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Future of Customer Contact Conference

The Brewery, London – Thursday 6th February 2025

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LET’S BUILD BETTER EXPERIENCES FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS

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Let’s build better experiences for your customers

Extensive research demonstrates that those responsible for customer contact feel like there has been no time to catch up. Few organisations have a contact mix that generates the capacity to care for vulnerable customers while meeting the inevitable demands of recessionary cost cutting.

The very best organisations are persistent, willing to innovate and discover what works by 'doing'. They collaborate and are willing to learn from others.

There's no better way to shape your future plans than by attending the Future of Customer Contact Conference in February. We've spent a lot of time researching industry pain points, as well as which organisations are excelling, in order to craft a day filled with content that we know will help you thrive.

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TOPIC STREAMS

Customer Contact Strategies

There is no silver bullet when it comes to customer contact strategies. Customers expect choice and back-to-back crises mean there is a heightened desire for human contact, as well as a lack of customer trust towards organisations.

A recent study by ContactBabel demonstrates that the majority of customers would prefer to speak to a person over using self-service, so those who've rushed into digital first strategies have experienced a negative impact on customer engagement.

This stream looks at when's best to offer self-service and how to balance your customer contact strategies across channels.

Customer Outcomes

We'll be looking at how organisations are overcoming operational challenges and implementing customer and employee engagement programmes that lead to a truly omni-channel experience for customers. Key factors in implementing new programmes include balancing self-service with customer demand for human contact, solutions to low customer trust in the value and ability of bots, how we recognise and respond to customer vulnerability and engaging customers in 3D worlds.

Customer Contact and Duty of Care - Responding to Vulnerability

Organisations have a responsibility to deliver appropriate customer service that responds flexibly to the needs of vulnerable customers. Join this stream to learn from organisations that are delivering a more inclusive customer service after putting systems and processes in place to enable vulnerable customers to disclose their needs. 

Learning & Development

Agent learning & development is vital for honing the skills of customer service teams to ensure continuous development. Emphasis lies not only on initial onboarding but also on keeping agents updated on evolving products and industry trends. By joining this topic stream, you'll discover how to coach a workforce who are equipped to deliver exceptional customer service, resulting in higher satisfaction, increased employee engagement, and adaptability in the dynamic realm of customer care.





Making Omnichannel Work

This topic stream will focus on how organisations can create a unified, streamlined customer experience across several platforms. Creating a truly omnichannel experience increases loyalty, decreases customer churn and increases customer lifetime value. A recent study even found that a customer who connects with an organisation through three or more channels is likely to have an average order value 13% higher than single-channel organisations.

Customer Retention - Why Are Customers Leaving Brands?

3 in 5 consumers say they've switched brands due to a negative contact centre experience, with 44% of consumers only giving an organisation two chances before they switch. It's therefore clear that organisations get one second chance - but not much more. Join this stream to discover how best to retain customers and build brand loyalty.

How Hybrid Working Creates Benefit and Challenge in Equal Measure

Although it is now safe to return to the office, many companies have kept remote work as an option for their workers. The analyst firm ContactBabel predicts that hybrid working will likely remain a dominant strategy for contact centres in 2023, with just 19% of agents predicted to work only at the contact centre next year. This stream provides some top tips on how to maximise the benefits and overcome the challenges that remote working can cause.

End-to-End Service Redesign

Your channel choice will actually add cost and effort to your organisation without end-to-end redesign, which is often why organisations don't harness the true advantages of customer contact transformation.

This stream will demonstrate why it's important to not act too early when creating an end-to-end customer journey.

The Customer’s Desire for Human Contact

As a result of the pandemic and recession, customers are seeking reassurance from assisted contact channels and leaning toward human contact as their preferred channel. This topic stream will allow you to navigate average vs. appropriate handling time as we support society through difficult times.

Keeping Pace - Is the Level of Change Needed Incremental or Disruptive?

This topic stream will look at how a revolution is taking place in customer service and experience. According to the CCA, the speed and severity of change over the last two years has resulted in many business models facing unprecedented disruption. We'll be looking at how you can best lead the charge on developing service, CX, digital and people without causing too much disruption to your organisation.

Strategy & Leadership

This topic stream will look at the key decisions customer contact leaders will be required to make as we approach a recession. This may include new emerging models, service capabilities and strategic service transformation.

What are the metrics that matter in a fast-changing world?

This stream looks at which measures we should be focusing on as the customer engagement landscape transforms in front of our eyes. Recent research has shown a decline in the usefulness of metrics such as customer effort score and customer retention rate. On the flip side, customer satisfaction score and quality score are being found increasingly useful.

Data Privacy - Trust vs. Personalisation

Customers want to understand where their data is being used and be given the ability to make decisions about what happens with their data. Join this stream and discover how to put your customers first in all data-driven processes.

Combining Organisational Values with Growing Customer Expectations

Research shows that a growing number of customers would stop buying from an organisation if they did not agree with their values. The connection between good corporate ethics and consumer perception is clear as corporate ESG (environment, social and governance) is increasingly in the headlines. Join this stream to learn how to future-proof your organisation through making the right decision for both the customer and the planet.

Changing Customer Behaviour and Agent Conversational Skills

In line with supporting customers through difficult times, conversations have become more complex as we see a rise in difficult and emotional calls. As well as this, consumers are more aware and better educated so are more likely to have difficult questions for agents to handle. This stream will look at how we can equip our agents with the tools they need to feel at ease when dealing with complex scenarios, as well as how we can protect the wellbeing of employees.

Contact Centre Insights - A Source of Innovation

Creating a two-way interaction between customer-facing and product teams allows organisations to become truly customer-centric through utilising customer insight to fuel the product innovations that customers really want. This stream will look at the benefits of customer-driven innovation.

Colleagues & Culture

As we look at the future of the workplace, we know that organisations need to incorporate the benefits of hybrid working into the heart of their workplace culture if they're to remain competitive when it comes to recruitment.

However, it's about more than that - research shows that agent stress directly impacts customer engagement, so organisations need to improve employee wellbeing, mental health and resilience in order to target the cause of negative consumer experiences.

Organisations also need to deal with recruitment and retention challenges - reports show that it's both increasingly hard to hire and retain employees, meaning that organisations are facing a talent shortage that's hard to replenish.

This stream will combat the issues organisations are currently facing when it comes to embedding a customer-centric culture into fragmented workplaces.

AI-Driven Self-Service

With customer expectations soaring, AI-driven self-service demonstrates its value at several points in the customer journey. It allows organisations to scale customer service operations to deal with demand, whilst also generating better customer outcomes over time. This stream will look at the best ways to integrate AI self-service into your customer journey.

Using Data & Insight

To retain customers, companies must make use of data and insight. Put differently, they should track customer behaviour and understand the needs of their target market. In this way, they will be able to respond to the fast-changing needs of customers, take their vulnerabilities into account, and drive innovation. February’s event will expand on this topic, with numerous speakers expected to reveal how they have used data and insight to improve CX. 

Abdul Khaled

Abdul Khaled

E.ON Head of Digital Customer Experience
Abdul leads the digital and customer experience function at E.ON’s new challenger brand in the UK – E.ON Next. With extensive digital experience, Abdul has been involved in leading digital strategy, transformation and growth at global brands, most recently with Cisco and Subway, as well as driving innovation at several start-ups both nationally and internationally. At E.ON Next Abdul is currently building a new digital-first product and CX team tasked with disrupting and revolutionising the energy space. His focus is on high performance, innovative ways of working and culture building. He regularly shares his expertise through webinars, conferences and thought leadership pieces as well as coaching upcoming digital leaders.
Jane Redgrave

Jane Redgrave

Bupa Head of Consumer Retention

Jane is an accomplished leader with a passion for delivering best in class customer service for customers. She has worked in a number of teams inside and outside of the contact centre for over 25 years, most recently leading the Loyalty & Retention teams that help Bupa maintain and grow its leading market position.  Jane believes that you get your best results by helping people develop and grow to be their very best - in and out of work - and that this accelerates engagement and business growth.

Derek Mcwhinnie

Derek Mcwhinnie

Zurich Insurance Company Head of Customer Care

Derek has worked at Zurich for over 17 years and is currently Head of Customer Care in the UK.  His remit spans across several areas, covering customer feedback, communications, complaints handling, and their approach to customer wellbeing. In 2023 he led the roll out of the consumer duty and prior to his current role worked in transformational change. Derek started his career as a contact centre agent and prides himself on still being able to connect with customers on a meaningful level and drive a focus on the experiences they have with Zurich. Derek sees a clear pathway between the use of technology and the need to still have a human touch and how both elements can help deliver the best possible service to customers.

Sarah Reeder

Sarah Reeder

Sky Service Strategy Manager

Sarah is a Service Strategy Manager working in Technology within Sky Group Service Management, focused on Digital Service and CX Transformation. Her role provides thought leadership, insight, and strategy; supporting the business to deliver data-driven, measurable, effective transformation. She’s also the co-owner of the Sky Group Service Management Wellbeing pillar, creating team-wide activities and awareness to support our people and promote healthy work-life balance.

Jamie Carter

Jamie Carter

Belron Voice of the Customer Manager
Jamie has worked across Autoglass UK and Belron International for 15 years, with experience in the contact centre, in the field and in the corporate centre, he has used his business knowledge, together with Voice of the Customer to develop a programme for Belron to maintain the world class NPS they have achieved for 10 years plus.
Michelle Beeson

Michelle Beeson

Forrester Senior Analyst

Michelle is a senior analyst at Forrester. Her research focuses on omnichannel customer experience, digital trends, and digital commerce strategies for consumer-facing brands, including luxury. During her time at Forrester, as a consultant and an analyst, Michelle has worked with a wide range of clients to help them understand how digital technology and changing consumer behavior and expectations are impacting organizations and transforming business models.

Áine Egan

Áine Egan

Halfords Training and Development Lead

I’m an award-winning Training and Development Lead, bagging a Silver Trainer of the Year at the 2023 CCMA Awards. From being an air hostess to a contact center team leader, I've been around the block. But here's the scoop: I'm all about injecting training with passion and personality, especially when it comes to customer service. Every customer, in my book, deserves nothing but the best. I've left my mark globally, teaming up with BPO’s in South Africa and India, crafting training magic that clicks with all kinds of learners. Currently studying a Level 5 Learning & Development apprenticeship, proving that continuous learning is really important. To sum it up, I'm on a journey driven by a love for training, a passion for top-tier customer service, and a constant hunger to level up in Learning & Development. 

Faye Bailey

Faye Bailey

Halfords Quality Lead
I hope the following gives you an idea of exactly how passionate I am, not only about Customer Service and Quality, but the development of others and helping everyone to be the best that they can be! I've spent the last 20 years evolving with customers to ensure I know what GREAT service looks like. The peak of my career so far is winning the Bronze Aware for Quality Manager at the 2023 CCMA Awards. From sales, high level complaint handling, training, to award winning quality management, I'm not just passionate about customers; I'm equally dedicated to creating a positive space for my colleagues. What sets me apart is my commitment to the human side of service. In a world obsessed with data, I believe in focusing on people. It's not just about numbers; it's about connecting and understanding. By prioritising the human element, I've seen how service transforms from a transaction to an unforgettable experience. I am also working toward my Level 5 Professional Coaching qualification. I truly believe in the power of happy colleagues to deliver exceptional service, and as Leaders it is through coaching and engagement that we can achieve this. 
Charlotte Owen

Charlotte Owen

Financial Times Head of Customer Planning & Customer Relationships
Fiercely passionate about devising creative solutions that put emphasis on achieving a best-in-class customer experience, whilst also achieving sustainable and long-lasting commercial growth. A Voice of the Customer expert with over 10 years of experience in companies ranging from bootstrapped high-growth start-ups to world-leading organisations. Committed to embedding qualitative and quantitative analytics into the everyday mindset of marketeers.
Anna Wilcox

Anna Wilcox

Bupa Head of Customer Experience

Anna is an established customer experience and marketing professional with a proven track record of delivering excellent commercial performance over the 20 years of my career. I started my career in marketing, planning and driving growth for large corporate organisations across industries such as the motor trade, pharmacy and IT. Over the years my passion for marketing sparked an interest in customer behaviour and 6 years ago I moved into the Customer Experience profession. I now head up the Customer Experience function at Bupa Insurance, aiming to be the world’s most customer centric healthcare organisation. All helping to achieve our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier and happier lives and making a better world.

Rob Garlick

Rob Garlick

Citi Global Insights Head of Innovation, Technology & the Future of Work

Rob Garlick, Managing Director, is Head of Innovation, Technology, and the Future of Work at Citi Global Insights (CGI). CGI researches, publishes, and speaks on change topics to Citi’s corporate, investor, and public sector clients. Rob has spent 30 years researching and advising on innovation areas, including starting Citi’s Disruptive Innovation GPS series in 2013. Rob has been writing about the Future of Work since 2015 (9 reports). Other recent reports include Artificial Intelligence (>10 reports), Quantum Computing and Digital Policy. Rob joined Citi in 1996 and previous roles at the firm include: Head of Citi Research EMEA from 2016- 2021, leading the team’s (of c.200) rise in the Institutional Investor surveys, from: #7 to #1 in UK, #9 to #2 in Western European, #7 to #2 in CEEMEA, and #7 to #1 globally; Global Product Head at Citi Research, driving industry-leading thematic content (#1 rated by Extel), including founding Citi’s Global Theme Machine; running Citi's US Equity Sales desk in the UK to some of the world’s leading asset managers and hedge funds; and a No.1 rated (II) Global Specialist Salesperson, covering Media and Telecommunications. Other industry awards included: Best ETF Research providers by ETF Express; and Best Innovation paper by Savvy Investor. Rob started his career in Fund Management in 1993 at Singer & Friedlander, where he helped run the US equity fund. Rob passed the AIIMR (Associate of the Institute of Investment Management & Research) as a prize-winner in Interpretation of Accounts & Corporate Finance. Among other industry qualifications, Rob holds a BSc (Econ) degree in Accounting and Management, an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change and is a qualified Executive Coach.

Michael Peniket

Michael Peniket

Taylor Wimpey Customer Director
James Brindley-Raynes

James Brindley-Raynes

Maersk Head of Digital Customer Journey

James is currently Head of Digital Customer Journey at A.P. Moller-Maersk. Prior to joining the company, he was Director of Product Management at Jacobs where he spent two years leading product teams focused on environmental technology. James has previously worked for HSBC, BlackRock and Dunnhumby where he led portfolios of products and transformation programs. James is a mentor and product leader who loves to coach and develop high performing product teams.

Neil Gregory

Neil Gregory

Naked Wines Head of Customer Happiness

Neil joined Naked Wines all the way back in October 2013 as a member of the Customer Happiness Team, answering calls and emails in the run up to a busy Christmas. Since then, he’s moved through a number of roles at Naked, but always with a focus on customer experience. He now heads up the team he first joined, and firmly believes that his colleagues are also his customers, and that the best customer experience begins with the best team experience.  In a former life, Neil was a tennis coach – a job that taught him more than he first realised about teams, motivation and customer service.

Marcus Hickman

Marcus Hickman

Davies Hickman Managing Director

Jo and Marcus are founders of Davies Hickman Partners, set up in 2007. Responsible for one of the longest-running tracker studies of customer contact – The Autonomous Customer – they are market research advisers to the customer experience and contact centre industry, that includes some of the leading customer service associations. In 2023, Davies Hickman Partners were finalists in the Content Marketing Institute awards for research on AI for CX. Jo is on the BSI and ISO committee responsible for developing Contact centre, Customer service excellence and Complaint handling standards.

Jo Davies

Jo Davies

Davies Hickman Global Director of Market Research

Jo and Marcus are founders of Davies Hickman Partners, set up in 2007. Responsible for one of the longest-running tracker studies of customer contact – The Autonomous Customer – they are market research advisers to the customer experience and contact centre industry, that includes some of the leading customer service associations. In 2023, Davies Hickman Partners were finalists in the Content Marketing Institute awards for research on AI for CX. Jo is on the BSI and ISO committee responsible for developing Contact centre, Customer service excellence and Complaint handling standards.

Grant Hartanov

Grant Hartanov

Sprinklr Associate Vice President

Grant Hartanov is an Associate Vice President and leader of Sprinklr’s CXM Best Practices Group.  In this role, he leads Sprinklr’s internal strategy consulting team of CX experts who advise our most strategic accounts and C-Suite level clients on CXM Best Practices and Digital Transformation.​ Prior to Sprinklr, Grant worked at Marriott International where he led Strategy and Innovation for its Loyalty program, Bonvoy.  He also spent several years at Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy Practice, Monitor, where he led large diverse teams and advised several Fortune 100 C-Suite executives on CX Strategy and Digital Transformation.​ Earlier in his career - Grant spent close to a decade working for the US Government where he worked in over 20 countries on international diplomacy, trade, and security.

 

Matt Bramley

Matt Bramley

Freshworks Senior Solutions Engineer
Matt is a seasoned Senior Solution Engineer at Freshworks, leveraging his expertise to enhance customer technology experiences. With over 5 years in the technology industry, he has consistently focused on improving customer experiences through innovative solutions. Matt's extensive knowledge and experience in sales engineering have positioned him as a trusted advisor, always striving to bridge the gap between customer needs and cutting-edge technology. His unwavering commitment to driving customer success continues to make a profound impact in the industry.
Adam Neale

Adam Neale

Panasonic Europe Head of CS Governance
Steve Barratt

Steve Barratt

Genesys AI specialist

Steve Barratt is an AI specialist at Genesys with 20 years experience within customer experience. Steve works with a number of global customers to help them identify where and how they can use AI to orchestrate personalised, end-to-end experiences within and beyond the contact center. Steve is passionate about helping organisations leverage Genesys AI to both improve the employee and customer experience and constantly innovate to help customers drive growth whilst delivering excellence every day.

Mark Lockyer

Mark Lockyer

CallMiner International Sales Director

With 20 years in the ever-changing contact centre and client engagement spaces, Mark has worked with some of the largest global entities on transformation projects ensuring technology delivers on expectation. Passionate about bringing agent and customer evaluation together through the power of speech and conversation analytics. Mark can draw on successful client projects that have delivered exceptional ROIs and Transformational change across entire organisations. Notable Brands – Dell, Orange, Ageas, Direct line, Teleperformance, HSBC, TeliaSonera, E.ON, BNP Paribas.

Ejieme Eromoele

Ejieme Eromoele

Quiq GM of EMEA

Ejieme Eromosele is an experienced customer advocate focused on enhancing customer experiences at top companies. As General Manager of EMEA at Quiq, she leads the region's go-to-market strategy, advising brands on using messaging and AI to improve customer interactions, increase sales, and reduce costs. With a strong background in management consulting at Accenture and PwC, and as former Managing Director of Customer Experience at The New York Times, Ejieme has a proven track record in boosting customer growth, retention, and loyalty.

Eric Jorgensen

Eric Jorgensen

Zendesk VP, EMEA Enterprise

Eric Jorgensen is VP of Enterprise for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Zendesk. In this role, he is responsible for driving the company’s growth in the region, working with larger customers and more complex projects as Zendesk continues to accelerate growth in the Enterprise segment. Eric was most recently at New Relic as Senior Director Enterprise Sales. Prior to that Eric was Director Telecoms Segment at Dell Technologies working with the largest CSP in EMEA, where he led the largest commercial relationship in EMEA. Eric has also held a range of sales and leadership roles at IBM and other smaller early stage software companies.

Eugen Majeri

Eugen Majeri

Panasonic Digital Services Manager
Eugen is an experienced Digital Customer Experience Manager at Panasonic, leveraging technology and creativity to facilitate a frictionless digital customer journey through content and innovative solutions.
Ditte Gjørup Larsen

Ditte Gjørup Larsen

Tryg Etnologist and Speech Analytics Specialist
With a background in anthropology and literature, Ditte works with agent and customer behavior, needs and motivation. She looks at, interpret and communicate insights from both qualitative and quantitative data to help Tryg provide the best customer experience, and meet quality, efficiency and sales KPIs.   
Jon Yarlett

Jon Yarlett

The Impact Sourcing Alliance Founder

Jonathan Yarlett is the founder and CEO of both Intelligent Sourcing and The Impact Sourcing Alliance.  Over the past 15 years Jon has been working with global sourcing vendors within BPO, CX and shared services, helping them identify and attract clients through range of promotional and marketing activity. In 2023 Jon launched the Impact Sourcing Alliance to shine a light on what is a massively important concept within BPO and CX.  The alliance works with strategic partners from all over the world and champions vendors who operate and enforce inclusive hiring as part of their ESG, CSR and DEI.

Callum Lewis Jones

Callum Lewis Jones

Freshworks Head of UKI Field Marketing
Callum is an ambitious and experienced marketing professional. Callum has experience in a range of different marketing teams and exposure to multiple marketing disciplines. He prides himself on his communication skills and helping his colleagues and team become successful. Callum knows how to plan, manage and execute strategies and deliver quantifiable business-impact to the team. He has also been recognised for his high energy and positive attitude and has ambitions to build culture and empower those around him to reach and exceed shared goals. Callum is also a former Sheffield Hallam University graduate with a First Class BA (Hons) in Marketing.
Dvir Hoffman

Dvir Hoffman

CommBox CEO

As the current CEO of one of the leading AI-based customer service and engagement solutions in our market, Dvir has over two decades of experience in technology innovation and product strategy. Dvir has pioneered several innovations in the realm of CX technologies, guiding them from their inception and transforming them into award-winning global CX and AI enterprise solutions. His original vision on autonomous agents catalyzing a revolution in the customer experience domain to ultimately create an Autonomous Enterprise is resonating around the world. Dvir is also a winemaker, his favorite being Petite Sirah, and he lives with his wife and three children in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.

 

John Sills

John Sills

The Foundation Managing Partner

John Sills is Managing Partner at the customer-led growth company, The Foundation, and author of Leadership Book of the Year 2023, The Human Experience. 25 years ago, he started his career on a market stall in Essex, and since then has worked in and with companies around the world to make things better for customers. He’s been in front-line teams delivering the experience, innovation teams designing the propositions, and global HQ teams creating the strategy. He's been a bank manager during the financial crisis (not fun), launched a mobile app to millions of people (very fun), and regularly visits strangers’ houses to ask very personal questions (incredible fun). He now works with companies across industries and around the world, and before joining The Foundation spent twelve years at HSBC, latterly as Head of Customer Innovation. His first book on the topic - The Human Experience - was published by Bloomsbury in February 2023, and his writing has been featured in The Guardian, The FT, and Management Today. 

Owain Service

Owain Service

Cogco CEO

Owain is the CEO of CogCo. His focus lies in helping organisations to build their internal capabilities relating to the behaviours of their customers and employees; and in the practical application of behavioural science. He is also an Honorary Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick University. He was previously the co-founder and Managing Director of the UK Government’s Behavioural Insights Team and before that was a Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. In his spare time, Owain enjoys cooking elaborate meals, and hanging out with his young family.

Stin Mattu

Stin Mattu

Upland Software Product Marketing Manager
Stin Mattu is a certified KCS Trainer and a passionate advocate for Knowledge Management. With a broad range of experience spanning over two decades in contact center operations and media, Stin has helped organizations successfully create knowledge management strategies in both frontline environments and back-office functions, focusing on creating a culture of knowledge sharing to improve user and customer experience. 
Alistair Neiderer

Alistair Neiderer

ESG Advisory Global Executive

Seasoned global executive specialising in ESG Advisory, Customer Experience Management, Business Process Outsourcing, IT, Telecom and Business Services. Regional Growth and Market Development including ESG Social Sustainability and Impact Sourcing, ESG management solutions, M&A, Strategic Advisory, Technology Leverage.

Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott

Upland Software , Principal Solutions Consultant

Andy Scott has spent the last dozen years working with organisations across many industries, to help them understand their customers better through effective customer feedback. In his role as Principal Solutions Consultant, he enables organisations to bring about positive change based on actionable insights driven from the customer's own words to ultimately improve their customer's experiences.

Sid Farmiloe

Sid Farmiloe

Dialpad Sales Architect & AI Advocate
Sid is an AI advocate with a passion for ever-evolving technologies. 9 years in the communications space helping organisations maximise growth and create a slicker customer journey. In his spare Sid is currently re-designing his garden, but unfortunately, AI cannot mix cement or plant trees… yet!
Alan Gibson

Alan Gibson

Sprinklr Service Specialist
An Information Communication Technology professional with a proven global track record on high value, high growth projects. Having exceptional understanding of the contribution that Data driven insights, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, combined with creative strategy, services, and commercial acumen make in securing competitive advantage and delivering new sustainable client business. Extensive experience in client sales, consulting and delivering services, software and products whilst working at an Executive Level with System Integrators, Technology Vendors and Service Providers on the realisation of fast paced, leading edge Customer Experiences. Enthusiastic, highly motivated, analytical yet flexible in approach with a strong delivery ethos, always seeking out new transformative business challenges and opportunities.
Martin Hill-Wilson

Martin Hill-Wilson

Brainfood Consulting Founder
I'm a customer engagement and digital business strategist. Also an author and international keynote speaker. Working under my own brand, Brainfood Consulting, I design masterclasses and transformational change helping clients evolve their social and digital capabilities. Current topics include omni-channel design, proactive, low effort customer experience, social customer service and customer hubs. All themed around service innovation.
Brian Manusama

Brian Manusama

Actionary Executive Partner
Throughout my career, I have been at the forefront of delivering impact at scale, leveraging cutting-edge technology to resolve today’s business challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) challenges. My passion for customer engagement, digital business, artificial intelligence and customer experience focused leadership have been a consistent theme in my career.
Vinay Parmar

Vinay Parmar

Druva Star Founder
My career trajectory has been a case study in the power of networking, embracing a growth mindset and broad vision. Moving through various departments, I honed my skills in understanding the bigger picture of business operations. My transformative time at Egg.com cemented my beliefs in leadership, change management, and the profound impact of customer experience.
09:00-09:10 Event Welcome
 
Speaker:

Martin Hill-Wilson
Martin Hill-Wilson
Brainfood Consulting
Founder
I'm a customer engagement and digital business strategist. Also an author and international keynote speaker. Working under my own brand, Brainfood Consulting, I design masterclasses and transformational change helping clients evolve their social and digital capabilities. Current topics include omni-channel design, proactive, low effort customer experience, social customer service and customer hubs. All themed around service innovation.
09:10-09:30 The Digital Dilemma: Keeping That Personal Touch in a Digital World

The pandemic accelerated the shift towards a digital world, where we tend to be living and doing more and more online each day. But have we gone too far in embracing technology at the cost of human interaction and understanding behaviour? Are we trying too hard to push people to our new contact tool when they just want to use their channel of choice?


To kick things off, Andrew will outline how organisations need to meet their customers where they want to be met as well as addressing the challenges most brands are currently facing or eventually will face. He will look at how to balances the benefits of digital-driven efficiency with the crucial role of personal connection for ultimate effectiveness.

Speaker:

Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis

Digital Transformation & Social Media Strategist
As one of Britain’s foremost social media and digitalisation experts, Andrew Davis has trained teams at organisations as diverse as Saatchi & Saatchi, KPMG, Barnardo’s, the London Fire Brigade and the Premier League. He helps businesses of all types transform, disrupt and prepare, through strategic advice and training around all aspect of how digital is changing everything we do as employees and consumers.

In presentations and workshops Andrew explains how digital is evolving and what it means for business. From customers data and social media interaction to strategies for marketing, recruitment and leadership, digital platforms and online living has revolutionised how business is conducted. He underlines the need to make each aspect of your digital strategy work alongside traditional business strategies. He challenges businesses to see the digital world as an ever-changing tool that can help communication, improve products and services, and promote brands. He also considers how social media has changed perceptions of businesses and brands, looking at those that have succeeded and those that have failed to address public concerns and adapt to new business models.

Andrew started his career by running chat rooms for Pop Idol in the early days of reality TV talent shows. He also worked on Friends Reunited, before joining the BBC to help launch the digital urban music station, Radio 1Xtra. He then joined Myspace.com as a Marketing Manager and played a leading role in propelling the site from one to ten million UK users in under a year; Andrew was responsible for building the brand - including community development, content and digital marketing.

A visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, Andrew Davis also designed the first social media course linked to GCSE English. He sits on Ofcom’s Advisory committee and has featured in Media Week’s 30 Under 30 and The Guardian’s report on the top ethnic minority contributors to British media.
09:30-09:50 Customer Service in the Wild
Delivering customer service can be a wild ride. Let's explore a guide to surviving and thriving in this uncertain landscape.
Speaker:

Paul Herman
Paul Herman
Sprinklr
Senior Vice President of Global Digital Transformation Services

Paul Herman, is the Senior Vice President of Global Digital Transformation Services. A Sprinklr customer for nearly five years, Paul joined the company from Nike, where he was Program Director of Global Brand Digital Platforms, responsible for enabling Nike’s digital content, dynamic audience targeting, asset management, omni-channel publishing, customer support, and reporting success. At Sprinklr, Paul’s focus is helping to shape and connect customer strategy to Sprinklr execution. Since joining Sprinklr, Paul has met with senior executives at over 300 of the world’s largest companies – consulting with them on the art-of-the-possible and the people, process, technology, and change management required to achieve it. Paul’s responsibilities also include overseeing Analyst Relations to establish Sprinklr’s leadership in the market across its product portfolio.

Paul has over 25 years of global experience helping companies drive innovation and implement significant change through digital products and services. In addition to holding a number of leadership roles at Nike, he’s also worked as a VP of marketing and solutions at Learning.com, and led corporate strategy, business leadership, and marketing activities at Xerox.

Paul received his Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and his Executive MBA from the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon.

09:50-10:10 John Lewis Case Study: Supporting Colleague Wellbeing and Resilience
An overview of the well being journey from John Lewis Customer Care, what we did, how we did it and why, from pre covid to our latest thinking and shift towards ‘belonging’.
Speaker:

Ray Biggs
Ray Biggs
John Lewis & Waitrose
Head of Customer Care
Ray has worked in contact centres for over 25 years, and is one of the few senior leaders in our industry that started ‘on the phones’. Ray has a unique CV working across operations, strategy, transformation and technology. An authentic and passionate leader who enjoys being an agitator in the boardroom but happiest on the floor with his teams and his customers This is likely to be Rays last outing wearing his John Lewis badge before Joining Ventrica as Chief Operations Officer in May. 
10:10-10:30 From Agent to Advocate: How to Support Your Frontline for Maximum Impact

What do you need to make your customer experience the best it’s ever been in 2023?

There are so many ways to answer this. It could be new tech. It could be upskilling. It could be
eradicating siloes between the contact centre and the rest of the business.

Regardless of the things you could do to achieve your customer experience goals, let’s start by
addressing the elephant in the room: merely sustaining a stable frontline operation is the
toughest it’s ever been for so many businesses.

In 2022, we witnessed a lot of disruption across industries, including high turnover rates. So, a
question on leaders’ lips right now is:

“What can I do to keep employees engaged?”

It’s a hard truth, but we need to be open and discuss possible answers. During this session, Dave will share insights and advice based on these questions:

- How can businesses restore morale and retain and empower their agents?
- What does creating a sustainable frontline operation look like?
- Which solutions can you rely on to improve the employee experience and keep customers
content?
- Are there contact centres we can look to for inspiration? How are they succeeding?

Speaker:

Dave D'Arcy
Dave D'Arcy
Laughing Leadership
Founder & Managing Director
With over 35 years in Customer Experience environments and 20 plus years in Senior Leadership, there are few people better placed than Dave D’Arcy to shape thought leadership. Having spent the last 7 years leading customer operations for two world leading SaaS businesses, Dave recently took the step to Launch his own business Laughing Leadership. This is a CX and Leadership consultancy with a difference. Focused on how employee engagement first can drive highest levels of customer experience.
Additionally, Dave is a globally award recognised CX leader and a current member of the CXFO Power 100. 
He has extensive experience in public speaking and hosting and is normally on standby with a humorous tale, there a reason why his business is Laughing Leadership
10:30-11:00 Coffee & Networking
Please join us for a coffee and luxury refreshments prepared by ex-Nobu chef Tom Gore in the Expo Hall (King George).
Strategy & Leadership
To retain customers, companies must make use of data and insight. Put differently, they should track customer behaviour and understand the needs of their target market. In this way, they will be able to respond to the fast-changing needs of customers, take their vulnerabilities into account, and drive innovation. February’s event will expand on this topic, with numerous speakers expected to reveal how they have used data and insight to improve CX. 
11:00-11:20 One Workforce. The Future of Customer Contact?

Join this fascinating session as we explore how to engage customers in the right way at the right time by removing role and people silos to increase capacity, flexibility, and agility.

As peaks and valleys occur across your various interaction points in your different business units, learn how to take advantage of your people’s skills to give the right work to the right person at the right time – regardless of what "silo" they live in.  Hear Capitec Bank’s story and discover how they unlocked their entire workforce with Verint technology to achieve the best service levels across branches, contact centre and other back-office teams.

Speakers:

Karl Senekal
Karl Senekal
Capitec
Software Development Manager: Integrated Business Planning

Karl Senekal is the technology enabler at top South African retail bank, Capitec. – which has over 19 million clients, 853 branches and over 11,000 in-branch professionals.For the last 11 years Karl’s pivotal role across forecasting, scheduling, operations planning and integrated business planning, has ensured he has a unique perspective of the bank’s transformation of its in-branch and contact centre customer experience and innovative utilisation of colleagues’ skills across other customer engagement channels.

Huw Jones
Huw Jones
Verint
Director, Solutions Consulting
Huw leads Verint’s specialist consulting team in EMEA – ensuring customers select and secure the most from Verint workforce management (WFM) solutions. Huw educates and inspires, having enjoyed over 20 years in tech. His customers credit him on his robust understanding of how customer behaviour drives new and innovative approaches to staffing across contact centre and back-office operations. An expert in the impact of digital contact, robotics and self-service, Huw is an advocate for using tech and the human touch to close the Engagement Capacity Gap.
11:20-11:40 Asda Case Study: Building a Customer First Culture in the Midst of Organisational Transformation

Asda is embarking on the biggest transformation it has ever seen, this is called Project Future.

It will convert over 22 years of Walmart systems and processes to a new independent way of operating post the separation. This is a huge opportunity for Asda, constructing the foundations to grow the business by building a new systems landscape that is flexible and sustainable. Future will transform the day-to-day operations of the business and enable Asda to execute its mission. 


The Omnichannel Customer Support function plays a key role in Asda’s customer mission and has to maintain high levels of service throughout this significant transformation that will impact every colleague.


How can Omnichannel Customer Support maximise the opportunity that Future provides, continue to build a customer first culture and execute its own strategy all at the same time? 


Bringing the strategy to life is vital for every single colleague to engage and deliver in a rapidly changing environment and ultimately ensure success.

Speaker:

Jo Garland
Jo Garland
Asda
Senior Director Omnichannel Customer Support
Featuring 12th in The Customer Experience Foundation (CXFO) Power 100 2022. The CXFO Power 100 recognises the top 100 rising stars and key contributors within the CX and Contact Centre community.

An award winning inspirational leader with a proven track record of leading business transformation and large teams to improve the customer and employee experience.

Extensive experience of managing remote, multisite and matrix teams to deliver exceptional results in retail and contact centre environments.

An experienced Accredited Coach and qualified Learning and Development professional, who is passionate about developing others.
11:40-12:00 The Future of Customer Interaction: Harnessing the Potential of Virtual Agents
E.ON, one of the world's largest electric utility service providers, recognized the potential of Conversational AI early on. By leveraging the power of a dedicated Center of Excellence and partnering with Cognigy, a leading provider of enterprise Conversational AI platforms, E.ON has successfully deployed over 30 internal and external bots for voice and chat. These bots have conducted millions of automated conversations, resulting in improved customer and agent satisfaction. In this keynote, E.ON will share the steps they took to integrate a voice bot into their service desk, the challenges they faced, and the results achieved.
Speakers:

Tristan Scott
Tristan Scott
E.ON Digital Technology GmbH (EDT)
Senior Service Delivery Manager
Tristan is a Senior Service Delivery Manager, in the User Excellence department within E.ON Digital Technology. He has worked for a large part of his career in various Technical, Project Management, and Service Management roles for IT Outsourcing providers. Since joining E.ON 6 years ago, he managed IT Supplier and delivered global services provided to E.ON now as the customer.
Tristan currently leads an Automation Program within E.ON, which delivers automated IT solutions for E.ON’s global business users via the use of user-facing Bots. These have the aim of transforming the IT user experience, whilst also driving operational efficiencies including moving contacts away from traditional IT Support contact channels.
Arbnor Feka
Arbnor Feka
E.ON Digital Technology GmbH (EDT)
IT Service Owner Conversational AI
Arbnor is Conversational AI - Service Owner at E.ON and plays a role in the adoption of Conversational AI solutions across the E.ON group. He has played a wide range of roles from business consulting and conversational designer to program manager, handling strategic turnkey Conversational AI projects, conceptualizing innovative solutions and bringing them to life while creating a business impact. Such solutions also get awareness and appreciation from E.ON Management members to drive it further. Arbnor currently is also the Project Manager of the Automation Program.
12:00-12:20 Strategic Importance of the Contact Centre on Brand
The events over recent years have demonstrated that the contact centre is a strategically important function in any business. Its unique position of listening to customers, whilst also playing a critical role in their loyalty, cannot be underestimated. As we move through difficult economic times, brands are looking at how to retain customers whilst trying to grow. Leigh will explore why the contact centre must play a central role in this strategy and how organisations can harness the power that it wields.
Speaker:

Leigh Hopwood
Leigh Hopwood
CCMA
CEO
Leigh is the CEO at the CCMA (Call Centre Management Association), an organisation dedicated to supporting contact centre professionals through networking, learning, and celebrating industry talent. Since joining the CCMA as Marketing Strategy and Brand Director in 2013 she has helped build the business into the UK’s largest community of contact centre professionals. Since taking over as CEO in 2020, the resources available to members has grown significantly and membership has more than doubled.

As Chartered Marketer and Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Leigh joined the Board of the CIM in 2014, becoming Chair for three years in 2016 where she led a transformation of the organisation across culture, governance and customer experience, turning significant losses into three consecutive years of profit. She continues to give back to this community and is a Trustee on the CIM Benevolent Fund.

For the last 25 years Leigh has been helping organisations develop their marketing capability. Having led marketing functions for IT companies specialising in niche markets, she has spent time as a business advisor and a marketing coach supporting marketing professionals at all levels.
12:20-13:20 Lunch & Networking

Please join us for a free lunch prepared by ex-Nobu chef Tom Gore in the Expo Hall (King George).

Customer Outcomes
We'll be looking at how organisations are overcoming operational challenges and implementing customer and employee engagement programmes that lead to a truly omni-channel experience for customers. Key factors in implementing new programmes include balancing self-service with customer demand for human contact, solutions to low customer trust in the value and ability of bots, how we recognise and respond to customer vulnerability and engaging customers in 3D worlds.
13:20-13:40 Using Speech Analytics to Track Vulnerability and Cost of Living Consumer Behaviours: A Fireside Chat With Ajay Mitha, Managing Director - Servicing and Daniel Killick, Customer Experience Manager at Tandem Bank
Recognising the needs of vulnerable consumers can be paramount to ensuring great customer services. Hear from Tandem Bank's Managing Director of Servicing and Tandem’s Customer Experience Manager on how they utilised speech analytics to track vulnerable and cost of living consumers behaviours.
Speakers:

Ajay Mitha
Ajay Mitha
Tandem Bank
Managing Director - Servicing
Ajay is an accomplished leader in Customer Operations. Having spent most of his time leading front-line operations in both Collections and Customer Service. He has a keen interest in People Engagement, Process Improvement and Speech Analytics. He currently works for Tandem, who are building the UK’s greener, digital bank.
Daniel Killick
Daniel Killick
Tandem Bank
Customer Experience Manager

Daniel Killick has been in financial services for over 15 years working for some of the largest banks in the prime and sub-prime market, with a solid background in analytics, operations, resource planning, and customer experience. As an innovative thinking Daniel is well versed in utilising cutting edge technology to maximise efficency and productivity with a passion for best in class customer experience.

13:40-14:00 London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Case Study: Supporting Front Line Teams Having Difficult Conversations
Speaker:

Sabina Onwuka
Sabina Onwuka
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Customer Services Manager
Sabina Onwuka is the Customer Services Manager at The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. She has worked in the Customer Services industry for over 20 years. She started in the private sector and then moved across into the public sector in 2012. Her philosophy has always been about serving others, and being the voice of the residents, and staff is where she thrives. Sabina has been a mentor to her team members, as she believes in providing a safe place for her staff to feel supported, grow at work and outside of work. One of her highlights was the transformation of her department from 100% office-based way of working to 100% homeworking, and the implementation of cloud technology
14:00-14:20 How Quiq helped IHG increase CSAT and lower costs with Conversational AI and Digital Messaging
Join Carter Calle, Sr. Product Manager, AI & Messaging at IHG Hotels & Resorts, and Mike Myer, CEO & founder at Quiq, as they share how one of the world's largest hospitality businesses meets ever changing customer expectations by leaning on digital, innovative solutions that have an immediate impact on agents and customers. In this session, you’ll learn how IHG Hotels & Resorts serves more customers more efficiently while improving CSAT and delivering a great agent experience.
Speakers:

Carter Calle
Carter Calle
IHG Hotels & Resorts
IHG Sr. Product Manager, AI & Messaging Strategy
Carter has over 20 years of experience as a customer service professional in various industries and organizations. Currently, he leads the development and implementation of the roadmap for Artificial Intelligence and Messaging at IHG. Prior to that, he spent a decade managing chat strategy and operations first for Time Warner Cable and then at Comcast. He deployed and integrated new chat platforms and chat bots at both companies. At Comcast, he led the effort to expand into customer service via SMS and Apple Messages for Business. Carter lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife Beth and their two labs. He enjoys travel, cooking, concerts and boating.
Mike Myer
Mike Myer
Quiq
CEO and Founder
Before founding Quiq, Mike was Chief Product Officer & VP of Engineering at Dataminr, a startup that analyzes all of the world’s tweets in real-time and detects breaking information ahead of any other source.

Mike has deep expertise in customer service software having previously built the RightNow Customer Experience solution used by many of the world’s largest consumer brands to deliver exceptional interactions. RightNow went public in 2004 and was acquired by Oracle for $1.5B in 2011. Mike led Engineering the entire time RightNow was a standalone company and later managed a team of nearly 500 at Oracle responsible for Service Cloud.

Before RightNow, Mike held various software development and architect roles at AT&T/Lucent/Bell Labs Research. Mike has earned BS and MS degrees in CS from Rutgers University.
14:20-14:40 Making AI Speak Human

Everybody wants to deploy conversational AI Assistant to drive value for both customers and the business. But how do you design these experiences? How do you create a chatbot or voice application that people actually want to talk to? 

In this talk, Hans van Dam will share what all successful AI Assistants have in common. He’ll talk you through the design patterns that allow you to have transactional conversations that unlock the promise of conversational AI technology. 

Some of the thigns that will be covered are:

-Maturity model for conversational AI operations based on automation and customer experience goals
-Proven workflow for creating human-centrric and inclusive AI Assistants that drive value for the business and the customer
-Design patterns and best practices that you can implement tomorrow

Speaker:

Hans van Dam
Hans van Dam
Conversational Design Institute
CEO
Hans van Dam is the founder of Conversation Design Institute, the world's leading training and certification institute for people working in conversational AI. Hans has trained more than 5,000 professionals in conversational AI and works with Fortune 500 companies to make their AI Assistants more human-centric, effective, and inclusive. He also leads CDI Foundation, a non-profit that develops design standards and provides scholarships within the industry. Hans is a frequent guest lecturer at universities worldwide. He is currently based in Amsterdam, where he lives with his family.
14:40-15:00 Optimising Contact Centre Performance: How to Align Employee Engagement and Customer Experience Using AI
88% of agents and managers agree that customers receive better service when contact centre agents are engaged. But our research shows that agents are exhausted, disengaged and require more training and motivation from leadership. In our presentation, we highlight how the latest technologies can help improve employee engagement, reduce unwanted attrition, and increase productivity across the contact centre.
Speaker:

Matt Jones
Matt Jones
Evaluagent
Product Manager
Matt Jones is a Product Manager at evaluagent, first joining the company in 2017. Matt is able to showcase his expertise with over a decade of experience in the Contact Centre technology industry and a proven track record of success, making him a valuable asset to evaluagent and its customers. His focus has always been on how to best use technology to improve the experience of both Agent’s and Customers, which he continues to do through the development of new and existing products. Matt often gets the opportunity to speak with customers such as Samsung, Vitality & ManoMano as well as Partners like Puzzel to ensure our Product is consistently focused around the needs of our customers.
15:00-15:30 Coffee & Networking
Please join us for a coffee and luxury refreshments prepared by ex-Nobu chef Tom Gore in the Expo Hall (King George).
The Future of Customer Contact
Following a day of great content, this stream looks towards the future and where organisation need to be.
15:30-15:45 The Future of Customer Contact: A Focus on the Science of Strong Relationships
In a world where consumers increasingly have liquid expectations across brands and channels, Jamie Thorpe, Head of XM at Ipsos offers up a human centric framework from which to design future experiences that build emotional connectivity across touchpoints and journeys.
Speaker:

Jamie Thorpe
Jamie Thorpe
Ipsos
Head of Experience Management (XM)

Jamie is a CX professional with over 20 years’ experience.  The majority of his career has been spent in Client Success/Service previously holding two board level positions and now Head of Experience Management (XM) at Ipsos.  Jamie’s expertise spans Offer, Marketing, CX Platforms, Professional Services and Delivery.  He is industry recognised as a CX leader in the UK (#3 in 2022).  His in depth of CX knowledge combined with a commercial and pragmatic/action-oriented style has seen Jamie deliver success with many clients across sectors and geographies.

15:45-16:00 Making the Changes to Make Hybrid Work: A Fireside Chat with Lucie Child, Strategy Lead, Customer Care at The Very Group
Hybrid working is without doubt one of most significant changes to the way we work in living memory. For many businesses, enabling remote working was a necessary response to ensure business continuity in the face of the challenges thrown at us by the pandemic. We now have the opportunity to take stock; to reclaim control, create balance and reshape the new ways of working in a way that works for our people and our businesses. The debate rages on about the most appropriate way to do this and of course the answer may well not be one size fits all. Join us as we discuss what we all need to be thinking about before we make the changes needed to make hybrid work.
Speaker:

Lucie Child
Lucie Child
The Very Group
Strategy Lead, Customer Care
Hybrid working is without doubt one of most significant changes to the way we work in living memory. For many businesses, enabling remote working was a necessary response to ensure business continuity in the face of the challenges thrown at us by the pandemic. We now have the opportunity to take stock; to reclaim control, create balance and reshape the new ways of working in a way that works for our people and our businesses. The debate rages on about the most appropriate way to do this and of course the answer may well not be one size fits all. Join us as we discuss what we all need to be thinking about before we make the changes needed to make hybrid work. 
16:00-16:15 BSL in an Omni-Channel World
There is a group of people in society that face particular challenges yet have less access to help and support and that is those that are deaf or hearing impaired. This community is made up of the 11 million people in the UK who are deaf or have a hearing loss. And, with an ageing population, this number is estimated to rise to 15.6 million by 2035. A deaf or hearing-impaired person can’t simply call a customer service helpline. They can use digital channels and if they are really lucky, could access a BSL translation service but this is not equity, nor is it inclusive. This session will outline how Connect Assist has broken through this barrier to offer a native language BSL helpline. It will address the challenges faced in setting up the service and how the service has accelerated the company’s social value and its ED&I agenda.
Speaker:

Ron Moody
Ron Moody
Connect Assist
Managing Director
I joined Connect Assist in June 2015, bringing over 30 years’ experience in sales & marketing, media, e-commerce, leadership and business strategy. Fast-forward to 2017 and I was appointed CEO.
16:15-16:45 Panel Discussion: What's Next for Customer Contact?

Our expert panellists will be looking ahead to the future - with so many channels and contact strategies available, what's next for customer contact?

Just some of the topics we'll be discussing include:

- Using contact channels efficiently

- Creating and maintaining a successful 'always on' support strategy

- The effectiveness and benefits of customer loyalty programmes

- The role of automation and AI in customer contact

- The use of speech analytics, customer sentiment and text

- The use of WhatsApp as a support channel rather than traditional phone support

- Will TikTok play a part in customer contact of the future?

- Wellbeing programmes for agents

- Onboarding programmes and how to train new agents in the most effective way

Speakers:

Martin Hill-Wilson
Martin Hill-Wilson
Brainfood Consulting
Founder
I'm a customer engagement and digital business strategist. Also an author and international keynote speaker. Working under my own brand, Brainfood Consulting, I design masterclasses and transformational change helping clients evolve their social and digital capabilities. Current topics include omni-channel design, proactive, low effort customer experience, social customer service and customer hubs. All themed around service innovation.
Ingrid van Ruiswijk
Ingrid van Ruiswijk
PVH Amsterdam
Senior Manager Customer Service E-commerce

I have been working in Customer Service for more than 20 years, focused on E-commerce and FMCG for European markets. My passion lies in improving business processes for CS and fulfilment, while enhancing the customer experience and driving website conversion. I look for innovative self-service solutions for the customers and digital tools to reward and incentivize loyal customers. For me, the perfect Customer Service operation is a balance between automatizing the first line questions, while freeing up agents for personal contact and product related interactions. 

Chandni Bhatt
Chandni Bhatt
Beauty Pie
Senior Manager, Member Happiness (CX)
Chandni is a veteran in the CX space with a demonstrated history of working with rapid growth businesses in the e-commerce environment within the fashion and beauty industry. Background in handling multiple complex projects and managing large offshore teams in EMEA and North America. Curious, innovative, hands on approach. Thrives on creating cost effective solutions and challenging existing processes to create efficiencies. 

Specialising in subscription models, automation and digital transformations, retention, CX and developing high performing teams. Highly skilled in Vendor Management, Contact Centre Scaling, self-service and VOC. Digital Services such as Social Media, Community and consumer reviews. 
Daniel House
Daniel House
New Look
Senior Customer Engagement & Support Manager

Daniel has worked in retail for over 15 years, in brands such as Debenhams, Sainsburys and McDonalds.

As well as extensive customer service experience, he has also worked within Learning & Development and Communication & Press teams. He has worked at New Look for 6 years, supporting the launch of the retail customer survey ‘New Look Listens’, store service training and contact centre retention. Most recently, he has been co-heading up a team of over 70, delivering first line customer service to over 600,000 customers a year. In his current role, he has supported the in-housing of customer support from an external contact centre, helped switch New Look to a digital only Care team and built an extensive programme of training and development called ‘Steps to Success’.

Outside of Customer Care, Dan resides in Southampton, Hampshire with his husband Declan and 10 year old cat, Willow
16:45-17:00 Closing Remarks
9.00 - 9.10 Chair's Opening Remarks

Our Main stage Morning Host Martin Hill-Wilson sets the scene for a day.

Speaker:

Martin Hill-Wilson
Martin Hill-Wilson
Brainfood Consulting
Founder
I'm a customer engagement and digital business strategist. Also an author and international keynote speaker. Working under my own brand, Brainfood Consulting, I design masterclasses and transformational change helping clients evolve their social and digital capabilities. Current topics include omni-channel design, proactive, low effort customer experience, social customer service and customer hubs. All themed around service innovation.
9.10 - 9.30 Customer Contact: How Generation Z is Different

Davies Hickman, market research and customer experience experts based in Henley on Thames, collaborated with Engage Business Media to conduct research with 502 Gen Zs (born between 1996 and 2005), comparing their choices and preferences with a 501 UK nationally representative sample in January 2024.

Our research with 1,003 UK adults explores how Gen Z, as customers, want to use communication channels and interact with organisations. How they are already using generative AI, such as ChatGPT, to power their customer contact with UK organisations. Gen Z are much more likely than others to research products and practices of organisations. Many are using generative AI to understand their consumer rights and to access templates for making complaints. For those managing Customer Contact in organisations, this creates the prospect of a new generation that are more knowledgeable and empowered than any customers before them. The research also shows that Gen Z has sought customer service more than the national average. In the presentation we explore how Gen Z is different to others, we analyse their uses of channels when communicating with organisations – whether it be researching items that they want to buy or for customer service.

Speakers:

Jo Davies
Jo Davies
Davies Hickman
Global Director of Market Research

Jo and Marcus are founders of Davies Hickman Partners, set up in 2007. Responsible for one of the longest-running tracker studies of customer contact – The Autonomous Customer – they are market research advisers to the customer experience and contact centre industry, that includes some of the leading customer service associations. In 2023, Davies Hickman Partners were finalists in the Content Marketing Institute awards for research on AI for CX. Jo is on the BSI and ISO committee responsible for developing Contact centre, Customer service excellence and Complaint handling standards.

Marcus Hickman
Marcus Hickman
Davies Hickman
Managing Director

Jo and Marcus are founders of Davies Hickman Partners, set up in 2007. Responsible for one of the longest-running tracker studies of customer contact – The Autonomous Customer – they are market research advisers to the customer experience and contact centre industry, that includes some of the leading customer service associations. In 2023, Davies Hickman Partners were finalists in the Content Marketing Institute awards for research on AI for CX. Jo is on the BSI and ISO committee responsible for developing Contact centre, Customer service excellence and Complaint handling standards.

9.30 - 9.50 Making Customer Contact a Catalyst for Disruption

Nearly every company makes disruption their goal. Most focus on finding the right innovation or idea but to achieve disruption its more about a strategy that meets the needs of your future customers, bold leadership, and a culture that embraces change.

The strategy, leadership, and culture of your contact centre can and should be a catalyst for achieving disruption. Contact centres must embrace the opportunity to lead the charge to meet the needs of your future customers by evolving from the status quo.

Grant will be breaking down the why, how and what for contact centres to go from siloed innovation to true industry disruption through strategy, tech and AI.

Speaker:

Grant Hartanov
Grant Hartanov
Sprinklr
Associate Vice President

Grant Hartanov is an Associate Vice President and leader of Sprinklr’s CXM Best Practices Group.  In this role, he leads Sprinklr’s internal strategy consulting team of CX experts who advise our most strategic accounts and C-Suite level clients on CXM Best Practices and Digital Transformation.​ Prior to Sprinklr, Grant worked at Marriott International where he led Strategy and Innovation for its Loyalty program, Bonvoy.  He also spent several years at Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy Practice, Monitor, where he led large diverse teams and advised several Fortune 100 C-Suite executives on CX Strategy and Digital Transformation.​ Earlier in his career - Grant spent close to a decade working for the US Government where he worked in over 20 countries on international diplomacy, trade, and security.

 

9.50 - 10.10 The State of Customer Obsession

Customer obsession, which involves putting customers at the centre of leadership, strategy and operations, is critical to business success. Customer-obsessed companies increase revenue, profitability, customer retention, and employee engagement faster than other firms. In Europe, firms are increasingly prioritising their customer obsession maturity with 42% of European firms claiming to be customer-committed or customer-obsessed in 2023, compared to just 28% in 2022.

To efficiently and consistently create value for customers, and therefore drive business value, firms must understand customer needs and create empathetic customer connections. Executives at customer-obsessed firms in Europe unanimously agree that their firms have a strong understanding of what their customers want from them. In addition, they believe that their firms will build and maintain stronger customer relationships and out-innovate their competitors.

In this presentation, Michelle will explain the benefits of a customer-obsessed strategy and the steps firms can take to improve their customer obsession maturity.

Speaker:

Michelle Beeson
Michelle Beeson
Forrester
Senior Analyst

Michelle is a senior analyst at Forrester. Her research focuses on omnichannel customer experience, digital trends, and digital commerce strategies for consumer-facing brands, including luxury. During her time at Forrester, as a consultant and an analyst, Michelle has worked with a wide range of clients to help them understand how digital technology and changing consumer behavior and expectations are impacting organizations and transforming business models.

10:10 - 10:30 Optimising high-performance customer culture with the power of Interaction Analytics
Insurance provider Tryg creates security and value for their 5.7 million Nordic customers – and now they’re planning for the future, focusing on operational efficiency, customer experience, and their rich portfolio of services. By deploying Verint Interaction Analytics, Tryg Privat DK can analyze data for insights into customer satisfaction, churn, service issues, agent performance, and more. This enables the company to support its “Go high”, “Claim high”, and “High performer” employee program, with exceptional employees offered “high performance” coaching and training to help them accelerate to the next level within both the private and claims departments. Join Ditte Gjørup Larsen to explore the inspirational Tryg success story and its exceptional results for employees and customers alike.
Speaker:

Ditte Gjørup Larsen
Ditte Gjørup Larsen
Tryg
Etnologist and Speech Analytics Specialist
With a background in anthropology and literature, Ditte works with agent and customer behavior, needs and motivation. She looks at, interpret and communicate insights from both qualitative and quantitative data to help Tryg provide the best customer experience, and meet quality, efficiency and sales KPIs.   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
Head to the Expo Hall to meet our sponsors, network with industry peers and enjoy a coffee with a delicious snack prepared by ex-Nobu chef Tom Gore.
11.00 - 11.20 Quality in the Contact Centre: A Fireside Chat with Faye Bailey, Quality Lead at Halfords
Faye joins us for an exclusive fireside chat that outlines how Halfords are continuously improving the quality of their contact centre.
Speaker:

Faye Bailey
Faye Bailey
Halfords
Quality Lead
I hope the following gives you an idea of exactly how passionate I am, not only about Customer Service and Quality, but the development of others and helping everyone to be the best that they can be! I've spent the last 20 years evolving with customers to ensure I know what GREAT service looks like. The peak of my career so far is winning the Bronze Aware for Quality Manager at the 2023 CCMA Awards. From sales, high level complaint handling, training, to award winning quality management, I'm not just passionate about customers; I'm equally dedicated to creating a positive space for my colleagues. What sets me apart is my commitment to the human side of service. In a world obsessed with data, I believe in focusing on people. It's not just about numbers; it's about connecting and understanding. By prioritising the human element, I've seen how service transforms from a transaction to an unforgettable experience. I am also working toward my Level 5 Professional Coaching qualification. I truly believe in the power of happy colleagues to deliver exceptional service, and as Leaders it is through coaching and engagement that we can achieve this. 
11.20 - 11.40 Hyper-Personalisation in Customer Care: A Fireside Chat with Derek McWhinnie, Head of Customer Care at Zurich Insurance
Join our fireside chat with Zurich's Head of Customer Care, Derek McWhinnie, as he shares how they're hyper-personalising customer contact and empowering agents to create a truly customer-centric culture.
Speaker:

Derek Mcwhinnie
Derek Mcwhinnie
Zurich Insurance Company
Head of Customer Care

Derek has worked at Zurich for over 17 years and is currently Head of Customer Care in the UK.  His remit spans across several areas, covering customer feedback, communications, complaints handling, and their approach to customer wellbeing. In 2023 he led the roll out of the consumer duty and prior to his current role worked in transformational change. Derek started his career as a contact centre agent and prides himself on still being able to connect with customers on a meaningful level and drive a focus on the experiences they have with Zurich. Derek sees a clear pathway between the use of technology and the need to still have a human touch and how both elements can help deliver the best possible service to customers.

11.40 - 12.00 How to get started with AI in 5 simple steps

The top challenge in 2024?

Businesses of all sizes and across all industries need to find the best way to leverage AI technology into their daily business operations, so they can reap the benefits of operational and agent efficiency, cost savings and more. Yet, the biggest deterrent of AI is strategic planning - in other words, knowing how to actually get started. Join this stream to learn the 5 simplified, concrete steps your organization needs to take in order to get started with AI - including a product capability checklist, top use cases and KPIs and more.

Speaker:

Dvir Hoffman
Dvir Hoffman
CommBox
CEO

As the current CEO of one of the leading AI-based customer service and engagement solutions in our market, Dvir has over two decades of experience in technology innovation and product strategy. Dvir has pioneered several innovations in the realm of CX technologies, guiding them from their inception and transforming them into award-winning global CX and AI enterprise solutions. His original vision on autonomous agents catalyzing a revolution in the customer experience domain to ultimately create an Autonomous Enterprise is resonating around the world. Dvir is also a winemaker, his favorite being Petite Sirah, and he lives with his wife and three children in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.

 

12.00 - 12.20 Belrons award winning VOC programme

This presentation will jump into the detail of how Belron have been on a journey to re design the Voice of the Customer programme. The why, the how and the what next in maintaining a world class NPS, improving the customer experience and understanding why customers might not choose the Belron brand…

Speaker:

Jamie Carter
Jamie Carter
Belron
Voice of the Customer Manager
Jamie has worked across Autoglass UK and Belron International for 15 years, with experience in the contact centre, in the field and in the corporate centre, he has used his business knowledge, together with Voice of the Customer to develop a programme for Belron to maintain the world class NPS they have achieved for 10 years plus.
12.20 - 12.40 Unlock the power of intelligent CX
Get ready to level up your customer experience with a splash of Zendesk charm! Our latest study pulls back the curtain on the top ten trends you need to know to unlock the power of intelligent CX. This talk is your shortcut to the future, packing trends and hands-on strategies into bite-sized wisdom you can act on right away and make your customer experience stand out.
Speaker:

Eric Jorgensen
Eric Jorgensen
Zendesk
VP, EMEA Enterprise

Eric Jorgensen is VP of Enterprise for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Zendesk. In this role, he is responsible for driving the company’s growth in the region, working with larger customers and more complex projects as Zendesk continues to accelerate growth in the Enterprise segment. Eric was most recently at New Relic as Senior Director Enterprise Sales. Prior to that Eric was Director Telecoms Segment at Dell Technologies working with the largest CSP in EMEA, where he led the largest commercial relationship in EMEA. Eric has also held a range of sales and leadership roles at IBM and other smaller early stage software companies.

12.40 - 13..40 Lunch Break
Head to the Expo Hall to enjoy a delicious free lunch, chat with peers and meet our sponsors
13.40 - 14.00 Navigating the Future: A Journey Through CX Transformation for Customer-Centric Excellence

Join us for an insightful talk that delves into the intricacies of Customer Experience (CX) transformation. In this session, we will explore a comprehensive CX transformation program designed to revolutionise our company into a customer-centric powerhouse. Discover the strategic initiatives, innovative approaches, and the technology-driven solutions that drive this transformative journey.

Speaker:

Abdul Khaled
Abdul Khaled
E.ON
Head of Digital Customer Experience
Abdul leads the digital and customer experience function at E.ON’s new challenger brand in the UK – E.ON Next. With extensive digital experience, Abdul has been involved in leading digital strategy, transformation and growth at global brands, most recently with Cisco and Subway, as well as driving innovation at several start-ups both nationally and internationally. At E.ON Next Abdul is currently building a new digital-first product and CX team tasked with disrupting and revolutionising the energy space. His focus is on high performance, innovative ways of working and culture building. He regularly shares his expertise through webinars, conferences and thought leadership pieces as well as coaching upcoming digital leaders.
14.00 - 14.20 Turning Conversations into Business Intelligence: Unlocking Insights to Drive Better Customer Experiences and Business Outcomes

Organisations have more data than ever before, but unlocking its full potential isn't always easy. 43% of businesses lack clarity on how to act on data insights, and 84% of employees believe their boards’ use of CX data needs improvement.

This session will explore the important role of data-driven actionable insights, and how uncovering customer patterns, sentiments, preferences, and pain points from multiple sources are pivotal in delivering personalised experiences, refining products and services, and driving transformational changes enterprise wide.

Speaker:

Mark Lockyer
Mark Lockyer
CallMiner
International Sales Director

With 20 years in the ever-changing contact centre and client engagement spaces, Mark has worked with some of the largest global entities on transformation projects ensuring technology delivers on expectation. Passionate about bringing agent and customer evaluation together through the power of speech and conversation analytics. Mark can draw on successful client projects that have delivered exceptional ROIs and Transformational change across entire organisations. Notable Brands – Dell, Orange, Ageas, Direct line, Teleperformance, HSBC, TeliaSonera, E.ON, BNP Paribas.

14.20 - 14.40 Naked Wines Case Study: Habits of Happiness

We were delighted to win Engage Customer’s ‘Best Customer Service Team’ award back in 2022. It was the seal of approval to complement the comments we see from customers each day, like this one:

“I always love the personal and human responses I get. They fully represent the naked wines brand - brilliant customer engagement - thank you. I’m involved in developing sales training and you guys are my case study of excellence.”

This talk breaks down the habits we’ve put in place, and keep at the forefront of our minds, to make sure that our team members and our customers stay happy, and to ensure we never lose sight of the human element that’s vital to increasing customer loyalty and advocacy for our brand.

Speaker:

Neil Gregory
Neil Gregory
Naked Wines
Head of Customer Happiness

Neil joined Naked Wines all the way back in October 2013 as a member of the Customer Happiness Team, answering calls and emails in the run up to a busy Christmas. Since then, he’s moved through a number of roles at Naked, but always with a focus on customer experience. He now heads up the team he first joined, and firmly believes that his colleagues are also his customers, and that the best customer experience begins with the best team experience.  In a former life, Neil was a tennis coach – a job that taught him more than he first realised about teams, motivation and customer service.

14.40 - 15.00 The Road to Innovation: Panasonic’s CX Evolution Through Messaging & Automation
This session will explore Panasonic’s evolution in elevating its customer experience. You’ll hear about the history of the iconic brand, their CX challenges and why they decided to update the CX journey with messaging and automation. We’ll share insight into their initial learnings and successes. The presentation culminates with a forward-looking perspective, unveiling a 'crawl, walk, run' roadmap envisioned for future enhancements. This roadmap serves as a blueprint for businesses looking to embark on a similar journey of CX transformation.
Speakers:

Ejieme Eromoele
Ejieme Eromoele
Quiq
GM of EMEA

Ejieme Eromosele is an experienced customer advocate focused on enhancing customer experiences at top companies. As General Manager of EMEA at Quiq, she leads the region's go-to-market strategy, advising brands on using messaging and AI to improve customer interactions, increase sales, and reduce costs. With a strong background in management consulting at Accenture and PwC, and as former Managing Director of Customer Experience at The New York Times, Ejieme has a proven track record in boosting customer growth, retention, and loyalty.

Adam Neale
Adam Neale
Panasonic Europe
Head of CS Governance
Eugen Majeri
Eugen Majeri
Panasonic
Digital Services Manager
Eugen is an experienced Digital Customer Experience Manager at Panasonic, leveraging technology and creativity to facilitate a frictionless digital customer journey through content and innovative solutions.
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
Head to the Expo Hall to meet our sponsors, network with industry peers and enjoy a coffee with a delicious snack prepared by ex-Nobu chef Tom Gore.
15.30 - 15.45 Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work

This session will provide the answers to the following questions:

  • Where is innovation in AI going next?
  • What will this mean for the Future of Work and Customer Contact?
  • How should employers and employees navigate an AI change period?
Speaker:

Rob Garlick
Rob Garlick
Citi Global Insights
Head of Innovation, Technology & the Future of Work

Rob Garlick, Managing Director, is Head of Innovation, Technology, and the Future of Work at Citi Global Insights (CGI). CGI researches, publishes, and speaks on change topics to Citi’s corporate, investor, and public sector clients. Rob has spent 30 years researching and advising on innovation areas, including starting Citi’s Disruptive Innovation GPS series in 2013. Rob has been writing about the Future of Work since 2015 (9 reports). Other recent reports include Artificial Intelligence (>10 reports), Quantum Computing and Digital Policy. Rob joined Citi in 1996 and previous roles at the firm include: Head of Citi Research EMEA from 2016- 2021, leading the team’s (of c.200) rise in the Institutional Investor surveys, from: #7 to #1 in UK, #9 to #2 in Western European, #7 to #2 in CEEMEA, and #7 to #1 globally; Global Product Head at Citi Research, driving industry-leading thematic content (#1 rated by Extel), including founding Citi’s Global Theme Machine; running Citi's US Equity Sales desk in the UK to some of the world’s leading asset managers and hedge funds; and a No.1 rated (II) Global Specialist Salesperson, covering Media and Telecommunications. Other industry awards included: Best ETF Research providers by ETF Express; and Best Innovation paper by Savvy Investor. Rob started his career in Fund Management in 1993 at Singer & Friedlander, where he helped run the US equity fund. Rob passed the AIIMR (Associate of the Institute of Investment Management & Research) as a prize-winner in Interpretation of Accounts & Corporate Finance. Among other industry qualifications, Rob holds a BSc (Econ) degree in Accounting and Management, an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change and is a qualified Executive Coach.

15.45 - 16.15 Creating a Truly Empathetic Customer Experience
In a world of functional targets, angry customers, and working remotely, how can contact centres create a truly human and empathetic contact centre experience? John and Owain will share the lessons from their award-winning Empathy Training Programme that raised NPS, reduced repeat calls, and created happier colleagues.
Speakers:

John Sills
John Sills
The Foundation
Managing Partner

John Sills is Managing Partner at the customer-led growth company, The Foundation, and author of Leadership Book of the Year 2023, The Human Experience. 25 years ago, he started his career on a market stall in Essex, and since then has worked in and with companies around the world to make things better for customers. He’s been in front-line teams delivering the experience, innovation teams designing the propositions, and global HQ teams creating the strategy. He's been a bank manager during the financial crisis (not fun), launched a mobile app to millions of people (very fun), and regularly visits strangers’ houses to ask very personal questions (incredible fun). He now works with companies across industries and around the world, and before joining The Foundation spent twelve years at HSBC, latterly as Head of Customer Innovation. His first book on the topic - The Human Experience - was published by Bloomsbury in February 2023, and his writing has been featured in The Guardian, The FT, and Management Today. 

Owain Service
Owain Service
Cogco
CEO

Owain is the CEO of CogCo. His focus lies in helping organisations to build their internal capabilities relating to the behaviours of their customers and employees; and in the practical application of behavioural science. He is also an Honorary Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick University. He was previously the co-founder and Managing Director of the UK Government’s Behavioural Insights Team and before that was a Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. In his spare time, Owain enjoys cooking elaborate meals, and hanging out with his young family.

16.15 - 16.30 The Importance of Service Strategy in CX: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Reeder, Service Strategy Manager at Sky
Service Strategy is a key aspect of Service Management.  It’s the pillar that ensures that businesses deliver effective changes to services that will improve and enhance the customer experience.

In this fireside chat, Sarah will share her thoughts and experience of Service Strategy.  She’ll cover the role of data and analytics, storytelling and the importance of balancing service economics, to shape organisational decision-making in CX and transformation projects.
Speaker:

Sarah Reeder
Sarah Reeder
Sky
Service Strategy Manager

Sarah is a Service Strategy Manager working in Technology within Sky Group Service Management, focused on Digital Service and CX Transformation. Her role provides thought leadership, insight, and strategy; supporting the business to deliver data-driven, measurable, effective transformation. She’s also the co-owner of the Sky Group Service Management Wellbeing pillar, creating team-wide activities and awareness to support our people and promote healthy work-life balance.

16.30 - 17.00 Panel Discussion: Current Challenges and Opportunities Shaping the Future of Customer Contact
Join us for a panel discussion delving into the evolving landscape of customer contact. In an era marked by technological leaps and changing consumer expectations, organisations face both challenges and exciting opportunities in their quest to connect meaningfully with customers. Our expert panelists will explore the intricacies of leveraging technology, managing multichannel communication, and addressing emerging trends. Discover innovative strategies and insights to navigate the ever-changing customer contact landscape, ensuring your organisation remains at the forefront of exceptional customer experiences.
Speakers:

Jane Redgrave
Jane Redgrave
Bupa
Head of Consumer Retention

Jane is an accomplished leader with a passion for delivering best in class customer service for customers. She has worked in a number of teams inside and outside of the contact centre for over 25 years, most recently leading the Loyalty & Retention teams that help Bupa maintain and grow its leading market position.  Jane believes that you get your best results by helping people develop and grow to be their very best - in and out of work - and that this accelerates engagement and business growth.

Faye Bailey
Faye Bailey
Halfords
Quality Lead
I hope the following gives you an idea of exactly how passionate I am, not only about Customer Service and Quality, but the development of others and helping everyone to be the best that they can be! I've spent the last 20 years evolving with customers to ensure I know what GREAT service looks like. The peak of my career so far is winning the Bronze Aware for Quality Manager at the 2023 CCMA Awards. From sales, high level complaint handling, training, to award winning quality management, I'm not just passionate about customers; I'm equally dedicated to creating a positive space for my colleagues. What sets me apart is my commitment to the human side of service. In a world obsessed with data, I believe in focusing on people. It's not just about numbers; it's about connecting and understanding. By prioritising the human element, I've seen how service transforms from a transaction to an unforgettable experience. I am also working toward my Level 5 Professional Coaching qualification. I truly believe in the power of happy colleagues to deliver exceptional service, and as Leaders it is through coaching and engagement that we can achieve this. 
Charlotte Owen
Charlotte Owen
Financial Times
Head of Customer Planning & Customer Relationships
Fiercely passionate about devising creative solutions that put emphasis on achieving a best-in-class customer experience, whilst also achieving sustainable and long-lasting commercial growth. A Voice of the Customer expert with over 10 years of experience in companies ranging from bootstrapped high-growth start-ups to world-leading organisations. Committed to embedding qualitative and quantitative analytics into the everyday mindset of marketeers.
“It was an insightful conference with a lot of opportunity to learn alongside connect with people from different backgrounds, all looking to enhance customer service in different ways”
Senior MI Analyst Shell Energy Ltd
“The whole day from start to finish was excellent. The different presentations, fire side chats, opportunity to engage with suppliers and to network has really opened up some opportunities. Plus the food and drink was such a lovely surprise as wasn't expecting this :)”
Customer Proposition Lead British Airways
“Extremely well set up. Individual sessions were punchy and to the point. Having multiple rooms meant you could ensure content watched was appropriate Venue was great"
Customer Engagement Manager 1705369
“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.”
Business Innovation and Customer Experience NHS

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Ideally located in the West End within walking distance of the Victoria London train station, the stylish Park Plaza Victoria London provides guests with a convenient transportation link to Gatwick Airport. The hotel is also close to coach, bus and Underground stations.

Enjoy proximity to the capital’s primary tourist sites, such as Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, Theatreland and Big Ben. Business travellers can take advantage of on-site meeting facilities and an Executive Lounge.

Situated just two minutes from the Gatwick Express and National Rail service at London Victoria Station, Park Plaza gives you easy access to Central London, Gatwick Airport and the south side of England.

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Take the Northern Line towards Morden on the London Underground

Depart at Moorgate Station

Walk north on Moorgate/A501  for 7 minutes

Turn left on to Chiswell St

The Brewery will be on your left

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