Insights From Abdul Khaled, Head of Digital | Customer Experience & Digital Products at E.ON Next
Get ready for the most exciting Engage Customer Summit yet as we celebrate our 15th year with an expanded two-day format.
The 2026 Engage Customer Summit will bring together an unparalleled concentration of CX software decision-makers, attracting senior leaders with direct responsibility for technology procurement and investment.
Taking place across a single floor, the event is designed to create a seamless experience while ensuring a constant flow of more than 3,000 attendees through the exhibition throughout both days. The exhibition will feature 150 exhibitors, creating a vibrant atmosphere, while the 7-stage conference programme will showcase 250 case studies from some of the world's leading brands alongside insights from recognised experts in customer engagement.
Engaged customers aren’t just satisfied, they’re supercharged. Gallup reports this delivers a 23% boost in wallet share, profitability, revenue and relationship growth.
In a world of rising competition and rapid technological change, barriers to entry have fallen and organisations are rethinking how they build deeper, more meaningful customer engagement.
This is where the Engage Customer Summit conference comes in — turning insight into action and helping organisations move decisively towards a more customer-centric future.
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Our comprehensive summit agenda is packed with case studies from 250 of the world’s largest brands across 7 content stages.
Our 2026 summit speakers represent diverse organisations including Dr. Martens, Sky, Barclays, JLR, Experian, Vodafone, E.ON, Nestlé Nespresso SA, DHL, Depop, Virgin, Financial Times, Lloyds Banking Group, Direct Line Group, Ford and more. Their insights and experiences provided invaluable lessons for all attendees.
Join us for a premier opportunity to build new business relationships and stay ahead with the latest insights and knowledge to help transform your business.
The conference agenda will take you on a journey of innovation and collaboration. Prepare to be inspired and challenged as we explore meticulously curated stages, each offering a deep dive into customer engagement strategies through compelling case studies, interviews and panel discussions.
Designed for senior leaders shaping the direction of customer engagement, offering strategic insight and perspective from C-suite voices on the Main Stage.
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For leaders and teams shaping how customer engagement is delivered through the contact centre, focusing on people, technology and new ways of connecting with customers at scale.
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For those responsible for managing and evolving customer engagement across every touch-point, with a focus on consistency, responsiveness and meaningful customer connections.
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For those using data and insight to understand customer behaviour, inform smarter decisions and strengthen customer engagement across every touchpoint.
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For those focused on strengthening customer engagement to drive loyalty, long-term retention and sustainable growth through consistent, value-led relationships.
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For those using CRM to power smarter, more targeted customer engagement, connecting data, campaigns and relationships to drive relevance and growth.
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Day 1: The Customer Reality
The customer landscape has never been more complex. Rising expectations, economic pressure, and rapid technological advancements are creating opportunities and challenges that no customer-facing organisation can afford to ignore.
Day 1 puts the reality front and centre. Through world-class case studies, panel discussions, and honest peer conversation across seven stages, you will leave with the clarity and context to tackle what is in front of you.
Day 2: The Engagement Benchmark: Where Do You Stand?
Day 1 gave you the reality. Day 2 gives you the measure. 3,000 senior leaders will benchmark their strategies, technologies, and people against the best in the industry.
You will leave knowing where your organisation stands, what your peers are prioritising, and what you need to do to stay ahead. The evidence, the benchmarks, and the connections are all at the Engage Customer Summit.
The Engage Customer Summit Preview Guide gives you an exclusive first look at what’s coming, featuring must-see session highlights and the key themes shaping the future of customer engagement.
Explore the innovations redefining customer experience today — from AI-powered personalisation and predictive insight to journey mapping and human-centred service design — all focused on strengthening loyalty, enhancing every interaction, and driving measurable business impact.
“The sessions are exceptionally well organised, featuring insightful talks from industry leaders and experts. Attendance is strong, providing ample opportunity to connect with a diverse range of professionals. The summit delivers a wealth of perspectives and practical takeaways, giving attendees a variety of approaches and choices to enhance their customer engagement strategies.”Sales Director, Sky
“The Customer Engagement Summit was exceptionally well organised, from registration through to the event layout. A standout feature was the event app, which made it easy to track sessions, speakers and topics. Attendees could plan schedules, receive real-time updates and access materials, creating a seamless and engaging event experience.”Digital Product Owner, BP
“This year’s event exceeded expectations, with excellent speakers, engaging discussions and valuable content throughout. Each session provided practical insights and fresh perspectives on customer experience. From inspiring keynotes to interactive panels, the quality and breadth of expertise were impressive, offering real-world lessons and actionable ideas that attendees could apply immediately.”Customer Experience & Events , Lego
“The Customer Engagement Summit offers a valuable opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals, exchange experiences and share practical insights. Discussions with peers facing similar challenges encourage new thinking and fresh perspectives. Attendees can learn from others’ successes and lessons, gaining ideas and knowledge that can be applied within their own organisations.”Head of Customer Service, Balfour Beatty
“You raise the bar every year, and this year was exceptional. The Customer Engagement Summit featured outstanding speakers, engaging discussions and a fantastic atmosphere. It was inspiring to connect with passionate professionals, exchange ideas and explore the future of customer experience. Every session delivered valuable insights, practical takeaways and thought-provoking perspectives.”Claims Specialist, Allianz
Live from the London Stock Exchange Studios this discussion brings together senior voices to explore how customer engagement is evolving in an era defined by unified communication, intelligent automation, and human-AI collaboration.
Ben Neo, Head of Contact Center and CX Sales EMEA at Zoom, joins Martin Hill-Wilson to discuss how contact centres are transforming into strategic experience hubs – connecting people, data, and insight across the enterprise.
Over the past decade we have helped some of the world’s biggest brands engage with their target customers on a deeply emotional level, helping them forge relationships and new business connections.
Opportunities include speaker sponsor packages providing prime presentation slots on a topic stage and seminar stream of your choice, representation on panel debates, sponsored roundtable focus group opportunities and more.
CallMiner is the global leader in AI-powered conversation intelligence to improve customer experience (CX). CallMiner delivers the industry’s most comprehensive platform to analyse omnichannel customer interactions at scale, combining deep domain expertise with cutting edge AI technology and machine learning. By connecting the dots between insights and action, CallMiner enables companies to identify areas of opportunity to drive business improvement, growth and transformational change. CallMiner is trusted by the world’s leading organisations across all major verticals.
Emarsys, an SAP company, is the omnichannel customer engagement platform that empowers marketers to build, launch, and scale AI-powered personalized, omnichannel engagements that deliver business outcomes.
Emarsys is purpose-built to give more power to marketers so they can:
- Accelerate time to value by quickly onboarding data and channels to deploy cross-channel campaigns
- Deliver real-time, 1:1 personalization that builds trusted, loyal and lasting customer relationships with every interaction
- Succeed with proven guidance to make smart, quick decisions with data-driven insights and analytics
- Produce measurable results that drive predictable and profitable growth throughout the customer lifecycle
The SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement Platform is trusted by leading brands and innovative marketers across the globe including Nike, Samsonite, Wella, Aldo, Pizza Hut, Puma, SHEIN and Levi’s to engage, activate and retain customers.
Foundever® is a global leader in the customer experience (CX) industry. With 150,000 associates across the globe, we’re the team behind the best experiences for +800 of the world’s leading and digital-first brands. Our innovative CX solutions, technology and expertise are designed to support operational needs for our clients and deliver a seamless experience to customers in the moments that matter.
Supporting +9 million customer conversations every day in +60 languages across 45 countries, Foundever combines global strength and scale with the agile, entrepreneurial approach of our founder-led culture, enabling companies of all sizes and industries to transform their CX. Sitel Group and SYKES are now Foundever.
Ipsos, with offices in 90 markets, is a global leader in optimising Experience programmes to drive business results. “Game Changers” – our tagline – summarises our ambition: To provide true understanding and make our changing world easier to navigate, so that our clients can make faster, smarter and bolder decisions.
Medallia is the pioneer and market leader in customer, employee, citizen, and patient experience. As the leading enterprise experience platform, Medallia Experience Cloud is the mission-critical system of record that makes all other applications customer and employee aware. The platform captures billions of experience signals across interactions including all voice, video, digital, IoT, social media, and corporate-messaging tools. Medallia uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to automatically reveal predictive insights that drive powerful business actions and outcomes. Medallia customers reduce churn, turn detractors into promoters and buyers, create in-the-moment cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, and drive revenue-impacting business decisions, providing clear and potent returns on investment. For more information visit www.medallia.com.
Verint® is a leader in Customer Experience (CX) Automation.
The world’s most iconic brands— including more than 80 of the Fortune 100 companies—rely on Verint Open Platform to achieve stronger, faster AI Business
Outcomes, Now™ that reduce costs and elevate CX. With Verint, organizations can meet the challenges posed by continued growth in the number of customer interactions and higher customer expectations for elevated CX. Since hiring more workers and increasing workforce expenses are not sustainable solutions, organizations recognize the need for AI-powered platforms and CX Automation to achieve their strategic objectives and realize significant ROI.
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