Victoria Morgan-Smith, Financial Times

Victoria Morgan-Smith

As technology continues to change at an increasingly rapid pace and tech departments grow ever larger, sending all of your engineers out to conferences and training becomes infeasible.

An internal tech conference can help your organisation grow and evolve such that your teams are equipped with the skills & connections they need to keep up.

Is it time to discover “the power within” your organisation?

Learning outcomes

Attendees will leave this session with practical ideas on how to:

• Build a business case for running an event

• Plan an event

• Prepare the speakers

• Follow up

Audience

Technology leaders - either by title, or by inclination.

How this enables organisational sensing

An internal tech conference is an event run by and for people within a single organisation. It can have a mixture of content types, from talks to panel discussions to workshops and more, but the main objective is to enable learning and new ideas to spread across the company.

A significant side benefit of doing this is that not only do you spread knowledge, but the event also acts as an explicit invitation to all employees to offer challenges to the department, and it can become an enabler for collective improvement and bar-raising. Colleagues are often totally unaware of the knowledge and expertise that surrounds them - particularly in other teams - and getting exposure to that can be really inspiring to them and can trigger all kinds of ripple effects.

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