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2025 Viva Engage Festival

The Viva Engage Festival is on Wednesday, November 12, 2025
all around the world.

Register APAC
Register EMEA
Register AMER
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APAC Speakers

Medibank

  • Employee Change & Communications Business Partner
    Medibank

    How Medibank used Viva Engage to amplify its commitment to mental health

    Join Cat Owen, Employee Change and Communications Partner at Medibank, as she shares how Viva Engage became a powerful platform to bring Medibank’s mental health commitment to life.

    In this session, you’ll discover how Medibank used Viva Engage to spark meaningful conversations, foster connection, and empower employees to be part of the story. Highlights include:

    • CEO-led live stream events that gave employees a first look at external campaigns and created a sense of shared purpose.

    • Tailored storytelling and social content that invited employees to engage with Medibank’s external mental fitness messages in real time.

    • The rise of #familyroast, a national campaign that inspired employees to connect and share personal mental health experiences – turning an external commitment into a top trending internal moment.

    Whether you're exploring ways to deepen employee engagement or want to amplify your organisation’s vision, this session will offer practical insights and inspiration.

Reece Australia

  • Internal Communications Advisor
    Reece Australia

    From launch to lasting impact: Building trust in Reece's transition to Viva Engage

    What does it take to build trust in a new platform? At Reece, we made Viva Engage feel like it was made for our people; by listening, simplifying, and committing to continuous improvement throughout the whole transition journey. Come behind the scenes of our Viva Engage rollout to see how we earned trust in the product, our process, and the team driving it all.

  • Senior Communications, Channels & Content Specialist
    ACC New Zealand

    Making leadership visible, accessible and actively involved

    Just 12 months since formally launching Viva Engage to our organisation, learn about how we’ve got buy in from our Executive Leadership Team, are enabling successful adoption of the platform and providing ongoing support to successfully embed the approach.

    We’ll also share how this is helping to drive wider adoption and foster engagement, with the aim of contributing to an improved organisational culture and performance outcomes.

ACC New Zealand

 

EMEA Speakers

Schneider Electric

  • General Manager, Communications Performance Management
    Schneider Electric

    From Insights to Impact: Building High-Engagement communities through Data, Dialogue and Daily Wins.

    Learning from surveys & taking action: "From Insights to Impact", Open dialogue & empowerment: "Dialogue". Leadership nudges & culture reinforcement: Implied in "Building High-Engagement Communities". Celebrating wins & functional alignment: "Daily Wins".

  • Chief Communications Consultant
    Danske Bank

    Using Viva Engage as a strategic change management platform (case-study)

    Consolidating thousands of employees spread across multiple locations under one roof is a massive change management project. In this session, we’ll hear how one of the biggest banks in Denmark - Danske Bank - used Viva Engage as a platform to communicate with employees, listening and reacting to feedback and celebrate successes.

Danske Bank

Capgemini

  • Head of Group Internal Communications
    Capgemini

    From Chaos to Clarity: How Capgemini is transforming Viva Engage into a strategic communications powerhouse

    In this session we’ll get an inside look at how Capgemini, a global organisation with over 340,000 employees, reimagined its Viva Engage all-company community. What was once a space filled with unstructured, ad-hoc messages is now being transformed into a dynamic, Internal Communications-led channel for strategic information and employee engagement. Discover how this revitalised platform is now delivering real value to employees, fostering alignment, connection, and a stronger sense of community across the Group.

 

AMER Speakers

Nuveen

  • Vice President, Internal Communications
    Nuveen

    Leadership Engagement and Top-Down Communication in Driving Adoption of Viva Engage.

    Topics that will be covered:

    • The importance of leadership engagement in successful platform adoption.

    • Strategies for convincing senior leaders to actively use Viva Engage.

    • A video clip from a senior leader to illustrate real-world impact.

    • Practical examples attendees can apply in their own organisations.

    • Potential co-presentation with colleagues to offer diverse perspectives on adoption and engagement.

Siemens Energy

  • Sr. Communications Manager
    Siemens Energy

    Session details to be announced.

  • Assoc. Consultant, Information & Digital Solutions, Business Capabilities
    Eli Lilly

    Session details to be announced.

Eli Lilly

 

All Region Speakers

SWOOP Analytics
Dr Laurence Lock Lee
Chief Data Scientist

SWOOP Analytics
Sharon Dawson
Director, External Relations & Media

SWOOP Analytics
Cai Kjaer
CEO & co-founder

  • We'll brief you on SWOOP Analytics' 2025/26 Viva Engage Benchmarking Report and show you the good, the bad and the ugly trends of Viva Engage usage, as well as giving you a first-look at a game changing app to help you deal with information overload.

 
 

What is the Viva Engage Festival?

Learn from Viva Engage experts and practitioners and build human connections across the world.

This global event covers the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific for 3 x half-day virtual sessions to showcase organisations that transform employee engagement with Viva Engage.

Mature Viva Engage networks:
Connect with other mature organisations, and take Viva Engage to the next level

Getting started with Viva Engage:
Learn from experienced practitioners and experts to increase speed and avoid bumps

Thinking about launching Viva Engage:
Learn about the ROI and the value proposition of Viva Engage

Agenda and key themes

The Viva Engage Festival will spark new ideas, and you will learn about a wide variety of topics including:

  • Viva Engage as an element in your Employee Engagement strategy

  • Engaging senior leaders

  • Measuring success

Engage and connect with top Viva Engage networks from around the world who will share their learnings and participate in free-flowing discussions. 

Supported by Microsoft and organised by SWOOP Analytics this event will showcase the world’s best Viva Engage networks and awards will be presented to top performing organisations and communities.

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Prepare for high intensity interaction

The Viva Engage Festival complements the lively discussions in the Viva Engage Customer Community. This is your opportunity to strengthen those relationships and build new ones.

We’re running the event as a Microsoft Teams meeting to allow people from different organisations to participate. We aim to make the chat component super active, so many voices can be heard. Speakers are there to prompt conversation in chat. Video on. Chat on. Be prepared to unmute.

All sessions are recorded.

 We’ve heard from customers like you, that you want to connect and learn from the Viva Engage community of customers that exist across the globe. This is a great opportunity to showcase your success and learn from others in the community. We look forward to seeing you all at the festival!

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MURALI SITARAM
CVP Viva Engage, Microsoft

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Re-live previous Viva Engage Festivals

Want to re-live the experience, or missed the event?
Explore content previous festivals:

Re-live Festivals

 

2024 Viva Engage Festival Recordings

  • Australia Post

    Connecting with frontline using Viva Engage Communities

    Watch recording

  • SWOOP Analytics

    Beyond dashboards: How generative AI is shaping the future of analytics for internal communications

    Watch recording

  • Ventia

    Maximising Viva Engage: Top tips for connecting during a period of organisational change

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  • SWOOP Analytics

    Key insights from 2024/25 Viva Engage Benchmarking Report

    Watch recording

  • Tata Steel

    From conversation to transformation

    Watch recording

  • Microsoft

    “Ask-me-anything” about Viva Engage

    Watch recording

  • London Stock Exchange Group

    Preparing for launch: How to set up for Viva Engage success

    Watch recording

  • Places for People

    Making Viva Engage the heart of your internal comms landscape

    Watch recording

  • Arqiva

    Relaunching with purpose!

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  • Vodafone

    Realising our omni-channel vision at Vodafone

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  • Cox Communication

    Awakening Engagement: The Journey of Revitalizing Our Viva

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  • HCSC

    Use Viva Engage to Amplify Business Priorities While Engaging Employees

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