Carla speaks about the proven strategies that have helped her succeed and thrive on Wall Street. This presentation shines the light on her self-described "Pearls" of wisdom. She helps audiences maximize success from where they currently find themselves, as well as increasing the odds of reaching the position they aspire to. Discussion points include the importance—and the power—of perceptions in the workplace, key relationships needed to ensure your success, and the role authenticity plays in being a powerful leader.

Modernizing for a unique workforce means meeting workers where they are—no matter how high the climb. Join Helen Thompson, Senior Project Manager of Corporate Communications at Davey Tree as she chats with Becky Graebe, Senior Director, Communication Strategy at Firstup. They’ll discuss best practices and examples of employee communications within a dispersed workforce. See examples of their most popular content that are both fun and helpful.

Topics will include: 

• The value of having real-time updates/communication,  
• The use of additional language tools to speak directly to your workforce and meet the needs of your audience
• How to integrate worker tools, such as SuccessFactors, into the platform for easy access and avoid ‘app-pocalypse’.

Not only has the typical workplace become distributed among offices, homes, airports, and coffee shops, but business critical applications have also become distributed among on-premises data centers, public and private clouds, and delivered by SaaS providers across the globe. Navigating this tapestry of different environments means visibility is both that much more important and that much more difficult for IT. Monitoring an application’s performance, determining an end-user’s experience, and ensuring the highest levels of cybersecurity are more important than ever, but more difficult than ever. In this presentation, we’ll discuss the nuances of designing end-to-end visibility for today’s distributed workplace.

After an extended period of remote work, employees are frustrated and stressed – and they’re doing something about it, prioritizing their well-being over a paycheck and leaving organizations that aren’t taking measures to support their holistic health and wellness.

Addressing this trend is an imperative in the coming year. But what can organizations do to alleviate the stressors causing such widespread burnout? They can start by creating digital experiences that eliminate digital friction and help employees better manage their work.

Join some of Workgrid’s key thought leaders:

• Rob Ryan, Head of Product Marketing & Business Value
• Frank Pathyil, Director of Partner Strategy
• Linnae Selinga, Senior Product Strategist

as we discuss the changing nature of the digital workplace and provide three approaches organizations can take to optimize the digital employee experience and set employees up for long-term success.

Take 20!  Use this time to chow down, and explore the DWX Challenge page and links to resources and great information across the Digital Workplace Experience hub.  

Looking for real solutions to your digital workplace and employee experience challenges?  Visit our Sponsor Booths!  Sponsor teams and speakers will be available to answer your questions live, schedule a meeting, or simply view their videos, product info and exclusive research.

What sets resilient organizations apart from the rest? At a time of rapid change, business leaders need to introduce adaptability, flexibility and nimbleness into every level of the organization. Is agility best achieved through smart hiring, an open and responsive culture, or other practices? Do your organization’s long-established practices for identifying solutions meet the needs of today’s rapidly shifting environments?  

In this panel discussion, learn the characteristics that distinguish resilient organizations and leave them better prepared to respond to today’s market demands and challenges.

Today’s workforce is no longer attached to traditional working models or physical offices. Knowledge workers have been freed from their desks and long commutes, and changing jobs is a simple as getting a new email address. Talented individuals increasingly value employers that "really care” for them, and make the best digital tools available to boost individual engagement and performance. Learn how tailored software solutions can revolutionize Employee Experience and cement a top employer status.

After more than two years, many companies are ready to return to the office. As much as 50% of companies worldwide have, either communicated the return date, or are already offering work from the office options today.1 At the same time, workers have concerns. They have adapted well to work from home and frequently prefer hybrid options.

Companies need to plan their return-to-work processes to help mitigate health and safety, family and even preferential concerns…and they need to be NIMBLE!!! These very real issues happening against a backdrop of emerging viral strains, altered CDC and OSHA guidelines and frequently changing federal, state, and local regulations.

Join Erik Hille, Director of Solutions Marketing at Nintex for an insightful webinar that will touch on:

1. What key processes areas to consider to effectively offer return to work options
2. They importance of process automation in establishing and changing these processes
3. How low-code approaches to this automation ensure that companies remain flexible and resilient in a dynamic environment

Join your peers and speakers in the Lounge for virtual networking.  Discuss the day's sessions, ask questions, and make connections across industries -- and even across the globe.

How does it work?  Move your avatar around the networking space to meet people. To join a conversation, move closer. To leave it, move away. It’s that simple.

We are living through an age of profound and swift change, affecting everything from where we work, to how we work, to, in the case of many who have joined the “Great Resignation,” for whom we work. The stakes are high for organizations of all sizes and in every industry. Functions like IT, internal communications and human resources face urgent questions surrounding delivering employee experiences that support strategic execution while also keeping morale high and the talent brand strong. Join Matt Aaronson, Simpplr’s Sr Director of Product Marketing, as he reveals new findings from Simpplr Research about how organizations are addressing these challenges and offers an outlook for what’s to come.

You’ll learn:
* The most important facets for an employee engagement strategy
* Biggest challenges and obstacles
* Essential technologies and measurement tools
* How organizations prioritize employee experience, and how HR, IC and IT prioritize and execute on related projects

How do organizations overcome resistance to change? Most people assume that the best (and perhaps only) way to create change is to heighten the appeal of the idea itself. We instinctively believe that if we add enough value, people will say “yes.” This habit of the mind is called a “fuel-based mindset.” Fuel is what incites our desire to change. By focusing on fuel to enhance attraction, leaders and innovators neglect the other half of the equation – the psychological frictions that oppose change. They create a drag on innovation and overcoming them is essential for creating change.

The audience will learn…

• How to disarm resistance to change
• Why valuable ideas get rejected
• How to use frictions to build a better, human-centric workplace

To play: Have your phone handy. Cameras on (optional, but recommended).  And get ready to find out if you are smarter than a 6th grader! 

You learned a lot in your early years of school, from geography to history, to math, science, and English. But, how much of your elementary school education have you retained as an adult? Well, now you can find out! Test your knowledge and memory with our virtual game show.

Play to Win!  The top 10 players on the leaderboard at the end of the game will each win a $25 e-gift card!

The new hybrid workplace can make for a stronger organizational culture, happier employees and more productive teams—once we embrace a new way of working that taps into the unique advantages of both office and home, as well as the smart use of digital collaboration tools. 

In this session, you'll find out how you can unlock that potential by thinking like a "Business of One". Learn how to approach work like a solo entrepreneur who's responsible for delivering great results, and managing your team so they're accountable for objectives rather than hours at their desk. That includes rethinking the balance between solo and collaborative work, and reclaiming remote days for focused, deep thinking. This session will leave you ready to seize this historic opportunity to reinvent the way we work—so that you and your team can thrive on the combination of remote + office.

Key learning objectives:

• Get a new framework for thinking about your work —the "Business of One" model—that helps you thrive at remote or hybrid work
• Find out how to use digital tools to reduce unnecessary meetings
• Learn how to track the impact of remote and hybrid work on diversity and inclusion so that it supports your DEI goals rather than undermining progress

Assembling a “complete” tech stack for a fully flexible workforce includes a lot of individual pieces. You need to consider who you're servicing.  How do they work?  What are their workstyles, what can be done by IT to help them?  It leads to how you’re delivering your Windows apps and desktops (VDI), how you’re managing users’ devices (MDM, UEM).  You have to know if they are exempt or hourly, contractors, freelancers, or partners. It gets to how you’re dealing with BYOD versus corporate-owned devices, how you’ll provide remote support, how you’ll monitor and manage the user experience (DEX), how you’ll provide secure remote access (SASE), how you’ll integrate everything with your security monitoring and management stack.  You know you can have great Experience or great Security, but you have to design a solution that achieves both.  How you’ll deal with device provisioning, repairs, and returns, how you’ll set up new employees and how you’ll decommission things when employees leave, etc, etc. It can be difficult to tie everything together into a comprehensive EUC strategy and solution.

In this session, VMware’s Brian Madden and Josh Olson will walk through the challenges and how they’re seeing customers address this in today’s modern and flexible work world.

During this rapid-fire session, you will have an opportunity to watch and review high-impact demos from some of the most innovative products in the market.  

By participating and sharing your feedback on the product demonstration, you will be automatically entered to win one of three $50 eGift Cards. 

Demo #1: Winning the Moments that Matter in a Digital Workplace with the Whatfix DAP

Whatfix provides a unified experience layer atop your web, desktop, and mobile applications. Learn more about how you can create an elevated consumer-like experience for your employees at the moments that matter, and also ease their adaptation and adoption of their tools in an increasingly complex digital workplace.

Presented by: Barun Chanda, Enterprise Manager @ Whatfix

Demo #2: Why UX is still king and why you should care

In five packed minutes, learn how user experience (UX) can make all the difference to employee engagement – and how you can leverage your existing tech investments to: 

• Personalize the intranet experience for employees 
• Bring your disjointed tools together in a beautiful, seamless way
• Simplify knowledge management and sharing 

Presented by: David Fletcher, Vice President, Strategic Sales @Beezy

Demo #3: Workplace Experience: Managing and Measuring the New Hybrid Workplace 

How are you putting the employee experience first? In the more flexible, hybrid and digitized world, it is critical to consider how to safely and securely allow employees to return to the office, manage wayfinding floorplans and team seating charts, collect and utilize data to analyze for the future.

Presented by: Brendan O'Neil, Product Marketing Manager @ Robin

Demo #4: Virtual Headquarters for the New Hybrid Workforce

• Decreases the dependency on IT through distributed intranet administration across all departments.
• Define adoption practices for the hybrid workforce
• Assessing the new now: people analytics, automation and learning

Presented by: Jarel Billups, Solutions Consultant @ Simpplr

Creating the right balance in the new  workplace poses challenges for companies accustomed to on-site or all remote work. Managers struggle to conduct inclusive meetings, collaborate productively and create a sense of teamwork in hybrid offices. How do companies build an integrated workforce in this new and ever-evolving environment? 

In this panel discussion, hear from experienced practitioners as they discuss the roles of culture and technology in hybrid collaboration, and share practical solutions to help cross the digital divide. You will learn:

• The key building blocks of culture that enable productive work, no matter the environment.
• How technology can help connect workers across a distributed workforce.
• Best practices for balancing remote and on-site teams.
• Employee listening tactics to identify and address emerging issues before they become a problem.

83% of workers prefer a hybrid work model that combines the advantages of in-office and remote work to improve productivity, collaboration and technology usage. Featuring research from McKinsey, ADP Research Institute and Microsoft this webinar will dive deep into the matter to explain why and how.

In this session you will learn:

1. Data and insights illustrating why the hybrid work trend is here to stay
2. The challenges of hybrid work, concerns such as digital exhaustion and communication overload
3. Making hybrid work – real-world case studies from top enterprises

A Gartner survey revealed that only 13% of employees are fully satisfied with their workplace experience. Organizations across the globe are making significant investments in efforts to improve this, such as onboarding investments and workplace redesign. Although these investments incrementally improve employee satisfaction and engagement, the cost to continue to meet employees' ever-growing expectations is unsustainable. Enter moments that matter.

These can be structured or unstructured, expected or unexpected, planned or unplanned. Identifying them is but one part of the task. How do you then improve the workplace experience at moments that matter, more so in a constantly evolving hybrid work environment? For a growing number of enterprises, the digital workplace is the workplace. Therefore, the digital workplace experience is the workplace experience. Join us to find out how an increasingly digital workplace can be leveraged to enhance your employees’ experience at the moments that matter to your employees.

As modern work continues to evolve through waves of technological, societal, and Covid change, the bargain between employers and employees is shifting. Employers need to rethink how to attract and retain talent by exploring basic questions such as what is meaningful and valuable work?  How can we use current digital tools to foster deeper collaboration while avoiding burnout? Finally, how do we hear what employees need now?

Join Tom Wujec, TED Speaker, Technologist, Strategy Consultant, and creator of the Wicked Problem Solving® system to work through these questions using simple, powerful visual workspaces.

In this presentation, you learn:

• How to apply the best creative and analytical thinking tools to tackle questions about the future of modern work
• How to apply the fundamentals of design thinking to do better work
• How to select technologies that promote deeper collaboration and achieve breakthrough outcomes – while working in-person, remotely, or in hybrid environments

Join our closing keynote speaker, world renowned expert on Innovation, Tom Wujec, for a moderated Q&A where your questions are answered live!  Check your email during the event to submit your questions in advance.  This Q&A will be moderated by Mike Prokopeak, Editor in Chief of Reworked, utilizing audience questions only. 

Here's your opportunity to Ask Tom Anything!