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

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.

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

• Analyze and interpret data to inform your communication plan;
• Distinguish the communication channels that work best for your organization, based on its specific engagement challenges; and
• Have meaningful conversations with leadership to influence how they communicate with the workforce.

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”

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:

• How the industry has evolved over the past 20 years

• A framework to benchmark where your organization currently stands

• What we’ve learned by clarifying its purpose, understanding what drives success, and why deployment models have changed

• How the intranet is now reinventing itself as the core technology to enhance employee experience, and what to expect in the future

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

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:

• How multiple departments came together to complete this project
• Obstacles you can expect along the way, and how you can avoid or mitigate them
• Lessons learned about how employees use our tools to find information

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:

• How to build a foundation for sharing and dispersing content that resonates

• The value of personalized content when communicating with such a vast network

• How to highlight caregiver and staff stories, while building a larger corporate story

• How they use segmentation and targeting to reach the right audience at the right time

So grab a seat—you won’t want to miss this opportunity to see and hear the incredible stories and successes from Atrium Health.

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.

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!
**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

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:

• Craft content for mobile devices that people will actually read
• Tap into the power of “user generated content” to drive employee engagement
• Use “new” tools like social media and multimedia to make boring corporate content more compelling
• Work with internal clients—including top executives—to improve their content across the board.
• Take the “corporate” out of corporate communications and replace it with “creative.”

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:

• Delivers a positive user experience using channels to support change efforts 

• Builds the users digital dexterity with weekly tips and feature release information 

• Solicits feedback from users to drive conversation with our product partners

• Grows a group of advocates who assist with supporting the channels

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

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:

• Encouraging real time conversation between yourself and your team
• Taking the brainstorming from the whiteboard to Google Docs. We'll explain how you can still bounce ideas around and keep the creative juices flowing despite not being in the same room
• Managing workflow when you aren't in a "bullpen" with your team

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!

Enjoy complimentary drinks on us as you continue the conversation with your peers and our sponsors.

Want to keep the conversation going? Join a group of attendees for dinner at a local Las Vegas hot spot.
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**Everyone is on their own financially.

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea and continental breakfast as you network with fellow attendees on this final day.

Reaching deskless workers can be a challenge with only traditional communications channels at your disposal. After extensive research to understand how to support its unplugged healthcare workers, Encompass Health launched an employee mobile app in 2015 with the goal of engaging its workforce through content and helpful self-services tools its employees both needed and wanted.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to build an employee app that suits your dispersed workforce
• Tangible ideas to create an app adoption strategy that answers employees’ all-time-favorite “what’s in it for me?” question
• How to engage and support content contributors to take part of the app management burden off your team
• Ways to measure your app’s success

It’s one thing to partner with a software company who tells you what you should do. It’s another thing to partner with a company that follows its own advice. Firstup walks the walk, talks the talk and delivers. 

In the summer of 2021, two workforce comms heavyweights SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal merged to form Firstup.

In this conversation, you’ll see:

• The importance of leadership communication at the onset of change
• The vital role internal communications plays during mergers 
• How communication can be the catalyst to bring cultures together 

And what you won’t see:

• A boring product demo

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

Over the past five years, consumer adoption of short-form audio and video content has skyrocketed with platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Platforms like these are driving a massive shift in employee communications preferences, making secure short-form audio and video a must-have within organizations over the coming years for all generations within the workforce.

Yet, many communications teams have struggled to incorporate short-form content? Why? A couple of the most critical reasons, not understanding how and why it should fit into your communications strategy. And analysis paralysis, which keeps many organizations from being able to deploy and iterate quickly.

This session will dive into what short-form content is, how to gather and create it, and how it can quickly integrate and deploy into an enterprise communications strategy. You will learn the benefits of creating more authentic connections, storytelling, and aligning short-form content with communications initiatives that result in greater employee engagement and sentiment. You will leave equipped with the knowledge needed to build a pilot roadmap that ensures long-term success, including how to:

• Align short-form content with your company's strategic goals
• Get your team engaged
• Build your business case and securing business ambassadors
• Benchmark user satisfaction and analyzing engagement to improve your digital communications plan

You'll take away a guide with step-by-step instructions for creating your case for short-form audio and video, and a list of ideas that will help you communicate better with your employees.

In this session you’ll get a tour of some of the recently introduced employee engagement offerings from Microsoft including:

• Viva Connections: For integrating Teams and SharePoint
• Viva Insights: For real-time feedback on productivity, well being, management and leadership
• Viva Learning: A simple and free learning solution built into Teams
• Viva Topics: Making knowledge and communication more findable across the organization

You’ll learn what each of these solutions are, see brief demonstrations of each, learn about the free versus premium features, and how to interact with your SharePoint Administrator or Partner to get these deployed within your organization.

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

Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors!

When a crisis hits, chief communicators must have a channel at their fingertips, from digital outreach to in-person communications. This discussion is based around preparation for and response to a multitude of crises: mass casualties, continued pandemic response and cyberattacks/cybersecurity/technology disruptions, and can be applied to other crises, including weather/environment, company disasters and even private situations.

You will walk away with the key action items to execute your own crisis communication playbook:

• Key Bullet Points
• Advance Planning
• Immediate Response & Communication
• Media Requests
• Best of the Rest

You've submitted your biggest internal communication 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 internal communications strategies.