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Date
October 12-13, 2026
Comms Camp
Comms Camp is a hands-on workshop for corporate communications teams and the IT partners who support them. Participants bring a real communications challenge and use Viva Engage, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and practical agent workflows to build a reusable communications playbook.
Audience persona: Corporate Communicators, Employee Communications Teams, Community Managers, Change Managers, Employee Experience Leaders, IT Partners
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Location
Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA
Prerequisites
- Access to Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Engage
- Access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, where available
- Openness to hands-on workshop participation
- A real communications scenario, campaign, leader moment, event, or community challenge to work on
You’ll leave with:
- A practical communications plan built around a real scenario
- Copilot prompts and workflows for planning, drafting, and summarizing communications work
- A communicator agent canvas for one repeatable workflow
- A measurement and signal plan to turn employee conversations into next actions
What does the Comms Camp experience look like?
Comms Camp is built around practical communications work – not lectures. Participants use real or sample scenarios to move from a messy communications ask to a usable campaign, community, leader, or event plan.
| Phase | Focus |
|---|---|
| Kickoff and scenario selection | Choose one real communications challenge and define the audience, outcome, risks, and desired employee action. |
| Build the brief | Turn a rough stakeholder ask into a strategic communications brief with Copilot support. |
| Engage activation | Design the right Viva Engage community, leader post, campaign moment, event, or employee prompt. |
| Copilot and agent workflows | Use Copilot to accelerate drafting and design a simple communicator agent canvas. |
| Signals and measurement | Convert employee questions, comments, reactions, and event inputs into themes, actions, and a practical scorecard. |
| Peer showcase | Share the finished playbook, get feedback, and identify what to use next. |
Why participate
- Build for real work – bring a live communications challenge or use a sample scenario.
- Make communications more relevant – move beyond reach to audience needs, context, trust, and action.
- Use AI responsibly – learn where Copilot and agents can help while keeping communicators accountable for final judgment.
- Activate Viva Engage – design leader moments, communities, campaigns, events, and employee conversations.
- Turn signals into strategy – use employee questions and conversation patterns to guide follow-up.
- Leave with reusable assets – take away briefs, prompts, templates, and a playbook you can adapt.
Who can participate
Comms Camp is designed for organizations that want to modernize employee communications with Viva Engage, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and emerging agent patterns.
Multiple people from the same organization can attend together. The ideal group includes both communications owners and technology or adoption partners.
Requirements
- Participants should have access to Microsoft 365 and Viva Engage.
- Copilot access is helpful but not required for every participant. The workshop can support mixed access levels through facilitator demos, sample prompts, shared outputs, and team-based labs.
- Each participant or team should bring a defined communications use case or select from a provided sample scenario.
Frequently asked questions
Product capability is part of the experience, but Comms Camp is focused on communications outcomes. The goal is to build practical assets for campaigns, communities, leader communications, events, and measurement.
The primary audience is corporate communications and employee communications. IT, adoption, change management, and employee experience partners are encouraged to attend because they help make the work operational.
Copilot access is helpful but not required for every participant. The workshop can support mixed access levels through facilitator demos, sample prompts, shared outputs, and team-based labs.
Participants can bring real scenarios, but they should avoid sharing sensitive details in group settings. Sensitive work can be abstracted, or participants can use a sample scenario pack.
Teams can build a communications brief, Engage activation plan, leader post, event or AMA plan, campaign prompt, communicator agent canvas, signal summary, and measurement scorecard.
The format is an in-person workshop hosted in different cities. Some markets may run as a half-day workshop depending on audience, agenda, and local needs.
This event is hosted by the Viva Engage product group. Contact EngageCXP@microsoft.com for questions.
Register for Comms Camp
Join communications professionals from across Microsoft for two days of learning, connection, and inspiration at Comms Camp 2026!
