Next Generation Customer Experience 2015 (past event)

March 23 - 25, 2015

Omni Hotels & Resorts, San Diego, CA

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Day 3: Customer Experience Disruptors & Success Factors

7:45 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 8:35 am Welcome Remarks

8:35 am - 8:45 am Chairperson’s Opening Address

Cassie Alvey, Former VP, General Manager at Mrs. Fields Gifts

Cassie Alvey

Former VP, General Manager
Mrs. Fields Gifts

8:45 am - 9:05 am Keynote: Connect The Dots: Managing The Customer Experience At Every Touch Point

• How do you build an omni channel experience, deliver it and measure it?
• What type of technology infrastructure is needed to offer a seamless experience?
• At what point do you decide to do a technology overhaul and what do you do in the meantime or during the transformation?

Jim Tax, VP, Client Management at USAA

Jim Tax

VP, Client Management
USAA

Creating impactful experiences in the mobile space is no easy task. Organizations are creating one-off mobile strategies without first considering why people need mobile in the first place. How are people engaging on mobile and for what reasons? How will people use mobile in the future? This panel will explore the best ways to use the mobile channel as part of the omni-channel customer experience and how you can prepare for customer expectations in the future.
Jennie Huynh, CEO at Socialbliss

Jennie Huynh

CEO
Socialbliss

Kate McGunigal, Senior Manager, Consumer Insights at StubHub!

Kate McGunigal

Senior Manager, Consumer Insights
StubHub!

Colby Hanks, Former Analyst for The Estee Lauder Companies at The Estee Lauder Companies Inc

Colby Hanks

Former Analyst for The Estee Lauder Companies
The Estee Lauder Companies Inc

Jeff Stowell, Head of Customer Experience & Design at Oncue by Verizon

Jeff Stowell

Head of Customer Experience & Design
Oncue by Verizon

9:45 am - 10:05 am Keynote: Creating Emotional Connections Through Customer Experience

Creating genuine emotional connections with your guest is not only key to driving loyalty, but it’s also essential in creating brand advocacy and passion. Transparency and authenticity sound simple enough to achieve, yet countless brands still struggle in this arena. Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, a chain of upscale boutique hotels known for their style, pet friendliness and fun employee culture, win coveted Customer Experience awards every year, not to mention enjoy unparallel brand passion among their loyalists. Maggie will be sharing insights into how they build their culture and what strategies they focus on to build those emotional connections.
Maggie Lang, Senior Director, Guest Marketing at Kimpton Hotels

Maggie Lang

Senior Director, Guest Marketing
Kimpton Hotels

10:05 am - 10:10 am Quick Stretch!

Customers are using social media more than ever to drive their decision making around products and services. This panel will examine:
• The impact of peer influence on consumer behavior and preferences
• What and how your company should engage on social media
• How to use social content to help drive consumer decisions
• How to create consumer evangelists and advocates

Andy Levey, Director of Marketing, 360 & Content at Cirque du Soleil

Andy Levey

Director of Marketing, 360 & Content
Cirque du Soleil

Melinda Briana Epler, Chief Executive Officer at ChangeCatalyst.co

Melinda Briana Epler

Chief Executive Officer
ChangeCatalyst.co

Daniel Zucker, Senior Manager of Social Media at Autodesk, Inc.

Daniel Zucker

Senior Manager of Social Media
Autodesk, Inc.

Sue Martin, Senior Director of Customer Service at Newegg.com

Sue Martin

Senior Director of Customer Service
Newegg.com

10:50 am - 11:10 am Presentation: Exceeding Expectations When The Customer Is In Control

Thanks largely to the power of digital and social media, the balance of power has swung definitively towards the customer and away from your brand. As companies try to respond to this shift, many are asking what remains within their sphere of control and how best to utilize it.
Kevin will discuss:
• The customer experience for the omnichannel consumer
• Responding to changing demands
• Training to meet and exceed expectations
• Measuring progress

Kevin Thompson, Vice President of Customer Experience and Development at Barneys New York

Kevin Thompson

Vice President of Customer Experience and Development
Barneys New York

11:10 am - 11:30 am Presentation: The REI Village: Leveraging Local Event Experiences To Surprise And Delight

The REI Village, a mobile event initiative, provides unique, surprise experiences for members. Instead of members coming into the retail locations, the REI Village comes to them. Find out how this type of experiential marketing can lead to increased customer loyalty and attract new customers as well. Discuss:
• How to create local event experiences
• How to integrate them into your existing CX processes
• How to measure success
• Best practices and lessons learned
John Sheppard, Retail Divisional Vice President, New Ventures at REI

John Sheppard

Retail Divisional Vice President, New Ventures
REI

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Networking & Refreshment Break In The Solutions Zone

12:00 pm - 12:05 pm Chairperson’s Afternoon Address

James Di Ciaula, Director of Customer Experience and Channel Integration at BMO Harris Bank

James Di Ciaula

Director of Customer Experience and Channel Integration
BMO Harris Bank

12:00 pm - 12:05 pm Chairperson’s Afternoon Address

Jeannie Walters, Co-Founder at Global CX Panel

Jeannie Walters

Co-Founder
Global CX Panel

12:05 pm - 12:25 pm Presentation: Breaking Down The Siloes: Best Practices For Measuring Success Across Touch Points

A key component of a successful Voice of the Customer program is being able to generate actionable insights to drive key business decisions for improving the customer experience. But before you can do that, you need to make sure you are basing these actions and decisions on trustworthy data. Do you trust your data? Is it being collected consistently across departments? Moreover, are you asking the questions that matter? Learn to:

• Take an inventory of existing listening posts to eliminate overlap, address any gaps and standardize the experience
• Hold stakeholder conversations to understand what data is being used, what data isn’t, and how the metrics align organizationally
• Optimize the experience for survey respondents while still obtaining the segmentation data you need for analysis


Jennifer Maldonado, Senior Business Analyst, Voice of The Customer Program at Activision Inc.

Jennifer Maldonado

Senior Business Analyst, Voice of The Customer Program
Activision Inc.

12:05 pm - 12:25 pm Presentation: Leveraging Digital Analytics for Delivering A Low Effort Customer Experience

The success behind what makes Discover Financial Services one of the nation's leading direct banks today is the same as what made us a pioneer in 1986 when we launched the Discover card: a focus on the customer and a commitment to be different, to be better and to offer the best service in the business. Join Ram Subramanian, Director of Customer Experience Design & Analytics at Discover, as he discusses the case for leveraging big data and digital analytics to create a seamless cross channel customer experience.
• High standards of Customer Service in the Digital Age
• Making Digital Analytics more actionable in delivering a superior CX with each interaction
• Connecting Online and Offline Data to Drive Process Improvements



Ram Subramanian, Director of Customer Experience Design and Analytics at Discover Financial Services

Ram Subramanian

Director of Customer Experience Design and Analytics
Discover Financial Services

12:25 pm - 12:45 pm Presentation: Driving NPS Through Sentiment Analysis

Hear how Safelite® uncovers insights behind NPS to improve customer satisfaction. By leveraging Ascribe Inspector™, the auto glass repair giant gained actionable insights from its 500,000 annual survey responses.
Kellan Williams, Manager, Customer Insight & Analytics at Safelite AutoGlass

Kellan Williams

Manager, Customer Insight & Analytics
Safelite AutoGlass

12:25 pm - 12:45 pm Innovation Spotlights - NPL & Apptentive

12:25-12:35:The Disruptive Digital Advantage: Revolutionizing Customer Care Through High-Definition Video Collaboration

Learn more about how NPL is changing how businesses communicate with their customers through innovative video collaboration solutions. NPL's portfolio includes Spin™ developer tools and APIs, which can be integrated directly into a company's website or mobile applications to enable a seamless, high-quality videoconferencing and content-sharing experience. Now your company can interact in real-time and share valuable information directly to resolve issues faster and deepen customer loyalty. Try out Spin at: http://getspin.com/appstore

Thomas Engdahl , President/CEO, NPL

12:35-12:45: Giving Customers a Voice: Unlocking Mobile Conversations

If you’re like most companies, creating a customer-centric culture is paramount to your vision. But are you extending the customer experience across all channels? Are you reaching your customers where they are? In this presentation you’ll learn how to use mobile as a tool to listen to your customers. We’ll show you how to proactively reach out to your customers and arm them with a voice to express feedback and make suggestions. In the process, customer-savvy companies will find themselves saving money, creating a product roadmap that customers actually want, providing a superior, insight-based customer service, and increasing both customer engagement and loyalty.

Robi Ganguly , CEO & Co-founder, Apptentive
Thomas Engdahl, President/CEO at NPL

Thomas Engdahl

President/CEO
NPL

Robi Ganguly, CEO & Co-founder at Apptentive

Robi Ganguly

CEO & Co-founder
Apptentive

12:45 pm - 1:05 pm Presentation: Simple. Smart. Connected--How Verizon Is Building And Executing Their CX Strategy In An ROI-Driven World

We are all constantly challenged with balancing the demands of creating compelling customer experiences and showing key stakeholders how their initiatives deliver clear business results. Hear how Verizon is tackling customer experience and digital transformation. Key topics:
• Stakeholder CX value
• Defining the connection between CX and ROI
• Measuring CX results and digital transformation



Miguel Quiroga, Executive Director, Customer Experience at Verizon

Miguel Quiroga

Executive Director, Customer Experience
Verizon

12:45 pm - 1:05 pm Presentation: Building a Digitization Roadmap To Improve CX By Understanding Customers

Digitization has already impacted the customer experience for more than a decade. Most organizations are data rich, but insight poor, but that is changing.
Many of the processes we create or improve require IT. The information revolution is evolving into the intelligent information revolution. Technologies like Cloud Computing, Making sense of Big Data are “The Internet of things” are making possible to literately “connect the dots” to better understand Customers and improve their experience.
Learning Objectives:
• Share best practices on “Digitization” roadmaps
• Help identify where in the Digitization roadmap is your organization
• How ALL functions directly impact the Customer Experience

Carlos Herrera, Senior Product Manager, Cloud Platform at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Carlos Herrera

Senior Product Manager, Cloud Platform
Thermo Fisher Scientific

1:05 pm - 1:55 pm Luncheon

1:55 pm - 5:00 pm The San Diego Zoo: A Back Stage Pass

Next Gen attendees will travel to the zoo, tour the grounds, get a behind the scenes look at an exhibit and then attend an interactive presentation where they will learn the ins and outs of the guest experience at the world famous San Diego Zoo.

Space is limited, please sign up soon.
Ted Molter, Chief Marketing Officer at San Diego Zoo

Ted Molter

Chief Marketing Officer
San Diego Zoo

5:00 pm - 11:59 pm Conclusion Of NGCE 2015, See You Next Year!