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David Wheldon
Global Director of Brand and Customer Experience
Vodafone
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Director, Strategic Loyalty Marketing
Hewlett-Packard
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Jeff Robertson
Managing Director, SkyMiles
Delta Airlines
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Adam Burke 
Senior Vice President Customer Loyalty
Hilton Hotels Corporation
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Gavin Hawthorn
Vice President, Business & Relationship Marketing EMEA
InterContinental Hotels Group
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Louise Burns
Director of Customer Experience Management
Bentley Motors
 
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Hanna-Kaisa Savelkoski
Head of Customer Care Experience
Nokia
 
 
 

 

 

Programme


Day One - Wednesday 24th September 2008
Day Two - Thursday 25th September 2008
Day Three - Friday 26th September 2008
Pre-conference workshop - Tuesday 23 September 2008

last modified: 22/09/2008 15:40:51 (GMT)

Day One - Wednesday 24th September 2008
9.10am
Chairwoman’s opening remarks
 
 
Annich McIntosh, Managing Editor,
Loyalty Magazine

FINDING THE KEY TO UNLOCKING YOUR CUSTOMER’S HEARTS
 

9.20am
Keynote: Going back to basics; the role of dialogue-driven loyalty marketing in retaining your customers
  • Forging customer connection, harnessing the power of a portal
  • Utilising installed base marketing to generate substantial growth in profits
  • Assure relevance and results for loyalty initiatives and become a strategic asset to your customers and your business

9.50am
Keynote: Successfully integrating loyalty at the enterprise level
  • Creating organisational alignment to get behind your loyalty focus
  • Achieving customer centricity within your organisation
  • Driving operational excellence through out the business
  • Effectively balancing technology and human interaction
  • Measuring success in a meaningful way

ENGENDERING LOYALTY THROUGH POSITIVE BRAND EXPERIENCE
 

10.20am
Generating a two way dialogue with your consumer to foster long term loyalty
  • What do they want from you?
  • Understanding where you are welcome and where is off limits
  • Extracting information to keep the relationship alive
 
Louise Burns, Director of Customer Experience Management,
Bentley Motors

10.50am
Refreshments
 

11.30am
Driving loyalty by connecting people
  • Customer experience management - connecting with customers
  • Involving the organisation by making things meaningful
  • Understanding where to go - systematic approaches supporting leadership
 
Hanna-Kaisa Savelkoski, Head of Care Customer Experience Management,
Nokia

12pm
Learning from internal and external stakeholders to build better customer experiences
  • How do organisations need to flex, learn and adapt to the rapidly changing needs of the 21st Century Customer?
  • How can organisations use their customer data more effectively to proactively manage churn?
  • How does Web 2.0 start to blur the boundaries between organisations and their customers?
 
Nicola Millard, Customer Experience Futurologist,
BT

12.30pm
Networking lunch
 

KEEPING UP WITH TODAY’S CONSUMER
 

1.30pm
Keynote address: Loyalty 2.0 - why technology has become a critical enabler to delivering competitive advantage in Loyalty
  • Examining the changing dynamics of the loyalty industry
  • Loyalty program evaluation - are you innovating as fast as your customers?
  • Understanding the different technology enablement options available
  • Case study examples of technology innovation in the loyalty market
 
Natalie Kouzeleas, Senior Director, Marketing and Loyalty,
Oracle
Frédérique Schmitt, Loyalty Practice,
Accenture

2pm
Panel session: Utilising web 2.0 and social networking sites to bond with your consumers
  • Is it better to be on the sidelines than being swiped at?
  • Enhancing rather than moderating the experience – knowing when to butt out
  • Picking the passing fad from the long term stayers – keeping one step ahead of the curve
  • Weighing up whether it is worth it for your brand
 
Graham Horner, Head of Loyalty,
Coca-Cola Great Britain
Nicola Millard, Customer Experience Futurologist,
BT
Tiffany Tuell, Director, Strategic Loyalty Marketing,
Hewlett Packard

2.40pm
Keynote: Maximising customer value through understanding motivations and behaviour
  • The importance of knowing your customers in today’s market
  • How consumer research can be effectively combined with database analysis
  • Knowing what to say to each customer to maximise value and loyalty to your business 
  • Overcoming the challenges and demonstrating the benefits
 
Rob Adams, Director, Customer Insight & Loyalty,
The Logic Group
Trevor Alderson, Director of Customer Marketing Analytics,
Ipsos MORI

3.10pm
Speed networking
 

3.40pm
Refreshments
 

UNDERSTANDING THE PRIORITIES OF YOUR CONSUMERS TO GAIN THEIR LOYALTY
 

4.10pm
Building loyalty through use of innovative technologies
  • NFC in loyalty cards – what are the concrete benefits?
  • Looking at best practice – where has there been successful uptake and implementation?
  • What are the implications for informing your loyalty strategy
 
Sergio Cozzolino, Vice President. Innovative Service Development,
Telecom Italia

4.40pm
Panel Session: generating loyalty when price matters
  • What does the future for loyalty in a price driven atmosphere
  • Using brand identity and experience to forge a bond with your brand
  • Has loyalty shifted from brands to information providers?
 
Gerard Tempest, Marketing Director,
Whitbread Hotel & Restaurants
Magnus Holst, Manager IKEA FAMILY,
IKEA
Iain Pringle, Head of Retail Partnership,
Astral Towers

5.20pm
Understanding loyalty for the luxury consumer
  • Utilising CRM for the luxury markets.
  • Making the differentiation as to which suits your business
  • How to generate and retain loyalty in the premium end of the market
 
Louise Burns, Director of Customer Experience Management,
Bentley Motors
Elisabetta Ierardi, CRM, Advertising and Publications Manager,
Asprey Holdings Ltd
Tim Gadoffre, Chairman & Co-founder,
Marival

6pm
Chairman’s closing remarks
 

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Day Two - Thursday 25th September 2008
9am
Chairman’s opening remarks
 
 
Mr Rick Ferguson, Editor,
Colloquy

GETTING THE MOST RETURN FROM YOUR LOYALTY PROGRAM
 

9.10am
Keynote case study: Piloting a loyalty program through changing skies - Delta adapts SkyMiles strategy to retain customer loyalty
  • Examining industry and Frequent Flyer Program trends Identifying necessary changes through customer feedback and data analysis
  • Launching industry leading modifications and tracking results to anticipate future trends
 
Jeff Robertson, Managing Director,
SkyMiles, Delta

9.50am
Case study: Generating loyalty in a sector where customers are notoriously promiscuous
  • Understanding consumer drivers and incorporating them into program design
  • Overcoming sector specific challenges - retaining and growing existing market share
  • Successfully changing the company mindset to becoming customer-centric
  • Defining loyalty in a competitive market
  • Coping with competition in a fast growing market
  • Communicating the value of a loyalty program efficiently
 
Saad Bin Dhafer Al-Qahtani, Vice President of the Residential Sector ,
Saudi Telecom

10.20am
Case study: Converting your loyalty program from a cost to revenue stream
  • Incorporating your loyalty program into your commercial strategy
  • Ensuring the value proposition is maintained for your customers
  • Overcoming short term challenges to realise long term benefits
 
Gavin Hawthorn, vice president, business & relationship marketing EMEA,
InterContinental Hotels Group

10.50am
Morning refreshments
 

PUTTING TOGETHER THE PERFECT PROGRAM
 

11.10am
Case study: Wyndham rewards – Successfully re-launching and re-positioning your rewards program
  • Blending sectors and brands to build a new program identity
  • Integrating existing soft and hard benefits and finding the balance
  • Dealing with the challenges of globalising your program and keeping it locally relevant
 
Jill Noblett, Sr. Vice President, Loyalty & Direct Marketing,
Wyndham

11.40am
Case study: TouchPoints – creating the UAE’s first bank-wide loyalty scheme
  • Overcoming and understanding unique regional challenges
  • The rationale for a bank-wide loyalty program
  • Impact on business results
  • Future potential of TouchPoints
 
Arup Mukhopadhyay, Executive Vice President & Group Head - Retail Banking,
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

12.10pm
Case Study: Putting together a loyalty program for Russia’s number one food retailer
  • What lessons were learnt on the way?
  • How did the program evolve
  • Looking at the impact on sales and customer retention
     
 
Elena Naumchik, Loyalty Programs Director,
X5 Retail Group

MAKING YOUR LOYALTY PROGRAM WORK FOR YOU
 

12.40pm
Case study: harnessing ‘hero’ product loyalty to drive growth through the business
  • Creating a solution which speaks to your key consumers, giving them real value
  • Using data to inform business development
  • Building a successful program with exclusivity
  •  Making a two tiered solution work
     
 
Sarah Cross, Head of Loyalty and Strategy,
ghd

1.10pm
Networking lunch
 

2.10pm
Case Study: Now to Wow! Involving your customers to earn loyalty and profit from promoters
  • Uncovering how the LEGO Group has improved customer retention by becoming more "customer driven and experience focused" 
  • Developing relationships with customers and fans which deliver mutual benefit
  • Understanding the importance of trust in earning your customers’ loyalty
  • Evaluating what value a loyalty programme might add when a loyal customer base already exists

2.40pm
Case study: Reaching through the screen – driving loyalty through your online presence
  • The ease of experience - making it pleasant from beginning to end keeping customer
  • service key
  • Driving loyalty through trust – breaking down the barriers
  • Customised communication to keep the dialogue relevant
  • Learning about your consumer through your online interaction
 
Dr Barry Green, Head of CRM & Loyalty,
Etihad Airways

3.20pm
Afternoon refreshments
 

3.40pm
Case study: Making cents of customer loyalty – Air Miles & American Express
  • How has American Express used Air Miles as a tool to engender customer loyalty and strengthen customer relationships?
  • How has American Express has used loyalty-marketing techniques to strengthen their brand, and effectively leverage the AIR MILES coalition program?
  • Exploring their decision to join a coalition, the results they've achieved and how they balance marketing of their brand in a multi-sponsor coalition environment

LOOKING FORWARD – WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP?
 

4.10pm
Research presentation: Understanding today’s loyalty drivers – is your brand on track to drive the relationship forward?
  • What are the factors that engender loyalty
  • Which retailers have garnered the most loyal customers and why?
  • What are the key factors that cause consumers to recommend a store or a brand? 
  • Breaking it down by demographics – getting to their specific drivers
 
Mr Rick Ferguson, Editor,
Colloquy

4.40pm
Chairman’s closing remarks
 

5pm
End of conference
 

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Day Three - Friday 26th September 2008
9am
Chairman’s opening remarks
 
 
Mr Rick Ferguson, Editor,
Colloquy

GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR DATA
 

9.10am
Keynote: Turning CRM in to concrete business intelligence to boost your bottom line
  • Creating the benefits realisation plan
  • Securing stakeholder buy-in
  • Turning IT expenditure into business benefits
  • How to get intelligence into action
 
Walter H Lukner, European Loyalty & CRM Strategy Manager,
BP

9.50am
Loyalty analytics. Understanding The art and the science.
  • Overcoming fear of the unknown - Getting past suspicions to generate real insight from statistics
  • Understanding  the art as well as the science of stats
  • Sorting the wheat from the chaff – focusing on the insights which can provide a real boost to your business.
     
 
Stephen Rose, CEO & founder,
5one

10.30am
Refreshments
 

UTILISING ALL THE TOOLS THAT ARE OUT THERE
 

11.10am
Quantifying CRM programs to the internal stakeholders
  • Making sense of spending on loyalty analytics
  • Measuring the return on your investment
  • Putting intangibles into black and white
 
Mr Andy Wood, Managing Director,
GI Insight Group

11.40am
Case study: Driving strategic decision making with loyalty data gained from coalition loyalty
  • Using a non price incentive in a price competitive market
  • Driving incremental benefits to your business
  • Generating positive ROI from marketing campaigns in a low margin industry.
 
Mr Andrew Swaffield, Managing Director,
Airmiles

12.20pm
Networking lunch
 

1.50pm
Influencing consumer behavior through utilising analytics.
  • Analysing the online shopping behavior and modifying site design/content to influence the customer’s buying decision
  • Putting the customer at the centre of the effort
  • Driving ROI and profitability through advanced personalisation
  • Profiling customers and determining the most actionable segments
 
Markus Schilling, Teamleader e-CRM systems,
Neckermann

INFORMING CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS
 

2.20pm
Research report: customer Chatter - measuring word-of-mouth effects in loyalty Programs
  • Discover the importance of consumer advocacy as it relates to loyalty program retention and success
  • Real-life examples and learn how to spark positive chatter within your customer base
  • Examine and predict how demographic customer segments differ when participating in word-of-mouth behavior
 
Mr Rick Ferguson, Editor,
Colloquy

2.50pm
Customer Loyalty: Key Challenges & Success Factors
  •  Why customer loyalty is at the heart of the current economic challenges
  • How customer loyalty connects to shareholder value
  • Why it is key not to mix up customer loyalty and satisfaction
  • How to manage different types of customer loyalty to generate value & growth
  Naomi Kasolowsky, Loyalty Practice, Accenture

3.30pm
‘Futurecasting’ – incorporating modeling into your business planning
  • Looking at with what accuracy insights can be received with – what are the general strengths and limitations
  • The types of data do you need to have access to and what internal systems may need to be put in place
  • Provide models to identify revenue boosting actions through up- & cross sell
  • Developing strategic and tactical segmentation models that detect and prevent silent attrition

4pm
Chairman’s closing remarks
 
 
Mr Rick Ferguson, Editor,
Colloquy

4.10pm
End of conference
 

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Pre-conference workshop - Tuesday 23 September 2008
Next Generation Loyalty – Delivering high performance through a consistent customer experience
 

Workshop agenda
 

2pm
Welcome & Introduction
Natalie Kouzeleas, Senior Director, Marketing and Loyalty, Oracle EMEA
Frederique Schmitt, Loyalty Practice, Accenture
 

2.15pm
Customer Loyalty: Key Challenges & Success Factors
 Naomi Kasolowsky, Loyalty Practice, Accenture
·         Why customer loyalty is at the heart of the current economic challenges
·         How customer loyalty connects to shareholder value
·         Why it is key not to mix up customer loyalty and satisfaction
·         How to manage different types of customer loyalty to generate value & growth
 

3pm
Customer Experience in Retail Banking Key Learnings (and surprises) from Accenture’s 2007 Customer Survey (+3000 customers, 16 key banks)
 Speaker TBC
·         What are the key drivers of customer loyalty in retail banking
·         How customer experience drives bottom-line value (resulting from increased retention, products per customer, etc.)
·         What are the typical customer segments according to specific needs and expectations
·         How to propose differentiated treatments to each segment so as to stimulate growth
 

3.45pm
Coffee break
 

4pm
Customer Loyalty: New Challenges Facing Retailers
 Speaker TBC
·         How the current economic climate requires retailers to rethink their relationships with customers
·         How retailers use customer knowledge to influence customer behavior
·         How to assess the efficiency of a retailer loyalty program
 

4.45pm
Harnessing Real Time Customer Interactions to Enhance Loyalty and Grow Revenues
David Cressy, Director, Real Time Decisioning Solutions, Oracle Corporation
·         How can you manage real time contact with your customers to ensure relevance and impact
·         How can this be integrated with your existing and future channel strategy e.g. ecommerce, contact centre, kiosk, etc
·         How can you learn from interactions to automatically improve customer responses over time
 

5.15pm
Case Studies: How Efficient Loyalty Programs Can Support a Company’s Business (examples in Telco & Airline industry)
 ·         How an efficient loyalty program can influence customer behavior and stimulate growth
·        How customer loyalty can sustain corporate strategy and help renew brand image
 

6pm
End of the workshop
 

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