Join Reworked.co's Editor in Chief, Mike Prokopeak, World Wide Technology's Joe Berger, and keynote speaker, Douglas Rushkoff as we kick off the Digital Workplace Experience, "Enabling & Optimizing the Hybrid Workplace."

Our technologies and the workplace processes they support should  provide human beings with the capabilities they need to create and exchange value together. We can no longer think of our employees as competing individuals, or measure their worth purely in terms of their utilitarian value. Instead of using big data and machine learning to replace human creativity, we must use it to empower human ingenuity. Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff will reveal how fostering collaboration and celebrating deep competency gives human beings everything they need to thrive in the workplace of the future.

Learn how MSCI is taking a bold approach with their internal communications to engage and empower a more modern workforce.

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Staying ahead of the curve means being modern and bold, but that isn’t always the easiest, most comfortable direction to take. MSCI, an investment solutions firm, is a catalyst of change in transforming the investment industry. Their approach to internal communications is no different.

At MSCI, an investment solutions firm, they have a stated mission to, “bring clarity to a complex investment world” — and they strive to do the same thing with their internal comms. The first step was to bring the company out of its comfort zone and move toward a more modern approach to communication and employee engagement. They realized that to attract stronger, tech-savvy employees, they needed to offer a digital experience we are all accustomed to outside of the workplace.

With plans to reinvigorate My MSCI, their employee communications platform powered by Firstup, they were able to move away from sending antiquated email and instead, delivering content to the endpoint each employee prefers, and sending content that would give their teams a reason to engage.

Join Allison Nelik, Executive Director, Head of Global Internal Comms at MSCI as she shares success stories and learnings from maintaining and promoting a global employee engagement platform, including:

• Identifying the need to pivot your strategy and bring new life to the platform
• The value of getting leadership on board and invested in your new approach
• Allowing employees to have preferences in how they receive and consume information
• How greater engagement on a platform leads to community building

Don’t miss this opportunity to see examples of their most popular content helping them build an employee culture for the future.

The past two years have brought about seismic changes in the way we work – from how, when, and where, to whom we decide to work for. At the same time, HR responsibilities have broadened from a primary focus on acquiring talent to include the entire employee experience. Change is happening faster than ever, but one thing that isn’t changing fast enough is the technology needed to keep HR in-the-know and business teams aligned in-the-flow of work. 

Join this session to learn how to: 

• Rethink your HR tech stack
• Identify the critical levers that HR has to impact employee experience 
• Empower HR to help business teams achieve results 

Reskilling workers allows businesses to be agile in the face of constant technological change, while investing in and showing loyalty to their existing workforce. Rather than hiring or outsourcing for every new skill, companies can train current, trusted employees to handle the shifts in their industry, whether small or seismic.

In this session we’ll discuss upskilling and reskilling, as well as the emotional and financial benefits of training your existing workforce to meet the ever-changing demands of our technology-driven work environment. You’ll learn about three main skill areas that global consulting firm McKinsey believes are critical to the future of work—social and emotional intelligence, technological skills, and cognitive skills—and how you can employ training that addresses each of these in-demand talents. We’ll then dive deeper into how video training is an ideal way to bridge competence differences in your workforce to achieve proficiency in learning new skills. You'll learn how video takes advantage of our cognitive processes to achieve better learning outcomes. Then we’ll bring it all together with specific examples of how video—from “how-to” to explaining complex concepts—is delivering successful learning outcomes for today’s largest companies.

In this session you will learn:

• Why reskilling makes sense, financially and emotionally
• Three skill areas critical to the future of work
• How to employ video training to achieve successful reskilling

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 hybrid workplace 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.

Creating a robust work environment requires infrastructure that provides dynamic opportunities for collaboration, supports an easy flow of information, and addresses the challenges of an ever-present workplace.  In this panel, we’ll discuss how to design a digital workplace from an employee-first perspective.

Topics may include:

• Communication and engagement tools to simplify cross-team collaboration
• Building better workflows: Increased productivity by design
• Tools to deliver training and information at the point of need

Employee experience technology is implemented by organizations to facilitate the future of work – remote, hybrid and flexible. But how do we use all of these technologies without complicating the life of the average employee? This session explains how to perform a technology landscape analysis to decrease technology bloat and maximize the value of digital workplace technologies.

Join us to learn:

• The good, bad and ugly in today’s digital technology landscape
• How to help employees use the right tools at the right time
• Analyzing and improving an organization’s relationship with technology

Remote work is here to stay. While organizations quickly adapted to temporary remote work set-ups, distributed work will be the new de facto for businesses and organizations of all sizes. IT is now faced with the challenge of balancing security, usability and IT support from a distance – while ensuring people can do their work as if they were in person – from anywhere.

In this session you will learn:

• How to create an in-person technology experience for an increasingly remote/ distributed workforce
• How IT can effortlessly deploy and support remote workers on any device or platform
• How to ensure security and compliance

Join all four keynote speakers from the Digital Workplace Experience, plus peers, panelists and breakout 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.

Video collaboration is a vital component of today’s hybrid world and having the right technology solutions in place facilitates seamless collaboration, regardless of location. How should you tackle designing your hybrid workspace? What technology solutions are most impactful in driving that experience for your organization? Learn how one Crestron customer drove to deliver a successful deployment of collaborative and reliable solutions to get ahead of the competition.

Join us as we close day one of the Digital Workplace Experience, "Enabling & Optimizing the Hybrid Workplace."

To Emily Esfahani Smith, there’s a way for everyone to find professional and creative fulfillment through actively pursuing purpose, no matter their line of work. And finding out how is urgent: experts estimate that one of the very tangible consequences of disengagement is a staggering $7 trillion in lost productivity. In this invigorating keynote, Smith explores what employers can do to electrify a static environment, and retain the talent they worked hard to bring on board in the first place—as well as the changes workers can make to feel intrinsically motivated, engaged, and fulfilled. It’s all about harnessing the four pillars of meaning at work: belonging, purpose, transcendence, and storytelling. When employees feel like what they’re doing matters-to the company, to the community, and to themselves-they’re more productive, innovative, and more likely to participate in-and create-a positive workplace culture: and Smith will show you how.

SongDivision's Virtual Happy Hour is more than just a casual online get-together. It’s an hour of nonstop entertainment hosted by renowned musician-MCs, who have worked with international music superstars.

In addition to sharing stories about first concerts, memorable songs and albums, we'll take part in a virtual Rock & Roll Game Show putting your music knowledge and talents to the test. 10 participants will be eligible to win $25!

All you’ll need is your computer, decent WiFi , a positive attitude, and your drink of choice. No musical experience or ability is required.

Join Reworked.co's Editor in Chief, Mike Prokopeak, as we kick off day two of the Digital Workplace Experience, "Enabling & Optimizing the Hybrid Workplace."

Spearfishing and business intelligence theft has increased multifold since the shift to remote work, and recent cyber and ransomware attacks have cost companies millions of dollars. Given the current situation, transitioning skilled employees to security awareness has never been more difficult or more timely. How can we effectively prepare our employees now that data is not only secured through the office, but is now often left to the good graces of our home Internet? Internationally renowned cyber operations expert Tarah Wheeler is here to help. Mobility is part of modernity, says Wheeler. Remote work isn’t going anywhere, so it’s imperative that we learn how to properly secure employee data and company laptops at home-which means investing in our people and teaching them how to be personally secure.  In this talk, she shares the ins-and-outs of digital security since both the cloud revolution and the telecommuting transition began—ensuring we can all confidently become good stewards of company data in the age of remote work.

Introduction of keynote speaker, Tarah Wheeler, by keynote sponsor (iOffice + SpaceIQ) speaker, Mike Petrusky

Discover how Charles Schwab equips its hybrid workforce with the right knowledge at the right time-reducing friction and boosting proficiency with AI-powered search.

In this session you will learn:

• How to make company information easier for employees to find
• The impact of knowledge management on the customer experience
• The role of AI in creating more relevant digital experiences

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: Breaking Down EX into the Critical Levers for HR

Employee experience is an all encompassing term that goes beyond the confines of HR; yet the pandemic and new world of work has seen the two become interchangeable. Join this demo to gain focus on the key levers that HR has to shape employee experience and learn how HR can help the business build future-ready teams.

Presented by: Lindsay Lagreid, Lead Solutions Consultant, Culture Amp

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

Demo #2: 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'Neal, Director of Partner and Channel Strategy, Robin

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

Demo #3: Space Planning Secrets: Creating More Adaptable Workplaces

Workplace leaders want to future-proof their space strategies and provide for the needs of their workforce. We'll look at the benefits of digitizing the workplace — and using space planning software to incorporate flexibility and agility into your plans.

Presented by: Ian Pape, Solutions Lead, iOFFICE + SpaceIQ

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

At a time when offices are reopening and companies are experimenting with new working models, one key to success is whether or not managers have the skills to walk the tightrope between in office and at home workers. Join this panel for a lively discussion of the soft and hard skills managers will need to ensure equity and productivity.

In this session you will learn: 

• Tips to establish and maintain trust across teams
• Best uses of days on site and days at home
• How to avoid proximity bias in hybrid teams
• Communications best practices to ensure alignment

Just over two years ago, many companies were forced to embrace remote work. Although options for reintroducing the office environment are increasingly available, the workforce is not returning en masse. Rather than returning “full time” to the office setting, as much as 53% expect and embrace the notion of hybrid working arrangements.  

But what does this mean for your company from a process perspective? Embracing hybrid means embracing permanent flexibility, where you can effectively adapt to the changes that stem from emerging viral strains, CDC and OSHA guidelines, and changing employee preferences. But is your company ready? Is your approach to process automation flexible enough to empower your workforce? 

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

• Key processes needed in the “new” hybrid working environment 
• The importance of process automation in establishing and changing process frameworks 
• How low-code approaches to this automation ensure that companies remain flexible and resilient in a dynamic environment 

Join us as we close out day two of the Digital Workplace Experience, "Enabling & Optimizing the Hybrid Workplace."

While we may think of our identities as stable and coming from within; the reality is, they are constantly changing and powerfully influenced by our membership within different groups. Jay Van Bavel explores how identity is shaped and reshaped by the social worlds we are a part of, and what this means for our potential for collaboration, our performance, and social harmony at large. Groups are central to how people define themselves, explains Van Bavel and they can have profound effects on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This stimulating talk will show audiences how to apply cutting-edge findings in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the real world-including how shared identity can help us tackle our biggest problems with more unity, cohesion, and effective collaboration.