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 Strategic Internal 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.

Details coming soon!

"Generative AI" has infiltrated media newsrooms, marketing departments, and public relations offices. Why not internal communication? Can't find the image you need from your stock photo service? Create it from whole cloth using a graphics generator. Need to crank out a bunch of personnel announcements but don't have the time (or patience)? Let a text generator help. Soon you will even be able to produce video with nothing more than a text prompt. In this eye-opening session, communications technology evangelist Shel Holtz will demonstrate some of these tools and explain how they can augment your current communication efforts.

You will learn:

• The scope of tools available and what they are capable of
• How these tools work and why they don't violate the IP rights of artists or authors
• How to craft a text prompt that will produce just what you're looking for
• Why you should not view the advance of generative AI as a threat to your job (or the jobs of any of your suppliers)

While you enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments our sponsor will present to you a bonus session. Solutions for employees that don't sit at a desk.

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.

In this session, Sleep Number Communications Manager Kelsey Stanczyk and Habanero Director, Products and Services, Brian Edwards will share how Sleep Number migrated complex content to a new platform and launched a modern intranet that serves and connects all employees.

You’ll learn:

• Why and how to engage teams across the organization to ensure success
• Tips for modernizing and migrating content from a classic intranet to modern SharePoint
• How targeted navigation and content personalization can help you reach more employees and deliver the information they need

In this Q&A session you will learn how VMWare modernized its internal communication to provide personalized content to each employee. 

You’ll learn:

• Why move beyond email?

• How to convince leadership and IT that it’s time to change

• What a truly personalized Intranet REALLY looks like

• How to tie your existing channels together without creating more work for the comms team

Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants. Don't miss this opportunity to have lunch with your peers at a local San Francisco hot spot!
*Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

In this session participants will learn:

• How organizations use social media to impact internal communications
• How to start an employee advocacy program in your organization
• What key factors make an employee advocacy program successful
• How to socialize your employee advocacy program with leadership and throughout the organization

In a business environment where companies are fighting for talent and to retain employees, company culture is a critical factor. Using a newly-launched po Insurance is giving employees a voice to share their stories in an ever-changing world. In this session, you’ll learn Nationwide’s strategy to creating podcas intimacy, authenticity and the ability to create connections and walk away with some inspiration on where to start your podcast journey.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Who you should bring on board as internal stakeholders
• How to find the right platform to meet your distribution strategy
• The type of content that will appeal to listeners
• The contract podcast creators should sign before producing their first episode
• The tools you’ll need to record, produce, and edit
• Methods for gaining adoption for the platform and the content

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers. Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors!

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.

Employee Experience has changed drastically since 2020 as has the technology implemented by organizations to facilitate the future of work. Join this session to unlock your employee's potential with the latest digital tools and strategies to build employee engagement.

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 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 San Francisco 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.