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Bring your communications team to the Microsoft 365 Community Conference - the premier event for executive and employee communications professionals using the Microsoft cloud featuring Engage, SharePoint and Microsoft Viva. You will join industry experts, product leaders, and hundreds of peers from across industries and geographies. You will take away:

  • Strategy evaluate the impact of AI on the workforce, the workplace, communicators and communications
  • Product expertise modernize communications with Engage, SharePoint, Teams and Viva
  • Best practices drive effective comms across news, events, intranets, employee engagement and more
  • Inspiration & answers learn from your peers with breakouts, panels, and AMAs with comms professionals

Executive & employee communications track: The details

Over the course of three days (May 6th - 9th) and an optional capstone workshop (May 10th), you will:

  • Explore the industry, workforce and workplace trends that drive the need for modern communications strategies.
  • Dive deep with peers to share insights, answers, and best practices for informing and engaging employees.
  • Take away prescriptive guidance from experts for how to support your objectives and scenarios with Microsoft's tools you can use today.
  • Learn how AI and Copilot both inform and empower your comms team and strategies.
  • Develop an actionable plan that aligns stakeholders to drive the change that matters to your organization, whether you want to nurture a high-performance organization, foster culture and diversity, accelerate innovation, or transform your workplace for the age of AI.

Reimagine strategies to reach & engage employees

Join industry thought leaders, comms professionals from across industries, and Microsoft product experts to reimagine communications strategies based on a deeper understanding of workforce expectations and the dynamics of complex, noisy and often hybrid workplace.

  • Share news and announcements that reach and engage targeted audiences where they work while also reducing noise and interruption.
  • Create stunning content and intranet experiences that curate and distribute news, knowledge and resources.
  • Drive effectiveness with innovative best practices including social amplification and media-first communications.
  • Connect everyone from the executive suite to the frontline, to ensure the broadest and most inclusive reach.

Scale leadership, build culture and drive transformation

Explore how to empower your most important influencers—your leaders—to inspire, listen and respond to employees.

  • Cascade communications through leaders to personalize and contextualize messaging to their employees.
  • Host more effective events that create clarity and generate energy at scale.
  • Spark employee participation, contribution and action toward business and cultural objectives using social campaigns.
  • Bring people together across organizational silos to foster culture and knowledge sharing, accelerate innovation and drive a high-performance organization.

Measure & improve effectiveness with AI & analytics

Dive deep with thought leaders, product experts, and peers explore the disruptive change being driven by the rapid-pace of AI innovation. Connect with peers to share perspectives, experiences, tips and tricks.

  • Understand the impact of AI on the role and function of communications.
  • Leverage AI agents and tools to create and maintain news, communications channels and intranet sites.
  • Apply AI-powered analytics including sentiment and theme analysis, to gain deeper insights into the effectiveness of messages and channels.

Diverse opportunities to learn and share

The Communications track at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference brings together community experts, leaders from Microsoft, and thousands of peers from around the world and across industries.

You'll learn, share, and exchange experiences across a variety of activities including:

  • Keynotes that will inspire you and help you understand the breadth of ways you can leverage modern tools and strategies for communications, employee engagement and change management
  • Breakouts that dive into diverse topics including strategy, tactics, products, success stories and learnings from experts and peers
  • Peer-to-peer panels and social activities that will allow you to connect with your team and with peers to exchange stories, lessons learned and best practices
  • Focus groups and roundtables to share knowledge about communications challenges and provide feedback to Microsoft product teams
  • Lightning talks where you can share your story, see product demos, and learn from peers & experts
  • CAPSTONE WORKSHOP (optional) Meet with industry experts Susan Hanley and Mark Rackley to dive deep into tactical and technical implementation, answer questions and develop an adoption & readiness plan inclusive of exec sponsorship, objective definition, technical & business readiness, and metrics
  • MEETINGS WITH MICROSOFT EXECS optionally, schedule a meeting with our executives and product leaders to discuss your transformation and get your questions answered

And you'll have full access to sessions and activities across the Conference where you can learn how to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft 365 including SharePoint and Viva to manage communications, campaigns, communities, knowledge sharing, and analytics.