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 Innovations in Employee 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.

This interactive session will provide easy-to-understand insights on:

• Balancing the challenges facing today’s work environment and how to align communication and actions to overcome common challenges such as the talent crunch and closing skills gaps
• Adapting mindsets to embrace change, optimize processes to accommodate new technologies, and foster a culture that encourages collaboration between people and technology
• Communicating workplace experience, workplace culture, market competition, and social impact
• Shifting organizational/corporate mindset culture and becoming a ‘learning organization’ to drive better business results

In this case study, learn about how Alvarez & Marsal’s knowledge management team uses their global intranet to drive communications and the steps we have taken to address the challenges that come with supporting a complex, decentralized organization.

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.

While you enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments Cerkl will present to you a bonus session. 

In this Q&A session you will learn how Motorola Solutions modernized its approach to internal email to deliver modern looking email with real-time analytics.

You’ll learn:

• The pros and cons of a large comms team
• How to effectively measure and understand email analytics
• Best practices for evaluating and procuring new internal comms tools and technologies

From social media to online content, there’s an incredible number of media competing for the attention of our coworkers — yes, even during work hours — so employee communications must be every bit as compelling. In this session, learn how to be savvy when creating your content and strategies:

• Use storytelling and the power of your coworkers to develop your content and amplify your broader messages.
• Know which platform your coworkers prefer and adapt accordingly.
• Consolidate your messages to prevent communications overload.
• Package your content and borrow tricks from mainstream media.

Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants.
Don't miss this opportunity to have lunch with your peers at a local Chicago hot spot!

**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

Don’t let your communication strategy get stale, robotic and old.  Stiff, formulaic, generic communications simply don’t work anymore. Internally or externally. 

Your audiences are demanding better communications . . . and in this session, communication experts Steve and Cindy Crescenzo will walk through the five latest industry trends you need to reenergize your communications.

In this fun, interactive session, you’ll learn:

• How to reach and engage your workforce, wherever they are
• How to take the corporate out of “corporate” communications and replace it with “creative.”
• How to integrate your internal and external communications to drive engagement, build your brand, and turn employees into ambassadors for the organization.
• How to use the power of communication research and measurement to better understand your audiences
• A sure-fire way to get leadership buy-in to communicate effectively in this brave (and exciting) new world

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

Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors!

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

Moderator:  Victoria Dew, SCMP, CEO | Dewpoint Communications

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 Chicago 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

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

Together we will recap yesterday's top takeaways and set the stage for this final day of learning.

Based on a Regeneron case study, learn how we

• Refreshed our EVP based on evolving talent needs and key business requirements

• Identified key personas to make the EVP real and focused

• Identified and implemented the EVP across moments that matter

• Partnered with comms to make the work real.

As technology progresses, being able to quickly adapt to the changes and integrate new tools into communication practices will be essential to providing employees with meaningful experiences and demonstrating the strategic agility of an internal communications team. 

In this session, we will review: 

• A repeatable model for effectively integrating communication skills and new technology 
• Best practices for partnering with AI to build content strategies 
• Measurement opportunities that highlight progress and value

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.

You've submitted your biggest 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.