NOBL · Virtual conference · March 2020
Change@Work.
A daylong virtual gathering on leadership, resilience and remote work, produced as organizations faced an abrupt shift in how they worked.
Conference Production & Virtual Events

The brief
A sudden shift.
A shared response.
- Host
- NOBL
- Date
- March 24, 2020
- Format
- Fully virtual · Daylong
- Scope
- Technical framework & live production
As offices moved online and conferences were canceled, NOBL convened a virtual event addressing the changing nature of work.
Three tracks explored leading through uncertainty, remote work and resilience. Speakers represented organizations including The New York Times, Netflix, IBM and Intel.
MGKcreative developed the technical framework and coordinated speakers, production and live execution across the remote format.
MGKcreative’s contribution
Build the framework.
Deliver the day.
Technical production for a fully virtual conference, connecting the speakers and live program during the early weeks of the global shutdown.
- 01 / TECHNICAL FRAMEWORK
Establish the remote format
Developed the technical framework for the virtual conference.
- 02 / SPEAKER COORDINATION
Connect the contributors
Coordinated speakers and production across the remote setting.
- 03 / LIVE EXECUTION
Run the daylong program
Coordinated live execution throughout the conference.
Selected sessions from the archive
Ideas for a
changing workplace.
Behind the Scenes of “The Daily”
Theo Balcomb · The New York Times
Leading a news team through uncertainty and the transition to remote work.
Explore the session & transcript ↗attendees
sessions
business days to plan & execute
Event-wide figures reported by NOBL. The nine-day window refers to the overall team’s planning and execution.
The published program
Explore Change@Work.
NOBL’s recap brings the conference sessions together in one archive.
Sources & image credits
MGKcreative’s technical production role and the March 24 event date follow the existing project page. Attendance, session count, program tracks and planning window are cross-referenced against NOBL’s March 30, 2020 conference recap, linked above.
The conference artwork is sourced from that official recap. It illustrates the event and is not attributed to MGKcreative as design work. Publication permission for the artwork remains to be confirmed.
The selected sessions and speakers come from NOBL’s published program and session transcripts. Organizations are identified as speaker affiliations at the time of the event. The event-wide figures describe the conference, not results independently attributable to MGKcreative.
