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Date: February 28, 2018
Location: Melbourne

Topics like voice, Artificial Intelligence and chatbots have been getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. 75% of US homes are predicted to have a voice-activated virtual assistant by 2020, according to Gartner. In fact, the latest Salmat and ACRS research reveals 68% of Australian consumers would already give shopping using an in-home voice assistant a go.

Join our lunch presentation and Q&A on the revolution of voice in Australia and explore the opportunities for brands to improve customer engagement. Here's a sneak peek of what to expect in the session:

● What is the new definition of “voice”, how has it changed and how can it drive good CX for your brand?

● How will in-home voice devices impact CX in the future?

● CX and voice: what to consider for a great customer experience.

Come along to get access to an evaluation of how an in-home voice assistant could work for your business.

Lucky door prize: free voice app

One lucky attendee will win the opportunity to have a free Google Voice app built to showcase what their company offers their customers. 

This event is designed for the C-Suite, and senior leaders of Customer Experience, Contact Centre and Operations functions.

Date: March 1, 2018
Location: Melbourne

The telecommunications and utilities sectors share many challenges and synergies in customer management. Against a backdrop of continual margin pressure, both sectors have embraced offshoring as a critical strategy to improve service and agility. Join us for a boardroom lunch with your peers to hear from the industry experts on the state of outsourcing in the Philippines. We’ll review:

• what lines of business are appropriate to offshore, and the business case behind them

• why the Philippines, and a discussion of outsource vs captive models

• examples of which companies are active offshore

• the real impact of offshore on customer experience – in numbers.

Case Study: BTB

Sachin Patel, General Manager - Product & Technology at fast-growing telco BTB, will deliver a keynote on BTB’s success story in leveraging an offshore workforce, including improved customer satisfaction results, and faster service qualification, order QA and order submission. 

This event is focused on the telecommunications, utilities and energy sectors, specifically for the C-suite as well as heads of contact centre, customer service, operations, sales, collections, finance, procurement and back office.

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Date: September 26, 2018
Location: Sydney

Join us for a boardroom lunch to learn how analytics can be deployed as a service to achieve breakthrough insights about what customers want and feel. With the only requirement being a call recording capability, there is no need for internal specialists or purchase of any software licences.

Manually reviewing a tiny sample of individual call recordings will never deliver the insights of a “big data” approach - now accessible to contact centres of all sizes.

Keynote Case Study

Hear a success story from Origin Energy, which brought a new product to market the smart way – by testing and learning from customer conversations with the call centre. Through analytics, Origin could finetune the language they used in their sales offers, the product benefits and service experience, all resulting in an industry-first, customer-first energy plan.

This event is designed for leaders in contact centres, CX, marketing, insights & analytics. 

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Date: November 8, 2018
Location: Sydney

As a leading courier company operating in 4 markets, Fastway knows the importance of cost-effective, reliable and speedy delivery. So it’s no surprise that these same three qualities are critical in its customer service operations.

Join us over lunch to hear how Fastway delivered on its brand promise by outsourcing to the Philippines where, after just 12 months, the company is reaping the benefits of: 

  • Increased first contact resolution
  • Higher customer satisfaction
  • Reduced handle time
  • Significantly lower costs, and
  • Stronger employee engagement in the contact centre.

Hear also from industry leaders how you can use the contact centre as a foundation to add new skills and capabilities to your offshore team including analytics and automation.  To wrap up, there will be plenty of time for Q&A and networking with your peers.

This event is for leaders of sales, service, support, contact centre and customer experience functions. Relevant industries include telecommunications, utilities, insurance, travel, entertainment, transport and logistics, media and online.

RSVP now to secure your attendance.

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Date: November 13, 2018
Location: Melbourne

The ability to acquire customers cost-effectively is central to the sustainability of virtually every business. The contact centre has long held a vital role in customer and member acquisition strategy, however it’s a modern art and science few perfect.

Join us over lunch to hear today’s best practices in

  • Dialling strategy
  • Data profiling and propensity to purchase
  • Delivery in onshore and offshore locations – what works well where; spotlight on South Africa.

Simply Energy will then deliver a keynote on the secret ingredients to the success of their industry-leading acquisition program.

We’ll wrap up with Q&A and a short site tour.

This event is for executives focused on customer or member growth. Relevant industries include telecommunications, health insurance, travel, entertainment, banking, superannuation, media and not-for-profit.

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Date: October 25, 2018
Location: Sydney

The global services market in South Africa grew at a rapid rate of ~22% annually over the past four years. Australia is a key engine of this growth representing 25% of contact centre seats outsourced from international markets.

Join us for a lunch presentation of the latest research from Everest Group, where you’ll learn the surprising facts and figures about South Africa as a world-class BPO destination, including:

  • a 50% cost advantage compared to Australia. The cost of office rental in Cape Town is less than Manila!
  • The vast pool of English-speaking talent includes deep expertise in financial services - South Africa has more actuarial graduates than India, and is ranked #1 in the world for auditing standards.

We’ll also share an overview of

  • the 3 major cities for BPO (Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg)
  • niche capability in analytics, AI, automation and legal services
  • Government and industry incentives and support
  • Australian and global brands already outsourcing to South Africa – Amazon, IAG, iSelect, iiNet, Vodafone, Qantas, Simply Energy, American Express
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Start date: October 17, 2018
End date: October 18, 2018
Location: Sydney, Melbourne

Melbourne: October 17, 2018

Sydney: October 18, 2018

This is a private lunch event designed for leaders and owners of voice and digital customer experience and services. This includes head of operations, payments, IT, security, CX and contact centre functions.

Taking payments in a contact centre can be time consuming. Customers are nervous about providing their credit card details over the phone and organisations must be PCI DSS compliant or pay the penalty. 

We will show you how to:

  • Delight customers with "touch and pay" - reducing agent time to a single minute to take a payment.
  • Optimise workforce utilisation - avoiding agent work time, and customer hold time throughout the payment taking process.
  • Provide safe, secure and compliant payment solutions – pre-integrated to voice and digital customer interaction channels. 

Over lunch, you will hear from industry leaders who will demonstrate live solutions - available now – where you can discuss strategies to improve your customer experience and payment conversion rates while reducing your average handle times and your organisation’s PCI DSS footprint. 

RSVP now to secure your attendance at this invitation only VIP event to win 50% off your live pilot before Christmas. 

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Date: November 15, 2018
Location: Sydney

You are invited to an exclusive lunch for leaders in the contact centre industry, to learn about industry trends in wages and employee benefits, against the backdrop of a global services marketplace.

Network with your peers while hearing about: 

  1. the state of play in contact centre pay scales
  2. how the modern awards in Australia compare to other destinations
  3. perks beyond salaries on offer in the market
  4. wages comparison cities in Australia
  5. relationship between wages offered and attrition
  6. wages predictions for FY19
  7. wages in different types of contact centre functions and how to deal with staff working side by side on different pay scales
  8. hybrid wages + sales incentive compensation models
This event is designed for leaders in customer service and contact centres.
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Start date: July 5, 2018
End date: July 6, 2018

This event, facilitated by BPO veteran Robert Gaunt, is designed for executives responsible for BPO vendor partnerships, across operations, procurement, legal or finance

In any outsourcing venture, it’s critical to understand purpose. We’ll cover:

• Reasons to outsource. What is our problem statement, what are the key drivers?

• Which functions / processes should be in scope, which should we retain?

• How do we build our requirements’ definition, what contracting models are available and what are the relative pros/cons of each?

• What can we do to be informed buyers? What is fair value?

• What controls can we put in place to ensure quality, efficiency and value are maintained and improved?

• How can we set ourselves up for success in execution of the transition of services and ongoing delivery?

Why

• The three Cs of outsourcing.

• Where should responsibility for process automation sit?

• Should we give our processes a Six Sigma and automation transformation first or is “my mess for less” appropriate?

What

• Which functions work well in an outsource environment, which don’t? Which functions are the “third rail”, i.e. don’t ever touch them?

• Collecting relevant metrics on volumes, performance, cost.

• Building a vision of the future model of operating. What does best practice look like?

Where

• Capability and relative market comparison in different geographies.

• Contractual/commercial models: outcomes-based, staff augmentation, cost-plus, DBOT. Currency considerations, COLA.

How

• Defining quality metrics, reporting requirements and KPIs.

• Plan for success but prepare for failure. How to set service credits and liquidated damages.

• Planning for Transition.

Investing in the relationship

• The importance of governance. How to bat above your league with a large service provider.

• Setting the hierarchy of meetings, appropriate travel schedules, how to use escalations smartly. 

• Lead/lag indicators of future success and failure


This event would not have been possible without the kind support of BPESA.

More info about the BPO Masterclass
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Date: August 15, 2018
Location: Sydney

This is a private lunch event for leaders in customer service, CX, digital and contact centres.

Chatbots and virtual agents are on the agenda of virtually every Customer leader in Australia. The question is not whether to implement, but how to implement successfully.

At this free lunch event with your peers, hear from Transport for NSW, who won the award for “Most Innovative and Intelligent Bot for Customer Service” at the Intelligent Innovation 2018 awards. Take learnings from the success of their RITA (Realtime Intelligent Transport Assistant), including:

  • best practices in planning a chatbot implementation
  • the importance and art of human curation
  • what channels to make the bot available in
  • how to retain control on social media integrations

The presentation will include a demo and plenty of time for Q&A over a delicious working lunch. Places are limited and RSVP is essential.