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 4th Annual Digital Employee Experience and Communication Strategies! In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers, their biggest corporate communications challenges, and a few fun facts.

Since the days of COVID-19, we have been relying even more heavily on digital channels. It's critical to make the most strategic use of each one and adapt our approaches to both meet employees' needs and help achieve business goals.

This session covers several ways to gain actionable insights about your digital communications.

• You’ll learn how to extract more information from usage statistics—which numbers to pay attention to and which are no more than “vanity metrics.”
• You’ll see how employees evaluate a number of digital channels through surveys and focus groups, all of which you can adapt to your own communication program measurement.
• You’ll learn how to calculate a return on investment on your new or updated digital channels, which you could apply to any communication projects.

Incorporating storytelling into DEX can significantly enhance employee engagement and connection to the company culture, even in a remote or hybrid setting. The power of story lies in its ability to humanize the digital landscape and foster a sense of shared experience and purpose. Learn how to create a more immersive and emotionally resonant DEX through the power of storytelling. Topics covered might include:

• Leveraging narrative techniques in internal announcements,
• Integrating employee success stories into digital platforms,
• Using multimedia storytelling tools to share company values and goals.

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.

Who truly owns your organization's intranet? If your answer is IT, your platform may not be optimized for internal communications needs. Join the Communications & Engagement Services team from UVM Health Network to discover how they adopted a shared ownership approach, collaborating closely with IT, to implement a system-wide SharePoint intranet across a two-state healthcare network comprising seven partner organizations.

Participant Takeaways:

• Strategies for effective collaboration with IT on complex intranet initiatives
• Key insights into SharePoint Hubs and Sites for optimal structure
• Best practices for empowering intranet contributors, minimizing maintenance demands post-launch
• Techniques for sustaining both local and network-level presence efficiently, avoiding content duplication

This presentation will highlight how AI-powered tools in Microsoft 365—such as Teams, Viva, SharePoint, and PowerApps—drive employee engagement, streamline communication, and enhance collaboration. By focusing on people and processes, businesses can foster a strong culture, refresh internal platforms, and create an inclusive work environment. The session will showcase how these tools deliver real business benefits by improving productivity, reducing operational costs, and building a more resilient workforce ready to adapt to changing needs.

Take a quick break to freshen up before lunch!

Enjoy a catered lunch while connecting with fellow attendees, exchanging insights, and building valuable connections to enrich your conference experience.

Not every team has a massive budget to tap into all the engagement and communication tools out there. So, how do we genuinely connect with, support, and inspire our employees—especially in today’s hybrid-remote environment—without breaking the bank?

The key lies in amplifying the human voice. When we actively listen to our employees and guide meaningful changes, engagement becomes more than a checkbox; it becomes a powerful force that motivates our teams to go all in. In this session, we’ll explore practical, affordable ways to create a culture where employees feel heard, valued, and energized to bring their best selves to work every day, no matter where they’re located.

Key Takeaways:

• Practical, budget-friendly tools for impactful communication in a hybrid-remote setting
• Strategies for active listening and gathering authentic feedback
• Tips for cross-functional knowledge-sharing
• Guidance for leadership on moving from listening to action and showing the true value of employee voices

In this interactive session, we dive into the 7 most common IC Challenges, providing tactical takeaways you can implement immediately. In our collaborative opening, we will identify which of the following topics are most relevant to workshop attendees, ensuring ample time to address the most pressing challenges:

1. Targeting the Right Audience
2. Personalizing Communications at Scale
3. Building an Omni-channel Employee Experience
4. Identifying the Comms Metrics that Matter Most (+ the ones that don’t)
5. Communicating with a Diverse Workforce
6. Effectively Onboarding Employees
7. Show your ROI

This panel session will discuss the evolving landscape of employee communication measurement. You will hear real-life best practices for setting goals, selecting appropriate metrics, and translating data into actionable insights. The session will be a mix of presentations, case studies, and audience participation, providing attendees with a comprehensive understanding of how to measure the success of their employee communication efforts.

Key Takeaways:

• Setting SMART Goals: Define Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goals for your employee communication efforts.
• Choose the most appropriate metrics to track progress towards your communication goals.
• Translate raw data from your communication channels into actionable insights that can be used to improve your communication strategy.

Don't stop the conversation! Join us at the keynote stage as you network with your peers and sponsors!

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Want to keep the conversation going? Join a group of attendees for dinner at a local Las Vegas 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 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 Day 2 of the 8th Annual Digital Workplace Summit! In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers, their biggest corporate communications challenges, and a few fun facts.

The discipline of communication is one that is uniquely situated at the intersection of art and science. It is the art of crafting the message fused with the science of delivery and measurement. While our roles – as artists and scientists, strategists and business partners – seem to evolve almost as fast as the tools and platforms that make up the modern digital workplace, our ultimate objective remains largely unchanged. To be effective stewards of company culture and to achieve higher levels of sustained employee engagement in today’s workplace, we must adapt our processes and how we think about and approach our work. We’ll share how you can leverage the latest capabilities in communication technology platforms to optimize what you’re already doing and clearly measure your impact.

When the Nevada Rural Housing (NRH) communications department rolled the dice and started a refresh of its 50-year-old brand, it had more than leadership to influence – key stakeholders included partners, clients, communities and, most crucial, its employees. But here’s the deal: a brand refresh shouldn’t be left to chance. This is where calculation meets creativity! Where information fuels the next iteration of an organization’s story. Katie Coleman, NRH communications director, will double down during this slightly kitschy, gaming-esque session (she is a Nevadan, born and raised, after all!) on why rebranding is more than a new logo, how to ensure stakeholders are all-in, and what steps are crucial to a winning brand hand.

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.

Strategic communications prioritizing clarity, consistency, and transparency help demystify technological changes, align stakeholders, and build a shared vision for the future. Gain actionable insights into creating a change management communications plan that integrates effective communication, robust training, and cultural considerations. We’ll cover topics like:

• Managing and maximizing the impact of digital communications initiatives to enhance the overall employee experience.
• Embedding new technologies into organizational cultures.
• Creating feedback loops to measure and understand employee sentiment around the changes in their digital workplace and learn how to bring employees into the conversation about how these changes will affect their daily working lives.

As organizations increasingly rely on digital platforms to engage their workforce, the challenge lies in creating meaningful, inclusive, and engaging communication strategies. This panel will explore how companies are successfully using digital tools to enhance employee engagement, improve collaboration, and streamline internal communications. Through a mix of case studies, expert insights, and audience interaction, panelists will discuss the evolving trends in the digital workplace, share success stories, and address challenges such as maintaining employee connection in remote or hybrid environments. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to boost engagement and foster a more connected, productive workforce.

• Digital Engagement Strategies: Practical tips for enhancing communication and engagement in remote and hybrid teams.
• Challenges & Solutions: Insights on overcoming common digital workplace challenges.
• Best Practices: Real-world examples of successful digital engagement strategies.