Aligning Communications, HR, and IT for Growth in the Next-Gen Workplace
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*Pop Summit is for senior professionals at organizations with 1k+ employees. This is a limited capacity event. Attendance will be confirmed following registration review.
When Communications, HR, and IT operate in separate lanes, they unwittingly create a fragmented employee experience at a time of historic disconnect. It creates lack of clarity, unnecessary hurdles, and stifles performance.
As we enter an AI-driven, next-gen workplace, this is the cost of misalignment:
But this moment also presents a real opportunity to work differently and cohesively, to start building the experience people expect and the performance they need.
Join us at Pop Summit New York to explore The New Convergence: How Communications, HR, and IT can shape a next-gen workplace ready for what's ahead.
David Grossman
Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group
Keynote Speaker
David uses data-driven strategies and new Harris Poll research to align leadership intent with employee experience, closing the gap between good intentions and real impact.
Kerri Warner
Head of Employee Communications, Culture, Engagement, & Community Impact, PayPal
From Mastercard to Spotify to PayPal, Kerri has made employee comms a boardroom-level business driver. She puts wellbeing where it belongs at the heart of organizational performance.
Theresa Hamilton
Director Internal Communications
Thomson Reuters
Theresa has spent 25 years influencing Fortune 15 boardrooms. At Thomson Reuters, she partners with the People Leadership Team, delivering exceptional employee experience that drives business results.
Mark Brandau
VP, Employee Experience Product Marketing
Poppulo
Mark has built his career scaling enterprise software brands. At Poppulo, he brings deep expertise in growth strategy and AI-driven GTM to transforming employee experience for global enterprises.
Dana Schmidt
Senior VP, Employee Experience Global Sales
Poppulo
With over 20 years of enterprise experience, Dana brings strategic leadership and a relentless focus on customer outcomes, helping turn their business goals into measurable value.
Hear how leading organizations are rethinking communications, alignment, and activation at scale, what's working, what isn't, and what they'd do differently.
Learn how a communications-led approach creates cohesion at scale, transforming silos into shared understanding and a more connected employee experience.
Explore moving beyond traditional engagement to drive clarity, alignment, and activation, to turn every interaction into a catalyst for performance and growth.
Agentic AI exposes every gap. Discover how communications-driven cohesion turns fragmentation into activation.
Build meaningful connections with senior leaders driving transformation, exchange ideas and be part of the conversations that co-create the future of work.
Walk away with fresh perspectives and practical insights to help bridge the gap between strategy and execution, so your organization moves with the speed and confidence that's needed today.
12 May, 2026
9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Pop Summit is for senior professionals at organizations with 1k+ employees. Registrations will be reviewed to ensure the event is the right fit, and attendance will be confirmed following review.
