Agenda Day One - Wednesday 6th March 2024 [GMT]

8:00 am - 8:30 am REGISTRATION & NETWORKING BREAKFAST

8:30 am - 8:35 am CUSTOMER CONTACT WEEK EXCHANGE: WELCOME FROM THE EVENT DIRECTOR

8:35 am - 8:45 am CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS & WELCOME

Andrew Crozier - ex-Head of Player Services, Camelot
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Andrew Crozier

ex-Head of Player Services
Camelot

8:45 am - 9:10 am PRESENTATION: INSIGHTS FROM THE CONTACT CENTRE OF THE YEAR: DELIVERING CUSTOMER EXCELLENCE THROUGH EMPLOYEE ADVOCACY & ESAT MEASUREMENT

Paul Greenwood - Customer Service Director, Ocado Retail

From opening their doors in 2019 with only 35 colleagues and their culture statements in hand, Ocado’s Customer Hub was very much in its infancy when being awarded Contact Centre of the Year. So, how did they achieve this when up against contact centres that had been operating for decades? The short answer: their people. Despite having grown their FTE count at a colossal rate, their culture statement “always be curious, bring your best self and challenge what’s possible” remained front of mind for all. With an average NPS score of 47, CSAT score of 79% and FCR at 87%, it’s clear what prioritising employee happiness can do for customers. By encouraging meaningful career paths, surveying employees regularly and adapting the interview process to allow candidates to immerse themselves into their future role, Ocado’s ESAT score is at a steady and respectable 8.5. In this session, Paul will unveil insights on how Ocado built a strong culture that earned them such prestigious recognition in record time.



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Paul Greenwood

Customer Service Director
Ocado Retail

9:10 am - 9:35 am PRESENTATION: CREATE CUSTOMER PARADISE WITH CONVERSATIONAL AI: HOW LOVEHOLIDAYS HANDLE 70% OF THEIR CS ENQUIRIES WITH ‘SANDY’ THE CHATBOT

Eugene Neale - Director of Business IT and CX Engineering, loveholidays

You might not be surprised to hear that chatbots get a bad reputation in the press. The moment you know you’re talking to a chatbot about a highly emotional issue, you begin spamming “TALK TO A HUMAN” on your keyboard. 70% of loveholidays’ customers do not share that same frustrating experience. As Britain’s 3rd largest travel agent who have scaled their operations 3 times in 3 years, now with around 3 million customers, it was critical that new technology introduced was a help rather than a hindrance to the customer journey. In this session, we will hear insights from Eugene Neale as to how being a technology business is loveholidays’ primary focus, and selling services is secondary to that. With their contact centre being led by the CIO, the loveholidays customer service team is intrinsically connected to the IT function, resulting in as smooth a customer journey as possible when implementing new tech.



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Eugene Neale

Director of Business IT and CX Engineering
loveholidays

9:35 am - 10:00 am PRESENTATION: A MASTERCLASS ON HOW TO PRACTICALLY SCALE-UP YOUR CONVERSATIONAL & GENERATIVE AI EFFORTS TO CLOSE THE CUSTOMER SERVICE GAP

Alan Ranger - Vice President Marketing, Cognigy

•  Hear case studies of organisations successfully implementing generative and 

conversational AI today 

• Understand how these tools can support agents in real-time to allow them to serve 

customers with the most pressing issues 

• Increase customer satisfaction by curating seamlessly automated experiences ultimately diverting traffic away from the call centre 

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Alan Ranger

Vice President Marketing
Cognigy

10:00 am - 10:10 am NETWORKING BREAK


10:15 am - 10:45 am ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS MEETINGS

Use our concierge service for consultative 1-2-1 meetings to enable much-needed networking and meetings with potential partners.

10:50 am - 11:20 am ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS MEETINGS

Use our concierge service for consultative 1-2-1 meetings to enable much-needed networking and meetings with potential partners.

11:25 am - 11:50 am PRESENTATION: BRINGING EMPATHY TO CUSTOMER VULNERABILITY: ALLEVIATE PRESSURE FROM THE FRONT-LINE & GAIN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Simon Poots - Head of Innovation Lab, Standard Life
Riffat Tufail - Head of Customer Vulnerability, Standard Life

With 56% of adults being identified as vulnerable under new Consumer Duty monitoring, it has never been more urgent for customer facing organisations to prepare their CX teams to deal with challenges. The consequence of vulnerability mismanagement results in front line agents bearing the weight of navigating already tough conversations with even tougher parameters in place. In this session, we hear how Riffat created a centre of excellence for the vulnerable customer within Standard Life. As a result of her work in implementing immersive tools and augmented reality to train the front line, CSAT and PSAT scores are higher for vulnerable customers compared to scores for non-vulnerable customers, and agent empowerment has sky rocketed.

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Simon Poots

Head of Innovation Lab
Standard Life

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Riffat Tufail

Head of Customer Vulnerability
Standard Life

11:50 am - 12:15 pm PRESENTATION: NAVIGATING THE 7 CHALLENGES FOR THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FUTURE: INSIGHTS FROM 200+ CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPARTMENTS

  • Compare your CX priorities and challenges with over 200 customer service departments. Remove painful points in your customer’s journeys and serve customers with empathy
  • Benchmark technology adoption, operations and KPIs to help you plan ahead
  • Exclusive Guide Access: Get in-depth insights & solutions for navigating top customer service challenges of 2024


12:20 pm - 12:50 pm ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS MEETINGS

Use our concierge service for consultative 1-2-1 meetings to enable much-needed networking and meetings with potential partners.

12:50 pm - 1:50 pm NETWORKING LUNCH

Enjoy a delicious lunch over conversation with your CX peers.

12:50 pm - 1:50 pm INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE: BRING VULERNABILITY TO LIFE WITH VIRTUAL REALITY
Simon Poots - Head of Innovation Lab, Standard Life
Riffat Tufail - Head of Customer Vulnerability, Standard Life

Put yourself in the shoes of your most vulnerable customers and front-line agents through virtual reality. With Standard Life's cutting-edge technology used to train their own agents, you can step into a virtual world to learn and understand exactly what it is like for your employees to be dealing with some of their most difficult conversations.

 

Get ready to immerse yourself in these challenging situations to take away practical lessons that can be applied to the contact centre post-event. Join this experience to build your business case for improving personalised attention and curate individual support journeys for vulnerable customers.

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Simon Poots

Head of Innovation Lab
Standard Life

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Riffat Tufail

Head of Customer Vulnerability
Standard Life

1:50 pm - 2:20 pm ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS MEETINGS

Use our concierge service for consultative 1-2-1 meetings to enable much-needed networking and meetings with potential partners.

2:25 pm - 2:55 pm ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS MEETINGS

Use our concierge service for consultative 1-2-1 meetings to enable much-needed networking and meetings with potential partners.

  • How to find the ‘Golden thread’ of customer feedback to inform business decisions and improve the customer journey
  • Remove painful points in your customer’s journeys and serve customers with empathy
  • Cater to segmented customer groups to drive revenue and retention
  • Learn how scale customer journeys alongside business growth
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Duncan McCombie

Chair of Customer Engagement Group
National Grid Electricity Distribution

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Rachel Angell

Chief Operating Officer
Domus Stay

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Samyutha Balasubramaniam

Head of Customer Experience Design
Great British Railways Transition Team

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Tracy Barr

Head of Customer Experience
Northern Railway

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm PRESENTATION: UNLOCKING AI FOR CX WITH ENTERPRISE ACTION AUTOMATION

Marc Chabot - Chief Revenue Officer, Zingtree

You're on a mission to wow your customers and your team. But as your business grows, complexity follows. More systems, data, customer segments, and complex products. Increased compliance and evolving processes. 


With this complexity, intentional process, and regulation, how can you enable AI, let alone your team, to get it done?


Join Marc Chabot, CRO at Zingtree, at the CCW UK Exchange to explore how AI-driven enterprise action automation can enhance agent performance and customer self-service.



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Marc Chabot

Chief Revenue Officer
Zingtree

3:55 pm - 4:45 pm ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Join these highly collaborative 40-minute group discussions with your peers. You will have the choice to attend one of three sessions taking place across multiple tracks. Share your CX insights, troubles, advice and everything in-between!

Roundtable Discussion

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm A: HARNESS AI-POWERED APPS FOR A SEAMLESS CUSTOMER JOURNEY
Nicholas Hartley - Customer Director, Motorway
  • Utilise your company app as a means for differentiation to improve your customer’s experiences
  • Understand how AI can be applied to enhance your customer’s journey
  • Reduce customer effort in interacting with your brand to increase conversion 
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Nicholas Hartley

Customer Director
Motorway

Roundtable Discussion

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm B: OPTIMISE YOUR CUSTOMER OPERATIONS & CREATE A STRONG FOUNDATION TO SUPERCHARGE GROWTH & CSAT
Alice Hunt - Head of Technology Services, Hastings Direct

• Consider the foundations of a great customer service strategy such as your existing tools, systems, team and products

• Drill into the fundamentals to ensure maximum efficiency has been achieved before layering on new tools and technologies

• Discuss a realistic roadmap into the future of your customer service strategy according to your starting point and end goal

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Alice Hunt

Head of Technology Services
Hastings Direct

Roundtable Discussion

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm C: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT A SEAMLESS CUSTOMER JOURNEY BY UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOUR CUSTOMERS TRULY WANT
  • Tap into what your customers care about most 
  • Map out, design and curate a seamless customer journey tailored to customer profiles within your CRM 
  • How to practically implement new concepts

Roundtable Discussion

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm D: KEEP IT SIMPLE: WHY KEEPING EMPLOYEE HAPPINESS AT THE TOP OF THE AGENDA WILL RESULT IN HAPPIER CUSTOMERS
Jon Kirby - Head of UK Operations – Insourcing, Customer Intelligence and Learning & Development, dnata Travel Group
  • Use employee feedback to craft training, learn to implement leadership programmes and implement apprenticeships to incentivise new employees 
  • Build a culture of skilled workers with autonomy to create a stronger CS team that can consistently deliver a fantastic experience for their customers  

 

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Jon Kirby

Head of UK Operations – Insourcing, Customer Intelligence and Learning & Development
dnata Travel Group

5:00 pm - 5:10 pm NETWORKING BREAK


5:15 pm - 5:45 pm ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS MEETINGS

Use our concierge service for consultative 1-2-1 meetings to enable much-needed networking and meetings with potential partners.

5:50 pm - 6:20 pm ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS MEETINGS

Use our concierge service for consultative 1-2-1 meetings to enable much-needed networking and meetings with potential partners.

6:20 pm - 7:50 pm EVENING DRINKS RECEPTION