Upcoming member meetings

In this session, you will develop a clear, actionable AI strategy for your organization. Together with Erik Hartman and Volker Grünauer, you will refine your strategic intent, define how AI supports your mission, and set the guiding principles that shape decision-making. You will leave with a practical, well-structured strategy foundation that aligns leadership and provides direction for all upcoming AI initiatives.

Erfahrungsaustausch für Kommunikationsmanager:innen und Digitalverantwortliche aus Österreich zum Thema digitale interne Kommunikation, Social Intranet und digitaler Arbeitsplatz.

Themen u.a.:

• Live-Demo und neue Features des ÖBB Intranets

• Erfolgreiche Video-Call-Formate in der internen Kommunikation bei AOP Health

• Einblicke in Strukturen, Tools und Arbeitsweisen der internen Kommunikation bei Austro Control

• … und Raum für offenen Erfahrungsaustausch unter Kolleg:innen

In this session, you will develop a clear, actionable AI strategy for your organization. Together with Erik Hartman and Volker Grünauer, you will refine your strategic intent, define how AI supports your mission, and set the guiding principles that shape decision-making. You will leave with a practical, well-structured strategy foundation that aligns leadership and provides direction for all upcoming AI initiatives.

Making bonuses and perks tangible: a large-scale internal benefits and rewards campaign for 3,000+ employees designed. You will see how we explained to employees the value of company benefits and rewards using simple model personalities,  and showed how this increases their annual income. We will describe how campaign influenced understanding and how the "benefits calculator" (created internally at no cost) unlocked personalized value for each employee.

• “Focus on Employees” project. Lena Weber – Axpo
  • Over the past year, we conducted both quantitative and qualitative employee surveys, which provided us with valuable insights for strengthening our internal communication. The description could be: Over the past year, the internal communications team carried out the “Employees in Focus” project, gathering both quantitative and qualitative feedback from Axpo employees all over the Axpo Group. The insights gained give us a clearer understanding of employees’ needs and expectations and guide improvements in our internal communication.
• Internal campaign Co-creating Purpose. Fabienne Schneider und Robin Rickenbacher – Swiss Life AG
  • With “Turn to Purpose,” Swiss Life's sharpened purpose was activated across the company. The strong engagement of the employees shows how humour and creativity helped firmly anchor the purpose within the organisation.
• Bring your challenges along to discuss them with the group!

Knowledge sharing group meeting for experienced Digital Leadership Managers in Marketing and Social Media from Geneva & Vaud Regions.

• Using AI for Sales and Marketing (training). Bernd Hildebrandt, MN Product Marketing – Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG
  • Wie erstelle ich Podcasts?
• Viel Zeit für offene Diskussionen rund um eure aktuellen Herausforderungen!

Erfahrungsaustausch für Kommunikationsverantwortliche aus dem Norddeutschen Raum.

• Social Media Guidelines bei Aurubis – Erfolgreiche interne Einführung und Best Practices von Florian Pautzsch, Corporate Communications
  • Wie lassen sich Social Media Guidelines erfolgreich im Unternehmen etablieren? Der Vortrag gibt Einblicke in die interne Einführung der Social Media Guidelines von Aurubis und zeigt bewährte Kommunikationsansätze auf. Anhand konkreter Best Practices werden Erfolgsfaktoren, Herausforderungen und Learnings für eine effektive Umsetzung vorgestellt.

• Learnings aus der Intranet-Integration bei Kalkhoff Bikes von Silvia Martin, PR & Internal Communications Managerin

Außerdem Vorträge von Christoph Meyer, Senior Marketing Manager bei S-KON und unserem Host Sebastian Lindemann, Head of Corporate Communications & Media Hub bei HHLA.

From Hype to Craft – Creating Marketing Momentum with AI | Annabelle Atchison, Head of Communications & Product Marketing at IONOS

Annabelle shows how IONOS supplies 10 brands in 18 countries with AI-supported content, insights on limits and learnings.

The transformative power of AI automation comes with a dual challenge: preventing overreliance on automated outputs while overcoming user hesitation driven by hallucinations or perceived unreliability. Achieving the right balance requires designing interfaces and interactions where AI augments, rather than replaces, human capability — in a way that remains sustainable, transparent, and trustworthy.

Erfahrungsaustausch für Interne Kommunikationsmanager*innen aus München und Umgebung.

Knowledge sharing group meeting for experienced managers of internal communications from London and surrounding regions.

• Insights into Subsea7´s internal communication projects.
• Bring your current challenges along to discuss them with the group.

Everybody is talking with and about AI. Everybody? No really, but everybody talks about it.

In this session we will go through an actual AI use case of Nokia Marketing & Training organization. After that we can talk about it.

Join a ad-free knowledge-sharing group meeting for experienced digital, marketing and social media managers from the Swiss region.

The Digital Workplace Belgium group is an open, advertisement-free knowledge-sharing community for communication and digital workplace professionals. We meet in an informal, English-speaking setting to exchange real experiences, challenges, and practical ideas.

Typical topics include:

• Internal communication and employee engagement
• Digital workplace strategy and governance
• Intranet and content management
• Collaboration and knowledge-sharing practices
• AI use cases in communication and the workplace

A space to learn from peers, share what works, and connect with colleagues from across organisations.

Das Next Level Intranet von Swisscom bringt intelligentes Arbeiten und zielgerichtete Kommunikation auf ein neues Level.

The Next Level intranet from Swisscom takes intelligent work and targeted communication to a whole new level. The session will be live AI translated.

Erfahrungsaustausch für Interne & Externe Kommunikationsmanager*innen aus Berlin und Umgebung.

Erfahrungsaustausch für Interne Kommunikationsmanager*innen aus Österreich.

• Neuaufsetzung des Intranets und Umsetzung einer App-Lösung. Theresa Theisl – PORR Group

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