Hi Emilie! At SAP, I helped create a “speakers bureau” which was built with a SharePoint widget (pre-AI, so very manual!). It functioned as a curated list of potential customer speakers, with profiles for each one, including what topics they’d speak on, what types of engagements they were open to, and a photo. All hosted separately from our advocate database, imo it was easier to use because it was specialized for speaking engagements. It gave stakeholders a starting point when they needed a speaker, so they could browse, get a sense of who might be a good fit, and come to me with a much more informed request. It cut down a lot of that early back-and-forth significantly. I'm sure something like this could be built so much more powerfully with AI today. Happy to chat more about it if interested!
