Ryan Smith, Qualtrics CEO & Co-Founder

Bill McMurray, Managing Director APJ, Qualtrics

Patricia Limanouw, Head of Group Research and Insights, Qantas
Reaching new heights - How Qantas is reimagining its approach to customer feedback

Karalyn Smith, Chief People Officer, Sephora
How Sephora meets human needs to create love and loyalty

Sonny Sethi, Head of Research, Insights, and Media Planning ANZ, Uber
Customer insights-fueled decision making @ Uber

Dr. Peter Lovatt, Dance Psychologist, University of Hertfordshire

Kirsty Hosea, Director - Strategy & Innovation, Deloitte Digital
Measuring and delivering trust
This session will focus on defining the drivers of trust, and how organisations can apply technologies and operational structures to measure, deliver, and excel in this critical area.

Walter Li, Head of Insights, Cathay Pacific
Moving Beyond: How a legacy carrier is transforming itself to deliver breakthrough performance with experience data
In this session, you’ll learn how Cathay Pacific is transforming itself to deliver breakthrough performances for its stakeholders by leveraging operations and experience data to power the brand, customer and employee experience.

David Watson. General Manager Customer Experience, Systems & Innovation, McGrath
XM : Dream it! Begin it!
Discover how McGrath Real Estate has created a program to transform itself and the industry through Experience Management. The session will also equip you with a blueprint to create an actionable XM framework and roadmap.

Jason Bradshaw, Chief Customer & Marketing Officer Volkswagen Group Australia
Why connecting CX and EX is your key to success
Volkswagen brought CX and EX data into a single platform, which lead to the uncovering of new insights used to address gaps in the employee experience and improve the customer experience. The result was higher customer and employee retention. Join us to learn how you can adopt these tested strategies for turning your employees into your most powerful driver of exceptional customer experience.

Deliver breakthrough CX in the moments that matter [DEMO]

Panel Discussion

Bruce Davidson, CEO, Davidson Group
Something that mattered
Bruce Davidson shares his learnings, mistakes, and wins six years on from transforming his recruitment business into a workplace performance consultancy helping organisations find and get the best out of people in a rapidly changing world.

Casey Hotham, Head of Employee Experience, Telstra
Changing how Telstra works and leads - Transforming EX to achieve strategic business outcomes
With an obsession to transform the Employee Experience as a key enabler to the success of Telstra’s T22 strategy, this session will provide insight into how Telstra is radically changing how the business works and leads, and how Qualtrics is enabling the empowerment of teams to access data from the voice of employees, accountability of Leaders to act on the voice of employees, and digitising the experience.

Max Brawer, People Analytics Lead, Buzzfeed
What would Buzzfeed do? How our team cultivates an authentic EX (& so can you)
Join Buzzfeed to learn how the company uses the employee survey as a foundation for innovative people practices that drive impact. See how Buzzfeed combines novel collection techniques, data analytics, and a human touch to drive better employee experience and increased employee connectivity in the workplace.

Build EX that gives back to the bottom line [DEMO]

Panel Discussion

Steve Lockwood, Head of Insights & Marketing Analytics, Finder.com.au
Using research and insights to cut through the noise, and to build a brand that truly stands out
Learn how the largest comparison site in Australia has transformed from tech start up to household name with global presence, and how it competes in a highly competitive market.
This presentation will do a deep dive into Finder’s brand journey and discuss how you can use key research and insights to make strategic decisions to drive audience growth, develop a unique brand identity, and gain stronger returns on marketing investments.

Violet Lazarevic, General Manager of Customer Insights, Telstra
Bringing together multiple sources of data to better understand and predict customer behaviour
The true value of insights comes from bringing data sources together to uncover the true story of why your customers behave in a certain way and then use this insight to predict how they will behave in the future. Telstra will share a recent example of how the company has successfully combined disparate data sources to better understand customers and model how to predict future behaviour.

Maria Voronina, Senior Brand Manager, Chobani
The role of modern research: Five principles that help Chobani deliver exceptional product and brand experiences
From a national launch in 2013 to #1 Australia yogurt brand in 2018, Chobani continues to drive the mission of bringing better food to more people. In this session learn the underlying principles that guide Chobani’s new product development process and how the brand delivers breakthrough innovations.

Sophisticated research made simple [DEMO]

Panel Discussion

Samantha Murray, Education XM Scientist, Qualtrics
Student Success: Using Experience as a Leading Indicator to Drive Continuous Learning and Improvement
Schools, institutions, and systems must optimise their organisational performance and quality through continuous learning and improvement to ensure student success. In this session, learn which three improvement questions form the foundation of a measurement program that enables effective experience research and see what the program model looks like in practice.

Greg Bowell, General Manager Marketing, G8
Early Learning: a breakthrough sector for CX and Marketing
G8's Greg Bowell explains how best practice customer and people experience thinking can supercharge marketing for social change and commercial growth. In this session you'll learn how to bring breakthrough customer insights into the academic sector, the role of experience in driving business outcomes, and how G8 is transforming for this new era of business.

Greg Whitby, Executive Director, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta
Listening and Learning - a pre to post education system's experience using Qualtrics
In this presentation discover how the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP) is enhancing the experiences of students, teachers and families by listening and learning in order to improve service delivery.

Professor Sherman Young, Associate Deputy VC Education
Rebuilding the University - Learning Experiences in the 21st Century
The higher education sector is ripe for disruption with student, employer and social expectations changing. At the same time, new technologies are reshaping the information ecosystem and universities must confront their purpose. This brief presentation explores how learning will need to change in this brave new world, and considers how higher education institutions might need to respond.

Panel Discussion

Jeff James, Vice President, Disney Institute
Your workforce is changing - Are you ready for it?
Learn about the employee breakthrough insights that are driving workforce change across every industry, and leave with strategies to get ahead so you can effectively attract, engage, retain your best employees.

Dom Price, Work Futurist, Atlassian
Your role in building world class experience
Dysfunction is the gap between what you know, and what you do. Having heard a wonderful array of global speakers share their wisdom on experiences of all kinds, Dom Price from Atlassian will help us build our own futures, by converting the theory into action.