Creating industry-leading technology requires full stack, motivated teams who have the tools and support to take innovative risks.

Creating that culture is a huge part of what I do.

Celebrating innovation helps it spread. Organizing events that encourage continuous learning help all of our teams network, connect, and learn with each other.

Over 2 years, I’ve led and organized 3 major events of this nature (NDA) from the ideation to execution to retrospective. The first time around we scrambled, but we got it done. We received some great feedback from attendees that used for the next time! More preparation time gave us more opportunities to generate the hype, create a strategic communication plan, and really think through which teams to feature.

We thought of fun ways to communicate highly detailed, sometimes confusing, technical content. We contracted with a graphic recording company to create storyboarded visuals and it became attendee’s favorite part of the event!

Our 3rd event welcomed over twice the number of attendees! We tweaked our communication plan with more content variety and purchased branded swag, raffle prizes, and takeaways.

One of my favorite projects for this event is meeting with each featured team to create a detailed booklet about all of the cool initiatives! This year’s booklet featured 11 teams and was 28 pages. Learning about what our people are working on makes me excited for the future of tech.

I’m really looking forward to the next time around. We have a long list of things that went well and an even longer list of new ideas!

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