Join the Digital Collaboration Summit and discover the latest collaboration trends, best practices, and solutions for businesses.
Leaders from Poly, Huddly, Wired Magazine, The rAVe agency, and Intel host sessions on the tools they use to stay connected and succeed through the pandemic and beyond.
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Top 3 Reasons leaders should be part of the Digital Collaboration Summit.
Although many leaders are used to some level of constant change, COVID-19 has impacted the world in ways no one could have predicted. It accelerated companies' digital communication strategies by an average of 6 years. That’s enough to give anyone whiplash.
With an overwhelming amount of new technology and changing needs, how do you successfully increase collaboration, effectiveness and optimize productivity in a hybrid environment? Here are the top 3 reasons why leaders from the public and private sector should register now and tune in daily.
1.Join business leaders as they uncover the latest collaboration trends and best practices for businesses in the public and private sector:
GLOBAL KEYNOTE: Changing Collaboration
with Jeremy White from WIRED Magazine
The global pandemic brought disruptions to the usual patterns of working for most. But how much will permanently change, and what might be retained from a pre-Covid world? This talk will examine these themes along with other issues central to employee engagement, from office space dilemmas, automation, remote working, and even the scientific importance of small talk.
Newley Integrated Visual Workflows are Driving Hardware Trends
with Alan Greenberg and Dan Root - Senior Analysts, Wainhouse Research
In the past enterprise hardware infrastructure enabled some users to ‘do more with collaborative tools. But with the advent of COVID-19, at-home high-speed connectivity, and cloud services, we’re seeing visual collaboration software drive hardware deployments for every size meeting space. In today’s hybrid meeting universe, the specific application of a visual layer to communicate ideas, meetings, processes, and technical data is driving a change in how we interact with technology. Instead of using a mouse, this visual layer – provided by ideation software tools – engage us much like consumer-grade applications do, making it easy to learn and apply touch interactions to our workflows. While small teams have utilized touch-optimized applications for years, it wasn’t until we collectively were unable to share the whiteboard or sit in the same room that these tools leveled up from ‘nice-to-have to ‘mission-critical’. In this talk, Wainhouse Senior Analysts Alan Greenberg and Dan Root dive into how shared, mobile, and personal workplaces are benefiting from the latest innovations in hardware and software – and why this is so important to so many organizations of all stripes.
The Future of AV Design: A People-First Approach
with Gary Kayye Co-Founder & Director, The rAVE Agency
We've been living in a tech-renaissance of the AV classroom, boardroom, and meeting room for 25+ years. More than two decades in, our industry is designing and installing, for the most part, the exact same way. Sure, technology and products have changed significantly. But overall, we're still routing, connecting, and distributing signals from source to display and speakers — just like we always did.
But that's all about to change. And it isn't just because we're moving everything to AV-over-IP: AV over the network. (It isn't because we're making smaller, all-in-one gear either.) Nope.
It's all about people. For the first time in history, we have a generation — a generation aging through the corporation, moving into leadership roles — that doesn't present, collaborate or communicate the way we do. Generation Y (the millennials) and Generation Z (the current class of students) are getting "influencer" and management roles within companies. They aren't into the idea of meeting after meeting. And they certainly don't need that "personal connection" like you and I do.
So, instead of launching into a discussion about what technology and products to spec when designing a room, we need to switch our thinking: We need to be people first. Technology second.
2. Emerge stronger by reskilling your workforce with key takeaways you can implement immediately:
Reskilling is defined as the development of additional skills to help an employee move to a new role, whereas upskilling is defined as the training that enables someone to become better at a job they already perform
Remote Selling Mastery - Using the Whiteboard to Differentiate
with Corey Sommers
- Set and confirm an effective meeting agenda
- Perform basic opportunity qualification using cutting edge "listen first" techniques
- Share dynamic content
- Enable prospects to collaborate
- Summarize next steps and follow-up in a professional manner
GLOBAL KEYNOTE: Embrace the Shake - Transforming Limitations into Opportunities
with Phill Hansen
European Exchange: An Insight to Working Through a Global Pandemic
with Fernando Sanz from SMART Technologies
This session aims to showcase enterprise organizations in various industry sectors in Europe and the transition in their operations pre-COVID-19 Pandemic, during the pandemic, as well as concepts for operations post-COVID-19. The session participants highlight needs, pain-points and technological adaptation/innovative concepts required to maintain performance levels.
3. Don’t miss the Digital Transformation Tools unveiling to keep your business moving forward free from office boundaries.
Get a preview of SMART latest innovations including the new features coming in TeamWorks. These new features will provide even greater integration, flexibility, and time savings so TeamWorks users can collaborate and contribute with greater ease.
Digital Transformation Tools Unveiling
Because of recent worldwide business disruptions, employers now must embrace a more flexible and agile work model. This means redesigning the workplace, implementing new technology, and continuing or expanding support for collaboration between local and remote employees. Join us for an immersive session and see SMART’s latest innovations in action. Experience first-hand demonstrations of how SMART's Interactive Pro Displays and software optimize meetings, enhance modern conferencing, enable remote working, and improve training delivery.