BOSTON, Feb. 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Don’t be surprised to see a giant fuchsia semi trailer truck rumbling down Comm Ave or through Harvard Square next week. It’s part of the Teamwork Across America Tour, a nationwide road trip showcasing innovative collaboration software that promises to disrupt the way we conduct meetings. Here’s what is happening on the Boston leg:
| Who: | Klaxoon Inc., a pioneer in fostering smarter teamwork through more efficient meetings, is conducting a nationwide road trip showcasing its award-winning tools and applications that dramatically improve the way teams work together. The company raised $50 million in funding in 2018 for its expansion and growth. As part of the Boston tour stop, Klaxoon will also also be recruiting top talent. | |
| Why: | With the average executive typically spending up to 16 years of their work life in meetings, Klaxoon is delivering a breakthrough approach to reducing the time, costs and inefficiencies of corporate confabs. | |
| What: | The hot-pink mobile exhibition is housed within a specially-designed 60-foot branded truck that has been transformed into an interactive experience where visitors will discover ways to improve meeting efficiency. Klaxoon will unveil platform enhancements including an AI feature developed with Microsoft Teams as well as new capabilities such as votes, gamified challenges, quizzes, visualization tools, word clouds, surveys, information capsules and brainstorm functions that ignite creativity and organize results. | |
| When: | Monday and Tuesday, Feb 11 & 12, 2019 from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm at Fort Point, South Boston | |
| Where: | Fort Point, South Boston Waterfront Parking | |
| How: | Participation is free and open to the public. Register here. | |
“We designed Klaxoon to be as simple, fun and engaging as possible to help drive adoption of advanced technologies and tools to improve meetings and teamwork,” said Matthieu Beucher, founder and CEO of Klaxoon. “The Klaxoon Teamwork Tour is an immersive experience where people can explore, learn and be inspired by the platform and capabilities it enables. In less than 30 minutes, people from any type of company, team size or job type can see how to drastically improve meeting efficiency. We invite everyone to Hop on Board and see what the future of meetings looks like.”
About the Teamwork Tour
Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, The Teamwork Across America Tour will visit various universities, company campuses and financial districts onboarding new users and customers over an 11-week period in 16 different cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Boston, New York, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Lafayette, Houston and Austin.
About Klaxoon
Based in New York, Klaxoon employs more than 200 people. In addition, it operates a showcase Klaxoon Store in the center of Paris. Founded by Matthieu Beucher, Klaxoon was launched in March 2015, and today is used in 120 countries by thousands of teams. Klaxoon is one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. It has been adopted by users in all kinds of organizations, small and middle-sized businesses, universities, NGO and institutions as well as 90% of global actors listed on the CAC 40 stock-exchange index (Schneider, Disneyland, L'Oréal, Accenture, Nestlé, Sealed Air, Verizon, Marriott etc.).
Based on visual management techniques and agile methods, Klaxoon tools have received numerous international awards. Klaxoon R&D teams work on an ongoing basis to build an efficient and comprehensive ecosystem, which fosters interaction and collective intelligence. More information: www.klaxoon.com
Press contacts:
Klaxoon: Anne-Lyse Garcon: annelyse.garcon@klaxoon.com / +33 762 236 217
Wired Island International: Toni Sottak: toni@wiredislandpr.com / +1 408 876 4418
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