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09:00 |
Forum Introduction by Chairperson
Highlights on Forum Day 1 Key Sessions |
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Antoine Casgrain
Head of Wealth Direct Services (WDS)
National Australia Bank (NAB) / MLC
Antoine is currently the ‘Head of Wealth Direct’ for the National Australia Bank. He leads the Contact Center and Digital Services for all Superannuation and Investments contacts for customers, employers and financial advisers. Previously Antoine held a lead strategic role with the Retail and Customer Contact Center arm of the National Bank of Canada.
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THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE TRANSFORMATION: FROM TRADITIONAL TO OMNI-CHANNEL
As the digital revolution gains momentum, many organizations today are desperately in becoming more “digital” in order to maintain business sustainability in the marketplace. Becoming “digital”, it essentially influences the customer journey and changes customers’ decision making process. By 2017, 80% of the organizations intent to compete on the basis of customer experience and service in contact centres. In order to outperform their competitors, organizations are moving with their customer and investing heavily on digital multi-channel platforms including self-service, social media, web chat and more, utilizing technologies to reach out to, engage and satisfy their customers.
In the following sessions, you will have an overview of customer care experience transformation from the past till to-date, understanding the changing demands of customers in the digital age that drive the traditional contact centre into Omni-channel digital contact centre, discovering the elements of a successful design of contact centre in meeting/exceeding customers’ expectation as well as the mapping experience through customer journey at every touch point.
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09:10 |
Mapping Effective Digital Customer Experience Journey in your Organization by Matching Touchpoints with Customer Expectations
- Overview of customer experience for the past 5 years
- Sharing the top challenges and issues that organizations usually face in customer experience journey
- Mapping and understanding the digital customer experience and guiding on transformation efforts
- Creating customer experience strategies to understand your digital customer’s preference, expectation and decision making process in the virtual marketplace
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Christopher Ryan
Head of Customer Experience
Koala
Chris is serious about designing Digital Customer Experience and making every experience with a customer amazing and memorable. Focusing on analytics, detailed understanding of customers and constant measurement for outcomes while thinking different.
Having joined Koala as Head of Customer Experience at the end of 2016 after 10+ years driving change and improving customer’s digital experiences at companies such as Telstra & Westpac and some smaller companies.
Chris was instrumental in launching Telstra Live Chat at scale at time most organizations were only experimenting with Live Chat, growing to 500+ agents. Later leading the re-platform of the technology beyond a pure customer service channel to a platform designed to follow the customer.
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09:55 |
Transforming Call Center into Omni-Channel Digital Contact Center: Effective Solutions to Challenges Faced by Every Organizations
- Identify the root cause of call center into seamless experience through effective Omni-channel customer and staff engagement
- Implement best practices in developing effective Omni-channels for your organization to manage demand and needs to meet your customers’ requirement
- Strategies on how to manage social media effectively and develop training techniques to ensure employees are multi-skilled in all touch points
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Carly Irving
A/ Executive General Manager Customer and Corporate Relations
Energex
Highly accomplished, resilient executive manager and visionary leader, with experience in a wide range of operational roles, strategic planning, acquisitions/mergers and initial public offerings, in both start up and growth organizations. A transformational change leader who enjoys driving major organisational change based on: achieving efficiencies and improving productivity and meeting and improving customer outcomes and expectations while engaging multi skilled team.
Demonstrated experience in creating and leading high performing teams by providing a clear vision and feedback through empowering and encouraging an enthusiastic and energetic workplace. Strong results focus, driven, with clear successes in commercial outcomes, both in cost reductions and revenue increases in complex, diverse and ever changing environments. Broad operational experience in roles from sectors, private, public and Government of both a strategic and operational nature. Strong stakeholder management and network ability to connect with people at all levels.
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10:40 |
Morning Refreshments & Networking Session |
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Case Study – Customer Journey Mapping in the Heart of Digital Transformation
- How to empower your customer experience professionals to build, collaborate and manage all of your customer’s journey beyond visualization
- Understand and expand your knowledge of how customer behave
- Gain invaluable insights and improve on your customer acquisition and retention strategies
- Uncover effective tools in your disposal to better understand, interact, and served your customer
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Anand Thomas
Chief Customer Officer – Bancassurance, Digital & Direct Insurance
MLC Life Insurance
Anand Thomas was appointed Chief Customer Officer, Bancassurance, Digital and Direct Insurance in November 2015, and is responsible for MLC’s Bancassurance and Direct portfolio, and the delivery of quality protection solutions to customers through NAB channels (Consumer and Wealth, Business and Private,) and Direct channels. In addition, he is accountable for the Digital channels and Data transformation for the MLC Life Insurance business.
Previously Anand held senior leadership roles across a variety of NAB’s businesses including Digital, Compliance and NAB Wealth since joining NAB in 2010 as Head of Channel Development, in the Digital and Direct business.
Prior to joining NAB, Anand held a number of leadership roles at ANZ over 7 years in both Consumer Banking and Digital. During his time at ANZ, Anand spent time working with ANZ joint ventures in Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. Anand has worked internationally at OCBC Bank in Singapore and Citicorp in India.
Anand holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Madras, India.
He is currently a formal mentor for incumbent MBA graduates at Melbourne Business School.
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11:45 |
Improve Engagement, Develop Personalization with Effective Customer Data, Insights and Analytics
- Harvesting the correct data from your customer to keep up with growing customer expectation
- Uncovering customer behavioral insights in every touch point
- Effectively using data and analytics to develop persona based segmentation approach to digital customer experience
- Determining your customer’s experience trends by implementing real-time digital customer engagement service, big data, and storytelling to grow your business
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Nikoletta Buschkuehl
Head of Insights and Customer Engagement
iSelect
With a passion for all things ‘customer’, Niki prides herself on putting the customer at the centre of business decisions. She is a seasoned Insights and Customer Experience professional, having gained 16 years experience in retail, manufacturing and services industries. As the Head of Insights and Customer Engagement at iSelect, she is responsible for marketing optimization, CX design, and customer research.
When Niki is not enhancing the iSelect customer experience she enjoys being a customer herself and then putting these real life learnings into practice at iSelect.
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Yuval Marom
Head of Analytics & Data Services
iSelect
Yuval is an Analytics and Data Mining professional with extensive commercial and academic experience. Asthe Head of Analytics & Data Services at iSelect, he is responsible for the key functions that deliver commercial value from data. These functions include analytics, data science, data warehousing and business intelligence. His team contributes at both the strategic and operational levels of the business, across the on-line and call center channels, and in verticals such as health, car, and life insurance, as well as utilities, telco and home loans. Yuval is also the founder and co-organizer of the Data Science Melbourne meetup group, and the Melbourne R User Group.
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12:30 |
Reserved for Gold/Platinum Sponsor for Project Showcase |
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12:50 |
Networking Luncheon |
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OPTIMIZING YOUR ORGANIZATION SUCCESS THROUGH DIGITAL CUSTOMER JOURNEY MAPPING
In recent years we have seen the explosion of multi-channel platforms. To keep pace, many organizations started to develop a range of tools and techniques – from engagement websites and mobiles apps to convenient kiosks and well-organized stores. Yet companies do not integrate all these channels into relevant, connected and personalized customer experience. All efforts are vain and resulted in misuse of resources and lost opportunities.
To create successful customer experience milestones on your journey to digital, these sessions will show you how to leverage customer data & analytics in delivering effective digital service, explore how companies being able to meet customer demands and expectation by implementing culture of customer-centric, social listening, the voice of customer, personalized user experience and etc in maximizing the value of your digital customer care strategies in your contact center. The result can be gaining higher level of customer satisfaction and enhanced customer loyalty which in return generating greater sales for your business.
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14:20 |
Case Study: Contact Center Innovation. Using data to make Improvements in Customer Experience
- Gathering data from interactions to develop organizational learning
- Building Learning loops for improvement in the contact center and across the business
- Utilizing technology to support the Front Line
- The link between Customer Improvements and driving economic benefit
- Using root cause data to inform Customer Contact Strategy
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Rob Brown
General Manager, Customer Contact
GM HoldenRob joined GM Holden in October 2016 as General Manager Customer Contact, responsible for Customer Contact Strategy, Contact Centers including Digital Responses, Dealer Support and driving continuous improvement across the business.Prior to this Rob moved to Australia from the UK in May 2014 working at Telstra as Director, Advocacy Program. He was responsible for oversight of customer experience and advocacy programs introducing methods for building capability in teams and leaders to better respond to the requirements of customers and make systemic improvements.Prior to 2014, Rob was Systems Thinking lead for Aviva worldwide having introduced improvement methodologies into the UK business in 2008 as a means of improving customer service in the Life & Pensions areas. Rob continued to lead improvements across Aviva and Systems Thinking is now a recognized part of the core strategic capability set.Rob worked in senior Customer facing roles in a number of the Aviva businesses, focused on business turnarounds and significantly improving customer experience. Prior to this Rob worked in Finance and operational roles through a number of mergers and acquisitions at Aviva.Rob is a qualified accountant and a people centric, customer focused leader. He prides himself on harnessing the passion and energy of individuals and teams to create higher levels of performance. He is an experienced practitioner and leader of customer service improvement and process improvement methodologies. |
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15:05 |
Case Study – The Role of AI and Chatbot in Customer Engagement
- Putting chatbot alongside human agents to provide optimized, top-notched and cost-effective customer engagement
- The realities of what can be achieved today with chatbot
- The foundation to evolve chatbot and AI into an effective customer engagement strategy
- How to get started without breaking the bank
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Adam Spence
Managing Director, ANZ, [24]7
Former Head of Customer Service, Vodafone Qatar
Adam Spence has 20 years of experience in driving and implementing many leading contact center and customer experience initiatives at enterprises. In his first 14 years at Vodafone Australia. Adam drove the implementation of many leading network infrastructure and call center initiatives and created the world acclaimed and award winning “Lara” speech application. Adam was also part of Vodafone’s Global Customer Management Group where he assisted other Vodafone markets with the implementation of speech recognition solutions.
In 2009, Adam joined Nuance Communications as Asia Pacific Director for Mobile Care, working with APAC carriers and enterprises on development and deployment of their Handset Self-Care and Virtual Assistant programs.
In 2014, Adam re-joined Vodafone to head up Customer Care, Experience and Digital Transformation at Vodafone Qatar. One of the highlights is the deployment of the 24/7 Virtual assistant (“Hani”), Next-Best-Activity program and Net-Promoter-Score platform across all touch points as well as the operational management including customer care, billing and collections.
Adam joined [24]7 in late 2016 as the Managing Director for ANZ, where he leads business development, planning and operation of [24]7 business and customers in the Australia and New Zealand region.
Adam is also currently studying for his Masters in Digital Marketing from the Digital Marketing Institute.
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15:40 |
Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Session |
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16:00 |
Contact Center Culture Transformation: Creating a Culture of Customer-Centricity in your Organization
- Learning how to align your organization’s culture into customer’s needs and demands
- Breaking down functional silos to ensure employees are empowered with right the information to help with making business decisions in your contact Improve Engagement, Develop Personalization with Effective Customer Data, Insights and Analytics
- Implementing customer-centric strategies to reduce customer churn and building customer loyalty
- Providing trainings to frontline call Improve Engagement, Develop Personalization with Effective Customer Data, Insights and Analytics to deliver consisent knowledge on branding, value and culture
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Tom Mulligan
Head of Customer Experience
Sportsbet.com.au
Obsessed by designing and delivering incredible customer experiences, Tom is a future-focused CX Leader constantly striving for innovation and anticipating expectations of customers. Tom has worked as part of Operations and Contact center environments for over 12 years and most recently at Sportsbet has been striving to deliver the best possible service experience for the customer. Tom has achieved success in a range of fields including analytical insight, process design, quality and project delivery. Through Tom’s 3 years at Sportsbet he has learnt a great on how to share customer insights, get business buy in and achieve tangible customer outcomes.
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16:45 |
Panel Discussion: The Best Practices for Optimizing Digital Customer Care Experience in Contact Centers
- Learn how to measure the best practices in identifying customer’s interaction with your organizations
- What are the changes, action and impact in positioning your brand and solidifying customer loyalty?
- Convert your digital customer experience efforts into tangible business benefits
- Sharing of success stories in retrieval practices
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Moderator:
Antoine Casgrain, Head of Wealth Direct Services (WDS), National Australia Bank (NAB) / MLC
Panelist:
Carly Irving, A/Executive General Manager Customer and Corporate Relations, Energex
Rob Brown, General Manager Customer Contact, GM Holden
Nikoletta Buschkuehl, Head of Insights and Customer Engagement, iSelect
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17:30 |
Q&A Session & Closing Remark by Forum Chairperson |
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17:35 |
End of Day 1 |
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17:40
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Champagne Networking Session
Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates. |
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