By Rod Jones, Consultant at Rod Jones Contact Centre Consulting “Customer engagement is more than a...
The future of Customer Engagement isn’t just exciting - it’s revolutionary. We’re on the brink of a seismic shift that will redefine how businesses connect with their customers.
We are thrilled to announce that the Customer Engagement Summit is moving to Evolution, London. This state of the art venue offers a single floor exhibition featuring six specialised topic stages and a main stage, with the latest AV technology bringing case study presentations to life. Primed for unparalleled networking opportunities and offering exhibitors a choice of turnkey solutions and branding options, this is a launchpad for thought leadership and business..
In-Person Conference
Evolution, Battersea, London
Thursday 9th October 2025
WORLD CLASS CASE STUDIES FROM LEADING COMPANIES DRIVING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
#1 CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT CONFERENCE
Engaged customers aren’t just satisfied, they’re supercharged. According to Gallup, this delivers a jaw-dropping 23% boost in wallet share, profits, revenue, and relationship growth.
Increased competition and advances in technology have reduced barriers to entry and motivated firms to adopt new strategies to build a deeper level of engagement with their customers.
This isn’t just an improvement, it’s a leap into a customer centric future.
2025 summit at a glance
ATTENDEES
SPEAKERS
SPONSORS
MEETINGS
Featured Speakers
Marco Merkx
IKEA Global Customer Engagement Development LeaderOver 25 years of experience in marketing management and strategy, e-commerce , digital marketing and customer relationship management both in operational and in strategical management roles for mainly fashion, food and lifestyle consumer brands and retailers. On national and international level, in organizations varying from start-ups to multinational corporations.
My professional purpose is to support companies with transformation, innovation and development of organization design, technology and customer engagement. Always based on customer data and insights, leading to tangible results and growth. Specifically realizing customer centricity, digital transformation and omni channel proposition development are my fields of expertise. For this, my commercial and technical know-how are as much of value and importance as are my creativity and my sensitivity towards the human, cultural and organizational aspects.
Currently working for Inter IKEA Systems, the owner and developer of the IKEA concept, range and brand, as Global Customer Engagement Development Leader, working on topics as engagement, loyalty, personalization and crm in an omni channel context.
Nicky Haddow
Victoria’s Secret UK Head of MarketingI am an enthusiastic Marketing Expert that is passionate about delivering integrated & impactful 360 marketing propositions & campaigns that are not only Brand & Customer focused but commercially driven & data led. With 20+ years experience in Fashion & Apparel omni channel retailing, I love developing marketing strategies that perfectly align with the overall business objectives and market relevance, whilst driving innovation and retaining brand integrity.
Livia Fekiacova
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Enterprise Marketing CRM LeadBefore her current role, Livia provided consultancy and led the strategic development of lifecycle programs, award-winning campaigns, and both national and international CRM transformation projects. Her expertise spans customer-led strategy design and execution, as well as product development. Her client portfolio includes retail, FMCG, hospitality, tech and beauty. With over 13 years of experience integrating marketing and technology, her specialization and passion lie in CRM, loyalty programs, and data-driven strategies.
Livia’s background also includes experience in sales, digital media, magazine & print advertising, direct mail, radio, and OOO advertising.
Livia holds a Master of Science in Marketing and later served as a panel member at her university, contributing to the curriculum to keep it aligned with business trends for six years. Additionally, she has been actively sponsoring children in need in Africa for the past 20 years, a cause she deeply values.
“The information was great and enabled a better understanding of some topics that can often be hard to digest. The different sectors/speakers gave a wider perception on what was happening in both the public and private sectors and showcased many of the efforts taken to improve CX.”Digital Journey Manager,, Vodafone Group
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Contact centres are evolving rapidly, embracing digital solutions to meet customer demands for swift, efficient service. AI, chatbots, and cloud technologies are revolutionising customer interactions, offering personalised, round the-clock support. Register now to find out how these advancements are reshaping customer experience and operational efficiency in the digital age.
Event Partners
Over the past decade we have helped some of the world’s biggest brands engage with their target customers on a deeply emotional level, helping them forge relationships and new business connections.
Opportunities include speaker sponsor packages providing prime presentation slots on a topic stage and seminar stream of your choice, representation on panel debates, sponsored roundtable focus group opportunities and more.
PARTNERS INCLUDE
Our business is people-driven – we continue to use their feedback to develop our culture and shape the future for them, our customers, and the wider planet. Our culture drives meaningful change by giving employees a voice and building a robust and accountable approach to how we engage with them.
At its core, our fundamental purpose is to build customer loyalty for some of the world’s biggest brands and UK public sector organisations. We work with our clients to redesign the customer experience they deliver, to achieve better outcomes for their business, and ours.
Our innovative solutions are rooted in global customer data and tested to ensure our partners' continued success. From advanced APIs to next-gen payment technology, BHN empowers brands to reimagine consumer interactions as positive engagements.
CallMiner is the global leader in conversation intelligence to drive business performance improvement. CallMiner delivers the industry’s most comprehensive platform to analyse omnichannel customer interactions at scale, combining deep domain expertise with cutting edge AI technology and machine learning. By connecting the dots between insights and action, CallMiner enables companies to identify areas of opportunity to drive business improvement, growth and transformational change more effectively than ever before. CallMiner is trusted by the world’s leading organisations across all major verticals including technology, media and telecom (TMT), retail, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and travel and hospitality. To learn more, visit CallMiner.com.
Say hello to Caplena.com, your customer feedback sidekick! Using Augmented Intelligence, we turn mountains of data into valuable insights in minutes with our innovative Augmented Intelligence technology. Say goodbye to manual categorization and hello to deep, meaningful insights.
Companies like eBay, DHL, Lufthansa, and Miro trust us to help them understand their customers and drive success. And, because we believe in the power of storytelling, we make it easy for you to visualize and present your findings in a way that truly showcases the impact of your customer insights.
Join the ranks of successful companies and try Caplena today - the text analysis tool for your customer feedback..
For more information visit: www.caplena.com
At Columbus, we can help you strategically create the ideal experiences. One that can anticipate and exceed customer expectations. One that remains consistent throughout their customer journey. One that they’ll remember. We’ve been helping companies of different sizes and industries revamp their CX and boost engagement for over 30 years. And we’re ready to help yours.
The Coveo platform is certified ISO 27001, HIPAA compliant, SOC2 compliant, and 99.999% SLA resilient. We are a Salesforce Summit ISV Partner, an SAPⓇ Endorsed App, and an Adobe Gold Partner.
Coveo is a trademark of Coveo Solutions Inc.
Davies Hickman are an independent market research consultancy with expert knowledge in customer experience management and innovation. Transform your business into a customer engagement powerhouse using our free step-by-step VEVE framework. To find out more visit: www.davieshickman.com
Designed with total flexibility and enhanced with AI, Deskpro intuitively adapts to your business’s unique needs. Deskpro's flexibility extends to hosting options, allowing you to choose between our Cloud, your Cloud, or an On-Premise solution.
With state-of-the-art AI-driven segmentation, insightful behavioural analysis, and real-time data tracking, D•engage elevates customer experiences, boosts conversions, and forges unwavering loyalty. Get ready to supercharge your marketing strategies and captivate like never before!
A business strategy to deliver on our ambitions
dotdigital Group plc is a leading provider of email marketing and omnichannel SaaS technology to empower digital marketing professionals. Our marketing automation platform is used by over 70,000 marketers in 156 countries worldwide, empowering global marketers to achieve outstanding results with superior tools and services.
Digital excellence has always been at the core of our business. Founded in 1999 as a web design agency, dotdigital has developed a globally compelling product suite. Our commitment to platform innovation and international growth makes it easy for serious marketers to start small, and scale quickly.
Emarsys, an SAP company, is the omnichannel customer engagement platform that empowers marketers to build, launch, and scale AI-powered personalized, omnichannel engagements that deliver business outcomes.
Emarsys is purpose-built to give more power to marketers so they can:
- Accelerate time to value by quickly onboarding data and channels to deploy cross-channel campaigns
- Deliver real-time, 1:1 personalization that builds trusted, loyal and lasting customer relationships with every interaction
- Succeed with proven guidance to make smart, quick decisions with data-driven insights and analytics
- Produce measurable results that drive predictable and profitable growth throughout the customer lifecycle
The SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement Platform is trusted by leading brands and innovative marketers across the globe including Nike, Samsonite, Wella, Aldo, Pizza Hut, Puma, SHEIN and Levi’s to engage, activate and retain customers.
Front is the modern customer service platform that helps companies delight their customers, engage their teams, and build stronger businesses. We’ve reimagined the help desk for real-time team collaboration across every customer communication channel, then powered it all up with AI and automation to resolve issues and help teams work faster. Customers get exceptional service whether they’re looking for a simple, instant answer, or personalized help on their most complex issues — and you get the analytics and insights your business needs to optimize your customer experience. Over 8,500 businesses of all shapes and sizes, from ClickUp to Branch Insurance, Echo Global Logistics to Reed & Mackay rely on Front to deliver game-changing service that wins and retains customers for life. To learn more, visit www.front.com.
Foundever™ is a global leader in the customer experience (CX) industry. With 170,000 associates across the globe, we’re the team behind the best experiences for +750 of the world’s leading and digital-first brands. Our innovative CX solutions, technology and expertise are designed to support operational needs for our clients and deliver a seamless experience to customers in the moments that matter. Supporting +9 million customer conversations every day in +60 languages across 45 countries, Foundever combines global strength and scale with the agile, entrepreneurial approach of our founder-led culture, enabling companies of all sizes and industries to transform their CX.
Take your CX to new heights with Fullview. Halve support times and optimize customer interactions by guiding users live in your product with screen control. Our cutting-edge cobrowsing and screen-sharing technology is designed for effortless integration and ease of use, embedding directly into your product with just a few clicks. Fullview also seamlessly synchronizes with leading support platforms like Intercom and Zendesk, making it simple to initiate cobrowsing sessions from the systems you already use to engage with customers.
Founded in 2005, Inbenta has been at the forefront of helping companies optimize customer experience using Conversational AI. Inbenta’s Conversational AI platform improves customer experience by resolving user questions and tasks automatically, in a way that feels personal. Using a proprietary set of Conversational AI tools, Inbenta’s services excel at understanding language and the true intent and meaning behind user inquiries and responding accurately. Importantly, Inbenta’s Conversational AI platform prioritizes safety and compliance as a key measure of its success. Today, Inbenta offers Chat, Search, Knowledge, Assist and Learn services that are used by over 1,000 companies globally in over 100 languages.
As the pace-setters in applying award-winning AI, its global clients activate every byte of their experience data—from structured surveys and social reviews to unstructured conversations from call logs, emails, support tickets, and chat transcripts to break down data silos. Analysts call out InMoment’s unique technology combined with in-house industry experts that empower brands to gain ROI from their CX programmes in half the time as its competitors. Unlock the true potential of every piece of customer data with InMoment.
At Ipsos, we are passionately curious about Society, Markets and People. “Game Changers” – our tagline – summarises our ambition: to provide true understanding and make our changing world easier to navigate, so that our clients can make faster, smarter and bolder decisions.
IPI sets itself apart by offering innovative, tailored contact centre solutions with Genesys, Avaya and Calabrio plus our own ElasticCX CCaaS platform. Built to be flexible and scalable, ElasticCX adapts seamlessly to your organisation’s needs, whether enhancing customer experiences or ensuring operational resilience. Unlike one-size-fits-all solutions, ElasticCX supports custom workflows, empowering teams with intuitive tools, real-time analytics, and AI-driven insights that boost efficiency and service quality.
IPI also delivers robust connectivity solutions, including SIP and NGN services, designed to unify communications and improve reliability. Our connectivity ensures that your systems run smoothly, with fewer disruptions and superior call quality, backed by IPI’s dedicated support.
With our expertise, clients achieve superior customer interactions, operational efficiency, and a technology edge that fuels growth. We combine decades of industry knowledge with leading-edge tools, allowing your organisation to focus on what matters: delivering exceptional customer service and driving success.
With a team across Oceania, Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, and Africa, Local Measure's clientele includes the world's largest travel, hospitality, retail, financial services, and telecommunications businesses.
Awards won include Best New Technology Solution at the ICMI Awards, AWS Software Partner of The Year, and AWS Marketplace-APJ Partner of the Year.
For more information about Local Measure and its innovative customer service solutions, please visit www.localmeasure.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
With over 450 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world, Magnolia is the business-ready composable Digital Experience Platform of choice for leading companies around the world, including American Express, JetBlue, The New York Times, CNN, Sanofi, Sainsbury’s, Generali, and Ping An.
Medallia is the pioneer and market leader in customer, employee, citizen, and patient experience. As the No. 1 enterprise experience platform, Medallia Experience Cloud is the experience system of record that makes all other applications customer and employee aware. The platform captures billions of experience signals across interactions including all voice, video, digital, IoT, social media, and corporate-messaging tools. Medallia uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to automatically reveal predictive insights that drive powerful business actions and outcomes. Medallia customers reduce churn, turn detractors into promoters and buyers, create in-the-moment cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, and drive revenue-impacting business decisions, providing clear and potent returns on investment.
We supercharge our agents with our tech to reduce your costs and increase customer satisfaction through a very flexible and scalable approach. The service is available 24/7, supports all channels (chat, email, phone and social media) and is 100% flexible both in terms of coverage and tickets typology. We cover all European languages.
For more information visit: www.onepilot.co
Speed, agility, and scalability are the paradigms of software development and are at the centre of the PRODYNA approach. PRODYNA has led large scale digital transformations with a focus on User and Customer experience to deliver highly scaleable and innovative software.
We pride ourselves on offering a secure, user-friendly platform. SmartSurvey is ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus accredited, ensuring that all data is safely stored and compliant with GDPR regulations. Unlike many competitors, we offer transparent, predictable pricing with no additional costs based on response volumes—whether you receive 1,000 or 1,000,000 responses, your cost remains the same.
Trusted by global brands, SmartSurvey’s award-winning platform delivers the tools and insights you need to optimise customer experience and build lasting relationships.
The Foundation is an award-winning independent consultancy. For over 25 years we have helped brands and businesses get closer to their customers and understand how they can pioneer on their behalf to build the foundations of sustained success.
We give organisations the vision, ideas, system, and behaviours to create compelling experiences that earn more customer decisions in their favour.
• Strategy • Innovation • Capability
Verint is “The Customer Engagement Company.” We help organisations simplify and modernise the way they engage customers through their contact centre, branch, back office and marketing departments. Our market-leading broad portfolio of cloud and hybrid solutions is designed with the latest artificial intelligence and advanced analytics technologies to deliver greater automation and shared intelligence that drives real business impact. Verint is your partner to make customer engagement a strategic advantage and a strong competitive differentiator for your organisation.
Privately held and profitable with over 15k employees, Zoho is headquartered in Chennai, India with European offices in The Netherlands, UK, France, Germany, Spain, and many others worldwide.
Zoho strictly respects user privacy and has no ad-revenue model. Over 100 million users globally use Zoho to run their businesses, including Zoho.
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