Explore the Agenda for TSIA World INTERACT
INTERACT is a must-attend event offering exclusive visionary keynotes from TSIA executives and compelling breakout sessions that present actionable advice for driving success in bear and bull markets.
This conference unites a large community of tech executives and professionals to network, connect, and discover products and solutions in the InteractZone in Orlando, FL, May 6-8, 2024.
*The agenda is subject to change. All sessions are first-come, first-served.
Maintaining customers and increasing profitable revenue is paramount for every company. The customer is generally the focus for maintaining loyalty, expanding existing revenue streams, and driving new ones. Another strategy is a more holistic approach to customer retention and revenue that includes a focus on the health of assets and their impact on customer experience.
Who Should Attend:
• IT Leaders
• IT Application Owners for Service Platforms and IoT Contact
• Center and Field Service Operations Leaders
Key Takeaways:
• Technology enables Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• ALM is a critical component of the customer lifecycle
• Customer experience drives retention and additional revenue opportunities
Increasing profitable revenue is at the top of every company's mind. Maximizing recurring revenue requires an organization to understand that the customer lifecycle is continuous. High-performing organizations align revenue growth and sustainment with customer retention by providing flexible offerings and monetization models that drive positive customer experiences.
Who Should Attend:
• Sales Leaders
• Customer Success Leaders
• IT Leaders
Key Takeaways:
• Technology enables effective Customer Lifecycle Management.
• Customer Lifecycle Management is a critical component in maintaining and/or creating customer stickiness.
• The customer experience is continuous and must be maintained throughout the customer lifecycle to maximize revenue.
Back by popular demand is Break the Ice! Attend this session to break the ice and get into the groove for a great conference. TSIA staff from various research areas will take you through a rousing game of Two Truths, One Lie on topics from The Rise of AI in Technology and Service Operations. It’s an excellent opportunity to meet other attendees, share a laugh (or two), and get your mind focused on some of the issues we’ll be exploring through TSIA World INTERACT.
The Solutions Tour offers attendees a curated excursion of participating sponsor booths in the InteractZone. The tour is led by TSIA staff, who will guide attendees to each booth for a brief thought-leadership presentation. This is an excellent opportunity to gain deeper insights into exhibitor solutions that can make a difference in your business. The tour is informative and social, offering opportunities to interact with TSIA sponsors, and other conference attendees. Wireless headsets, food and beverage, and a chance at a fun giveaway are all part of the tour! Sign up during registration.
Mingle with other conference attendees while you browse the industry's newest technology services solutions in the InteractZone. Mingle with other conference attendees over delicious hors d'oeuvres and cocktails while you browse the industry's newest technology services solutions in the InteractZone.
Participate in a small group discussion with industry peers hosted by a TSIA representative. Select a topic from 20 different options and join the conversation!
*Participation is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis.
As with prior TSIA Foundations sessions, the TSIA Research Team will share a series of brand new frameworks to help you and your organizations rapidly understand the opportunities and challenges of developing AI capabilities. As no organization will be left untouched by the rapid embrace of AI, it is crucial to understand the various dimensions of AI, the capabilities in use today, and the future opportunities to come.
The following new TSIA AI frameworks will be shared in this session:
• AI Capabilities Landscape (annual refresh)
• The AI Black Box
• TSIA pAIn Framework
• AI First Strategy
• Three Dimensions of AI to Improve Business Operations
• Mountaineers of AI
Meetups are social gatherings organized by research areas to promote networking. Find your 'tribe' by color and network with other attendees of similar interests.
*Participation is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Today, every company is a tech company. And they are all riding a digital transformation (DT) wave that is disrupting their industry's business and operating models. When DT marches through an industry, the results can be devastating to complacent companies. Digital capabilities will upend how customers buy and consume your products, and service organizations will have to play a more prominent role in your company's success. What happened in Software and Enterprise IT will happen in every industry.
This session for hardware and Industrial equipment OEM's is intended to be a highly interactive session where executives can share their experiences in transforming their business and operating models, including successes and challenges. TSIA will share industry performance, and foundational frameworks, including our AI capabilities framework to guide your transformation.
Takeaways:
• TSIA foundational frameworks translated and enhanced for hardware companies.
• Interactive learning with peers about your digital transformation journey, where you are now, and where you want to be.
• Next Best Action plans based on your transformation zone.
• Introduction to the vibrant TSIA hardware and Industrial Equipment community.
Hear firsthand from service leaders successfully implementing AI for technical support, including results and key learnings for deployment, including documentation, internationalization, change management, and adoption. We’ll discuss:
• Top use cases for AI and ROI (in production)
• Perception vs. reality once AI is rolled out (production vs. pilot)
• How your AI strategy will evolve and expand over time
• International deployment - bringing resolutions from countries and languages into a central AI hub
Learn how Neuron7 Service Resolution Intelligence is changing the game, helping customers get to 90%+ resolution accuracy faster with turn-by-turn guidance that brings together knowledge from thousands of people, data sources, and interactions across complex service environments.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance productivity and enrich customer and employee experiences. Organizations can innovate job roles, empower people, and scale their collective intelligence using AI.
In this session, Edwina Fitzmaurice, EY Client Technology’s Chief Customer Success Officer, will talk about how the EY organization utilizes a structured future-back and people-centric design approach to innovate the employee experience and consider how this translates to customer experience. She will talk about how EY.ai is leveraging Generative AI (Gen AI) solutions to augment and empower four hundred thousand EY employees while accelerating business value delivered from AI and keeping humans at the center of the approach. This session is intended for professional service leaders, executives, and employees.
In the fast-paced world of professional services, streamlining tasks with AI is essential for maximizing productivity. But what exactly does this transformative technology offer, and how can companies and individuals in project management capitalize on its potential while navigating potential challenges? From mastering new skills to optimizing workflows, let's explore the broader implications.
Join Ken Ringdahl, Kantata's Chief Technology Officer, for an enlightening session at the TSIA World INTERACT Expo Theater. Discover the latest tech trends and unlock the untapped benefits of AI in professional services, both at the organizational and individual levels.
Resource Management is an ever-evolving field, and modern technologies are delivering more efficient, predictable, and value-driven approaches to deploying time and talent. As the lines between functional departments continue to blur, the skills within both professional services and customer success teams are being tapped to deliver on customer demand.
In this session, you will learn about new advances in resource management that leverage modern technologies, including artificial intelligence, to build stronger teams, deliver profitable outcomes, and source talent from across the organization.
The potential for AI to transform your business is highly dependent on the quality of your data. There is a path to improve your AI data-readiness and capture ROI today. Outcome-based scoring with proven AI-models can create quantifiable improvements in customer churn reduction, growth acceleration, and cost efficiency. Learn how to invest today for Net Retention impact this year.
The big play in customer support is to look at the total cost to serve across the enterprise, not just within individual service delivery channels, like field services, assisted support, or self-service. So, if we want to optimize service delivery costs and serve customers in a timely manner, meaningful product telemetry is the only way to go. With an install base under contract generating telemetry, you can develop a data strategy to feed your AI strategy.
Join us as our Ask the Experts panel gives insights into their journey to reduce their total service cost and how data analytics and AI play a strategic role in the process.
CROs, CCOs, and top sales executives know AI and Analytics will significantly impact their worlds. But what are people doing right now? How are they leveraging AI, or are they using it at all? What data and analytics are companies using, and how are they preparing for a data and AI-driven future?
In this Ask the Expert discussion, we'll address your questions and others, such as:
How do we get our data ready for AI?
What's APLAER, and how do we practically leverage analytics?
How do we bust through our data silos?
What sort of data will our partners need to be successful? What are the important questions I should ask our company and vendors?
There is a belief that AI can fundamentally improve the intelligence, profitability, and scale of the business models of TSIA members. However, it is not clear what the actual use case scenarios and business benefits companies will receive from employing AI. AI is an incredibly broad topic that will impact and potentially accelerate managed service organization capabilities.
To learn more about AI's use cases and business benefits, you can attend this Ask the Experts session on AI and Automation in Managed Services, where our experts will share their insights and answer your questions on how AI can help transform your business.
Join this Professional Services interactive session and ask the experts questions about AI use cases in PS delivery or operations.
As the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” And so it goes with AI. The hardest part is just getting started. It could be that you need to identify an opportunity for which AI could be implemented. Or, maybe you have identified an opportunity, but you’re meeting resistance from executive management. Whatever the case might be, this open Q&A session provides a platform for the audience to pose questions to each other and to a panel of Education Services members who have implemented AI in their organizations.
Please come to this session prepared to participate, whether asking a question, answering a question, or just sharing the current state of AI in your education organization and/or company at large. Hopefully, you’ll leave this session inspired to take that first step towards implementing an AI project.
Join us as industry customer success thought leaders share their observations and experiences on how customer success organizations have not aggressively transitioned from pack followers to pack leaders with GenAI. Glean insights firsthand from customer success technology platform leaders, consulting firms, and research organizations as they share best practices and lessons learned when deploying AI capabilities to drive customers to success. What are the quick wins? What are the challenges and pitfalls to avoid? Lean forward as an active audience participant and ask questions from experts in the field.
Join this Offering Management interactive session and ask the expert about their experience and insights around offering management in the age of generative LLM AI.
Adopting AI is on the priority list of nearly every organization in 2024. But for professional services teams many questions remain around how AI can drive value in their work. As organizations are navigating the adoption journey for AI, some clear trends are starting to take shape.
Join Greg Smith, Head of Product Marketing at Certinia, and Michele Cummings, Senior Manager, Business Value Services at Salesforce, in a discussion about how professional services teams can assess AI maturity and take the steps needed to realize tangible value by embedding AI directly into your service delivery processes.
Growth at all costs is out, and retention is anything but free. Companies are struggling to identify and capture sustainable revenue, and they lack tools to help them protect and grow from their customer base. Totango + Catalyst—a result of the biggest merger in the customer success industry—offers the most powerful customer growth platform on the market to help customer success, revenue, and post-sale teams protect and grow revenue from the customer base.
Join Edward Chiu, co-CEO of Totango + Catalyst, for an exclusive insider’s view of the story of how these two industry leaders saw the opportunity to join forces—and get a glimpse of the Totango + Catalyst vision for customer-led growth and the next generation of customer success.
DevRev has emerged as a pioneering force, seamlessly integrating AI capabilities into its OneCRM platform to redefine customer support and product development. This presentation will explore how DevRev customers utilize AI to integrate the workflows of support and development teams, thereby enhancing both customer experience and outcomes. Attendees will gain insights into DevRev's innovative use of AI-powered ticket management, real-time updates, and predictive analytics, which collectively streamline workflows and foster a proactive support environment.
Join us to discover the strategic advantages of AI in technology and service operations and learn how these insights can be applied to propel your organization toward future growth and success in alignment with the conference's theme on technological innovation.
For the past several years, global digital transformation has been disrupting the business world, overturning markets, and creating opportunities for those who are willing to adapt. This discussion lays out the key talking points to help IT practitioners communicate the imperative for change to business leaders.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (Gen-AI) have the potential to transform insights, processes and provide a competitive edge for B2B technology firms. But in reality, few companies have developed a complete AI roadmap, and many have yet to begin evaluating opportunities for leveraging AI and Gen-AI across the enterprise. In this executive panel, hear from three companies at various stages on their AI journey and participate in live Q&A on getting started with AI, identifying funding, and overcoming common challenges such as data integrity, change management, and gaining executive and employee buy-in.
Explore the latest products and services offerings all under one roof. Mingle with other conference attendees while you browse the industry's newest technology services solutions in the InteractZone.
Schedule of Events:
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Networking Lunch
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM Headshot Lounge - Sponsored by Kantata
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Networking Reception
Join this session to learn how Managed Services operation improvement could be achieved using Generative AI tools to make operations scalable, less prone to human error, efficient, and bring more automation with consistent outcomes. Though powerful, Gen AI can not replace Humans at this time. But it could definitely "assist" the operation agents. By bringing "assistance" through gen AI technologies, one would achieve greater productivity, scalability, and semi-automated "agents" equivalents, apart from many other advantages.
We invite Offer managers, operations managers, and anyone interested in Managed Services operations to attend this session.
TSIA’s Education Services practice area began a Research Journey in October that culminated in the findings from related research over the past six months. The journey, entitled “Content Development: From AI to Z,” covers three key pillars of content development:
1) processes/practices,
2) people/resourcing
3) tools/technology.
This session will discuss the findings of this research journey, emphasizing the AI tools and technologies used by TSIA Education Services members. Time to develop content, as the Research Journey shows, continues to be the number one challenge content development organizations face. With AI, this no longer needs to be the case. Learn how AI, best practices, and creative sourcing can reduce content development time and costs.
TSIA's customer success capabilities framework is designed to scale maturity levels across the industry. What if the infusion of AI can accelerate your capabilities? Join TSIA's Stephen Fulkerson as he reveals industry research highlights capabilities best deployed with technology and AI. The panel session immediately following will go into a deeper discussion about the success and failures of AI deployment in customer success.
In the Startup Alley Tour, attendees will be guided to each Startup Alley participant for a brief overview of their innovative solutions and how they are impacting 'The Rise of AI in Technology and Service Operations'. The tour combines an educational and social experience, providing opportunities to interact with startup executives and other conference participants. Wireless headsets will be provided. Sign up during conference registration.
"There was an idea called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could." ~ Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D
Now, we know what you're thinking. It's a bit dramatic, isn't it? The Accela team didn't save the world from aliens, but they did something quite remarkable. Let us explain.
Accela sits at the heart of the world's most innovative governments with its groundbreaking cloud solutions. With the goal of making their customer support experience simple, measurable, scalable, and sustainable, Accela's leadership embarked on multiple rounds of planning and strategic decision-making around AI adoption, vendor selection, and model optimization.
The result? The right mix of business strategy, SearchUnify's cognitive technology on their support portals, and LLM-fueled virtual assistant (SUVA) enabled the management to witness up to 63% increase in self-service success, a 3X improvement in Customer Effort Score and a 17% reduction in support case volume.
In this session, Garrick Greenhalgh, Director, Global Technical Education and Community at Accela, and Brian Corcoran, Global Support Evangelist and a Certified KCS Practitioner at SearchUnify, discuss the innovative mix of strategy and technology that enabled Accela to achieve such impressive results. We'll explore the key decisions made by the company in its GenAI adoption journey and highlight ways they broke the mold to deliver exceptional customer service.
Join us at TSIA World: Interact to learn more.
All TSIA World INTERACT attendees are invited to participate in our first-ever Best Practices Open Mic! This is your chance to “jam” with your fellow attendees and share your experiences about implementing and adopting AI in technology and services business models - AND compete for prizes while you do it! Take the stage at INTERACT for your chance at bragging rights during our 1st annual Open Mic.
Participants will have 10 minutes to share an AI solution or best practice. Don’t miss the chance to contribute to this interactive and dynamic learning experience.
*Participation is limited; sign up at the Partner Assistance Desk in the InteractZone.
Visual equipment (screen/projector) is not available.
Hot Take: An opinion that’s unpopular to the point of controversy. In this session, TSIA Distinguished VP and Managing Director George Humphrey will lead a panel of TSIA experts as they discuss current hot-button topics in the adoption and implementation of AI in the technology and services industry.
Audience members can submit “hot take” topics they want the panel to discuss. Current events at conference time will determine the final list of hot-take topics. If you want to witness a lively and informative debate, this is the session for you.
This session will encourage open discussions between member companies around the use of generative LLM AI in offering management. Participants will rotate between 3, 10-minute topical discussions, sharing experiences and insights.
This session will give an overview of the AI landscape from a Professional Services perspective, focusing on framework content and results from a series of QPs we're doing and the results from a BCAS session we're conducting with the PS Advisory Board.
Discover the essential blueprint for optimizing services with intelligent processes, enhancing sales strategies, and streamlining the delivery of subscription services. This session will delve into how to navigate professional services growth phases, the evolution of service offerings, and the pros and cons of different pricing models - all to ensure seamless services delivery.
Ideal for professional services executives, services sales professionals, and implementation/delivery managers seeking to innovate their subscription-based business models and those looking to package their services. Attendees will gain insights into harnessing AI-driven insights, enhancing customer experiences, and implementing agile methodologies to boost service recurring revenues and retention.
Businesses are increasingly relying on AI, particularly GenAI, to drive innovation, streamline processes, and boost competitiveness. However, the journey from implementing GenAI to realizing ROI is often fraught with challenges, leading to a significant loss of time and money. Join Coveo to explore critical factors affecting the ROI of GenAI implementations: common obstacles, measuring success, and why self-service is the fastest path to value. Learn from industry examples, uncovering strategies leading to up to 20% self-service improvement in just 6 weeks. Gain valuable lessons from these case studies, enabling you to replicate success in your endeavors.
While many of us recognize AI's potential to transform various industries, understanding how to implement it effectively within our teams and its tangible benefits is still a challenge. In this presentation, we'll explore actionable steps that post-sales teams, such as customer success, support, and revenue, can take to leverage AI to achieve real results.
Key takeaways include how to implement AI to:
• Identify opportunities to expand accounts
• Cultivate strong customer relationships and reduce churn
• Streamline post-sales processes for greater efficiency
As software companies continue to roll out groundbreaking AI capabilities, businesses are eager to harness the potential these technologies offer. However, simply adopting AI isn't enough; companies must ensure their systems are primed and optimized to leverage these advancements fully. In this session, we delve into the essential steps for preparing your key systems to embrace AI effectively. From data management to application optimizations, join Kantata's VP of CS Operations as she explores key recommendations and best practices to ensure your organization is AI-ready. Learn how to assess your current systems, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to optimize performance.
Informatica identified the need to invest in AI to elevate the customer experience and improve engineer productivity during the industry transformation from maintenance to subscription licensing. Since then, we have led innovations in customer interactions, automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, identifying critical actions leading to optimized costs, and accelerating response times to meet increasing customer expectations.
The session would be of value to any support org leader looking towards automation through AI investments.
The key takeaways:
1. Optimize and reduce costs with the right investments to improve support engineer productivity
2. Elevate customer experience by meeting the current industry demands of response times and quality
3. Reduce Customer effort
When used at the right times and in the right ways, AI is a powerful force for explosive business growth. But how do you know when those 'right times' are? Join Gainsight to discover the synergy of cutting-edge AI and authentic human engagement as we explore how human-first AI can amplify customer relationships and simplify CS actions through digital scale, creating new ways to better engage with your customers and eliminating common pain points of customer-facing teams. Hear the latest data about how customer success teams are leveraging AI to drive better customer outcomes and key strategies for what truly works. You'll walk away with actionable tactics and better insight into where CS teams should start, as well as how to ensure your AI strategies amplify your human successes.
Join top women in technology and senior leaders over dinner for an intimate and informative networking fundraiser and C-Suite panel discussion. Tickets are $50, and 100% of ticket proceeds from this event will go to Girls Inc., an organization that supports young women in sciences and mathematics.
Registration is limited and required for this event.
TSIA has been conducting an industry research journey “Enterprise AI in Technology and Service Operations.” The objective of this research journey is to identify how technology companies are managing the deployment of new AI capabilities to reengineer their internal workflows.
The results of this research have resulted in:
· Data on the current maturity of managing the deployment of AI capabilities
· A series of recommended practices related to deploying AI capabilities
· A series of industry case studies on deploying specific AI use cases across education services, support services, and professional services
In this keynote, TSIA Executive Director and Executive VP, Thomas Lah will discuss how technology companies are navigating the journey to operationalize AI capabilities to improve internal workflows. Specifically, he will provide insights on:
· The current headcount engines of technology companies and how they may be changing with the deployment of AI
· What is creating the “black box of operationalizing AI”
· Tactics for navigating the black box
· A simple mantra for all technology professionals
When services are siloed, so are critical data streams. This represents an obstacle to effective organizational transformation and a huge lost opportunity to deploy AI cross-functionally to drive operational efficiency and a better, more outcome-driven customer experience.
In this session, we present a framework to help you organize your thinking about how AI can power smart services convergence and drive much higher company and customer value.
Accelerated by the rise in XaaS models and more frequent release cycles, content development organizations are increasingly asked to do more and faster. This session will explore how OpenText is leveraging the power of AI to innovate and improve the learner experience and generate net new and tailored versions of existing content, resulting in significantly faster time to market for both standard offerings and custom adoption projects for our customers.
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the strategic integration of AI has become imperative for businesses. In this engaging session, we will take you through Ciena's real-world experiences with AI implementation. We will delve deep into the challenges we encountered, from the ideation of AI use cases, including Services at Ciena, to their actual realization. Our discussion will navigate through a myriad of issues, encompassing data management, infrastructure needs, talent acquisition, system integration, security, ethical and legal considerations, change management, scalability, ROI measurement, and keeping pace with AI advancements. The objective of this session extends beyond merely understanding these challenges. We aim to share effective strategies that have not only guided Ciena but can also potentially assist other businesses in navigating these hurdles. Our ultimate goal is to enable successful AI integration and foster value creation across diverse business operations. We invite you to join us as we demystify the complexities of AI implementation, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and innovation in this insightful session.
Join this session to learn how to apply AI to the software sales cycle across four client journey stages: Engage, Try, Adopt, and Renew. This method has tremendously boosted productivity at IBM and accelerated our journey toward Product-Led Growth. The content will be relevant to technology executives and technical talent looking to apply enterprise AI strategy to drive sales.
Key takeaways include:
-How to target potential customers with AI
-How to apply AI to product trials to predict conversion likelihood
-How to apply generative AI to accelerate adoption
-How to use post-sales product instrumentation data to mitigate churn risk
Dell Digital, Dell's ITorganization, had gathered hundreds of GenAI use cases across Dell's business. In this session, we'll outline how GenAI consultants from Dell'sprofessional services team partnered with Dell Digital to prioritize use cases.
Join Dell Technologies Services President, Doug Schmitt, as he shares actionable insights from Dell's AI journey. This session will highlight how Dell and its customers are creating competitive advantages with AI today and illustrate how GenAI developments are impacting the future of services.
Moody’s has been an early adopter of GenAI in 2023. In this session, we will share how Gen-AI has been helping Moody’s Analytics to maximize the Customer Engagement’s impact: - Create immediate customer empathy at scale nearly real-time, using all types of customer feedback and experiences - Craft highly personalized and proactive customer engagement - Accelerate client value and outcomes identification with real time-to-value focus.
Key Takeaways:
-Scale empathy and personalization with Gen AI Transition from reactive to proactive engagements at scale
-Boost Customer Success and Customer Experience, adding value at each customer engagement
Who should attend:
C-Suite Heads of Customer Success, Customer Experience, Customer Success Operations, Technology Leaders, and Transformation Leadership
The session covers how the industry is moving from break-fix support to where support agents must enhance the overall value customers perceive. The reality of the critical role agents will play in adoption and expansion motions. The session will explore how various AI use cases in the support industry can help technical support departments self-fund the bandwidth needed to perform customer value-enhancing activities.
Target Audience: Leaders of Technical Support
Takeaways:
(1) Support Agents must shift into doing more value-enhancement for customers,
(2) Budgets are tight, necessitating self-funding strategies,
(3) AI technology can enable capacity creation
In the ever-evolving world of technology, Cisco Systems stands at the forefront of innovation, particularly in harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize customer support services. This session delves into the groundbreaking approach of delivering AI-driven, proactive, and guided support embedded within cloud and on-premises products. We will explore how Cisco Systems is pioneering new methodologies to enhance user experience, anticipate customer needs, and provide seamless, intelligent solutions.
The session will offer insights into integrating AI technologies in customer support, demonstrating how machine learning, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation transform support delivery. Attendees will learn about the challenges, strategies, and successes Cisco has encountered in implementing these advanced support mechanisms. This session is invaluable for customer support, IT service management, product development, and AI technology implementation professionals. It is particularly beneficial for those involved in or interested in understanding the integration of AI within customer support frameworks. IT managers, support team leaders, AI technology enthusiasts, cloud service providers, and on-premises software developers will find the content particularly relevant. Additionally, business strategists and decision-makers in technology companies looking to enhance their customer support services through AI will gain significant insights from this session.
Key Takeaways:
-Understanding AI-Driven Customer Support: Understand how AI and machine learning technologies can be integrated into customer support services. Learn about the tools and techniques Cisco Systems uses to provide intelligent, proactive customer support.
-Insights into Proactive and Predictive Support Models: Discover how Cisco anticipates and addresses customer issues before they escalate, using predictive analytics and automated problem-solving strategies. Attendees will get an in-depth view of the proactive support model, redefining the traditional reactive support paradigm.
-Best Practices and Real-World Applications: Through case studies and real-world examples, learn about the practical aspects of implementing AI-driven support within cloud and on-premises environments. This takeaway will focus on the challenges, solutions, and best practices Cisco Systems has developed and adopted in its journey toward enlightened customer support.
The session aims to inform and inspire attendees to envision and implement similar AI-driven support strategies in their organizations, ultimately leading to enhanced customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Explore the lessons learned from integrating Generative AI software into Blue Prism's learning experiences. We'll share our achievements and setbacks, emphasizing the power of rapid audience testing, AI-driven iteration, and measurable insights. This session is a must for instructional designers, developers, tech education professionals, and anyone interested in AI-enhanced learning experiences.
Key Takeaways:
-Learn how to harness AI for educational content creation and personalization.
-Understand the value of quick audience testing and iterative improvement.
-Discover how to measure success and adapt AI-driven tools/strategies in real-time for effective learning solutions.
When we began our AI journey, there was a lot of excitement, enthusiasm, and innovative ideas, so much so that knowing where to start was almost the most challenging part. The technology was new to our teams, so our first pilot was focused on how we technically integrate AI into our learning experience.
One of our challenges within the SAP Learning space is content from multiple platforms, so with our first pilot, we decided to leverage the power of generative AI to see how we could combine these sources through an AI-empowered search.
This talk will take you through how we built this deep AI search, our lessons learned, and what insights we gathered from the user interaction and feedback.
We will also examine how we leveraged this learning to inform our future product development using AI as an accelerator.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the next big thing in the business landscape, presenting unprecedented opportunities for organizations to optimize operations, drive innovation, and fuel growth. The economic impact is estimated to be in the trillions annually once it is more broadly deployed and adopted.
For PSOs, people are its most valuable asset and its largest cost. Because of this, AI presents real opportunities in the area of resource management. AI applied to RM functions and processes has the potential to deliver substantial value by driving greater resource optimization with more speed and efficiency.
In this interactive session, Dave Young from TSIA and Marc Lacroix of RTM Consulting will share insights on how AI is and will be, applied to resource management. We will discuss what is happening in the marketplace today, the trends to watch for, and what PSOs should be doing to take advantage of a future with AI.
Join Forethought CEO Deon Nicholas as he unveils the AI playbook used by top organizations to cut ticket volume and raise CSAT.
Learn firsthand how AI-driven predictive and proactive support reshapes customer service, achieving unprecedented efficiency gains while delivering top-tier experiences. Explore real-world case studies from top organizations showcasing how Forethought's AI for CX Suite empowered them to leverage their data strategically.
Don't miss this opportunity to explore the future of customer support and learn how generative AI agents are revolutionizing the support journey from first inquiry to final resolution.
Explore the latest products and services offerings all under one roof. Mingle with other conference attendees while you browse the industry's newest technology services solutions in the InteractZone.
Schedule of Events:
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Headshot Lounge - Sponsored by Kantata
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM INTERACTZone Open
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Networking Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Network with a Leader
This presentation will explore how Informatica leverages its AI-powered platform to power its Customer Success team to operate at Scale. You will learn how the combination of their Predictive and Generative AI framework helps CSMs gain insights into every step of the customer's journey, starting from Onboarding leading into Renewals, through prescriptive and predictive customer health indexes that help Planning Adoption plays, drive business outcomes, identify opportunities for strategic expansion and mitigate potential risks.
The session will discuss how BMC has utilized AIOps within the NOC and SRE teams to reduce customer service disruptions, mean time to resolution, and increase NOC efficiency. We will cover how we have used AI to improve our observability, remediation, intelligent automation, and predictions. Using these processes and tools, the top customer team has reduced service impacts by over 50% in the first 60 days of deployment
The past few years have brought dramatic changes to consumer behaviors and expectations. The way customers interact with brands and the businesses that bring them to life has changed forever. These changes are impacting how support centers operate as they struggle to keep pace with rising expectations for speed, personalization, and interoperability. The next-gen contact center should be a value center for brands and serve as a hub for data-based insight into customer success, increased brand loyalty, revenue optimization, NPS improvement, and cost reductions. So, how do we get there, and where do we start?
Over this journey, we have discovered that you need a data strategy to feed and enable your AI strategy. The importance of increasing the install base under contract and generating meaningful telemetry is clear to enable this. You also need different types of data to enable each of these offers.
This session will explore and present insights from the 2023-2024 Field Services and Support Services research journey on AI for Predictive and Proactive Support.
This session will explore how companies use generative large language model AI technology to create more compelling offers, presenting insights from the 2023-2024 AI in Offering Management Research Journey.
While AI undeniably offers companies a competitive edge by enhancing efficiency and delivering value, can it be the sole driver for the future of Professional Services (PS) businesses?
Sri, CEO, and Co-founder of Rocketlane, invites CCOs and PS Leaders to take a step back and critically assess the fundamental operations of your PS delivery models. This session will explore how strategically integrating AI is crucial. Yet, only one part of a broader array of actions is needed to thrive in the current and forthcoming market dynamics.
Join us to:
a. Understand the current state of Professional Services, identify areas needing fundamental changes, and explore trends that are shaping customer expectations and the market landscape.
b. Discover best practices for enhancing your PS team’s workflows to personalize client interactions and streamline service delivery
c. Learn from real-world examples how integrating AI can significantly optimize revenue for your PS teams
Everyone agrees that Gen AI can resolve enterprise business problems and improve enterprise operations. However, the key to success is to identify, prioritize, define, and execute the proper use case. In this session, we will share impactful use cases across all functions of CX and PS - operational efficiency, customer intelligence, revenue protection, etc. We will also share the blueprint we have developed working with 50+ enterprises by merging deep operational insights with AI, delivering definitive outcomes.
Key Takeaways:
• Insights on proven use cases deployed successfully
• Gen AI adoption - Making the business case
• Deep dive on Gen AI journey - AI enterprise infrastructure, AI development, and AI solutions deployment
• Key considerations for success and ROI
Who should attend:
Leaders of CX, PS & Transformation, C-Suite Heads of Customer Success, Customer Experience, Customer Success Operations, Technology Leaders
This session will discuss using Generative AI in PS: streamline customer data ingestion, fast-track implementations by reducing administrative overhead, and ensure the highest quality for solutions with generated regression & performance testing. Discover how these initiatives improve overall customer experience with optimal time to value, improved quality, and enhanced employee efficiency.
The rapid advancement of generative AI technologies like large language models is poised to revolutionize corporate learning and development. From dramatically accelerating content creation to enabling highly immersive and personalized learning experiences, AI's potential impact is transformative. In this session, Abhas Kumar, Senior VP at NIIT, will share NIIT's point of view on the current state of generative AI in learning and development. He will discuss real-world examples of early adoption, key barriers and challenges companies are facing, and a maturity model for how AI may progressively elevate and expand L&D capabilities.
Discover how data insights, prescriptive analytics, and AI can help you generate actionable data and increase your sales revenue. If you are a leader who wants to gain a competitive edge by using data and AI to improve your sales outcomes, this session is for you.
Key takeaways:
• How to use structured data and predictive models to prioritize your sales activities and focus on the most promising leads
• How to use AI to automate and enhance your sales processes and interactions
• How to create a framework around data insights to support your sales teams and monitor your sales performance
What Kind of Sessions Should I Expect at TSIA World INTERACT?
Interactive Breakouts: Engage with speakers and attendees via polling, live Q&A, and discussion in fireside chats, panels, and more.
Mainstage Presentations (Keynotes and General Sessions): Thought leaders and the biggest names in tech share insight and guidance for today’s ever-changing business environment.
Theater Sessions and Technology Solutions: Learn how technology provides ways to solve strategic business challenges, with a focus on AI and emerging Gen-AI capabilities.