Conference Day Two - Wednesday 4th November

8:30 am - 9:00 am REGISTRATION AND WELCOME

Gianfranco Cuzziol - CRM and Personalisation, Advisor
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Gianfranco Cuzziol

CRM and Personalisation
Advisor

9:05 am - 9:30 am OPENING KEYNOTE: The Shift to Agentic Personalisation

AI-powered personalisation is entering a new era.

Until now, most personalisation strategies have focused on reacting to customer behaviour by recommending products, optimising content and tailoring messages based on previous interactions. But agentic AI changes the equation entirely. 

Rather than simply responding to prompts, agentic AI can proactively pursue goals, understand context, adapt in real time, and make intelligent decisions across the customer journey. This shift enables brands to move beyond static personalisation toward dynamic experiences that continuously evolve with every interaction. The result is a new model of customer engagement: one that delivers hyper-relevant experiences at scale, accelerates decision-making in real time, and drives deeper customer loyalty and retention.

In this opening keynote, we will explore how agentic personalisation is transforming the future of customer experience through three emerging applications: 

  • Autonomous Search: Explore how Agentic AI interprets intent behind every query and delivers personalised results, turning search into an adaptive, interactive experience.
  • Autonomous Marketing: Discover how AI agents independently optimise customer journeys in real time, improving efficiency, relevance, and personalisation at scale.
  • Conversational Shopping: Go beyond chatbots, and learn how AI agents understand nuance, answer complex questions, offer tailored recommendations, and proactively support customers throughout the journey. 

9:30 am - 10:00 am PANEL DISCUSSION: The ROI of Personalisation - Measuring What Actually Drives Growth

While nearly every brand is investing in personalisation, many marketing leaders still face the same challenge: how do you prove it is delivering measurable business value? 


From fragmented customer data and inconsistent omnichannel experiences to attribution complexity and rising expectations around AI-driven engagement, measuring the true impact of personalisation remains difficult. Despite significant investment, many organisations still struggle to connect personalisation efforts directly to revenue growth, customer loyalty, and lifetime value. 

Join this panel discussion as industry leaders explore the metrics that matter most when evaluating the success of personalisation initiatives. The conversation will focus on how marketing teams can move beyond vanity metrics and demonstrate tangible commercial outcomes by focusing on: 
  • The Conversion Rate: Explore how to track conversion lift by segment, map improvements across touchpoints and compare against non personalised campaigns
  • Average Order Value: Personalisation should be repeat purchases through smart recommendations. Assess the impact of personalised strategies by monitoring AOV between genetic and personalised experiences and the revenue attached to each purchase
  • Engagement Metrics: These include time on site, pages viewed per session, bounce back and interactions 

10:00 am - 10:30 am PANEL DISCUSSION: My Phone is Listening: Redefining Ethical Algorithms

Personalised algorithms now sit at the centre of modern digital marketing, shaping everything from product recommendations and content feeds to search results, advertising, and customer journeys. Designed to increase relevance and improve engagement, these systems have become essential tools for brands looking to deliver tailored experiences at scale. For consumers, personalised recommendations can simplify discovery. 

However, the growing dependence on algorithmic personalisation is becoming increasingly controversial. 

As algorithms optimise for clicks brands risk creating repetitive and overly narrow customer experiences. Consumers are often served the same types of products, messages, and content repeatedly leading to fatigue and unsubscribes. The rise of "filter bubbles" also raises wider concerns around limiting discovery, reinforcing existing behaviours, and reducing exposure to new ideas, products, and perspectives. 

This panel will examine the controversies surrounding personalised algorithms and explore how brands can implement them more responsibly.  

Key Discussion Areas 

  • Are personalised algorithms improving customer experience or narrowing it?
  • The risks of filter bubbles, repetitive targeting, and algorithmic fatigue 
  • Balancing relevance with discovery and diversity of content 
  • Using hybrid recommendation models to improve accuracy and broaden discovery 

 

10:30 am - 11:00 am PANEL DISCUSSION: Context is King - Personalisation Across Channels Through AI

Peter Louca - Head of Performance Marketing, Fidelity International

Customers don't think in channels, they think in moments. They browse a product on mobile, abandon a basket on desktop, open an email later that day, and scroll past a reminder on social media the next morning. Each of these interactions is a signal of intent or need. 

Yet too often, these signals exist in isolation. When customer data and context are fragmented, brands risk creating disjointed experiences with irrelevant recommendations, duplicated messaging, or inconsistent storytelling across touchpoints. The result fatigue, disengagement, and lost opportunity. 

Cross-channel personalisation addresses this challenge by connecting those signals into a unified understanding of the customer, enabling brands to deliver experiences that are consistent, context-aware, and continuously adaptive. At the heart of this evolution is AI. From next-best-action models to generative content and automated journey decisioning, AI is making it possible to personalise at a level of scale and speed across channels that was previously unattainable. 

This panel discussion explores how leading organisations are moving beyond experimentation toward operationalised cross-channel personalisation. Join us to explore:

  • How to design customer journeys that adapt in real time across channels
  • The data and technology needed to unify cross-channel experiences
  • How to measure success in a cross-channel world 

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Peter Louca

Head of Performance Marketing
Fidelity International

11:00 am - 11:30 am REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING

11:30 am - 12:30 pm ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION GROUPS

Pull up a chair and join one of our interactive roundtable discussions for an open, honest, and energetic exchange of ideas with fellow attendees. Choose the topic that matters most to you, join the conversation, and share challenges, successes, tips, and experiences. 


After 40 minutes of lively discussion, each table will deliver a quick-fire recap of the biggest insights, boldest ideas, and key conclusions from their session 

11:30 am - 12:30 pm GROUP A: AI-Generated Copy: Where it Works VS Where it Fails
Haleema Ali - Head of B2B Marketing, ManpowerGroup

Share stories of success and failure of AI generated marketing material. We will aim to answer a practical question for marketers on not whether AI can create content, but where it should and where it still shouldn't. 

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Haleema Ali

Head of B2B Marketing
ManpowerGroup

11:30 am - 12:30 pm GROUP B: What Does “Good Personalisation” Actually Look Like Today?
Yogesh Sharma - Director, Global CRM Marketing, Western Union

Explore what fellow peers believe makes a good personalisation strategy in the age of AI, privacy concerns and rising customer expectations

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Yogesh Sharma

Director, Global CRM Marketing
Western Union

11:30 am - 12:30 pm GROUP C - AI Agents That Autonomously Optimise Campaigns...Is This The Future? How are Agents Changing the Shape of Your Teams?

Discuss the rise of AI agents that can autonomously optimise marketing campaigns by adjusting budgets, targeting, and creative in real time based on performance goals. Join this table to examines where this level of automation is already effective, particularly in high-volume performance marketing, and where human oversight is still essential.  

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm NETWORKING LUNCH

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: The Data Reality - Exploring the Foundations for Effective Personalisation

Billy Cheng - Head of Consumer Data Activation, L'Oreal

As organisations continue to invest in personalisation, many are facing a fundamental challenge: the quality, accessibility, and completeness of their data.  

This panel discussion explores why strong data foundations are the true enabler of effective personalisation, well before any advanced technologies are layered on top. This is because for many brands, particularly in consumer goods, the core issue is not a lack of tools, but a lack of visibility. With a significant portion of customer interactions happening through third-party retailers, brands are often left with only a partial view of customer behaviour and preferences. This fragmented data landscape makes it difficult to deliver relevant, timely, and consistent personalised experiences. 

This session will focus on what it really takes to build a connected and reliable data ecosystem that supports meaningful personalisation. Panellists will discuss the practical realities of collecting and unifying first-party data, the increasing role of data partnerships and secure collaboration methods such as clean rooms, and the governance and operational challenges involved in ensuring data is accurate, usable, and compliant. The conversation will also address a common disconnect: many organisations have invested in data infrastructure, yet still struggle to activate that data effectively within CRM and marketing strategies. The session will highlight how organisations can move beyond isolated transactions toward a more complete, customer-centric understanding that enables more relevant and effective engagement. 
Key Takeaways: 

  • A clear understanding of the critical data gaps limiting personalisation and how to begin addressing them 
  • Practical approaches to strengthening first-party data strategies and leveraging partnerships to enrich customer insight
  • How to bridge the gap between data infrastructure and activation to deliver more consistent, relevant customer experiences 

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Billy Cheng

Head of Consumer Data Activation
L'Oreal

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm The Great Personalisation Debate

Time to take a stand. We're breaking from the script for an interactive debate. We'll throw out 8 polarising statements, your job is to pick a side, sharpen your arguments with your team, and go head-to-head with the opposition 

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm CLOSING CONFERENCE WIDE INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION: Looking Ahead -The Future of Personalisation is Predictive Not Reactive

During our closing session, we will bring together the key learnings from across the conference and revisit the four guiding questions we introduced at the start of Day One: 

  • What does personalisation mean today?
  • What is the role of AI and technology in your approach to personalisation? 
  • What are the key components required to successfully deliver personalisation? 
  • How do you measure the impact of personalisation? 

We will use these questions as a framework to reflect on how thinking around personalisation has evolved from traditional segmentation and rule-based targeting to intelligent systems that operate in real time. We will also explore how the future of personalisation is no longer simply about better targeting. Instead, it is about building adaptive, AI-driven systems that continuously shape and optimise the customer experience in the moment. 

A key theme we will explore during this conference wide discussion is the move from reactive to predictive personalisation. Rather than responding to what customers have already done, the most advanced organisations are beginning to anticipate what customers are likely to need next and proactively shaping experiences, content, and offers accordingly. This shift from reaction to prediction represents a fundamental change in how marketing value is created. In this new environment, brands that remain purely reactive risk falling behind. Competitive advantage will increasingly belong to organisations that can anticipate needs and deliver meaningful experiences before the customer even expresses intent.

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm CLOSING REMARKS

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm REFRESHMENTS END OF CONFERENCE DAY TWO