By Bree Bartos
Marketing Manager & Strategist
Where to Find Local Wisdom This Spring and Summer
Conference season is officially here, and our calendar is packed in the best way.
If you’ve ever left an event with a notebook full of ideas and a group chat full of new comms friends, you know the feeling I’m chasing. These conferences are where we get out of the day-to-day, swap notes with people who truly get internal comms, and come home with practical moves we can actually use.
So, if you want to connect with the Local Wisdom team over the next six months, here’s where we’ll be, what we’ll be talking about, and how to register.
Employee Experience Conference by Advanced Learning Institute (ALI)
Mar 4–6 | Orlando, FL
You’ll hear from our CEO, Pinaki Kathiari, and Amanda Todd, Senior Director of Strategic Communications at Temporal, that’s the platform that manages complex, distributed workflows for companies like Netflix and Salesforce. They’re going to talk about scribbly career paths, and give you the blueprint of how Amanda used the Local Wisdom Internal comms maturity model to create an elevator pitch for leadership and get the resources she needs.
Save 20% with code: SPK030426
Register for the 2026 Employee Experience Conference
Transform 2026 and The EX Factor Summit
Mar 23–25 | Las Vegas, NV
Chuck Gose, founder of the amazing internal comms community, ICology, has introduced a free, add-on to Transform 2026. It’s the EX Factor, and it brings together internal communicators and human resources pros into a pre-conference summit with the goal of workshopping personalized action plans around: leadership and trust, measurement and insight, culture and belonging, change and alignment. Pinaki loves rolling up his sleeves and will join a cast of facilitators to move attendees to action.
Register for Transform 2026 and the EX Factor
The Curious Tribe Global Gathering 2026 (members only)
Apr 21–22 | Barcelona, Spain
Jen Samuel, our new sr. account manager and inaugural member of Joanna Parson’s Curious Tribe Community, is off to Barcelona to join Joanna in the first global gathering of the The Curious Tribe. We can’t wait to see what wisdom comes from this summit.
Modern Intranets for Employee Communications by Advanced Learning Institute (ALI)
May 19–21 | New York, NY
This is one of our favorites. Jen will be attendance and then hosting a gathering with Pinaki, local clients and friends in the industry. Want in? Shoot me a DM on LinkedIn.
Get $500 off with code: LOCALW500
Register for Modern Intranets for Employee Communications (NYC)
IABC World Conference 2026
Jun 14–16 | Toronto, Canada
Pinaki has two sessions at this conference. Pinaki and Chuck Gose will join the stage (believe or not, for the first time presenting together) and talking about the science behind messages that move people to action.
The next day, Pinaki will join global internal communication leader, and fellow DJ, Monique Zytnik, as they draw the analogy between communicators and DJs (you may walk out with a dope playlist).
Register for IABC World Conference 2026
13th Annual Strategic Internal Communications East by Advanced Learning Institute (ALI)
Jul 14–16 | Boston, MA
Alexa Rudin, VP of Communications at Alaska Airlines, joins the stage with Pinaki to talk about the evolution of their internal comms platforms. They walk audiences through utility and measurement, governance and compliance, discoverability, learning, and culture before exploring what comes next (psst it’s AI).
Get $500 off with code: LOCALW500
Register for Strategic Internal Communications – East
A teaser for the next half of the year: BrightSide 2026
We’re also keeping a little excitement in our back pocket for fall: BrightSide in Omaha.
It’s one of those events that’s genuinely fun, genuinely useful, and full of people you’ll want to keep in your corner.
Get updates on tickets and programming:
BrightSide 2026 updates
Join us
If you’re going to any of these, I’d love to know. Send me a quick note on LinkedIn and tell me where we’ll cross paths.
And if you’re deciding which event to prioritize, here’s my suggestion:
- Want broader employee experience strategy? ALI Strategic Internal Comms (Boston)
- Want to meet a wide mix of people leaders and future-of-work thinkers? Transform (Las Vegas)
- Want intranet and digital workplace inspiration? IABC World Conference (Toronto).
See you out there,
Bree Bartos
Marketing Manager, Local Wisdom
