Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn&rsquo;t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. When we show up, we achieve more together.

Microsoft

McKinsey &amp; Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world. We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the ongoing work.

McKinsey & Company

Together We Accelerate the Breakthroughs That Advance Our World
 We build solutions&mdash;not just products&mdash;that enhance the capabilities of people, organizations and the world at large. We are committed to keeping our customers ahead of the competition and helping them to prepare for change.

As the world's #1 job site, with over 250 million unique visitors** every month from over 60 different countries, Indeed has become the catalyst for putting the world to work. Indeed is intensely passionate about delivering the right fit for every hire. Indeed helps companies of all sizes hire the best talent and offers the best opportunity for jobseekers to get hired.&nbsp;
**Google Analytics, Unique Visitors, September 2018

Indeed

DLA Piper is a global law firm capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world. Our lawyers have wide experience in arbitration, banking, competition and trade, as well as corporate crime and corporate finance. We have strong practices in employment, energy, hospitality and leisure, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and have developed key teams in pensions, private equity, real estate, tax, and technology. Attorney Advertising. To view our legal notices, please visit: www.dlapiper.com/legalnotices

DLA Piper

JDI (Jones-Dilworth, Inc.) is a boutique consultancy that brings emerging technologies to market. We help identify and exploit market opportunities. We love working with entrepreneurs who are unreasonable for all the right reasons. Our clients are market-defining companies that introduce new categories and destroy old ones. Based in beautiful Austin, TX, our team comes from diverse backgrounds &mdash; journalism, design, government, event production, academia, film, finance. What we do is always evolving. We&rsquo;re a full-stack group that isn&rsquo;t afraid to forge ahead, developing new channels and techniques along the way. It&rsquo;s part of the reason we love working with technologists and entrepreneurs so much. You can read all about our philosophies and processes at www.jones-dilworth.com.

Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality.

Atlassian

At NI, we Engineer Ambitiously. We celebrate creative problem solving. And we take our customer relationships to heart. We believe in the power and potential of making connections&mdash;between people, ideas, and technology. In fact, connection is central to everything we do. We constantly challenge ourselves to find those connections because that&rsquo;s what creates a path forward. This means bringing the right people together to build solutions that make a difference. It means combining fresh perspectives with new technologies to turn your vision into reality. For more than four decades, we&rsquo;ve set the standard in automated test and automated measurement systems. We&rsquo;re proud to partner with the talented engineers and enterprises using our systems to solve the world&rsquo;s most pressing technology challenges and build better businesses. From data and automation to research and validation, our tailored, software-connected approach is rooted in helping you engineer what&rsquo;s next. As your trusted partner, we&rsquo;re committed to helping you set your goals higher and reach them sooner. We&rsquo;re here for you, for each other, and for the next generation of innovators who think bigger, aim higher, and go faster. Let&rsquo;s Engineer Ambitiously.

Join here to watch sessions!
Further information on sessions can be found in the agenda below.&nbsp;

Savannah Barker - Host

Suraj Hinduja - Host

Main Stage

Distrust is a cancer eating away at our society. It magnifies enmity, stifles cooperation and fuels conspiracy thinking. So the question is, how do you build trust? Within organizations, trust is usually built by leaders who create environments that encourage people to behave with integrity, competence and benevolence. That&rsquo;s not just a matter of character, but of having the right practical skills &mdash; knowing what to do in complex situations to make people feel respected and safe. 
Key Takeaways: 1. Practices leaders have used in their companies and organizations to build trust 2. Concrete behaviors to rebuilding trust

David Brooks

How to Build Trust with David Brooks, NYT’s Columnist & Author

Featuring: Professor Steven Tomlinson, Seminary of the Southwest
Civil discourse is not a compliance program, it&rsquo;s a practice that supports collaboration and innovation. Leaders must model listening to understand the grievances, fears or values that give rise to uncivil behavior. Separating the work of understanding from problem-solving deescalates conflict and builds trust.
 Key Takeaways: 1. A framework for separating understanding from problem-solving when conflict arises 2. Rules of engagement for difficult conversations 3. Practice applying this approach during the workshop

Dr. Steven Tomlinson

Civil Discourse as a Competitive Advantage

Featuring: Amy Coleman, Corporate Vice President HR, Microsoft 
Two years into a global pandemic, it&rsquo;s clear that the workplace and workforce will never be the same. Amy Coleman, Microsoft&rsquo;s CVP of HR will share key lessons Microsoft has learned from its unexpected journey into hybrid work, breaking down the importance of strong culture, the new terms of attracting and retaining talent, and what employee wellbeing really means.
 Key Takeaways: 1. Learn how to make flexible culture stick in hybrid work. 2. Empower managers to be conduits for employee wellbeing, productivity, and talent retention. 3. Uncover the people and technology investments required to make hybrid work, work.

Amy Coleman

Making A Hybrid Workplace A Thriving Workplace – People, Culture, And The New Employee Experience

Featuring: Matthew Duncan, Head of Thought Leadership on the Future of Work, Microsoft
To thrive in this new era of hybrid work, every leader will need to study the data to help solve the biggest business challenges&mdash;from building social capital in a digital-first world to meeting changing employee expectations. Join Matthew for a dive into the research and urgent trends that emerged in Microsoft&rsquo;s 2022 Work Trend Index. Published in March, the report features key findings gleaned from a survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries, along with analysis of trillions of productivity signals in Microsoft 365 and labor trends from LinkedIn.
 Key Takeaways from the Research: 1. Employees have a new "worth it" equation and managers feel stuck in the middle 2. Leaders must make the office worth the commute 3. Flexibility doesn&rsquo;t have to mean "always on"

Matthew Duncan

Work Trend Index 2022: Five Critical Findings Business Leaders Need To Know

Featuring: Bonnie Dowling, Associate Partner McKinsey &amp; Company Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab Inc.
Recent research on the "Great Attrition" has found that flexibility and belonging are two critical factors for retaining today&rsquo;s workforce. Despite its importance, many organizations have struggled to implement a hybrid strategy in an optimal and inclusive way. Leaders that anchor in flexibility and build a culture of inclusion will create a clear competitive advantage.
 Key Takeaways: 1. Share the latest research on "Great Attrition," in particular factors that are driving retention and employee preferences for flexible work. 2. Discuss best practices for creating a hybrid strategy. 3. Share what matters most when building an inclusive culture - and how to maximize inclusion in a hybrid world. 4. Learn best practices from an all-remote organization, since inception, and how they collaborate, communicate, and deliver results in 65+ countries.

Darren Murph

Bonnie Dowling

Drew Goldstein

Inclusive, Hybrid Work Environments

Since long before the pandemic, companies struggled to promote the deep connections between employees needed to create a community that supports an unparalleled experience. Inspired by intelligent buildings and fully-remote companies alike, this highly-visual presentation explains how to create a physical and virtual workplace that will attract and retains top talent, support new ways of working, and inspire employees to see the humanity in each other.
Key Takeaways:
<ol>
<li>The future workplace is virtual-first, but not place-less.</li>
<li>The purpose of the post-pandemic workplace is human connection.</li>
<li>Workplaces need a clearly defined purpose and activated community.</li>
<li>Teams need a choice architecture for the best place to work and why.</li>
<li>Most meetings are not moments that matter (have fewer of them).</li>
</ol>

Phil Kirschner

The Connectivity-Based Workplace of the Future

Featuring: Jim Breyer, Founder &amp; CEO Breyer Capital Interviewed by Matrice Ellis-Kirk, CEO Ellis-Kirk Group
 As an investor/board member or former board member of Facebook, Walmart, Marvel Entertainment, Dell, Blackstone, Circle, Twentieth Century Fox, and several other companies, and as an investor at Breyer Capital, Jim has a deep understanding of the power of culture. We&rsquo;ll discuss the value of culture, ESG and CSR not only as tools to manage risks and identify opportunities but as tools for scaling global organizations, for attracting &amp; training new employees in this hybrid work environment, and as filters for identifying investments.
 Key Takeaways: 1. Culture&rsquo;s importance to us as citizens of the world and what it implies as investors. 2. What culture elements you need to drive 2-3x as much value from your team. 3. Where AI intersects with culture and what might mean in the future.

Matrice Ellis-Kirk

Jim Breyer

The Power of Culture

Featuring: Danielle Dannenberg, Senior Product Manager for Product Craft, Atlassian
Perception deeply affects the way you work with others. But perception doesn&rsquo;t always match reality, and the gap in between is a recipe for unspoken (and therefore unmet) expectations that can make great teamwork go bad.
The most effective decisions are made with a shared understanding of work and clear expectations of teammates. Unfortunately, humans aren&rsquo;t the best mind readers, so many teams are in a constant state of misunderstanding.&nbsp;
This session will offer an opportunity to increase awareness and understanding of personal and professional blindspots and gain practical tools you can share with your team to pioneer new ways of working together and enhance team collaboration. In a partnership with Bloomberg, Atlassian conducted web-based focus groups among teams across several industries and geographies, evaluating 5-key hypotheses relating to team success. Drawing on this study, Atlassian&rsquo;s Product Craft leader, Danielle Dannenberg, will lead an immersive session that starts with an inquiry into your team&rsquo;s perceptions and patterns.
Key Takeaways:
<ol>
<li>Increased awareness of team patterns to enable more effective teamwork</li>
<li>Deeper understanding of perception gaps to be a more effective communicator and impact team performance&nbsp;</li>
<li>Practical tools you can share with your team to pioneer new ways of working together and enhance team collaboration&nbsp;</li>
</ol>

Danielle Dannenburg

Perceptions vs. Reality: Teamwork is all about how you see it

Featuring: Kathy Farmer, VP Global Benefits Levi Strauss, Scilla Andreen, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of IndieFlix Angst, Producer, Marti Post, Co-Founder On Our Sleeves program at Nationwide Children&rsquo;s in Columbus, Moderated by Maria Brown-Spence, Founder, Hearts 2 Heal
 Mental health concerns skyrocketed throughout the Pandemic&mdash;as people across all nations grappled with anxiety, uncertainty, isolation, depression and exponential substance abuse...So&mdash;what about the children?How did they fare? What are the issues and resources to help a generation?
Key Takeaways: 1. What effect will the pandemic have on the workforce of the future, what are the long term ramifications? 2. Actionable steps to mitigate these negative effects 3. The potential positive effects of the pandemic

Maria Brown-Spence

Scilla Andreen

Marti Post

Kathryn Farmer

Youth Mental Health Crisis

Featuring: Chris Hyams, CEO Indeed; Moderated by Ellen McGirt, Senior Editor Fortune
 As the Great Resignation continues, businesses are rethinking their hiring processes and what it takes to attract talent. In parallel, technology and automation are evolving which in turn is driving the need for greater adaptability among people and employers. Indeed CEO Chris Hyams will offer perspective on the following topics:
 Key Takeaways: 1. The state of the current job market 2. What research shows about the state of talent pools in the future 3. Why businesses need to focus on greater access to opportunity for all

Agenda

Speakers.css-1453wb6{margin:0;font-size:1.4rem;font-weight:500;line-height:1.5;color:#333333;font-family:'Poppins',sans-serif;margin-left:0.8rem;}39 Speakers

Eugene Sepulveda

Josh Jones-Dilworth

Savannah Barker - Host

Cynt Marshall

Brooke Weddle, Ph.D

Bill Schaninger, Ph.D

Andrea Alexander

Seth Patton

Vetri Vellore

Carin Taylor

Cate Prescott

Elsa Zambrano

Chris Gagnon

John Parsons

Chris Siemer

Sebastian Rodriguez Alvarez

Tom Meredith

Nicole Brennig

Professor Craig Watkins

Albert Swantner

Raj Patel, PhD