
7:30 am
NETWORKING BREAKFAST: BUILD COMMUNITY CONTACTS
- Start your day off right and connect with customer experience leaders.
- Get to know your CX peers and colleagues over a delicious breakfast.
- Source practical tips, discuss best practices, and prepare for the day ahead.

8:40 am
OPENING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST
CX and UX as an industry, career path, and business function, are undergoing one of the most significant transitions ever experienced. While the objectives remain focused on creating better experiences to drive better results, traditional practices, technologies, and dependencies are being redefined. Source practical tips to:
- Navigate the explosion of data dependency.
- Identify and apply current sourcing strategies and solutions for customer and user experience.
- Understand the evolution – or breakdown – of experience as we know it.
Adapt your CX and UX approach to meet the demands of this rapidly shifting landscape.
9:00 am
DIGITAL LEADERSHIP PANEL: DIGITAL BUSINESS MODEL
Minimize Your Investment Risk and Overcome Organizational Resistance
Increase conversions and transform your organization with new process models. Prepare to adapt to the next normal. Develop a blueprint to:
- Leverage improvement strategies to support digital business models.
- Implement proven approaches to increase team engagement.
- Identify the capability investments needed to adapt and act.
Optimize resilience and readiness with enhanced digital fluency to withstand disruption, support innovation, and respond confidently to change.
9:30 am
TECH DEEP DIVE: TECH-DRIVEN TRANSFORMATION
Aligning AI Strategy with Business Outcomes
Strategically adopt new technologies with your business vision. Master how AI, automation, and data-driven innovation are transforming customer experiences from the inside out. Adopt best practices to:
- Translate emerging technologies into strategic business outcomes that matter.
- Leverage intelligent tools to drive efficiency, personalization, and loyalty.
- Secure C-suite and board-level support for technology-led CX transformation.
- Redefine KPIs for AI-enabled CX by measuring what really drives long-term growth.
Advance your ability to navigate complexity, scale innovation, and lead CX transformation to deliver measurable impact, long-term growth, and future-ready customer experiences.
10:00 am
INDUSTRY EXPERT: CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE
How Next-Gen VOC Platforms are Shaping Intuitive, Fast, and Responsive Digital Experiences
Create digital experiences that lead to better customer outcomes. Whether you’re engaging a new prospect or a loyal customer, delivering a seamless, personalized experience begins with a connected VOC platform that provides a complete view of customer insights. Take back to your office strategies to:
- Optimize every digital interaction from websites and mobile apps to social media and chat services.
- Make every digital interaction intuitive, fast, and responsive.
- Integrate customer data and leverage AI to deepen understanding of customer preferences and the capabilities of next-gen VOC platforms.
Reduce friction points while ensuring a consistent brand voice to maximize value
10:30 am
SPEED NETWORKING: MAKE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
Grow your network by meeting like-minded individuals to share your latest ideas and projects with:
- Enjoy a quick icebreaker, exchange LinkedIn information, and build lasting business relationships.
- Achieve your conference networking goals in a fun and agile fashion.
- Join a community of CX experts and gain invaluable support.

10:40 am
EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & SOURCE EXPERTISE
- Explore the latest CX technology and strategies with our leading sponsors.
- Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business.
- Schedule one-to-one private meetings for personalized advice.
11:00 am
FIRESIDE CHAT: CONVERSATIONAL AI 2.0 – BEYOND CHATBOTS
Employing a Virtual Agent with a 92% Automation Rate
By detecting tone, sentiment, and emotional cues, AI can adapt responses in real time, improving empathy, reducing frustration, and increasing customer satisfaction. Master the success factors to:
- Deploy a virtual agent that achieves a 92% automation rate — handling routine queries, verifying identity, and resolving issues with minimal human involvement.
- Reduce operational costs by automating high-volume interactions while simultaneously delivering faster, more personalized service.
- Expand accessibility to understand and respond in multiple languages to help businesses serve diverse customer bases seamlessly and inclusively.
Achieve reduced wait times and fewer call transfers by routing calls dynamically and solving problems without human intervention.
11:30 am
INDUSTRY EXPERT: VISUALIZING HEALTH DATA
Crafting User-Friendly User Experiences
Intuitive visual tools help bridge the data literacy gap — enabling individuals to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. Walk away with an action plan on:
- Tailoring dashboards and visual interfaces to individual health profiles and preferences, making the data more meaningful and actionable for users.
- Using timelines, progress indicators, and comparisons to provide context and help users understand trends or alerts.
- Encouraging ongoing interaction with health platforms with clear data sources, transparent insights, and strong privacy protections to increase user trust.
Optimize your interfaces to provide seamless, accessible health data experiences for all users.
12:00 pm
CASE STUDY: MASTERING PROGRAMMATIC CX
Data-Driven Advertising that Resonates
In an era where customer attention is fragmented and expectations are higher than ever, precision and personalization in advertising are essential. Dive into the evolving world of programmatic advertising. Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:
- Connect performance metrics with CX goals, ensuring ad spend aligns with customer satisfaction.
- Understand how programmatic advertising directly influences the digital customer experience, beyond just ad delivery.
- Leverage insights and predictive tools to tailor campaigns that feel personal, timely, and relevant.
- Dynamically adjust messaging and targeting mid-flight to maximize impact.
Amplify campaign performance through platform collaboration to deliver truly immersive and effective campaigns.
12:30 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH: DELVE INTO INDUSTRY CONVERSATIONS
- Meet interesting speakers and pick their brains on the latest CX issues.
- Expand your network and make connections that last beyond the conference.
- Enjoy great food and service while engaging with your customer experience colleagues.

1:30 pm
EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & WIN PRIZES
- Browse through different sponsor booths and test drive new technology.
- Enter your name for a chance to win exciting prizes.
- Take advantage of event-specific offers and special content.

2:00 pm
PRESENTATION: DATA, DESIGN, AND DIGITAL
How to Craft a Premium, Future-Ready CX
In a world where customer expectations evolve as quickly as technology, it is essential to meet the demands of strategic brand positioning, digital excellence, and human-centred innovation that turns customers into lifelong brand advocates. Create a roadmap to:
- Position your brand as a premium, customer-first leader in a digitally saturated world.
- Unlock consumer value through digital transformation, content strategy, and adaptive marketing.
- Develop high-performing teams that thrive on experimentation, curiosity, and bold thinking.
Bolster data insights with strategic storytelling to drive customer loyalty and long-term growth.
2:00 pm
CASE STUDY: LAUNCHING CX-DRIVEN INNOVATION FOR THE MODERN CUSTOMER
Craft Scalable GTM Strategies that Drive Adoption and Product Fit
What does it take to successfully launch a customer-centric product in a competitive digital landscape? Use cross-functional collaboration, messaging precision, and real-time user feedback to not only launch but optimize products with staying power. Take away specific solutions to:
- Leverage early insights and user feedback to shape successful, CX-aligned product positioning.
- Align product, marketing, and sales teams around a shared customer experience mission.
- Identify metrics that matter and define what success looks like in modern GTM strategy from pipeline velocity to adoption and retention.
Transform agility into action for continuous CX optimization to ensure that a product remains relevant post-launch.
2:30 pm
FIRESIDE CHAT: UNIFIED COMMERCE
How Insights Influence Both In-Store and Digital Touchpoints, Ensuring a Seamless and Emotionally Resonant Customer Journey
Integrate actionable consumer insights into decision-making at every level to craft cohesive omnichannel experiences. Gain a behind-the-scenes look at how customer understanding is put into practice across business units. Develop a blueprint to:
- Transform consumer behaviour data into clear business actions that guide national and regional retail strategy.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to build a more agile, insight-driven organization.
- Connect brand identity, customer feedback, and team development to support long-term growth.
Perfect product decisions, experience design, and messaging across digital and physical touchpoints to deliver consistent, customer-centric experiences.
2:30 pm
FIRESIDE CHAT: BUILD THE TECH BACKBONE FOR NEXT-GEN CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
How Long-Term Tech Strategy, AI, and Platform Innovation are Reimagining the Digital Experience
Rethink how your platforms scale, adapt, and lead in a rapidly shifting digital landscape. From leveraging data and AI to building scalable ecosystems, discover the core principles behind crafting a CX-ready platform designed not just for today’s needs but tomorrow’s possibilities. Source practical tips to:
- Align CX tech innovation with corporate growth by developing long-term technology roadmaps.
- Establish the foundation for smarter personalization, automation, and predictive engagement.
- Scale the impact of platform-thinking and ecosystem expansion to strengthen digital customer loyalty.
Adapt a future-focused, experimentation-driven culture in your tech teams to stay ahead of emerging technologies and encourage innovation
3:00 pm
EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: ATTEND VENDOR DEMOS & CONSULT CX EXPERTS
- Enjoy exclusive sponsor demos and experience the next level of customer experience innovation firsthand.
- Meet one-on-one with leading solution providers to discuss organizational hurdles.
- Brainstorm solutions and gain new perspectives and ideas.

3:30 pm
PRESENTATION: RETHINKING LOYALTY, AI, AND THE BROKEN CX BASICS
Why Great CX Starts with the Fundamentals — Not Flashy Fixes
In a world of over-promised tech and underwhelming service, brands are racing to implement AI layers while neglecting the core of what truly earns customer loyalty. Challenge the status quo of digital CX by unpacking hard truths about customer retention, hollow personalization, and the illusion of loyalty in a crowded marketplace by drawing on real-world stories and customer pain points. Walk away with an action plan on:
- Re-earning customer trust at every touchpoint.
- Recognizing the risks of masking poor experiences with AI “solutions” instead of addressing foundational issues.
- Designing memorable CX moments that transform transactions into lasting relationships.
- Reframing “earned loyalty” vs. customer fatigue and why many programs fail to deliver.
- Sharing real stories that highlight the emotional disconnect between brand promises and actual experiences.
Advance what it means to serve, not sell, to build trust, create lasting impact, and shape customer relationships that go beyond the transaction.
4:00 pm
FIRESIDE CHAT: DRIVING DIGITAL CX THROUGH DATA
Harnessing Analytics for Customer Insights and Operational Efficiency
Data analytics is reshaping the landscape of digital CX and plays a vital role in creating value for businesses. Leverage data-driven insights to not only enhance customer experiences but also drive operational efficiency and revenue growth. Master the success factors to:
- Use customer data to understand behaviours, preferences, and expectations, enhancing customer experience at every touchpoint.
- Optimize operational efficiency and leverage analytics to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction.
- Translate data insights into business growth and increased revenue.
Achieve a customer-centric, data-powered strategy to deliver smarter decisions, elevate experiences, and drive sustainable growth.
4:30 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE: FROM PODIUM TO PLATFORM
Translating Olympic-Grade Performance into Exceptional Customer Experiences
Elevate digital customer experience with the mindset, strategy, and execution behind world-class performance. Design seamless, engaging, and emotionally resonant customer journeys by embracing the pursuit of excellence and data-driven performance tracking. Create a roadmap to:
- Apply high-performance frameworks used by elite athletes to inform CX leadership and team development.
- Translate the engagement of live sports audiences into digital-first CX strategies.
- Build resilient teams and adaptable experiences for fast-changing digital environments.
- Use continuous improvement and performance metrics to incrementally refine the customer journey.
Heighten a culture of excellence, discipline, and motivation to consistently deliver customer experiences that inspire trust, loyalty, and long-term advocacy.
5:00 pm
CLOSING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST
Review the key solutions and takeaways from today’s sessions. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work. Discuss tomorrow’s highlights!
5:15 pm
EVENING RECEPTION: ENJOY GREAT CONVERSATION, MUSIC & NETWORKING
- Relax and unwind with tasty cocktails after a long day of learning.
- Don’t miss your chance to win fun prizes by scanning your badge at our exhibitor booths.
- Make dinner plans with your new connections and explore the best of what Toronto nightlife has to offer. Just be sure to set your alarm for Day 2!

6:30 pm