Name: Building an effective meeting culture: Should you have meeting free days?
Start: 2021-05-26T08:56:00Z
End: 2021-05-26T08:56:46.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

The DTX 360 channel showcases the technologies that enable digital transformation and unified communications, with a focus on those your business needs right now. 

Covering everything from cyber security and AI to the contact centre and the future of the office, this content will provide answers to the burning questions your organisation has as you start to shape your 2021 strategy and prepare for the new future of work.

Recent conversation in the media reignited the push to return to the office, with some political figures believing that workers must go back to their desks if they want to get on in their careers. But the world that once was is now long gone. Businesses know that they are capable of thriving wherever employees are working from, and employees don’t need to be in the office to get ahead. 
 
It was technology that allowed us to work remotely and remain connected to one another during the biggest workplace experiment in history. And it will be technology that helps companies and their workers in a hybrid world. But how do you get the most out of such technologies? How will organisations use tech to ensure equality of experience between employees in the office and employees at home?
 
Join RingCentral for this 30 minute fireside chat with Jonathan Freedman, Chief Information Security & Technology Officer at law firm Howard Kennedy. The session will cover how the collaboration tools we use today can open up possibilities for organisations in the future.

Why collaboration tools must be at the centre of your hybrid work plan

In this 30 minute DTX Talk you will learn about the vital role of data during the pandemic across the NHS, from vaccines, to testing and clinical care. This is a case study on how a crisis allowed for a rapid transformation to a data led organisation. These lessons can be applied to your organisation and you’ll hear from these leaders on how to future proof your data analytics strategy, allowing you to predict and prepare for future shocks, while ensuring your organisation remains agile. 
 
Organisations are only now realising the critical importance of data and beginning to make long term investments, but what should your data analytics strategy be over the next 5 years? Where should you invest? Join Ming Tang and Ian Conduit in this session to tackle these topics and more.

•	How did the rapid use of data create actionable insights during the pandemic?
•	How can you ensure data sharing is interoperable between teams and departments?
•	How can you best future proof your data analytics strategy?

Effectively using data for rapid business transformation

After waves of disruption, companies need to be able to move quickly and smartly to take advantage of market changes. This has led to greater pressure than ever on IT teams to deliver reliable solutions while battling increasing complexity. 

For companies driven to be digital, the success of transformation now hinges on IT Operations Management. If IT teams want to move operations forward and improve efficiency, they need to know where to begin. 

Join a fireside chat between Bill Fitzpatrick, CEO and Chairman of Loop1 and Sascha Giese, Head Geek at SolarWinds to:
•	Uncover how to assess your digital delivery and ITOM maturity
•	Find out how to identify key areas for improvement and development 
•	Discover how to break down tech silos to better align your team, tools and processes

How to boost your ITOM maturity in just 40 minutes

As both data and cybercrime continue to grow exponentially, modern data management is more important than ever to eliminate mass data fragmentation and mitigate business risks. However, selecting the right data management solution can be challenging, especially for projects with multiple use cases—backup & recovery, file and object services, disaster recovery, ransomware protection—in the face of tight budgets and headcounts.

Join us for a virtual fireside chat with Arnold Clark, a leading U.K. auto retailer, and discover effective data protection and recovery strategies for securing the future of your business with Cisco and Cohesity.

●	Data backup: your last line of defence against catastrophic business impacts
●	Examining how to create an effective data protection strategy
●	Why should ransomware protection be your central consideration?
●	Safeguarding backups against ransomware attacks
●	Data management case study: What Arnold Clark has done well and how?

Last line of defence: Effective data backup to transform your business

- Staff opinion versus business needs: what should come first?
- What culture and policies should your organisation adopt for a hybrid workforce?
- How to utilise technology to ensure those at home don't feel 'left out'

Managing multi-modal: Effective collaboration between remote and in-office teams

- To what extent will security be an issue when some teams are at home and some in the office?
- How can you mitigate upcoming security risks?
- The importance of designing a security culture within your organisation to keep communications secure

Securing your UC systems for multi-modal work

- Never overlook the basics: Stop opening the back door for attackers
- Increased automation: How to use integrated system intelligence to overcome legacy IT silos
- Creating a continuous, connected security loop to deliver trusted customer experiences

The work never stops: Why you need to focus on continuous cyber improvement

- Understanding your core network priorities: Do you want to minimise disruption or increase innovation? 
- What are the fundamental fixes you can't ignore? Are you at risk of downtime? How much monitoring can you automate? 
- Are you ready for a cloud enabled enterprise? What will it take to get you there?

Stability, agility or growth: Where do you need to invest next in your network?

- What are the psychological dynamics of cybersecurity? How to stop your people from being caught out
- Understand why people are still not reporting security incidents
- Zero trust: What safeguards do you have in place to protect your enterprise?

The human element: Know your people to know your risks

- What role does cyber have to play in wider transformation plans: How can security be embedded as a key consideration 
- Creating lasting resilience: What is the security vision for 2022 and beyond? 
- How can IT and cyber leaders create and support cyber teams of the future?

Setting the strategic direction for cyber security: What are your drivers?

- Choosing the right focus: Does your plan create value in the near and long-term?
- Overcoming obstacles: What blocked are holding you back? How to drive employee adoption and education?
- In the room where it happens: How to bring the key players in your enterprise together on issues, big and small

Mission control: Staying true to a digital vision at speed

- How should the office setup and tech be designed for the return to work?
- Huddle spaces versus large collaboration areas: What is the right strategy?
- Moving to a bring your own device culture: To what extent is this realistic?
- Predicting employee habits when they return to the office: Work vs meetings, what's the top priority on the agenda?

Designing meeting rooms and offices for your future workforce

Hybrid work isn’t just about choosing where to work or about the technology that makes it happen. It’s about creating a culture that leads with caring and compassion and can unlock human potential — whether employees work in the office or at home.

How can we reimagine the world of communications by breaking down barriers and empowering business across the globe to work as one?

Learn how you can address organizations’ most pressing concerns:      

- Facilitating a safe return to the office      
- Helping IT teams meet the challenges of the new hybrid work model      
- Ensuring remote employees feel included, and have an equal seat at the table      
- Enabling employee well-being, and reducing fatigue and leading with empathy      
- Building a culture that supports compassion and inclusivity.      
- Keeping it secure and scaling it

The Blueprint for Creating Inclusive Hybrid Work

What good is it to provide technology to employees if they won’t or can’t use it? Join us to learn about the brand-new research Poly has undertaken. 

For nearly a decade, Poly have studied workplace personas and how to match work styles and employee behaviours to devices and technologies so that organizations can increase productivity. Poly have conducted proprietary research and surveyed more than 5,000 enterprise workers across eight different countries. 

Their research identified seven distinct user personas found in most organizations and their work styles, technology needs and adoption. Explore how to take a personalized approach, tailor training and the high cost of a one size fits all technology approach. 

•	Increasing productivity: Ensuring your technology works for your employees
•	Survey results from 5000 enterprise workers in 8 countries: What trends are there? 
•	7 Distinct User personas based upon research
•	How to effectively take a personalised approach and match workstyles and employee behaviours to technology

Getting your remote work setup right: A personal approach

- How can businesses adjust to ensure they have strong defensive capabilities by 2022?  
- What can businesses learn from the UK MoD and its creation of a National Cyber Force?  
- How will the future of work change the nature of information security? How can you build a culture to support this?

Catch up on this session from our Tech Predictions Mini Summit, an event primed to help your organisation prepare for rapid digital transformation.

Creating strong defensive capabilities throughout businesses by 2022

- How should managers deliver digital transformation effectively?  
- To what extent can you learn from other organisations? Who has done it well?  
- Designing your digital transformation strategy for a post-pandemic world

Catch up on this session from our Tech Predictions Mini Summit, an event primed to help your organisation prepare for rapid digital transformation.

Delivering digital transformation: How can you get it right?

- How will businesses better use data in 2022 after being driven to be more data-focused during the pandemic? How can you ensure you aren’t left behind?  
- Designing a data strategy for 2022: Ensuring your organisation thrives  
- Data insights in real-time: Ensuring you can react at the right time

Catch up on this session from our Tech Predictions Mini Summit, an event primed to help your organisation prepare for rapid digital transformation.

Advanced data analytics: what will you be able to glean from your data in 2022?

- How should your organisation manage the continued influx of meeting requests during the pandemic?
- How can you ensure those working from home are engaged in meetings with those in the office
- Assessing meeting productivity: How to do it well

Building an effective meeting culture: Should you have meeting free days?

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