MEET OUR SPEAKERS
We have planned a top-class programme again this year. We are still working on it, but soon you will find here 50+ CX1 speakers.
Line up
Björn Radde
Björn Radde
Björn Radde is Vice President Digital Experience at T-Systems International, a leading global provider of digital services based in Frankfurt, Germany. As a long-standing expert in digital experience and digital marketing, he always stays on top of current trends and technologies, and is responsible for all digital marketing touchpoints at T-Systems International such as the website, social media and digital marketing campaigns. In addition, Bjoern Radde has also written several books on the topic of digital marketing.
Sessions
- Keynote:
The Future of Digital Customer Experience
New technologies like voice assistants, connected TV, virtual and augmented reality, NFT communities, and the metaverse will change the digital marketing landscape. CX experts and digital marketing managers need to be prepared for these new digital touchpoints to provide a holistic digital customer experience.
Paul Schwarzenholz
Paul Schwarzenholz
Paul Schwarzenholz is a multiple founder and angel investor. He founded his latest venture zenloop, the leading NPS platform in the German-speaking world, in 2016 together with Björn Kolbmüller and Lukasz Lazewski after leaving Flaconi. Previously, he had built Flaconi together with Björn Kolbmüller in 2010-2016 and sold it to the P7S1 Group in 2015.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Shift to Action! – Triple ROI on your CX efforts with Action Management
Companies are relatively good at identifying issues that impact their CX, but fail when it comes to translating such insights into actual projects and workflows. This problem is now commonly known as the ‘Action Gap.’
For the first time ever, Paul Schwarzenholz -CEO and Co-Founder of zenloop- will publicly present a specific framework designed to bridge this gap while announcing a brand new product category: ‘Action Management.’
Alexandra Barl
Alexandra Barl
Within her role as Customer Centricity Advocate, Hilti Central Europe, Alexandra Barl has been
working to sharpen the customer centric focus of Hilti’s central European marketing activities. Her
experience in Sales and Marketing departments in global companies as well as a writer for these
companies has given her expert understanding of defining customer needs and addressing them
in an impactful way. On top, Alexandra is implementing new workshop methodologies as well to
ensure a best-in class training approach for Customer Centric communication within Hilti Central
Europe.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Not a department, a mindset: How Hilti creates business impact with customer centric marketing activities.
Customer centricity, as a concept, has been and continues to be at the core of many companies for years. But turning that idea into tangible business impact within marketing is a journey. This journey must be made by everyone in the company, from business development units to the marketing communication to sales departments. That way, companies can focus on the rich and varied landscape that is our customer and deliver impactful, valuable marketing content to them.
Here is how we at Hilti started that journey, how we keep going with customer centric marketing activities and how we will continue to navigate that ever-changing road.
Matthias Göhler
Matthias Göhler
Sessions
- Keynote:
Radical CX – How Customer Expectations are Revolutionizing the Service Promise
Customers today have radical expectations which redefine the entire customer service experience. But: What exactly do these expectations actually look like and what major challenges are companies and customers currently facing?
Ultimate experience and demand for immediate response is the new consumer mantra. AI plays an important role in that, as it can help significantly to optimize the customer experience and cater for customers’ ever growing demands. But where are the limitations of AI and how can companies get the best out of it?
And what role does the metaverse play in all of that? Matthias Göhler, EMEA CTO at Zendesk believes that companies do need to start developing a metaverse CX strategy now! The metaverse is evolving and is offering potential for how it can impact customer engagement.
Miriam van Straelen
Miriam van Straelen
Miriam van Straelen is a Partner at the international strategy consulting firm Roland Berger, where she is part of the Digital Team (Roland Berger N3XT). Previously, she was Chief Customer Officer at idealo internet and held further C-level and leadership positions in several digital first companies, for example PayPal and ebay.
Over the past 15 years, Miriam has become a proven expert in the areas of e-commerce, digital marketplaces and platforms as well as fintech environments. She has built customer centric organizations and implemented processes to ensure customer experience optimization and solution orientation and she has helped digital businesses achieve sustainable growth by increasing customer activity, conversion, retention and satisfaction.
To enable innovation through diversity and strengthen women in leadership positions, Miriam is also involved as a mentor and business angel for young female talents. Miriam studied International Business Management at the European Business School (ESCP) in Paris, Oxford and Berlin and holds three degrees. She has also earned several certificates in General Management, Digital Transformation and Leadership Studies.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Customer loyalty – an unattainable goal these days. Or maybe not?
Although technology-enabled customer centricity has been around for decades, achieving true customer loyalty is becoming increasingly difficult. How can companies turn customers into loyal customers in a highly competitive market where customers do not tolerate compromise?
Holger Moewes
Holger Moewes
Sessions
- Keynote:
Service Design – translate customer-centricity from strategic objective into daily reality
How MediaMarktSaturn uses the Service Design method to implement customer experience improvement projects that overcome silos, using the example of the process behind the “30 minutes ready to pick up” promise for Click & Collect orders.
Nicole Nitsche
Nicole Nitsche
Nicole Nitsche has a degree in theatre studies and worked for several years as an assistant director at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. After that, Nicole was head of the press and marketing department of a Hamburg music label. As a classic career changer, she managed and was responsible for the complete communication as well as the development of the editorial department at Payment & Banking. Nicole has been the sole managing director of Payment & Banking since August 2021 and is responsible for the structure, planning, implementation and conception of all Payment & Banking event series (e.g. PEX, BEX, TRX & CryptX) and is a regular presenter on stage on a wide range of topics from banking, payment and fintech.
Sessions
- Keynote:
The forgotten female customer group: What matters to women shapes the growth markets of the future
Women account for 70 percent of all consumer spending globally. To attract the female consumer of the future, it’s important to put the values, desires and activities of her everyday life into context.
For business, the survey results provide clues as to where the growth markets of the future lie and which (female) needs they have – so far – neglected: Companies need to develop offers, products, an appropriate design, a customer journey and also choose an approach that takes into account the everyday reality of women in and does not forget or depend on them as customers.
Jörn Dickhaut
Jörn Dickhaut
Jörn Dickhaut is founder and partner of savvy and has extensive experience in customer experience management, innovation and strategic marketing. He is a creative thinker with exceptional analytical, conceptual and executive leadership skills, helping companies align their business with the needs of their customers. Prior to founding savvy company, Joern spent more than eight years at O2 Germany, where he led the Corporate Strategy department. His previous companies include Theron Business Consulting and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Shift to action – making customer innovation a value driver in your company
In our Masterclass we will discuss how to build an appropriate innovation process and its anchoring in an organization. Therefore, we will cover the different roles within the organization, their tasks and duties as well as the interaction between different functions and departments. Furthermore, we will outline the importance of leadership involvement, why a change in mindset is often required within the organization and how such a program has a positive impact on ROI in the long run.
Hendrik Wonsak
Hendrik Wonsak
Hendrik Wonsak is the Digital Director for Scholz & Friends BuyQ, a retail-focused advertising and communications agency within the Scholz & Friends Family network. Hendrik constantly tries to close the gap between on- and offline retail experiences. From augmented reality solutions over performance-driven social media campaigns to first creative concepts around retail in the metaverse – He always tries to distance himself from classical touchpoint-driven campaigning and explores surroundings and realms where (potential) customers can be touched.
Doing so, Hendrik won multiple awards in the past years, including a golden Effie for the German Ministry of Health and a bronze Effie for McDonald’s Germany.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
How the age of the customer changes the way advertising agencies work
We all have that one emotional tv spot in our head that we loved when we were young. Or that super catchy radio jingle that kept on ringing in our head for ages. Advertising agencies have always been known for creating these kind of creative assets. But with the growing relevance of customer centricity, the role of advertising agencies and the demands of their clients have changed:
Why do we think on a touchpoint level, if users don’t?
Agency and client must overthink their relationship and see each other as partners that work together across departments in order to overcome silos and strive for one orchestrated or aligned experience.Ad campaigns are dead, long live ad campaigns
A customer experience can never be bound to a two week or three month campaign slot within the marketing calendar. We need to work together in order to switch the hierarchy and have campaigns match the overall CX strategy of an organization.Find joy in data
Most creatives don’t like data. They can’t get their head around it. And that’s okay, because it’s not their job. But strategists need to fall in love with data in order to write creative briefs that really cater to the customer and not their individual understanding of a potential customer. This is the only way to create communication that really is user-centric and solves business problems.
Monika Schulze
Monika Schulze
Monika Schulze has a broad range of experience in the FMCG and Insurance industries, having successfully served in senior executive positions for almost 30 years in different countries. Before she served as a Head of Customer Office and Innovation in Germany, she joined Zurich Insurance headquarters in Switzerland as a Global CMO. Prior to that she run her own business as a strategic consultant. In the last two positions at Unilever she served as Vice President Brand Development Europe and as Business Director Foods with P&L responsibility in Hungary.
Sessions
- Keynote:
CX is more important than brand
The keynote will give an insight into the topic of customer experience. Business insights into reality will be provided. In addition, examples from the current market will be provided in order to develop a personal reference. In addition, the importance of the topic in the actions of every company will be clarified and proven.
Peter Pirner
Peter Pirner
Peter Pirner is a renowned and charismatic thought leader in the field of Customer Experience Management. As speaker, creator and host of CX-Talks, the most successful German podcast for CX Management, he regularly reaches a large audience of CX professionals in the DACH region. Peter’s experience is based on almost 25 years of international CX consulting for Kantar, one of the biggest global insights and consulting companies. Today, he regularly accompanies companies and individuals on issues related to CX Management as a CX advisor, coach and speaker. He is also a partner of the Institute for Customer Experience Management (i-CEM), and member of the Advisory Board of Accelerom AG and Petlando GmbH.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Organisational Empathy. A critical pre-requisite for effective Customer Experience Management
Outstanding customer experience requires a deep understanding of customer needs and requirements. These are situational, volatile and often fuzzy. Empathy is an important skill for dealing effectively with people. This keynote is about the ability of companies and organisations to deal empathically with their customers. What starting points do already exist? Where do many organisations find it particularly difficult? What could a best practice look like? A critical and constructive contribution to the creation of better customer experience everyday
Till Dietrich
Till Dietrich
Till currently leads the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Business in the region. With more than 10 years working experience in Tech at Google, he is now shaping Stripe’s growth and go-to-market efforts in the DACH & CEE region.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Ask the experts: Stripe’s checkout best practices – Discover hidden gains in your checkout process
€3.5 trillion worth of items is projected to be abandoned in digital shopping carts in 2022. Is your checkout ready? At CX1 World, we’ll discuss why businesses should focus on customers (not transactions), share results from authorisation experiments run across thousands of issuers, and discuss ecommerce best practices that are proven to increase revenue and retain customers.
Torben Tietz
Torben Tietz
Torben Tietz is managing partner at MSR Consulting Group. He helps
his clients to become truly customer centric companies by
establishing CX programs with economic impact. He is an expert as
well for B2C as B2B customer relations.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Return on CX
Based on cases we worked on with our clients we will share our experience with calculating the monetary value of a CX program as well as of individual customer centric measures.
The masterclass will cover these four topics:- How to create commitment for your CX program
- The value of 1 NPS-point and how to determine it
- How to predict the effect of a customer centric measure
- Additional tipps on how to get things done
For each topic we will give an impulse and discuss with the participants.
Why should you take part? In case you want to launch a CX program or implement specific customer centric measures you have to fight for limited ressources. The masterclass will give you tools and approaches to prove the value of your initiatives for the company.
Finn Kruse
Finn Kruse
Finn Kruse is Lead Data Analyst at MSR Consulting Group. Working in the
areas of customer and business analytics, he uses analytical models and technical solutions to help companies put data at the centre of decision-
making. Previously, Finn Kruse studied business psychology in Heide and Kassel.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Return on CX
Based on cases we worked on with our clients we will share our experience with calculating the monetary value of a CX program as well as of individual customer centric measures.
The masterclass will cover these four topics:- How to create commitment for your CX program
- The value of 1 NPS-point and how to determine it
- How to predict the effect of a customer centric measure
- Additional tipps on how to get things done
For each topic we will give an impulse and discuss with the participants.
Why should you take part? In case you want to launch a CX program or implement specific customer centric measures you have to fight for limited ressources. The masterclass will give you tools and approaches to prove the value of your initiatives for the company.
Grace Hemberg
Grace Hemberg
Customer Experience Nerd and Product Enthusiast. I help businesses create an outstanding customer experience by educating them on all that zenloop has to offer.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
From Feedback to Delight: What is a CX Action Management System?
From Feedback to Delight: What is a CX Action Management System?
Simon Reichel
Simon Reichel
As COO, Simon Reichel determines the operational business process and holds various degrees in the area of management. He is responsible for the quality and competitiveness of the products and processes. The coordination and guarantee of smoothly running daily processes between the departments in the areas of marketing, sales, project management and support allow for a professional combination of vision and daily business.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Composable, headless, monolitic, whatsoever – why buzzwords do not matter for Calumet to be successful
Why buzzwords do not matter for you as a retailer. Composable, headless, monolitic, whatsoever – choose wisely what suits you and your business best. Focus on what really matters now and dont have too many projects on your agenda – next months will be challenging enough, so you need to stay agile and need to be able to manage your daily business properly. In this session, Oliver Breitfeld, Chief Customer Officer will join Simon Reichel from Findologic, to discuss their journey from testing concepts to scaling globally, supporting revenue growth and sustainability. They will share insights and practical tips to help you streamline and scale e-commerce operations, optimize your online shop and connect with more customers across every stage of the buying journey.
Oliver Breitfeld
Oliver Breitfeld
Oliver Breitfeld has been Chief Customer Officer at Calumet Photographic GmbH since 2019. With 15 years of experience in eCommerce and there mainly in digital retail, he has gained extensive experience, especially in mobile commerce – he was mobile first before there was an iPhone. Oliver’s biggest ambition is to shift the complexity of a purchase from the customer to the commerce platforms and bake the perfect pizza.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Composable, headless, monolitic, whatsoever – why buzzwords do not matter for Calumet to be successful
Why buzzwords do not matter for you as a retailer. Composable, headless, monolitic, whatsoever – choose wisely what suits you and your business best. Focus on what really matters now and dont have too many projects on your agenda – next months will be challenging enough, so you need to stay agile and need to be able to manage your daily business properly. In this session, Oliver Breitfeld, Chief Customer Officer will join Simon Reichel from Findologic, to discuss their journey from testing concepts to scaling globally, supporting revenue growth and sustainability. They will share insights and practical tips to help you streamline and scale e-commerce operations, optimize your online shop and connect with more customers across every stage of the buying journey.
David Hicks
David Hicks
Proud co-founder and President of TribeCX, a tribe of senior CX practitioners who help define customer programs, deliver customer programs and build the expertise to keep delivering customer programs Previously David was founder and CEO of Mulberry Consulting, the largest international Customer Experience consulting business. He led the business for over 12 years, taking it from start-up till its sale, by then a global player with a fortune 500 client base. Before starting Mulberry, David led the specification development for customer experience delivery at Royal Mail to deliver an integrated experience across 200+k colleagues.
For the last 15 years, he has coached global companies on customer experience from UPS to the UK Police, and globally for over 300 organisations in telecommunications, finance, retail, publishing and technology. David is also a Chairman of TMD, a leading Canadian marketing communications company based in Toronto, London and New York. David, a charismatic speaker, keeps things practical, personal and engaging. He speaks on a broad range of topics across customer, employee, stakeholder experience.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Building expertise to drive CX action IN your organisation
Practical case study 1 | The secret sauce: North Star and CX sprints
Practical case study 2 | Proof points
You’re (rightly) dead in the water without hard evidence
Practical case study 3 | Making it stick
You can outsource shift to action, embedding it
Continuing the discussion
Ilkka Huotelin
Ilkka Huotelin
Ilkka Huotelin is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Be Customer Smart. He has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology and worked in leading technology companies like Nokia and Ericsson in various technology leadership roles. For the past ten years, he has focused on how organizations can better use data and Artificial Intelligence to understand their customers and optimize how they run their business. To develop leading-edge solutions that take customer behavior understanding to the next level, he works closely with leading Machine Learning researchers from the Fraunhofer institute in Berlin.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Link customer experience to business outcomes by leveraging operational and transactional data
Mainly relying on survey data to take an action-based approach to CX doesn’t allow companies to fully understand the relationship between the service levels offered and the impact on customer satisfaction and the company’s financial performance. This masterclass aims to discuss how today’s technological capabilities create an innovative and improved way of managing customer success strategies. When combining VoC data with operational data, companies can understand on an individual customer level what service interaction has the most significant weight on their satisfaction and predict the financial gain or loss linked to that service interaction. Once companies understand the economics of their customer experience, they can calculate the ROI of their service improvements, prioritize where to invest resources, and maximize their returns.
Following the trend of hyper-personalization and anticipation of customer needs, our masterclass will focus on using operational and transactional data to understand the experience that matters the most to customers. This approach allows companies to create a more tailored and personalized experience, constantly exceeding customer expectations and improving their retention scores.
Yannick Bouyidou
Yannick Bouyidou
Yannick Bouyidou is a driven, multi-lingual hospitality professional with a bachelor’s in Hospitality Management and an MBA in Business Transformation & Entrepreneurship. Yannick worked for over a decade for the luxury hotel chain The Ritz-Carlton, holding various leadership positions in 4 continents, tasked with improving customer engagement, employee engagement, and financial performance. He is passionate about customer service and client satisfaction and is dedicated to creating unique and memorable customer experiences. He has trained hundreds of employees and advised executives on customer success strategies. Yannick has made significant contributions to the financial success of the establishments he has led, to the point of creating group-level standard audits for the Ritz-Carlton brand and a global quality assurance program in partnership with Forbes Travel Guide.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Link customer experience to business outcomes by leveraging operational and transactional data
Mainly relying on survey data to take an action-based approach to CX doesn’t allow companies to fully understand the relationship between the service levels offered and the impact on customer satisfaction and the company’s financial performance. This masterclass aims to discuss how today’s technological capabilities create an innovative and improved way of managing customer success strategies. When combining VoC data with operational data, companies can understand on an individual customer level what service interaction has the most significant weight on their satisfaction and predict the financial gain or loss linked to that service interaction. Once companies understand the economics of their customer experience, they can calculate the ROI of their service improvements, prioritize where to invest resources, and maximize their returns.
Following the trend of hyper-personalization and anticipation of customer needs, our masterclass will focus on using operational and transactional data to understand the experience that matters the most to customers. This approach allows companies to create a more tailored and personalized experience, constantly exceeding customer expectations and improving their retention scores.
Robert Cwicinski
Robert Cwicinski
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Competitive advantage customer service – proactive instead of reactive
Next to excellent products, excellent customer service is a strong revenue lever that is often neglected. Proactively shaping the customer management process through automations, integrations, chatbots and custom apps gives your business a decisive advantage. A negative customer experience is detected early and effectively, turning it into a positive experience.
David Weber
David Weber
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Competitive advantage customer service – proactive instead of reactive
Next to excellent products, excellent customer service is a strong revenue lever that is often neglected. Proactively shaping the customer management process through automations, integrations, chatbots and custom apps gives your business a decisive advantage. A negative customer experience is detected early and effectively, turning it into a positive experience.
Dina Uthman
Dina Uthman
Dina is Head of Sales DACH at zenloop, the ACTION-focused experience management platform in Germany. Together with her team, she advises companies in various industries on the development and expansion of their customer experience management, with the goal of bringing customers into the heart of corporate action.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Crisis-resistant revenue flows – Why care matters more than ever
With an insecure macro economic situation, nearly every company is finding its way to the right balance between stable growth and cost efficiency. With reduced customer spend, one can expect a lower rate of incoming new customers. To still secure stable growth, businesses must focus on minimizing churn and increasing their retention. The key to building a strong, loyal customer base is care.
Rick van Esch
Rick van Esch
Rick van Esch is Vice-President SaaS Business at Sinch a leading Communication Platform as a Service provider. He is passionate about how to make businesses communicate more authentic with their customers through digital channels like messaging, video and voice. 2020, Rick joined Sinch through the acquisition of Chatlayer, a Gartner recognised Conversational AI Platform of which he served as CEO.
Before Rick van Esch worked over 6 years in Software-as-a-Service start-ups and scale-ups in the field of digital identity & authentication, digital signatures, CPaaS & Conversational AI. His origin belongs to management consultancy – he act 4 years as a management consultant in the Financial Services Industry advising on straight-through-processing for stock exchanges.
Sessions
- Keynote:
The future of UX is conversational:
Why your company’s next App might be WhatsAppIn this talk you will learn more about how companies globally are embracing Conversation Design for their customer journeys. We will show success stories in food delivery, retail & financial services and how these companies leverage channels like WhatsApp together with Artificial Intelligence to create better conversations with their customers.
Tim Knostmann
Tim Knostmann
Tim is the Head of Customer Success at Mondu and is a specialist in building customer-facing teams and delivering wow-moments for every client. With his extensive industry experience and over 10 years of professional background, Tim always strives to go beyond consumers’ expectations. Within his previous roles as VP Customer Success and VP Operations, he has been building up multiple Customer Success departments from scratch to a real proactive value-driven function in multiple fast-growing start-ups such as Quandoo, Caroobi or alphin.
Sessions
- Panel Discussion:
More information will follow soon …
Darius Greulich
Darius Greulich
As Director Customer Experience at roastmarket – Germany’s largest online coffee retailer, Darius Greulich, is responsible for the departments along the user journey, starting from online marketing and product management to customer service, ensuring that customer needs always come first. Prior to joining roastmarket, Darius spent more than five years as Business Manager and Head of Online Marketing, helping to build Fahrrad-XXL.de into Germany’s leading bicycle online retailer.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Crisis-resistant revenue flows: Why care matters more than ever
With an insecure macro economic situation, nearly every company is finding its way to the right balance between stable growth and cost efficiency. With reduced customer spend, one can expect a lower rate of incoming new customers. To still secure stable growth, businesses must focus on minimizing churn and increasing their retention. The key to building a strong, loyal customer base is care.
Darius, Director CX at roastmarket, and Dina from zenloop will share internal practices on how they use the NPS and thereby put the human at the heart of their actions to generate crisis-resistant revenue streams.
Annika Björck
Annika Björck
Annika has successfully implemented or developed CX in over 50 companies. After a nearly 20-years career in the CX practice, today she coaches managers, CX teams and CXOs to successfully implement Customer Experience Management in their companies with two key goals: impact and visibility. Annika provides practical support from the background, putting her coachees in the spotlight. Several of her coachees have been promoted to C-level positions, up to CEO.
As a lecturer for Customer Experience Management, Annika has been teaching at several universities of applied sciences since 2011. She is an internationally accredited CX expert and as a juror evaluates the most current top CX initiatives worldwide at respected events like the Customer Centricity World Series and the Customer Experience World Games.
If you also feel that you are not creating enough impact with CX, not achieving enough understanding and visibility for customer centricity and fear that you are not getting ahead with your career because of this, then you can approach Annika directly via Linkedin.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
How to lead the transformation to Customer Centricity
Do you feel you‘re not having enough impact or visibility for CXM?
On the transformation journey to customer centricity companies go through 3 stages. Join the Customer Centricity Transformation Masterclass and learn more about these three stages, what CX-strategy you need to follow in each stage and the two pitfalls CX-Manager tend to fall into.
How do you take away as much as possible from a masterclass? With practical knowledge! Annika has agreed to give one participant the chance to get a free live 1:1 coaching during this masterclass. Send us a brief description of your starting position and the challenges you‘re facing and you might be the one getting practical advice from one of the Top CX-Experts.
Melanie Güse
Melanie Güse
Melanie is a strategy and marketing executive with 15+ years of experience in the telecommunication industry. As Vice President Customer Experience Europe, she has established a multinational Voice of the Customer program. She believes that a customer obsessed culture starts with giving customers a voice and putting the customer in the center of every decision. Driven by her passion to deliver value to customers she has initiated a CX transformation together with the local subsidiaries.
Melanie Guese holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of Münster with a focus on Marketing & Innovation Management.
Sessions
- Keynote:
Deutsche Telekom Europe: Driving CX via a company-wide Voice of the Customer program
Our Voice of Our Customer program (VoC) has been launched to support DT Europe’s ambitious goal to be the #1 in Customer Experience.
VoC means a radical business transformation by increasing the amount of customer feedback, giving every employee access to this feedback, talking directly to customers via callbacks, and establishing feedback loops to derive CX improvements continuously. Here is how we at Deutsche Telekom Europe set up the program, what were challenges and success factors and what is still ahead of us.
Grant McGillivray
Grant McGillivray
Grant McGillivray is COO of the UX agency ION ONE. Born in Canada, Grant McGillivray was drawn to the L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris for a scholarship in the early 2000s and then to Berlin a short time later. Via several digital agencies and positions as designer and lead designer, he landed at Neofonie in 2017. He inspires with his ideas, keeps an eye on the big picture and sets the right impulses at the right moments. Together with his team, he creates intuitive and emotional user experiences for B2C and B2B companies with a strong focus on storytelling and usability. He has already convinced clients such as RADEMACHER, Jägermeister and HUK-COBURG.
Sessions
- Roundtable:
Why SMEs are failing at user centricity. Reasons, pitfalls and ways out
“We know our customers” – this is probably the opinion of most medium-sized companies. With this wealth of knowledge, it’s strange that many digital products and services suffer from poor usability and fail to meet the expectations of the customers at the center of it all. Why does information gained from expensive analysis tools or persona workshops not reach the user? In this round table, we discuss how to leverage the user as part of a user-centered product development and how to avoid some common pitfalls while getting there.
Björn Andresen
Björn Andresen
Björn – Senior UX Desinger at ION ONE – is a studied Ethnologist and trained Media Designer and has been designing for various industries for more than 20 years. His passion is the topic of typography within web design. Because a coherently applied typography is a stable, identity-creating foundation for any design.
Sessions
- Roundtable:
Why SMEs are failing at user centricity. Reasons, pitfalls and ways out
“We know our customers” – this is probably the opinion of most medium-sized companies. With this wealth of knowledge, it’s strange that many digital products and services suffer from poor usability and fail to meet the expectations of the customers at the center of it all. Why does information gained from expensive analysis tools or persona workshops not reach the user? In this round table, we discuss how to leverage the user as part of a user-centered product development and how to avoid some common pitfalls while getting there.
Inga Bohn
Inga Bohn
Inga Bohn is a brand strategist and customer insights manager, currently responsible for both areas at sextoy retailer and producer AMORELIE.
Before joining AMORELIE, Inga Bohn was a strategy consultant at diffferent, working with various companies on their brands, customer experience and future direction.
Both roles shaped her profile as a hands-on researcher and enthusiastic brand and CX manager with great passion for understanding and inspiring customers and colleagues alike.
Sessions
- Panel Discussion:
Inside Out: Building a Holistic CX Culture From Within
How Employee Experience Directly Impacts Your Customer’s Experience
Sabine Oberhausen
Sabine Oberhausen
· More than 10 years experience within CX: extentive experiences within employee & partner engagement programs as well within Marketing/Communication
· Experiences from a customer & agency perspective (i.e. Logistic-, Solar-und Software Industry)
· Since2018 Customer Experience Manager B2C Sales(PΫUR)
· Since2021 Senior CEX Transformation Manager (PΫUR)
· B.A. | M.Sc. (in progress)
Sessions
- Masterclass:
NPS as decisive pre-condition for service & product quality enhancements
The presentation will provide insights from the view of PΫUR, a leading Glas Fibre Operator in Germany, on how …
– we at PΫUR run our CEX program
– we listen to our customer demands
– we put the client into the middle of our activities
– we transform successfully our organization (to a more customer-oriented one)
– we understand the key success criteria for a successful CEX program
– we see the impact on NPS as well as the impact from NPS on financial KPIs (such as churn, revenues and costs)
Carsten Hilbers
Carsten Hilbers
· 15 years experience withinCX & Customer Care –B2C & B2B
· International Senior Leadership positions @ Citigroup, Barclays, GHX (Global Supply Chain Management Provider –Healthcare Industry)
· Since 2018 Director Customer Experience (PΫUR)
· Since 2020 Director Customer Experience | Customer Journey Management | Digital Self-Care (PΫUR)
· Diplom-Betriebswirt | M.A.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
NPS as decisive pre-condition for service & product quality enhancements
The presentation will provide insights from the view of PΫUR, a leading Glas Fibre Operator in Germany, on how …
– we at PΫUR run our CEX program
– we listen to our customer demands
– we put the client into the middle of our activities
– we transform successfully our organization (to a more customer-oriented one)
– we understand the key success criteria for a successful CEX program
– we see the impact on NPS as well as the impact from NPS on financial KPIs (such as churn, revenues and costs)
Anne-Laure de Broissia
Anne-Laure de Broissia
Anne-Laure de Broissia is the co-founder of Maia-BE, a B2B platform that reinvents the traditional approach to customer experience by connecting science and emotion, offering lifestyle and luxury brands end-to-end CX management solutions. She has 20 years of international experience in business management, with a focus on quantitative research and behavioral science in the luxury sector. She also teaches a course at Sciences Po about positive psychology and customer experience for luxury brands.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Transform your CX Management by Integrating Customer Emotion
Client experience used to be just a transaction, but today’s world demands an evolution of this mindset, moving from simple transactions to emotion, and from mere satisfaction to happiness. In this masterclass, you will discover CX solutions that bring emotion back into the picture by leveraging customer emotion and the science behind experience. Maia-BE’s proprietary PEAK framework will empower you to transform your CX Management and leave with concrete ideas to put into action today.
Caroline Egal
Caroline Egal
Caroline Egal is the co-founder of Maia-BE, a B2B platform that reinvents the traditional approach to customer experience by connecting science and emotion, offering lifestyle and luxury brands end-to-end CX management solutions. She has over 18 years of experience as head of qualitative research at Ipsos, Kantar, and BVA in the FMCG, Beauty, and Luxury sectors, and teaches courses on qualitative research and luxury at various management schools.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Transform your CX Management by Integrating Customer Emotion
Client experience used to be just a transaction, but today’s world demands an evolution of this mindset, moving from simple transactions to emotion, and from mere satisfaction to happiness. In this masterclass, you will discover CX solutions that bring emotion back into the picture by leveraging customer emotion and the science behind experience. Maia-BE’s proprietary PEAK framework will empower you to transform your CX Management and leave with concrete ideas to put into action today.
Krisitin Lotz
Krisitin Lotz
Kristin is enthusiastic about data & technology. As a Business Translator in the Digital Transformation Team at Nestlé she helps the business to ask better questions to find better solutions.
In her role she´s the bridge between the technical and business teams to hear the business challenges or pain points and describe a solution using data. Make complex things e.g. internal processes more easier to focus on the consumer/customer.
She has been working on consumer-centricity and digital transformation business for more than 10 years in FMCG, E-commerce and Travel industry.
Sessions
- Roundtable:
Connected Customer Journey & the importance of ecosystems
Patrick Werdehausen
Patrick Werdehausen
Sessions
- Roundtable:
Redefine customer delight through Messaging and mobile-first conversations
Consumers have embraced the convenience, comfort, and familiarity of engaging with brands on messaging apps like Apple Business Chat, WhatsApp, Line Chat and more.
And now there’s no going back. Businesses that make customer-service accessible in every user’s pocket will win.
Join this roundtable to learn and discuss:
● Which pitfalls to avoid when implementing omnichannel conversation strategy
● how to create a in-store experience online
● leveraging AI to create great CX at scale
Emina Biscevic
Emina Biscevic
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Turn every customer interaction into a sales opportunity
Today’s consumers demand fast, frictionless, and self-serve support, when they need it and on the channel they prefer. In this new world, customers must be at the center of your entire business. This means moving from reactionary problem solving, and long resolution cycles based on each channel to a more customer-centric approach. Get the Retailer’s Guide to Digital-First Maturity and learn more about today’s Customer Support Imperatives, e.g. about how you have more predictive intelligence about your customers so that you can personalize every conversation and adapt to their needs immediately.
Steven Ledgerwood
Steven Ledgerwood
Sessions
- Roundtable:
Do Ecommerce Businesses Need to Do Better at Helping Customers Find Their Products Onsite?
Brian Graydon
Brian Graydon
Sessions
- Roundtable:
Do Ecommerce Businesses Need to Do Better at Helping Customers Find Their Products Onsite?
Benjamin Auffenberg
Benjamin Auffenberg
Sessions
- Roundtable:Let’s Be Marty McFly: Future Customer Communication for Today!
Michael Lueken
Michael Lueken
Henning Heesen
Henning Heesen
Sessions
- Masterclass:
How to create loyal customers through customer service
Customer Service is the only department that is 100% in contact with the customer, all the time. Thousands of contact moments that are often managed in the sense of following procedures and closing tickets, instead of being used to create a perfect experience and winning fans. Salesupply is the leading e-commerce contact center in Europe and supports brands like Tory Burch, Tamaris, 7-for-all-menkind and many more. Find out how to setup your customers service and create fans out of customers.
Sarah Nicolau
Sarah Nicolau
Experienced product manager and digital payments enthusiast. From the banking and fintech background to the customer facing solutions in education and travel industries, Sarah has focused on checkout and payment products for the last 8 years, enabling companies and customers to succeed in the online purchase experience.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
In-House Gems: Using Customer Feedback as an Input for Continuous Product Discovery
Have you ever wished you could have more feedback from your customers? Do you find yourself on a constant search to better understand what your customers are thinking or feeling? When you are looking for these insights, where do you go? If you’re only looking outside of your organization, you may be missing out. Join Sarah & Danielle as they share how HomeToGo is leveraging customer expertise from their customer service team to continuously fuel product innovations.
Danielle DeLozier
Danielle DeLozier
Danielle is passionate about all things customer experience. She has over 10 years experience leading digital transformation at major brands like GE and Michelin. She currently leads the Guest Relations team at HomeToGo, where they focus on providing excellent customer service and using feedback to drive product and process innovations
Sessions
- Masterclass:
In-House Gems: Using Customer Feedback as an Input for Continuous Product Discovery
Have you ever wished you could have more feedback from your customers? Do you find yourself on a constant search to better understand what your customers are thinking or feeling? When you are looking for these insights, where do you go? If you’re only looking outside of your organization, you may be missing out. Join Sarah & Danielle as they share how HomeToGo is leveraging customer expertise from their customer service team to continuously fuel product innovations.
Sandra Stricker
Sandra Stricker
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Engage with your customers and turn review insights into action on platforms like Apple, Google and Trustpilot.
- Learn what online reviews can do to interact with your customers and improve your customer experience.
- How to influence every touchpoint along the customer journey
- Big data and AI allow to gain insights about products and services incl competitor analysis
- Best Practices from different industries – Banking, Retail, Travel, CE, DIY
Frederik Bücker
Frederik Bücker
As Head of Sales, Frederik Buecker is responsible for identifying the pain points of potential customers and developing tailored solutions with the team. His passion for sales started at his mother’s bookstores and to combine this with the digital approach the next logical step was to continue his career at Amazon.de. To gain international experience his way led him to Singapore and Malaysia to build up sales and CS teams before starting with gominga.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
Engage with your customers and turn review insights into action on platforms like Apple, Google and Trustpilot.
- Learn what online reviews can do to interact with your customers and improve your customer experience.
- How to influence every touchpoint along the customer journey
- Big data and AI allow to gain insights about products and services incl competitor analysis
- Best Practices from different industries – Banking, Retail, Travel, CE, DIY
Owen Morley
Owen Morley
A retail and digital veteran with 20 years of experience across FMCG, fashion, luxury and sports, forever passionate about building optimized and personalized customer journeys.
Sessions
- Keynote:From 0 to 100 With Personalization : On’s Hyper Growth StoryThe past two years were monumental for On: the brand got listed on NYSE, survived supply chain crisis and went through stormy pandemic times – while keeping growing their product catalog and expanding business at fast pace.
Join our session with Owen Morley, Global Merchandising and Optimization Lead at On to learn how the brand leverages personalization to foster business growth across 50+ locations and rapid catalog expansion, while keeping customer experience the #1 priority.
Jörg Nottebohm
Jörg Nottebohm
Gude, I’m Jörg Nottebohm, 3 kids (Either they don’t let me sleep or the Seattle Seahawks!).
Besides founding my own online store, I’ve been working with web analytics, marketing automation and engagement for almost 10 years. Now I’ ve been at Contentsquare for 5 years, mainly because we’ re changing the way people think about and work with digital analytics here.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
From Insight to Action. How to optimize your website with speed and efficiency to create fantastic digital experiences
Do you have enough resources? Money, time, colleagues? If you answered these questions with YES you should be the one hosting this Masterclass and talking about how you did it. If you cried a bit because the struggle is real: don’t worry. We have some tips for you on how to optimize your website fast and efficient. This becomes more and more important. Specially in times like these. We will cover the following topics for you:
- From Feedback to Action. Make the most of your customer’s feedback.
- When Speed Matters: How to manage content for fast loading pages.
- The efficient digital Team: hot to prioritize optimizations when low on resources.
Nicolas Buchalik
Nicolas Buchalik
Servus, I’m Nico, a former soccer reporter and a Customer Centricity Advocate since my studies. I’ve been exploring this topic for about 5 years now. Since 3 years for and with Contentsquare. Here we have developed a software that helps digital teams to easily understand how people behave on their site and where and why they are not satisfied with their experience.
Sessions
- Masterclass:
From Insight to Action. How to optimize your website with speed and efficiency to create fantastic digital experiences
Do you have enough resources? Money, time, colleagues? If you answered these questions with YES you should be the one hosting this Masterclass and talking about how you did it. If you cried a bit because the struggle is real: don’t worry. We have some tips for you on how to optimize your website fast and efficient. This becomes more and more important. Specially in times like these. We will cover the following topics for you:
- From Feedback to Action. Make the most of your customer’s feedback.
- When Speed Matters: How to manage content for fast loading pages.
- The efficient digital Team: hot to prioritize optimizations when low on resources.
Tue Søttrup
Tue Søttrup
Sessions
- Masterclass & Roundtable Discussion:
Getting Started with Knowledge-Centered Service (Masterclass)
The old adage, “knowledge is power” rings especially true now, as companies look for ways to increase customer loyalty and advocacy. Join the masterclass to empower your customer service agents with the knowledge that helps them better serve their customers.
How do you improve your CS efficiency to weather the economic storm? (Roundtable Discussion)
Customer service leaders are being tasked with increasing their efficiency and contribution to bottom & top-line growth to respond to market conditions. How do you adapt, empower your team and show the business improved CS efficiency? With rising inflation and reduced consumer spending, in this roundtable, we’d like to share the our tips from CX leaders, and invite you to share your experiences and use it as a session to find inspiration and solutions!