Day 1: General Sessions
March 23, 2022 - |
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Day 1: General Sessions - 03/23/2022 |
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8:00 am - 8:30 am | Registration: Badges, Bagels, & BeveragesEnjoy complimentary coffee, tea and continental breakfast as you meet your fellow attendees. | |||
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Chairperson's Welcome & Speed NetworkingGeoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight Welcome to the 6th Annual Digital Workplace conference. In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers, their biggest internal communications and digital workplace challenges, and a few fun facts. | |||
9:00 am - 9:35 am | Leveraging Data to Create an Engaged WorkforceRobin McCasland, SCMP, IABC Fellow, Senior Director, Corporate Communications | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas Now more than ever, employee communication professionals have access to data and analytics that help them demonstrate their value to the business bottom line. Knowing how to interpret and apply what the data reveals helps shape communication that improves and sustains good employee engagement across an organization. In this session, you’ll learn how to
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9:35 am - 10:10 am | Employee Experience Model : The “New State of Work”Preston Lewis, Founder + CEO | Intactic If people feel challenged with the technology they use at work, it impacts morale, performance and overall culture. It’s time to co-create the digital workplace technology roadmap and facilitate a new conversation about how to modernize the digital workplace. The “New State of Work” | |||
10:10 am - 10:25 am | Digital Workplace Tool Spotlight: Understanding the Evolution of the IntranetSandi Stretch, Strategic Account Executive | Simpplr Think back to your first intranet. The industry has changed a lot over the years with many twist and turns, a reshaping of who owns it, and ultimately how it proves its value. In this session you will learn:
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10:25 am - 10:45 am | Morning Refreshments, Networking Break + Visit Your SponsorsEnjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers. Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors. | |||
10:45 am - 11:20 am | How GoDaddy Looked Inside To Build A Modular Intranet From Existing ResourcesShauna Fields, Senior Manager, Internal Communications | GoDaddy GoDaddy launched their new intranet, Inside GoDaddy, to over 11k employees in November 2020. This resource leverages and expands on tools that were already being used by various teams in different ways, including—SharePoint Online and ServiceNow. Hear how a large, geographically dispersed organization created a modern intranet without investing in any new tools, including:
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11:20 am - 11:55 am | Communicating with Purpose: How Atrium Health Uses Storytelling To Engage & Connect Their WorkforceChris Berger, Vice President of Enterprise Communications | Atrium Health Join Chris Berger, VP Enterprise Communications at Atrium Health as he shares how they use the Firstup platform and mobile app to amplify their ‘Connect to Purpose’ stories across their vast healthcare network. Description: As a nationally recognized leader in innovative research, education and patient care, Atrium Health employs more than 70,000 team members across 40 hospitals and more than 1,400 care locations across the south east. Despite the many patients that come into their care, its the stories of the lives they touch that connects them to their purpose, and to each other. At Atrium Health, they start meetings with a ‘Connect to Purpose’—a sharing of a story that helps remind each and every one of them why they do what they do. These stories are one of the key building blocks for what is an internal communication platform rooted in storytelling. Powered by Firstup, Atrium Health utilizes an employee communications platform and mobile app, branded Teal Insider, to reach their vast network of clinical locations and frontline workers, who don’t all have access to a desktop computer terminal. Through this app, their communications team is able to amplify the human stories for their entire workforce to embrace. Join Chris Berger, VP Enterprise Communications at Atrium Health as he shares a few of these incredible stories with you—along with how his team drives employee engagement, including:
So grab a seat—you won’t want to miss this opportunity to see and hear the incredible stories and successes from Atrium Health. | |||
11:55 am - 12:30 pm | Interactive Group Breakout Session : Discuss Your Biggest Digital Workplace Challenges With Your PeersPreston Lewis, Founder + CEO | Intactic Based on your questions and feedback, we will break the room into small groups to brainstorm ideas around your assigned challenge or topic. You will then pick a spokesperson to present these ideas to the group. All ideas & tactics will be gathered and shared for future reference. | |||
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch On Your Own, But Not Alone -- Reservations are booked!Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants. Don't miss this opportunity to have lunch with your peers at a local Las Vegas hot spot! | |||
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Mini Workshop: Technology Is Important . . . But Content Is Still KING! How To Become A Content CreatorSteve Crescenzo, CEO | Crescenzo Communications No matter how many bells and whistles your technology has, it will fail if you are just pushing out bad corporate content to people. Today’s employees are stressed out, and busier and more distracted than ever. They could be seeing your content on a phone, a tablet, a computer . . . or not at all! The way they want to consume information has changed dramatically in the past five years alone. This session will turn you from a ”writer” to a ”content creator,” and show you how to use the latest tools to reach, inform, motivate and engage your most important audience: Employees. Leave this engaging workshop with new ideas and practical advice on how to:
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2:45 pm - 3:20 pm | How Verizon’s Digital Workplace Team Drives Engagement With Their UsersTiffany Nalle, Senior Manager - Communications - GTS Strategy Culture Team | Verizon Verizon launched Slack to 130k employees over the course of 4 months in 2020. Learn how the Digital Workplace team is using this platform to connect people, applications and information in an engaging and fun way. Hear how the Digital Workplace Team:
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3:25 pm - 3:45 pm | Afternoon Refreshments, Networking Break + Visit Your SponsorsEnjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers. Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors. | |||
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Staying Connected While Hundreds of Miles Apart: Remote Working Fueled by Collaborative TechnologyCourtney Carr, APR, Account Director & PRSA Las Vegas Board Member | Shank Marketing (Tribal and Commercial Gaming) Working remotely can be one of life's greatest pleasures—but only if done well. In this session we will talk about how technology can create an immersive and collaborative environment for remote teams. While exploring different technology options like direct messaging tools (Slack), task trafficking platforms (Monday.com), and forms that update in realtime (Google Docs), we'll debunk some of the myths surrounding the digital workforce. As more and more people find themselves working remotely, this session will give you real life examples about:
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm | Emerging Tech Talk Panel: Inside Look at Top Internal Communications ToolsChris Berger, Vice President of Enterprise Communications | Atrium Health Susan (Zeile) Swanson, Sr. Director, Internal Communications | Doma Shauna Fields, Senior Manager, Internal Communications | GoDaddy Pinaki Kathiari, CEO & Owner | Local Wisdom Choosing the right channel for your employees is half the battle. Take a deeper look at the tools available for you to engage, inspire, and motivate your employees. 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! | |||
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Close of Day 1 - Join Us for a Networking ReceptionEnjoy complimentary drinks on us as you continue the conversation with your peers and our sponsors. | |||
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Dinner with a Group - Reservations Have Been MadeWant to keep the conversation going? Join a group of attendees for dinner at a local Las Vegas hot spot. |
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