Your CX Roadmap

07:40 - 08:20 Continental Breakfast & Registration

08:20 - 08:30 Welcome Remarks

08:30 - 08:45 Chairperson’s Opening Address


Kathleen Jezierski, President & Chief Operating Officer at COPC Inc.

Kathleen Jezierski

President & Chief Operating Officer
COPC Inc.

08:45 - 09:05 Keynote: What’s My Job Again? Evolving The Customer Experience Role

Customer journey mapping; co-design with end users; iterative ideate-prototype-test cycles. These customer-centric practices are firmly established in digital experience design. But can we evangelize and extend this approach to non-digital experiences such as retail or health – or to an enterprise at large? The design team at Walgreens is on a quest to do just that, so we’ll share some victories and defeats from our world.
Audience members will:
• Consider how digital experience design tools and processes can be extended to other mediums
• Learn about a “solution-agnostic” customer research approach
• Examine the potential to evolve roles within their own organizations

John Yesko, Sr. Director at Walgreens

John Yesko

Sr. Director
Walgreens

09:05 - 09:25 Keynote: Navigating The CX Improvement Journey

Organizations that skillfully master the end-to-end customer experience can reap enormous rewards from increased customer loyalty and revenue and enhanced employee engagement. To achieve these benefits you need sustained execution against a portfolio of CX activities that advance your culture, improve everyday customer interactions and develop and deploy new CX capabilities. Find out how Farmers Insurance is navigating the CX improvement journey:
• Executing on an improvement strategy and road map tailored to your situation
• Developing a strong, sustainable customer-centric culture
• Continuously improving how you use feedback to listen, understand and respond to customers
• Growing and maintaining organization momentum
Dexter Johnson, Head of Customer Experience at Farmers Insurance

Dexter Johnson

Head of Customer Experience
Farmers Insurance

09:25 - 09:45 Keynote: Get It Right: Where Customer Expectations And Your Execution Converge

It’s time for brands to stop talking omni-channel while acting single channel. The modern consumer expects and demands seamlessly integrated experiences that allow them to engage where, when and how they want. In this session, you will hear groundbreaking research from the ForeSee Experience Index, a comprehensive 11-year longitudinal customer experience study of 20,000 consumers that depicts the changing multichannel landscape. We’ll arm you with tactical and strategic insights about this modern consumer to drive your business forward in 2016.
Eric Feinberg, VP, Marketing at ForeSee

Eric Feinberg

VP, Marketing
ForeSee

As a CX leader, you are constantly looking for new ways to improve the end to end customer journey. Upon completing an initiative or project, how are you connecting your results with ROI?
Panelists will discuss how to best:
• Link CX to financials at a more granular level
• Translate CX stories into language that resonates best with the C-suite
• Foster continued buy-in by showing a clear connection between CX improvements and business results
Tony Drummond, VP, Customer Experience at Manheim

Tony Drummond

VP, Customer Experience
Manheim

Mackenzie Shaw, Director of UX Research at Nationwide

Mackenzie Shaw

Director of UX Research
Nationwide

Kevin Gibson, Director of Consumer Experience, Retail Direct to Consumer at Humana

Kevin Gibson

Director of Consumer Experience, Retail Direct to Consumer
Humana

Jana De Anda, VP, Client & Consulting Services at TrendSource, Inc.

Jana De Anda

VP, Client & Consulting Services
TrendSource, Inc.

Sid Banerjee, CEO at Clarabridge Inc

Sid Banerjee

CEO
Clarabridge Inc

10:25 - 10:55 Morning Refreshment & Networking Break


10:55 - 11:20 Co-Presentation—Integrating CX And Transformation Initiatives

As organizations turn to transformation initiatives to align process, technology and resources the role of customer experience becomes critical in shaping how a business creates value in dynamic and shifting markets. ACT's Chief Operating Officer is leading the company's transformation initiative which includes a committed focus on the customer and significant collaboration with customer experience. During this session we'll explore how ACT's Customer Experience team is integrating efforts with the Transformation Management Office.
• Learn how ACT is aligning CX, technology, process and enterprise architecture
• Explore organizational changes related to both CX and Transformation teams
• Discuss how cross functional teams better serve customers by working together
Janet Godwin, COO at ACT

Janet Godwin

COO
ACT

John Corrigan, Vice President of Customer Experience at ACT, Inc.

John Corrigan

Vice President of Customer Experience
ACT, Inc.

11:20 - 11:40 Keynote: Cracking the Code: Proving How and Where Employee Behavior Drives Loyalty and Revenues

In the age of ever-increasing customer expectations, understanding the specific staff behaviors that both inspire loyalty and improve your bottom line is a critical, yet illusive piece of knowledge. Luckily, InMoment’s Senior VP of Customer Experience Strategy Brennan Wilkie and his team have cracked the code. Using real-life examples and hard ROI data, Brennan will share the secrets of how your brand can do the same.
Brennan Wilkie, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience Strategy at InMoment

Brennan Wilkie

Senior Vice President, Customer Experience Strategy
InMoment

11:40 - 12:00 Keynote: The Consciousness Revolution: Transforming Your Company Into An Awakened Brand

In today’s competitive business environment, customers have access to more information and choices than ever before. As a result, they also have higher expectations. In this session we’ll connect the dots between societal trends and the Consciousness Revolution’s impacts on digital sales, brand marketing and customer experience.
Participants will:
• Discover how customers’ beliefs are limiting or influencing their choices in our shifting society
• Learn how to tap into the Consciousness Revolution, which is not defined by age, income, political beliefs or geography, but by a new mindset
• Examine the meaning and emotions behind the value of your company and if it’s time to reposition your brand
• Discuss how your brand can leverage big data and demand generation tactics
Virginie Glaenzer, EVP of Marketing & Customer Experience at Great Eastern Energy

Virginie Glaenzer

EVP of Marketing & Customer Experience
Great Eastern Energy

For All Attendees

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Invite-Only

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Hosted By Opinionlab

Workshop A:

13:00 - 14:00 Customer : Empathy : Ideate : Improve! Initiating Your Own Customer-First Design Process
Becoming an “Outside-In” organization doesn’t happen overnight – it’s a sea change that requires a deep, cultural shift. It impacts everything you do as an organization, including how you approach your projects. While there are many on how to implement a customer-focused design framework, most agree that you start with knowing your customers, developing empathy, and then to make the case for change, thereby freeing the boundaries for creative thinking and innovation. Participants in this hands-on, interactive session will learn techniques extracted directly from the Customer Experience Certificate Program at Rutgers University:
Practice techniques to promote empathy.
Empower employees to improve the lives of their customers.
Discuss potential challenges and how to overcome them.

Carol Buehrens, Principal, Customer Experience Strategist at ICW Group Insurance Companies

Carol Buehrens

Principal, Customer Experience Strategist
ICW Group Insurance Companies

Workshop B:

13:00 - 14:00 Finding New Markets In Yesterday's Data – 4 Steps To Turn Numbers Into Thriving Personalities
This workshop outlines a fresh approach to converting data and analysis into living, breathing personas. Explore how to both conduct a critical examination of research numbers, and then connect with the groups and individuals those numbers represent. Come ready to learn how to view your customers as individuals rather than purchasing departments.

• Practice turning traditional market segmentation results into personas
• Understand how to adapt their analysis to more precisely fit modern business realities
• Compete for the title of “Best EMT” – Emergency Marketing Technician; turn data into thriving personalities that resonate throughout the organization

Kristin Guthrie, Vice President of Customer Experience at Honeywell Aerospace

Kristin Guthrie

Vice President of Customer Experience
Honeywell Aerospace

Good guest care is critical for customer satisfaction. Explore the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s ambitious Guest Care Excellence Initiative, in which over 500 external- and internal-facing employees and volunteers have been trained to elevate the customer experience, and learn how to get a similar program started in your own company. Workshop attendees will develop:

• An understanding of who needs to be involved to make the program successful
• A checklist of resources and a timeline for launching a CX training program
• Techniques for sustaining the effort and embedding a customer focus across the organization
Rachel Gallant, Director of Relationship Marketing at New York Philharmonic

Rachel Gallant

Director of Relationship Marketing
New York Philharmonic

Robert Phillips, Assistant Director, Guest Services at Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts

Robert Phillips

Assistant Director, Guest Services
Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts

Workshop D:

14:00 - 15:00 Building Your CX Design Toolkit
Engaging and educating everyone on CX is important and so are the right tools and resources for building competencies. Learn how to embed and share resources, design thinking and engagement activities to accelerate your organization's CX skills. We will take about and have a few hands-on exercises and techniques you can use right away in your practice.

Learn:
• How design skills can enable CX
• Some design tools and techniques
• The impact and benefits of design
Diane Magers, Office Of The Customer at AT&T

Diane Magers

Office Of The Customer
AT&T

15:00 - 15:40 Afternoon Networking and Refreshment Break And Solutions Zone Kick Off

At NGCX you’re in control! Get involved in our unique, open-mic, peer-to-peer tables for the best conversations you’ll have all year. Talk about your key challenges and hear how other organizations are overcoming them. Rotate once for the chance to join two roundtables!

Topics:

Table 1: Tips and tricks CX can apply from UX methodologies
Moderator: Rob Scruggs, Former Director, Customer Experience, E*TRADE

Table 2. You’re doing it wrong: where customer expectations and your execution diverge
Moderator: Eric Feinberg, VP, Marketing, ForeSee

Table 3: Are customer surveys dead? What’s next?
Moderator: Tony Drummond, VP, Customer Experience, Manheim

Table 4: Cracking the code: proving how and where employee behavior drives loyalty and revenues
Moderator: Brennan Wilkie, SVP, Customer Experience Strategy, InMoment

Table 5: Guiding a customer-centered digital transformation
Moderator: Jill Gutterman, Digital Transformation Leader, 3M

Table 6: The value of mentoring in a self-managed environment
Moderator: Erika Paman-Mercado, Customer Loyalty Operations Supervisor, Zappos Family of Companies

Table 7: The 3 I's of a killer social media plan
Moderator: Nicole Schwartz, VP, Marketing & Social Media, Sprinkles Cupcakes

Table 8: Tips for better managing customer complaints
Moderator: Leigh-Anne Spokane, Senior Director, Customer Experience & Integration, American Cancer Society

Table 9: Integrating CX and transformation initiatives
Moderators: John Corrigan, VP, Customer Experience, ACT & Janet Godwin, COO, ACT

Table 10: Democratizing insights for superior customer experiences
Moderator: Henrietta Akpata, IBM Tealeaf Product Marketing Leader, IBM Commerce, IBM, IBM

Table 11: The 5 Must Haves To Supercharge Your Customer Experience
Moderator: Brad Marg, COO, Clutch

Table 12: Customers Say It, Type It, Click It. Do You Have All Your Listening Posts Covered?
Moderator: Nancy Porte, VP, Global Customer Experience, Verint Systems, Inc.

Table 13: The big potential of small data: How to bridge the gap between NPS and CSAT surveys, actionable insight and customer experience
Moderators: Jenna Dorman, VP, Technology & Communications, VisionCritical
Brian Burke, Director, Seller Experience, eBay, Inc
Tony Drummond, VP, Customer Experience at Manheim

Tony Drummond

VP, Customer Experience
Manheim

Jill Gutterman, Global Digital Transformation Leader at 3M

Jill Gutterman

Global Digital Transformation Leader
3M

Erika Paman-Mercado, Customer Loyalty Operations Supervisor at Zappos Family of Companies

Erika Paman-Mercado

Customer Loyalty Operations Supervisor
Zappos Family of Companies

Janet Godwin, COO at ACT

Janet Godwin

COO
ACT

John Corrigan, Vice President of Customer Experience at ACT, Inc.

John Corrigan

Vice President of Customer Experience
ACT, Inc.

Eric Feinberg, VP, Marketing at ForeSee

Eric Feinberg

VP, Marketing
ForeSee

Brennan Wilkie, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience Strategy at InMoment

Brennan Wilkie

Senior Vice President, Customer Experience Strategy
InMoment

Rob Scruggs, Former Director, Customer Experience at E*TRADE

Rob Scruggs

Former Director, Customer Experience
E*TRADE

Leigh-Anne Spokane, Senior Director, Customer Experience & Integration at American Cancer Society

Leigh-Anne Spokane

Senior Director, Customer Experience & Integration
American Cancer Society

Nicole Schwartz, VP, Marketing & Social Media at Sprinkles Cupcakes

Nicole Schwartz

VP, Marketing & Social Media
Sprinkles Cupcakes

Nancy Porte

VP, Global Customer Experience
Verint Systems Inc.

Brad Marg, Chief Operating Officer at Clutch

Brad Marg

Chief Operating Officer
Clutch

Jenna Dorman, VP, Technology & Communications at Vision Critical

Jenna Dorman

VP, Technology & Communications
Vision Critical

Brian Burke, Director, Seller Experience at eBay Inc

Brian Burke

Director, Seller Experience
eBay Inc

Henrietta Akpata

IBM Tealeaf Product Marketing / Leader – IBM Commerce
IBM

Invite-Only

15:40 - 17:00 CXO Think Tank
As a CXO or head of CX at your organization, it is your responsibility to prioritize customer experience and promote a customer centric value proposition throughout your organization. This is your opportunity to gain honest feedback, debate strategic ideas and share high level insights in a closed door forum.

This is an invitation only session. If you wish to participate or would like to nominate yourself or a colleague, please contact: kristin.schoenstein@wbresearch.com
Lynn Skoczelas, Chief Experience Officer at Sharp HealthCare

Lynn Skoczelas

Chief Experience Officer
Sharp HealthCare

17:00 - 17:20 Guest Speaker: Creating Exceptional Brand Experiences To Drive Customer Loyalty

Ryan Smolkin, Founder & CEO at Smoke's Poutinerie

Ryan Smolkin

Founder & CEO
Smoke's Poutinerie

17:20 - 17:30 NGCX 2016 Non-Profit Partner Presentation: WomenHeart: The National Coalition For Women With Heart Disease

Who is WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease?

WomenHeart is the only patient-centered advocacy organization serving the 42 million women living with or at risk of heart disease. Through education, support and training, WomenHeart empowers women to take charge of their own heart health and to advocate for others. By aligning our national network of over 35,000 with a Scientific Advisory Council composed of the nation’s top cardiologists and experts, we are making a measurable impact on women’s heart health and raising the profile of the most important health issue facing women today. WomenHeart works closely with companies including Burlington Coat Factory, Silpada, Lord & Taylor, Bayer and General Mills to call public attention to our issues. And, through our WomenHeart@Work program we have educated thousands of employees in companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Comcast and Boeing about heart health awareness.

WomenHeart is partnering with hospitals nationwide through its National Hospital Alliance (NHA) to advance women’s heart health and improve patient outcomes. Through NHA membership, WomenHeart educates hospital staff, women heart patients and the community on the critical need for psycho-social and emotional support for women living with heart disease. The foundation of the membership is the WomenHeart Support Network on-site groups that are led by WomenHeart Champions who are heart patients and have been trained at the annual WomenHeart Science & Leadership Symposium held at Mayo Clinic. Over 750 WomenHeart Champions meet with women after their heart event and extend post-hospitalization peer-to-peer support. WomenHeart Champions also represent the hospital in all community, corporate and media outreach opportunities.

Mary McGowan, Chief Executive Officer at WomenHeart

Mary McGowan

Chief Executive Officer
WomenHeart

17:30 - 18:30 Welcome Cocktail Reception In The Solutions Zone

18:30 - 23:59 End of Day One