SOCIAL WORKPLACE CONFERENCE

WHY ATTEND #SWCONF?

Social Workplace Conference 2012 focuses on the impact of Social Media and Social Software on Internal Communications and Workforce Collaborations.

You will connect with Business Leaders from: CIOs, Internal Communications, Human Resources, Technology, Knowledge Management, Employee Engagement, Employee Communications, PR, Employee Relationships, Employee Communities, Intranet Administration, Talent Management, Academia, Social Media, Social Software Suppliers, Enterprise 2.0 etc.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Please find below the Social Workplace Conference 2012 Agenda!

9.20 – 9.30 Welcome to Social Workplace Conference 2012
Vic Okezie, Conference Director & Founder, Crexia

9.30 – 10.10 How to get your People talking: Building a Social, Collaborative Culture
Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst, Collaboration, MWD Advisors

While we may recognise the potential benefits of improved collaboration, understanding how to achieve this within our organisation is a challenge that many of us struggle with. In this presentation, Angela will address the practicalities of improving collaboration, sharing key best practices and pitfalls to avoid as you embark on your own collaboration strategy. She will also outline the role that technology can play in this, and share some first steps for you to take away.

10.10 – 10.50 Enterprise Social Network: Collaboration and Employee Engagement
Laurie Hibbs, Human Resources Director, LexisNexis

Laurie Hibbs will be talking about the collaboration challenges within his organisation and how they overcame those by using Yammer as their Enterprise Social Network. He will share insights from a Senior HR and Business Leadership strategy and also highlight tangible benefits that have been achieved from implementing an Enterprise Social Platform.

10.50 – 11.20 Networking Break

11.20 – 12.00 The Five Laws of Social Project Management and Collaboration
Liz Pearce, Chief Operating officer, LiquidPlanner Inc

Here, Liz will present the corellation between Social Project Management and Enterprise Collaboration. The Social Project Management movement is attempting to fix this by standing on the shoulders of social design pioneers such as Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia. We now know that it's possible to make project life more efficient, more effective, and more fun.

12.00 – 12.30 Challenges to developing an Enterprise Social Business Strategy (Panel)
Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst, Collaboration, MWD Advisors (Panel Chair)
Richard Higgs, Managing Director, brightsolid online Technology
Lee Provoost, Head of Strategy & Transformation, Dachis Europe
George Reynolds, Managing Director, CloudsMatter (Qontext UKIE Partner)

This morning panel will explore challenges to developing a Social Collaboration Strategy. It will feature some Social Software platforms as well as a Social Business Consultancy.

12.30 – 13.30 Networking Lunch

13.30 – 14.20 Social Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Organisations
Priya Banati, Collaboration Strategy Lead, Accenture UK

This session will showcase Accenture's approach to cultivating a commitment to collaboration and knowledge sharing, including key programs, incentives and best uses of technology. Priya Banati will share some examples and lessons learnt from implementing this change through encouraging new behaviours in the workplace.

14.20 – 15.00 Why IT and Social Collaboration Projects #Fail
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal Analyst, ECM & Enterprise Search

According to recent studies 68% of all IT projects fail or fall short of expectations, and in Alan's experience that number is a conservative one. Most typically with IT and Collaboration projects we see: Costs escalating out of control, Projects running late, Projects failing to gain acceptance and buying the wrong technology. In this session, Alan will provide you with insights into research he has undertaken into why projects fail so regularly, and how to better ensure success.

15.00 – 15.30 Networking Break

15.30 – 16.10 Enterprise Collaboration: Connecting Internal Stakeholders
Jens Schroeter, Snr Consultant, Social Media & Collaboration, Siemens AG

Jens will discuss Social Workplace from both physical collaborative workplace and social software perspectives. This will include ideas on how Siemens Learning Campus embarked on a journey to introduce an Internal Social Technology platform for communication and collaboration, especially for communities of Alumnis.

16.10 – 16.50 Evolution of Social Intranets: Usability Testing for enhanced Collaboration
Rita Chambers, e-Communications Manager, Sodexo UK

Here, Rita will be discussing the launch of Sodexo's intranet site and how following usability testing they have introduced changes to make it more of a social communications tool by adding new functionality to the site. This has helped to improve engagement levels and the next plan is to integrate Jive with their existing intranet platform.

16.50 – 17.20 Seven Habits of an Open and Socially Collaborative Business (Case Studies)
Justin Hunt, Founder, itsopen.co.uk and Social Media Leadership Forum (Panel Chair)
Leon Benjamin, Internal Collaboration Manager, Virgin Media
Del Green, Group Internal Communications Manager, Bupa

Justin will interview experienced Internal collaboration experts who will share their own perspectives of some of the key learnings from implementing Social Collaboration in the enterprise.

17.20 – 17.30 Close by Chair and Conference Director
Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst, Collaboration, MWD Advisors
Vic Okezie, Conference Director & Founder, Crexia

18.00 – 20.00 Networking Drinks

Join us for drinks after the conference at the Dover Castle, the oldest pub in the Marleybone area of London. The address is 43 Weymouth Mews, W1G 7EH.

CONFERENCE VENUE

#SWCONF 2012 will be held on 24th May 2012 at the Cavendish Conference Centre, London, located in the West End, just minutes from Oxford Circus or Great Portland Street tube stations.

The address is: 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT

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REGISTRATION FORM

Register for the Social Workplace Conference 2012 in London by using the booking form below. Payments can be made via Credit cards & Paypal, and registration is powered by Eventbrite.

Ticket Conditions

• Full refund of ticket fee, 30 days before conference
• 50% refund of ticket fee, 15 days before conference
• Attendee can be changed 5 days before conference
• 10% discount for 3+ delegates. Contact us for code!

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