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

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!

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 9:30!

Welcome to Internal Communications Strategies in the Digital Workplace.
In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers and share your biggest internal communications challenges, which will inform the breakout groups later in the day.

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

Effective leadership communication is essential in the digital workplace, ensuring that employees are engaged, informed, and aligned with organizational goals. This case study explores how a company successfully transformed its leadership communication strategies to adapt to a digital environment. Learn about the challenges faced, the innovative approaches implemented, and the significant outcomes achieved. Gain insights into the best practices for fostering transparency, building trust, and maintaining a strong connection between leaders and employees in a digital setting. You will learn:

• How to identify common obstacles in leadership communication within a digital workplace.
• Innovative strategies used to enhance leadership communication.
• Understand the metrics and outcomes that highlight the effectiveness of improved leadership communication strategies.

Implementing an intranet in a fast-growing organization with a diverse workforce—spanning fully remote, hybrid, and on-site employees—presents distinct challenges. From securing executive buy-in to crafting an engagement strategy that resonates across all employee groups, all while demonstrating the platform's value, this discussion will explore key insights and lessons learned from the first year of the intranet's rollout.

You will learn:

• Strategies to drive adoption and increase engagement
• How to break down silos through user-generated content
• Methods to measure success and demonstrate ROI

In today’s digital workplace, content is king. During this workshop, you’ll learn technology strategies to help ideate, create, and manage content for your internal audience. You will walk away with:

• Ways to improve your approach to developing new ideas for stories and other content using technologies like AI
• Methods for generating content and increasing your cadence
• How to use technology for stakeholder collaboration and create a more efficient editorial process.

Effective internal communication is essential for employee engagement and operational success. This session explores strategies to overcome communication barriers, break down silos, and engage a diverse workforce. Learn how multi-channel outreach, leadership involvement, and continuous feedback improve communication and connection.

Key Takeaways:

• Use a multi-channel approach to reach all employees effectively.
• Engage leadership to champion communication efforts.
• Continuously gather feedback and adapt strategies for improvement.

• Identifying and implementing the more effective digital communication channels for different types of workplace messages
• Designing attention-grabbing content that respects colleagues' time while delivering maximum impact
•  Creating consistent communication rhythms that build trust and keep teams aligned
• Leveraging multimedia approaches to increase message retention and engagement
• Measuring communication effectiveness and adapting strategies based on feedback

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.

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.

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

Take part in breakout discussions on topics sourced from the attendees. Lead a conversation and add your voice to the conference!

Buried deep inside cabinets lining long corridors of a warehouse in Florida sit nearly 100 years of accumulated wisdom and experience from generations of McKinsey & Company leaders dating back to its founding. These archives, a 10-terabyte repository of over a million pages of memos, photographs, letters, videos, speeches, and oral histories hold many valuable lessons for McKinsey employees today. So how is McKinsey making that vast body of knowledge more broadly accessible and actionable to its knowledge workers, and what are the applications for AI in internal communications, employee engagement, and knowledge management that go beyond mere content creation?
Learn about how McKinsey is using AI to tap its vast knowledge archive, helping knowledge workers see patterns, avoid past pitfalls, pursue new ideas faster, and even ask one of its firm’s founding leaders about evergreen topics like feedback, firm values, adopting new technologies or developing meaningful client relationships.'

In this session, you will:

• Get insights into AI beyond content generation.
• Understand how you can use AI to revolutionize employee knowledge management, employee engagement, and your internal communications strategies.
• Discuss where AI will next transform workplace knowledge transfer.

During this dynamic workshop, you will learn the latest ways to use video storytelling to elevate your overall employee experience and employer brand, including how to:

• Understand how a new generation of colleagues consumes video during the digital coffee break
• Identify the right video format to fuel engagement across interviews, scripted spots, animation, and user-generated content.
• Elevate content creation across the 3 stages of pre-production, production, and post-production
• Supersize internal distribution with external employer brand building
• Maximize ROI and buy-in with measurement of leading and lagging indicators

Effective employee engagement goes beyond traditional communication—it requires compelling storytelling across multiple digital channels. This fireside chat will explore how organizations use video, social media, intranets, and more to create authentic, impactful narratives that connect employees to company culture and goals.

Key Takeaways:

• How to craft and distribute compelling stories across digital platforms.
• Strategies to encourage employee and leadership participation in storytelling.
• Measuring the impact of digital storytelling on engagement and culture.

Our panel will share their perspectives and tips for change management communications in the digital workplace. Whether the change is focused on new technology, strategy, or policy, you'll get new ideas to ensure your workforce understands the reasons for change, its impact, and what resources are available to help them navigate changes when they occur. Be prepared to raise questions!

• Learn how to craft clear, compelling messages communicating the rationale behind changes and outline available resources to support employees.
• Discover strategies for leveraging digital tools to facilitate effective change management communications, ensuring widespread and consistent messaging.
• Understand techniques for maintaining transparency and building trust throughout the change process, including engaging leaders and influencers to champion change initiatives.

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 hot spot!


**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

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 hot spot!

**Dutch treat – we’ll ask for separate checks.

Take part in breakout discussions on topics sourced from the attendees. Lead a conversation and add your voice to the conference!

Internal communicators are a driving force behind organizational changes of all scopes and sizes — but in many cases, key decisions are made behind closed doors without giving us a seat at the table, and we’re not involved early enough in the process. The result? Internal communicators end up more like order-takers than strategic partners, and changes aren’t as successful or sustainable as they should be. In this workshop, through the lens of three key challenges leaders currently face in the ever-changing digital workplace, you will:

• Explore a method that will help you design engaging and effective change communication
• Learn how to use that same method to become a strategic partner in organizational change from the very start
• Have the time and space to network and brainstorm with your peers
• Walk away with a concrete strategy to stop taking orders and position yourself as a strategic partner when it comes to change at your organization.

Building a security-savvy culture is an internal communications and employee engagement challenge, and managing it is crucial to a productive digital workplace. Take part in a wide-ranging discussion where you will discover how to create an effective cybersecurity change management communications plan. You will also understand how to create clear, impactful cybersecurity communications by translating jargon into accessible, actionable language. Discuss methods to engage team members and build a security-conscious culture through regular touchpoints and drive proactive, cyber-secure behavior in your team members, and walk away with:

• Strategies for cybersecurity change management communications plan: define your goal (what is the change in culture and employee behavior that needs to happen?), identify your audience, and craft a plan—from channel selection to the delivery timeline.
• An understanding of the elements of an effective cybersecurity communications plan and how to translate highly technical terms into easily digestible content.
• New ideas to engage team members and build a security-conscious culture— Establish regular touchpoints with team members, such as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, leader blogs, newsletters for security and IT messaging, and social media tools like Viva Engage.

Video has become an essential tool for effective employee communication, fostering engagement, alignment, and connection across teams. But creating professional-quality videos in-house can feel overwhelming, especially when budgets and timelines are tight.

The good news? AI is here to help. By integrating AI into your video production workflows, you can create impactful internal videos faster, more affordably, and with greater creativity than ever before.

In this short session, you’ll learn how to:

• Streamline in-house video production to enhance employee engagement and communication.
• Leverage AI tools to boost creativity and productivity while maintaining a human touch.
• Explore diverse video formats to keep internal messaging fresh and engaging.
• Demonstrate the impact of in-house video creation on cost savings and team alignment.

AI won’t replace your role in employee communications—but it can make you more effective than ever. Join us to discover how you can become the go-to resource for innovative, scalable video content that resonates with your workforce!

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

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

In fast-evolving and data-driven workplaces, transforming your organization's operations using digital tools is essential to business growth and overall success.

How we leverage internal communications as a platform to communicate change and seek buy-in and participation from your people can make the difference between a successful digital transformation and a disjointed one.

This workshop is designed to provide you with context, tips, and strategies to help keep everyone on your team on the same page, engaged, and excited about where your company is headed next.

Together, we’ll explore how to design a multi-channel internal communications approach, share real-world examples, and consider practical tips to help you lead your organization through change with confidence and creativity. You will learn:

• How to lead digital change with strong communication: Discover how internal comms can significantly impact the success or failure of a company’s transformation efforts and learn how to avoid common mistakes while driving success.
• How to boost engagement and streamline your workflow: Develop effective multi-channel strategies, create engaging content, and use automation to keep everything running efficiently.
• How to build a culture of continuous learning: Learn how to foster a culture where growth and innovation thrive, using digital tools to keep your team curious, creative, and always leveling up.

Our panel will share their perspectives and tips for intranet design, focused on providing a unified intranet user experience while effectively managing the needs and nuances of individual stakeholder groups within your organization. Bring your questions, discover new strategies, and share your insights! We’ll cover topics like:

• Formulating intranet design guidelines for multiple internal stakeholder groups across desktop and mobile.
• Managing user expectations and providing direction to stakeholders regarding intranet design.
• Content creation governance strategies for your organization’s intranet.
• Ensuring user-friendliness across desktop and mobile devices.

Don't stop the conversation!

Join us at the Yotel, 4^th floor rooftop bar for complimentary drinks and networking with your peers. as you network with your peers and sponsors in the adjacent at the #ALIcomms

Participate in raffles & sign-up for dinner with your peers!

Cheers to a great day full of content!

Join us at the Yotel, 4^th floor rooftop bar for complimentary drinks and networking with your peers.

Want to keep the conversation going? Join a group of attendees for dinner at a local New York 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.

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.