Join comms, HR, and tech leaders to learn how to create digital experiences that work for every worker. Don’t miss this free, one-day event featuring industry experts, amazing group sessions, and tons of networking opportunities.
Attune is a series of summits bringing together influencers and leaders from across internal communications, human resources, and technology who are helping companies create digital experiences that work for all their workers.
Regardless of company size or industry, success comes from people doing their best work. Learn from the experts how they’re connecting with every worker and how to apply their techniques to your organisation.
of employees believe that people in their organization don’t collaborate enough
of employees report not being given clear direction
of managers report not being comfortable communicating with their employees
of employees cite lack of collaboration as the main cause for project failures
We have an amazing line-up of industry influencers, corporate speakers and comms experts that will share how they are fundamentally transforming communications at their organisations—and how you can too!
...and more to come!
Our agenda is packed with expert insights, customer stories, and practical workshops to help you unlock the secrets to success. Keep an eye out for more details – they’re coming soon!
Designed to help companies create digital experiences that work for all their workers, there is something for everyone at Attune.
David’s keynote will focus on inclusive leadership – exploring how leaders can harness key skills to build and shape healthy cultures, whilst also creating high performing and safe workplaces. More than just buzzwords, these are themes integral to the future of work and the optimal employee experience.
Join Nicole Alvino, CEO of Firstup, as she kicks off Attune London, sharing her insights on transitioning from our current maladaptive and disjointed ways to better-connected, more personalised, and intelligent communication.
‘A moth to a flame’ is what you should be aiming to avoid when telling your ESG story. This one-hour interactive workshop will equip you to do just that. Be prepared for your palms to sweat, your eyes to blink faster and your heart to skip a beat because that’s what a great ESG story should leave you feeling. You will enter the room with an Internal Communicator mindset but will leave thinking like a marketer and a CEO.
Creativity is a vital skill for communicators as organisations strive to find more interesting, impactful approaches to communicate. This fast paced and fun but practical workshop will help you get a hold on your creativity and give you the ways to kick-start new ideas and maybe start a movement of innovative thinking. Many companies claim to be innovative, but they don’t always have what it takes to create a culture and environment that lets ideas and creativity thrive. We’ll explore how to do it.
Join this breakout session to hear Experian share its experience of implementing an engagement platform across a complex global organisation – and how this has helped drive people-focused communications that deliver real business results. Listen to how CEO buy-in, early collaboration with IT & HR, and the use of hard metrics worked to create one single connected organisation with a common purpose, at the same time as enabling regions to tell the story in their own way and providing opportunities for Experian’s global network to celebrate their own individual cultures.
Making the CIO your partner can be the key to unlocking all the moments that matter for your employees, whether rotas, payslips, policies or anything else they need. Join Dave Lynch, Group CIO at Swissport and our CEO, Nicole Alvino as they discuss their experiences of building relationships for success.
Last year the BBC celebrated its centenary – a major milestone for any organisation. But what did that look like for employees? In this session, get a peek behind the curtain and see how the company celebrated this milestone with employees. You’ll see examples of how Firstup’s intelligent comms platform gave employees a voice and how company milestones can deliver significant comms victories.
During this session Korn Ferry will share how it has successfully delivered and integrated its social engagement platform, ‘Connect’.
Learn how Korn Ferry use a combination of internal collaboration, extensive enablement, and continuous monitoring to ensure that the Connect platform has become the cornerstone of communications – and that employees are informed, engaged advocates of the business.
Join your colleagues for a delicious lunch and engage in a roundtable discussion on a current hot topic of your choice related to employee engagement. Take a seat at a table and converse with like-minded professionals to exchange ideas and insights.
Businesses are dealing with a more complex and complicated workforce than ever before, and understanding the difference between the two is essential for effective employee engagement.
Communicators are the key to simplifying the challenges faced. This interactive session will encourage delegates to examine how they can be who they need to be in order to deepen the communications experience for business leaders.
Moving beyond the cliched role of ‘trusted advisor’, attendees will discover how they can raise their game when it comes to engaging multigenerational and diverse workforces – and how keeping things simple can be the most powerful tool.
This interactive workshop will examine the interplay between channel strategy and employee engagement across frontline workers and desk-based workers. Meeting employees where they are, reaching them with the right messages at the right time, and understanding which channels are most effective are challenges organisations increasingly face today, following the permanent shift to hybrid work.
How do you marry the employee experience with a digital platform, without losing the human touchpoints? At AGCO, Philippa has been doing just that. In this session, you’ll learn about her strategic vision and how it is being brought to life for employee onboarding through Firstup and the role automation has played in making it faster.
It’s no secret that launching and integrating a new communications platform can have its challenges, and when coupled with mergers and acquisitions, the road can be a little bumpy.
Listen to Borg Warner’s account of how it has embedded the platform across a decentralised organisation during a time of change, how this faciliated engagement and bridged gaps, and the lessons learnt.
Hear from Hilton on how its editorial strategy sparked employee engagement.
Every organisation that employs people has an employer brand, whether they know it, nurture it, or not. It’s what makes people want to work for an organisation or drives them away, so it can’t be ignored. To diagnose your employer brand needs, you need a full company body scan.
Iron Mountain’s frontline workers, or ‘mountaineers’ are who its customers have most contact with. Hear how Iron Mountain stayed connected with them during the pandemic and beyond, and how these connections continue to evolve and strengthen.
One of the most powerful aspects of your employee platform is how it connects your people to each other. In this session, Fiona will take you through how ICG teams are sharing their moments in areas such as events and volunteering, and how this is informing the company’s engagement strategy.
Described as the Kate and Leo of internal comms (by at least one person), Rachel and Chuck bring their passion and leadership to Attune for this keynote.
Back in 2020, the duo created Spin the Wheel, the first-ever IC-themed game show, and are re-booting it on a Vegas scale for IC and HR professionals at Attune London.
What will the world of food look like going forward? How and what will we be eating, and what are chefs, retailers and the food industry working on now for our future selves? This sensory session focuses on the latest developments in the food industry, incorporating gastrophysics and gameplay to show what we might expect to see. From 3D printed food, to water sweets, sonic seasoning and much more, this is the first futurologist tasting on the market. Developed to be accessible to all (including vegan diets), this will be a highly inclusive, original experience.
David’s keynote will focus on inclusive leadership – exploring how leaders can harness key skills to build and shape healthy cultures, whilst also creating high performing and safe workplaces. More than just buzzwords, these are themes integral to the future of work and the optimal employee experience.
Join Nicole Alvino, CEO of Firstup, as she kicks off Attune London, sharing her insights on transitioning from our current maladaptive and disjointed ways to better-connected, more personalised, and intelligent communication.
‘A moth to a flame’ is what you should be aiming to avoid when telling your ESG story. This one-hour interactive workshop will equip you to do just that. Be prepared for your palms to sweat, your eyes to blink faster and your heart to skip a beat because that’s what a great ESG story should leave you feeling. You will enter the room with an Internal Communicator mindset but will leave thinking like a marketer and a CEO.
Creativity is a vital skill for communicators as organisations strive to find more interesting, impactful approaches to communicate. This fast paced and fun but practical workshop will help you get a hold on your creativity and give you the ways to kick-start new ideas and maybe start a movement of innovative thinking. Many companies claim to be innovative, but they don’t always have what it takes to create a culture and environment that lets ideas and creativity thrive. We’ll explore how to do it.
Join this breakout session to hear Experian share its experience of implementing an engagement platform across a complex global organisation – and how this has helped drive people-focused communications that deliver real business results. Listen to how CEO buy-in, early collaboration with IT & HR, and the use of hard metrics worked to create one single connected organisation with a common purpose, at the same time as enabling regions to tell the story in their own way and providing opportunities for Experian’s global network to celebrate their own individual cultures.
Making the CIO your partner can be the key to unlocking all the moments that matter for your employees, whether rotas, payslips, policies or anything else they need. Join Dave Lynch, Group CIO at Swissport and our CEO, Nicole Alvino as they discuss their experiences of building relationships for success.
Last year the BBC celebrated its centenary – a major milestone for any organisation. But what did that look like for employees? In this session, get a peek behind the curtain and see how the company celebrated this milestone with employees. You’ll see examples of how Firstup’s intelligent comms platform gave employees a voice and how company milestones can deliver significant comms victories.
During this session Korn Ferry will share how it has successfully delivered and integrated its social engagement platform, ‘Connect’.
Learn how Korn Ferry use a combination of internal collaboration, extensive enablement, and continuous monitoring to ensure that the Connect platform has become the cornerstone of communications – and that employees are informed, engaged advocates of the business.
Join your colleagues for a delicious lunch and engage in a roundtable discussion on a current hot topic of your choice related to employee engagement. Take a seat at a table and converse with like-minded professionals to exchange ideas and insights.
Businesses are dealing with a more complex and complicated workforce than ever before, and understanding the difference between the two is essential for effective employee engagement.
Communicators are the key to simplifying the challenges faced. This interactive session will encourage delegates to examine how they can be who they need to be in order to deepen the communications experience for business leaders.
Moving beyond the cliched role of ‘trusted advisor’, attendees will discover how they can raise their game when it comes to engaging multigenerational and diverse workforces – and how keeping things simple can be the most powerful tool.
This interactive workshop will examine the interplay between channel strategy and employee engagement across frontline workers and desk-based workers. Meeting employees where they are, reaching them with the right messages at the right time, and understanding which channels are most effective are challenges organisations increasingly face today, following the permanent shift to hybrid work.
How do you marry the employee experience with a digital platform, without losing the human touchpoints? At AGCO, Philippa has been doing just that. In this session, you’ll learn about her strategic vision and how it is being brought to life for employee onboarding through Firstup and the role automation has played in making it faster.
It’s no secret that launching and integrating a new communications platform can have its challenges, and when coupled with mergers and acquisitions, the road can be a little bumpy.
Listen to Borg Warner’s account of how it has embedded the platform across a decentralised organisation during a time of change, how this faciliated engagement and bridged gaps, and the lessons learnt.
Hear from Hilton on how its editorial strategy sparked employee engagement.
Every organisation that employs people has an employer brand, whether they know it, nurture it, or not. It’s what makes people want to work for an organisation or drives them away, so it can’t be ignored. To diagnose your employer brand needs, you need a full company body scan.
Iron Mountain’s frontline workers, or ‘mountaineers’ are who its customers have most contact with. Hear how Iron Mountain stayed connected with them during the pandemic and beyond, and how these connections continue to evolve and strengthen.
One of the most powerful aspects of your employee platform is how it connects your people to each other. In this session, Fiona will take you through how ICG teams are sharing their moments in areas such as events and volunteering, and how this is informing the company’s engagement strategy.
Described as the Kate and Leo of internal comms (by at least one person), Rachel and Chuck bring their passion and leadership to Attune for this keynote.
Back in 2020, the duo created Spin the Wheel, the first-ever IC-themed game show, and are re-booting it on a Vegas scale for IC and HR professionals at Attune London.
What will the world of food look like going forward? How and what will we be eating, and what are chefs, retailers and the food industry working on now for our future selves? This sensory session focuses on the latest developments in the food industry, incorporating gastrophysics and gameplay to show what we might expect to see. From 3D printed food, to water sweets, sonic seasoning and much more, this is the first futurologist tasting on the market. Developed to be accessible to all (including vegan diets), this will be a highly inclusive, original experience.
Everything has changed. Where we work. How we work. Even why we work. The role of communicators has changed—and you’ve changed, too. It’s time to connect with your peers, celebrate your successes and embrace the change.
Regardless of company size, industry, or culture, leaders and communicators know that success comes from people doing their best work. Attune brings together the boldest in our industry to explore, teach and learn from each other.
So secure your spot, book your tickets, and pack your bags…the journey starts with you!
Connect with your peers, then bring the learnings from the community back to your organization
See, share and steal killer content and strategies that are relevant, are easy to create and will get noticed
Learn about the tools driving change, from mobile to intranet, digital signage to Microsoft 365
From the X’s and O’s to the KPIs, define the language your business needs to talk about communication
The workforce is constantly changing, which means culture is, too. Great organizations know the way to get ahead is to get everyone aligned. Today, comms and HR are working together across enterprises to build the next great digital employee experience.
The trendsetters, like you, have been our cheerleaders, our mascots and our shoulders to lean on. Come join with others like you to see what is next in employee comms.
We know who you are… you deliver comms from mere ideas to execution. Get a look at the technology that is changing the landscape, and how to harness it.
You know the value of a great employee experience. From recruitment to retirement, gain the know-how to elevate your workers to do their best work.
Firstup is the workforce communications backbone for leading enterprises. We’ve used that expertise to build a platform that shapes the digital employee experience.
Firstup provides workers the personalized tools and information they need to get their jobs done and gives companies the insights they need to become more productive and agile.
The best way to experience Attune will be in person at Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton. But for those not able to travel, a dedicated portion of the Attune scheduled content will be made available on demand.
The attendee fee for Attune ’22 is $595. New this year, we’ll also be offering a discount to corporate groups that attend together, so get your team ready!
Yes! A special discounted rate of $279.00 + 17.4% hotel occupancy tax is available on-site at the historic Palmer House Hilton. To secure your reservation, please follow the prompts during registration or click on the link in your confirmation email.
Tuesday, October 18 to Thursday, October 20, 2022. Each day will include talks, presentations, breakout sessions and connection opportunities.
Yes! We’ll have opportunities for Q&A, connection and hands-on learning, including how-to sessions, with optional breakfasts and cocktail events.
Thank you for your interest! Please contact us via brief form below and one of our event planners will get in touch.
While we have required vaccination for other Firstup events in the past, at this time, vaccination will not be required to attend Attune ‘22. Because mandates and requirements can change quickly, we reserve the right to adjust this policy based on U.S. and local (Chicago) guidelines and will notify attendees directly as needed.
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