Crucial conversations:
The role of technology in building an engaged and collaborative workforce

Global Partners

Kontiki is the leading software-as-a-service provider of Enterprise Video Communications to many of the world's largest companies in the financial services, retail, technology, telecommunications and manufacturing sectors.

Kontiki's Enterprise Video Platform delivers business video everyday to millions of global workers to enable organisations to reach, engage, and align all employees worldwide with the most effective medium available - video. Kontiki securely delivers this video while running across existing network infrastructure. Kontiki's unique, software-based networking technology hands organisations live video webcasting, video on-demand, and social video offerings without deploying any networking or caching hardware.

Contact: Greg Holt • +44 (0)78 1283 4837 • gholt@kontiki.com • www.kontiki.com

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Annual Partners

IML help organisations generate more value from live events and meetings through the use of technology.

You'll have had the chance to experience our interactive tools in action at last week's event - if you'd like to find out more about how to engage your audiences and how to harness their collective intelligence through opinion and thought gathering, please get in touch using the details below.

Contact: Rob Curtis • +44 (0)75 0087 1003 • Rob.curtis@imlworldwide.com • www.iml.co.uk

Speakeasy produces award winning films, events and digital communications for some of the UK's largest corporate clients, including Lloyds Banking Group, BAE Systems, RBS Group, Ladbrokes, Scottish Government, the NHS and Food Standards Agency.

We offer an experienced in-house team of producers, production managers, editors, designers and programmers, supplemented by the UK's best freelance writers, directors, technicians and events specialists. Between our London and Perth production offices we offer 10 edit suites, and comprehensive design, programming and encoding faciltities.

We produce films for internal communication, training and promotional purposes, as well as live and on-demand webcasts, audio podcasts and user generated content. Events include conferences, award ceremonies, exhibitions and roadshows, and we provide a full end to end service from conception and design through to delegate management, logistics, AV and software development.

Contact: Jonathan Young • +44 (0)20 7836 0866 • jonathan@speak.co.uk • www.speak.co.uk

The Storytellers make change happen by using storytelling and narrative techniques to connect people rationally and emotionally to the journey the business is on.

Our practical, action-oriented programme starts by bringing strategy, vision and values to life as a simple, clear, human and compelling narrative. We help managers to become inspiring leaders, able to engage their teams in the Story in a personal and authentic way so they understand and believe in the benefits that change will bring for them, and the personal role they can play. Involvement, dialogue and ownership form the principles of the team conversations that will keep the Story alive, turning ideas for better ways of working into stories of success.

We have made change happen for dozens of large organisations all over the world. The results are tangible and nothing short of remarkable.

Contact: Alison Esse • +44 (0)20 7590 5440 • alison.esse@the-storytellers.com • www.the-storytellers.com

Top Banana specialise in global leadership and management events.

Top Banana works with companies at times of change, challenge and growth. Whether this is communicating new vision and values, introducing a change in leadership or bringing a global team together to maintain focus on strategy, engaging the audience emotionally with the message is essential to the success of any live event.

With a portfolio of leading international brands including Bentley, Brandhouse, Bombay Sapphire and Moet Hennessy, the company creates live events that build emotional engagement with an organisation's strategy. Working closely with internal communications teams, we deliver stunning live events across the globe, to help bring about behavioural change in an organisation.

Emotionally engaged staff deliver with energy, understanding and commitment, which in turn leads to greater productivity and improved talent retention. If you're interested in finding out how we can help you deliver a live event that engages your team emotionally with your strategy, give us a call.

Contact: Mags Slevin • +44 (0)15 6270 0404 • mags@top-b.com • www.top-b.com

We had a great experience and good conversations at Melcrum's Digital Communication Summit last week.

And by the way - the lucky winner of our prize draw was Alexandra Osborne from British American Tobacco - congratulations on a new iPad 3!

For those of you who were unable to visit us at our stand please make sure you reach out to us on emea@yammer-inc.com or visit our website where you'll find some more information on use cases for communication professionals.

Improve your communication strategy from the inside out
Enterprise Social Networking is a key part of the digital workplace. Tools such as Yammer are changing the way organisations communicate - enabling employees to connect with each other across organisational structures and locations in ways which weren't previously possible - delivering significant benefits to areas as diverse as corporate communications, marketing, R&D, IT and sales.

Sign-up to Yammer today at www.yammer.com and experience the benefits straight away.

Contact: Angelika Kempf • akempf@yammer-inc.com • www.yammer.com