Digital Workplace Conference Brussels

One Intranet, 18+ Countries: Turning Cultural, Linguistic and Gender Diversity into Belonging and Business Alignment

How do you create shared values across 18 countries, 50 nationalities and more than 1,000 languages and dialects? This session looks at how internal communication can foster alignment, engagement and inclusion in a highly diverse, traditionally male-dominated sector.

Alfiya Karimova, SMT Africa

Allianz Connect: Building a Modern Intranet for a Global Workforce

How do you create an intranet that truly connects a global organization, supports daily work, and strengthens company culture at the same time? In this session, Michael Wegscheider will share insights from Allianz’s journey with Allianz Connect, the company’s intranet designed to serve as a central digital workplace for employees across markets, functions, and regions.

By incorporating tools such as Engage and Copilot, Allianz Connect goes beyond the traditional intranet model and evolves into a modern employee experience platform that supports communication, knowledge sharing, and AI-powered assistance in everyday work.

Michael Wegscheider, Allianz

Proving the Value of the Digital Workplace

Our digital workplace increasingly feels like an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant: we have dozens of different applications and hundreds of messages a day, and by the end of the workday our colleagues are completely stuffed.

Employees switch between tools up to 1,200 times a day, and now spend more time on “work about work” than on their actual tasks.

In this session, Christiaan W. Lustig addresses information overload and the steady growth of the digital landscape. He will walk you through various suitable (and less suitable) solutions to these challenges.

In doing so, he draws on his experience with dozens of healthcare, education, and nonprofit organizations, and on his knowledge and experience in the field of digital employee experience (DEX).

In this session you will learn:

How to critically assess the overabundance of applications and information in your digital workplace.
What price your colleagues pay for this information overload and app bloat.
How the principles of digital employee experience help to curb these developments.

Christiaan W. Lustig has been active in the field of internal digital communication, collaboration, and service for more than 15 years. He regularly publishes and speaks about intranet, the digital workplace, and digital employee experience on national and international stages. He is co-author of the world’s first book on DEX.

Christiaan Lustig

Alliander: Combining data and user feedback to create a more personalized intranet

Jelle Kouwenhoven shows how combining data and real user feedback leads to a more personalized and continuously evolved experience. You will leave with practical ideas for turning insights into concrete improvements for your digital workplace.

Jelle Kouwenhoven, Alliander