee experience in the digital workplace for improved communication, culture, and collaboration.

Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants.

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

Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

Learn the value of diversifying your internal communications campaigns! With a hybrid work environment, employees are no longer glued to their computers watching emails come in. As communicators, we need to meet our employees where they are, and deliver succinct messaging at the right time, using the right vehicle - whether that be email, Slack, Intranet, or a combination of all three!

Cheers to a great day full of content!

Join us ion the rooftop for complimentary drinks and networking with your peers.

First time in New York? Want to get out of the hotel? Meet your peers in the lobby at 6:00.


You'll be heading out to dinner at a local hot spot as you take in the sights of the city.