Siobhan Fagan

While recent advancements have created great opportunities for digital workplace success, the year ahead promises an abundance of decisions to be made at the enterprise, team and individual levels on how work gets done. Critical to maintaining today’s momentum is clear definition of the vision, goals and overarching strategy for growth by way of digital workplace optimization. Tools and technologies make success possible, but only the teams of humans who use those tools can make it a reality. Moderated by Siobhan Fagan, Managing Editor of Reworked, panelists from across industries will discuss the key components to a powerful digital strategy, harnessed by considerations that include:

• The keys to upskilling/reskilling your employees in digital channels, and why that will be critical as physical channels return
• How an enterprise grows workforce agility and trust, and why both are important to nurturing digital optimization
• The building blocks to a strong, resilient culture - specific to virtual organizations or hybrid environments 
• The 3 essential workforce considerations you must prioritize when resources are lean 

How do we collaborate across teams to solve big problems?

In this panel discussion, we will hear from practitioners involved in transformational initiatives powered by modern systems. Panelists will discuss challenges overcome through workplace innovation, the people and system drivers that are enabling cross-team achievements, and how the right collaboration structures advance bigger initiatives company-wide.

Good employee experience = happy employee.  Easy, right?  In this discussion, panelists will share the concepts surrounding employee experience, the underpinnings of strong employee experience, and the important correlations between employee and customer satisfaction.  Panelists will also share examples from their organizations’ employee experience journeys, including management structures and ownership of employee experience within their businesses, and how they measure outcomes in workplace efficiencies, culture and transformation.

What is an Intelligent Workplace, and why does it matter to you?  Harnessing your people talent more effectively through modernized systems, machine learning and automation, holds great promise to garner huge returns in workplace productivity.

With much innovative work underway and yet to come in the spaces occupied by AI, ML and automation, we’ll bring in a panel of expert analysts to share what they're seeing on the real horizon for modernized systems, specific ways in which they are anticipated to drive increased employee engagement and positive business outcomes, and the next steps for which we should prepare in this broader journey toward the Intelligent Workplace.

Join our closing keynote speaker, Jaime Neely, Futurist and Chief Culture Officer - along with your peers, speakers and sponsor guests in The Lounge for virtual networking.  Discuss the day's sessions, ask questions, and make connections across industries -- and even across the globe.

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Join Siobhan Fagan, Managing Editor and Sarah Kimmel, VP of Research, as they report key findings from the updated 2020 State of the Digital Workplace report, including: 

• Impacts of the pandemic on the maturity of digital workplace practice
• Shift in top priorities for digital workplace
• Increasing effectiveness of digital workplace tools 
• Surprise, surprise! Transitioning to digital workplace was easier than anyone thought.
• Organizational plans for return to the office...or will they?

Join us for a compelling breakout presentation by Sinequa's Alana Cento, followed by live breakout groups facilitated by Sinequa and our editorial and research teams at Reworked.

Be camera ready and have your questions, challenges, successes and opinions handy for this facilitated, live discussion group with your peers!

"Making Knowledge Discoverable to Your Newly Distributed Workforce"

A key to successful digital workplace experience is ensuring information is easily accessible. But when it’s stored across different repositories, in all different formats, it has a ripple effect across the organization. Projects are delayed, issues take longer to solve, tasks are duplicated, people get frustrated, and expensive errors are made.

Too often companies lack a business strategy and practical design for their digital workplaces. Instead, they build technology part by part: clouds, content platforms, apps, and analytics. Next, they hope to transform processes using AI to augment human workers.

So, how can complex organizations bring critical knowledge to the forefront? How can IT leaders better use data to unlock those insights for the workforce? What is the value of a digital ecosystem?

In this collaborative session, Alana Cento, Product Marketing Manager at Sinequa, will highlight the impact of a complete enterprise search technology to support your intelligent workplace initiatives using examples from our most successful customers.

Join Reworked editorial team members, awards finalists and your peers for a casual wrap-up and "good bye" as we close our 2021 season.  Join us here to ask questions on how you can be involved next year, with expanded programming options and 2022 awards.

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Thank you, and we'll see you next year!