Robin will share her organization’s recent Viva Engage journey, and how her department is now taking a more focused approach to the application. You’ll learn about their plans to “re-introduce” Viva Engage with a new community aligned with business priorities. It’s designed to help employees gain plain-language insights from people who are integral to bringing key business initiatives to fruition.

In this dynamic presentation, learn about Cox Communications' transformative journey of turning a dormant Viva Engage community into a top-performing communications channel. Discover how they secured leadership support, rebranded their platform, and implemented a robust strategy and communications plan that revitalized employee engagement and sense of community. Plus, learn how they utilize metrics to drive their direction and measure their impact, ensuring their efforts align with company priorities.

The Internal Comms team at Vodafone have a clear vision of delivering a consistent omni-channel communication experience for their 100k + colleagues. When they moved from Workplace from Meta to Microsoft Viva Engage in May 2024, they took a big step forward in bringing that vision to life. Ed Nunn will share the story of their move to Viva Engage, give insight into the choices and tactics that have helped them unlock real value from Viva Engage, and share how Viva Engage is supporting the realisation of their vision for communications.

Helen Nias will share the story of how Arqiva relaunched Viva Engage with a renewed purpose, a new position in the internal channels landscape, and a greater focus on unlocking business value. Hear how they reinvigorated their network to such an extent that Arqiva can now celebrate being crowned a SWOOP Analytics Collaboration Champion – there’ll definitely be some top tips in this talk!

Hear how the Places for People team has created a thriving Viva Engage network that sits at the very core of their internal communications efforts. They’ll share how they’ve nurtured a communication culture that’s built around community, where leaders are present and engaged, everyone has a voice and internal comms is about the conversation rather than the message.

In this talk, Andy Pamphilon will share the story of how they created the right conditions for Viva Engage success at London Stock Exchange Group. He’ll share some fantastic advice plus an impressive framework for rolling out Viva Engage and establishing it as a key channel within the Group, creating and maintaining enthusiasm and understanding every step of the way.

In this session we have leaders from Microsoft’s Viva Engage product teams joining for you to ask anything you like. Ask Microsoft about roadmap, features, adoption or just anything on your mind.

Empowering employees to move from volunteering conversations to actionable participation using Viva Engage, witnessed a shared association of moral identity. Volunteering has been part of the Tata Steel organisational DNA for over a century. Sneha will share how Viva Engage led to the strengthening of the Tata Steel volunteering identity. This conversation-led transformation connected the workforce with a common sentiment that positioned the organisation strongly in the community-centric narrative.

This year’s Viva Engage Benchmarking Report is loaded with evidence-based metrics that helps you with just about all aspects of Viva Engage and is coupled with insights from previous years’ benchmarking award recipients.

Join Leonie Thirkell from Ventia as she shares her top tips and tricks for leveraging Viva Engage to foster connection during times of organisational change. This session will provide practical advice on best practices for community admins, using dashboards to streamline digital workspaces, automations, and creating an effective channel mix for frontline workers.

The emergence of generative AI is revolutionising work around the world, and no industry is left untouched. Analytics is one of those areas that have a tremendous about of opportunity to deliver even more actionable insights to a far greater amount of people than previously possible.

In this session Cai Kjaer, CEO of SWOOP Analytics, will paint a picture of where analytics in the field of digital workplace and employee engagement is heading and show you SWOOP’s current explorations in this area.

Australia Post is using Viva Engage communities to connect with their large and diverse frontline team to ensure they’re receiving key updates and information from the business. Colum and Ashleigh will talk about their Viva Engage journey and using communities as a focal point for communications.