October 27 - October 28, 2025
Senior Producer at BASIC/DEPT
Robyn Birkedal
Robyn is a seasoned digital project manager and producer who champions culture, collaboration, and team motivation while leading enterprise and Fortune 100 projects.
She specializes in digital transformations, brand campaigns, and experience design, creating scalable workflows that empower teams. Find her at robynbirkedal.com or on LinkedIn to talk process, culture, and digital chaos wrangling.
How to Speak Fluent Stakeholder: Bridging the Gap Between Business, Creative, and Engineering
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27
3:30 - 4:20 PM PT
Practical strategies for making communication seamless across disciplines. Digital PMs often act as the bridge between teams, but navigating different ways of thinking can be tough. In this session, Robyn Birkedal shares practical tips to make communication clearer and collaboration easier across business, creative, and engineering. You'll leave with strategies to align teams, reduce friction, and keep projects on track.AI is changing how project managers work, but not in the way you might think. Instead of replacing the human side of the job, it’s creating space for more of it. In this session, Allison Worms shares how embracing AI can actually make us more empathetic leaders. She’ll walk through ways to reduce friction and cognitive load, use AI as a true assistant rather than a replacement, and create more breathing room to energize your team without running yourself into the ground. At its core, this talk is about using AI to reclaim your time so you can better support your team and lead with empathy.
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