Microsoft theater schedule at HR Tech
Booth #3425
Visit the Microsoft booth #3425 and check out our theater sessions running throughout the event, where Viva experts will cover a range of topics to help you create a high-performance organization with Microsoft Viva!
Stick around to the end of each 15-minute session for a chance to win Surface Earbuds. (You must be present to win.)
Theater raffle prize
Surface Earbuds
Wednesday,
Oct 11
Thursday,
Oct 12
| Theater sessions | Speakers | Time |
| Viva Glint overview and demo | Mike Walsh, Jeanne Schad | 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
| How to build a high-performing team with Viva Goals | Lucy Hitz | 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM |
| Copilot in Viva Overview | Kyle von Haden | 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Announcing Skills in Viva: Demo & Roadmap | John Mighell, Hilary Albert | 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM |
| Bringing Viva to life in your organization through People Science | Shubhang Dave | 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM |
Theater Session Details
Announcing Skills in Viva: Demo & Roadmap
We’re excited to announce Skills in Viva! This session will provide an overview of what we’re building, why we’re building it, and showcase capabilities plus a roadmap review.
Speakers: John Mighell, Senior Product Marketing Manager; Hilary Albert, Principal PM Manager
Bringing Viva to life in your organization through People Science
Learn how Viva Glint’s People Science consulting services can help your organization overcome the challenges of building a high-performance organization and meaningfully adopt at employee experience platform.
Speaker: Shubhang Dave, Principal People Science Manager
Building a holistic listening ecosystem: A guide to fostering employee engagement and better performance
Employee listening is evolving from a linear, programmatic activity to a dynamic, always-on ecosystem that empowers employees across levels to accomplish more. Organizations that effectively seek and act on insights from multiple sources to understand how people feel and how they work will secure a competitive advantage in their people and business practices. Join us to understand how to effectively combine data from surveys, systems, and other sources to gain a comprehensive understanding of your employees’ experience and how to improve engagement, productivity, and overall performance.
Speakers: Jaime Gonzales, Principal People Science Manager; Caribay Garcia, Principal People Scientist
Copilot in Viva Overview
Learn how you can create more engaged, empowered employees with new AI features in Microsoft Viva and see some of our new Copilot in Viva features in action.
Speaker: Kyle von Haden, Principal PM Manager
Holistic listening and action with Viva Glint and Korn Ferry
Leveraging the power of feedback through multiple channels allows us to act with precision and help employees be their best and do their best work. How can you harness the voice of your employees to fuel performance? Learn more about how Korn Ferry and Viva Glint are enabling these outcomes for their customers.
Speakers: Archana Ramesh, Principal People Scientist Manger; Alida Al-Saadi, Global Human Experience Leader, Korn Ferry
How to build a high-performing team with Viva Goals
Learn how to improve goal setting and management in your organization with Viva Goals to foster employee engagement, build productive teams, and cultivate resilience.
Speaker: Lucy Hitz, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Reimagining people’s experience at work with Microsoft Viva
Korn Ferry’s Human Experience team will explore how Microsoft Viva acts as a disrupter and enabler with clients in life sciences, healthcare and manufacturing.
Speakers: Ty Lingley, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry; Todd Miner, HumanX Global Partnerships and Ecosystems Lead, Korn Ferry
Redefining high performance for the new workforce: 3 elements identified through our latest research
Some organizations are able to exceed expectations, time and time again, by hitting financial goals, delivering innovative solutions or services, and outpacing the competition. These are “high performance organizations”, and the elements to build and support these organizations are key to driving results. Learn from Microsoft’s People Science team about the latest research on how engaged employees, productive teams and a resilient business can support organizational success, and what steps you can take to better support your workforce with the right leadership, tools and organizational approach.
Speakers: Katie Anderson, Senior Product Marketing Manager; Jaime Gonzales, Principal People Science Manager
Viva Glint overview and demo
Come get a quick tour of Viva Glint highlights including a product demo.
Speakers: Mike Walsh, Director, Product Marketing; Jeanne Schad, People Science Advisory Leader
Viva Pulse for the Employee Listening System
Viva Pulse is a tool that helps HR organizations support their managers to get quick feedback from their teams. Join the Viva Pulse team to hear more about how this has been implemented to successfully support a holistic employee listening strategy by democratizing feedback collection and driving action at the local level.
Speakers: Alisa Liddle, Principal Program Manager
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to attendees of HR Technology Conference who have attended a Microsoft theater session. Sweepstakes ends October 12, 2023.
