Founder & CEO
Soundings Connect
Tracy Judge is the Founder and CEO of Soundings, a talent and workforce solutions company supporting the business events industry. She leads efforts to connect organizations with freelance and full-time professionals while advising clients on agile talent strategies and workforce planning.
Under her leadership, Soundings has grown into a global network of more than 3,800 professionals. Tracy’s work focuses on integrating technology, including AI, into talent strategies and helping organizations adapt to changing workforce needs. She also serves on the CSU AI Workforce Acceleration Board, representing the hospitality and events industry.
Tracy brings over 15 years’ experience across operations, sales and executive leadership within the business events sector and has previously held roles spanning event management and business development. She holds an MA in Hospitality and Tourism from San Diego State University and a BA in Hospitality Management from Drexel University. Tracy is a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) and Certified Incentive Specialist (CIS).
Outside work, Tracy enjoys living by the water and splits her time between beach towns in San Diego and Mexico with her dog, Chooch. She also enjoys traveling to see friends and family and exploring music and art.
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Workforce design shapes how people experience work, build careers, and create value—not just how organizations operate.
As roles shift and AI accelerates change, traditional structures often lag behind how work really happens. Explore why workforce design matters at the individual level and what it takes to better align roles, strengths, and ways of working using insights from the Soundings AI Study and the CSU AI Workforce Acceleration Board.
Learning outcomes:
Explore how workforce design affects individual performance and team effectiveness
Gain insight into how teams are responding to AI‑driven change
Identify practical ways to better align roles, strengths and how work gets done

This 'super session' will offer 75 minutes of discovery, from the latest research on how meeting professionals are using AI to the impacts and innovations we are seeing come forward. You are welcome to join for the time you have available and boldly explore provocative ideas and practical uses of AI. Learn how to lead confidently through complexity and prepare for the future normal, from the co-author of The Future Normal. Bring your questions for this interactive session.
Learning outcomes:
Illustrate our collective challenges
Explore solutions for building an AI enabled future
Determine what you know and what you need to learn to design future events
This session is approved for the following certifications.
* ICCA Skills Domain CICS/CICE: 0.75
* CMP/CEU Approved: Domain K: Technology Integration, 1.25 credits
* CSEP Approved