Modern Workplace

The physical workplace is changing and in many cases dissolving into more and more remote work. This ads new requirements to the modern workplace where technology is becoming imperative when you wish to manage your team.

The Modern Workplace conference track focuses on how to do that effectively; balancing control and democracy in our day to day activities as well as our projects. Managing communication, information and KPI's in a way that fosters close and effective collaboration. 

Wednesday, May 8

8.00 am – 9.00 am

Breakfast & Registration

The conversation starts at breakfast. Have one or several cups of coffee and get a great start to the rest of the day.  

9.00 am – 9.15 am

Conference opening by Janus Boye 

 9.15 am – 10.00 am

Keynote: Collaboration: The Final Frontier

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Nik Honeysett (US)
Director and CEO at Balboa Park Online Collaborative

10.00 am – 10.30 am

Coffee, tea & networking 

  10.30 am – 12.00 pm

Debugging The Workplace: Using psychology and technology to reduce stress and make your office a much happier place.

12.00 am – 1.00 pm

Lunch 

1.00 pm - 1.45 pm 

Reaching the Unreached: Establishing Effective Communication Channels in a Fragmented Workforce

In the current work environment, companies need to be able to communicate quickly and efficiently with every employee. Easier said than done for companies with a wide variety of employee roles and geographic locations.

Learn how to engage all levels of the workforce with a mobile-first communication strategy and maintain a long-term communication infrastructure that your employees will love.

Benjamin Gettinger (US)
Director of Communication, Branding at R. J. Corman Railroad Group

 1.45 pm - 2.00 pm

Coffee, tea & networking

2.00 pm - 3.00 pm 

Roundtables

Come join 2 x 25 minutes of informal roundtable discussions to get answers on your specific questions or help others by sharing your expert knowledge.

Join the discussions

3.00 pm - 3.30 pm 

Coffee, tea & networking

 

3.30 pm - 4.30 pm

Mixed Messages, Competing Priorities and Disjointed Feedback – Addressing Paradox in Culture Change

We’ll look at dynamic tensions that become evident when driving culture change in an organization. What happens when strategies, feedback and messages are logical by themselves but when you put them together they don’t quite make sense?

How do these paradoxes impact the values and beliefs in an organization and what can you do about it?

Kim will provide a peek into some learnings she uncovered while working on global culture change at Pfizer and how to take steps to move past a co-existence of opposites.

You’ll have most of this session to leverage the great minds in the room to discuss any dynamic tensions you see in your organization’s culture and get peer feedback on how you can work past these observable tensions.

Kim Robbins (US)
Director, Culture and Employee Engagement at Pfizer

 4.30 pm - 4.45 pm

Coffee, tea & networking

4.45 pm – 5.30 pm

Models are Not Black Boxes: Bridging the Communication Gap Between Data Science & The Business

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 6.30 pm -

Conference dinner