SharePoint Intranet
Festival 2026
Join online in Americas, Europe and APAC on Wednesday 20 May 2026.
Join us for our 2026 SharePoint Festival,
SWOOP Analytics’ flagship global event for intranet and digital workplace professionals
Our festival is built from the conversations we have every day with customers. People who are deep in the work, navigating complexity, cutting through noise and trying to make their intranets genuinely useful. It has always been about sharing real stories and learning from each other.
A taste of what's coming:
APAC: Box Hill Institute on designing SharePoint around people, not org charts. Simple, purposeful, and genuinely useful.
EMEA: Boehringer Ingelheim deleted 4,500 intranet pages. They'll tell you exactly how and why it worked.
AMER: Comcast on rolling out AI agents in a real intranet environment. Not as a demo. The actual thing.
Check out the full speaker lineup and agenda below.
Each session runs live with time for questions, so bring them. If you want to go deeper, join us the following day for a hands-on demo session.
We're also sharing our 2026 SharePoint Benchmarking Report hot off the press, and we have an announcement we think you'll want to be there for!
Meet the 2026 SharePoint Intranet Festival Speakers
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Sian Taylor
Essential Energy
(APAC Session)Small Team, Smarter Intranet: Improving Quality, Findability and Governance
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Rhi Bell
Box Hill Institute
(APAC Session)Designing SharePoint around people, not org charts
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Alister Air
The Bureau of Meteorology
(APAC Session)Telling the story - a view on building support for an intranet
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Robert Thieme
Boehringer Ingelheim
(EMEA Session)Keeping a large global intranet clean, trusted and ready for AI
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Stefan Thormann
Boehringer Ingelheim
(EMEA Session)Keeping a large global intranet clean, trusted and ready for AI
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Tom McIlroy
Sage
(EMEA Session)What happens to internal comms when AI starts writing the news
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Sean Zintl
Sage
(EMEA Session)What happens to internal comms when AI starts writing the news
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Kirsten Culbertson
Comcast
(AMER Session)What actually happens when you roll out AI agents in a real intranet environment
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Kelly Short
Resmed
(AMER Session)An honest look at what a real intranet migration actually involves
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Allyse Denmark
OneDigital
(AMER Session)Working smarter with AI and a SharePoint intranet that holds it all together
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Jarrod Williams
St James's Place
(EMEA Session)Keep, kill, combine: fixing intranet sprawl before AI makes it worse
2026 SharePoint Festival Agenda
APAC
12:00pm to 2:30pm AEST
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SWOOP Analytics welcomes you to the SharePoint Intranet Festival 2026.
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Sian's story is practical and refreshingly honest. A small team, a tight budget, and a determination to build something cleaner, more navigable and more trustworthy. She walks us through how analytics shaped their decisions, from improving search and navigation to introducing approval workflows and experimenting with AI to support content creators.
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Our SWOOP Analytics team shares the highlights from the 2026 SharePoint Benchmarking Report, the largest study of its kind to date. This year's findings cover 410,457 intranet visitors across 253,571 pages and 41 organisations worldwide. The data tells a clear story: intranets have reached near-universal adoption, but employee attention hasn't grown with them. Content quality, readability and governance are now the biggest drivers of performance, and AI readiness is being held back by the same old problem: low-quality content. There's also a special announcement you won't want to miss.
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In this session, Alister shares how the team approached rebuilding trust in an ageing intranet environment through improved findability, cleaner content and better governance.
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Rhi shares how Box Hill Institute created simple, purposeful SharePoint spaces that support real work. Duplication was reduced, content was simplified, and subject matter experts were empowered to keep information current. The session explores what it looks like to design SharePoint around audiences rather than org charts, reduce reliance on email, and take a governed, people-centred approach to AI adoption.
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Join all APAC speakers for an open Q&A.
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Thanks for joining us. We'd love your feedback. Stay tuned for an invitation to our survey and links to the recordings coming your way soon!
EMEA
9:00am to 11:30am GMT
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Welcome to the SharePoint Intranet Festival 2026.
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Managing content quality across a large global intranet is one of the hardest problems in the digital workplace. Stefan and Robert share how Boehringer Ingelheim tackle it head on, combining SWOOP Analytics insights with a strong governance model and an active global editor community. They walk through how they identify clutter and outdated content, support editors with clear standards, and keep people accountable without slowing publishing down. Attendees will leave with a concrete, repeatable approach for lifting content quality at scale, including how to run data-led clean-ups and build an editor community that stays engaged.
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Our SWOOP Analytics team shares the highlights from the 2026 SharePoint Benchmarking Report, the largest study of its kind to date. This year's findings cover 410,457 intranet visitors across 253,571 pages and 41 organisations worldwide. The data tells a clear story: intranets have reached near-universal adoption, but employee attention hasn't grown with them. Content quality, readability and governance are now the biggest drivers of performance, and AI readiness is being held back by the same old problem: low-quality content. There's also a special announcement you won't want to miss.
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St James's Place built a new intranet less than three years ago. It already has over 40,000 pages, duplicated content, broken ownership, and a governance model that hasn't kept pace with how people work.
Jarrod is in the middle of tackling it through a structured "keep, kill, combine" approach to stabilise, redesign and future-proof the estate. He'll be honest about what's working, what's not, and where they're still figuring it out. Because this project is live, and that's exactly what makes it worth hearing about.
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AI can turn a one-pager into a SharePoint news post, a Viva Engage update and a manager email in seconds. For internal communicators, that's not just a process change, it's a career opportunity. Tom walks through a live example of an AI content agent built to handle repeatable content creation tasks, and Sean makes the case that the real opportunity is in owning and governing the content environment that colleagues' AI tools now draw from. A practical session for anyone who wants to understand where the IC role is heading and what to do about it.
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Join all EMEA speakers for an open Q&A.
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Thanks for joining us. We'd love your feedback. Stay tuned for an invitation to our survey and links to the recordings coming your way soon!
Americas
9:00am to 11:30am PST
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Welcome to the SharePoint Intranet Festival 2026.
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AI agents are moving fast from demos to deployment, but in the intranet and digital workplace, the hard part isn't the idea, it's the reality. Integrations take time, and privacy and security constraints shape what's possible. Kirsten shares real-world lessons from rolling out an internal agent experience, what worked, what didn't, and why the biggest value may come from starting with enterprise knowledge before chasing complex task automation. Expect practical pitfalls to plan for and a clear view of what actually drives adoption and value.
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Our SWOOP Analytics team shares the highlights from the 2026 SharePoint Benchmarking Report, the largest study of its kind to date. This year's findings cover 410,457 intranet visitors across 253,571 pages and 41 organisations worldwide. The data tells a clear story: intranets have reached near-universal adoption, but employee attention hasn't grown with them. Content quality, readability and governance are now the biggest drivers of performance, and AI readiness is being held back by the same old problem: low-quality content. There's also a special announcement you won't want to miss.
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Kelly shares a practical, no-holds-barred account of Resmed's intranet migration journey, including what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently next time. The session focuses on real-world learnings, quick wins and tactical tips that others can apply when navigating complex SharePoint migrations of their own.
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AI sits at the heart of OneDigital's growth strategy, and Internal Communications is helping lead the way. Ally and the team are driving adoption of AI tools across the business, sharing clear proof of impact across productivity, client service, revenue, and cost savings, while using AI themselves to streamline workflows, create on-brand content, and measure what matters. And as they embrace what AI makes possible, the communications team is also doubling down on the human skills no technology can replace. Strategic thinking, trust, and storytelling. Because in an AI-driven world, great communication doesn't become less important. It becomes the thing that holds everything together.
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Join all Americas speakers for an open Q&A.
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Thanks for joining us. We'd love your feedback. Stay tuned for an invitation to our survey and links to the recordings coming your way soon!
