Conference Day One - Tuesday 25th November

8:30 am - 9:00 am REGISTRATION AND MORNING NETWORKING

Gianfranco Cuzziol - Former Business Lead (Head of Customer), Dr Martens
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Gianfranco Cuzziol

Former Business Lead (Head of Customer)
Dr Martens

9:00 am - 9:30 am CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING ADDRESS & INTERACTIVE POLLING

Gianfranco Cuzziol - Former Business Lead (Head of Customer), Dr Martens

Our summit commences with an interactive polling session where you can immediately benchmark your personalisation maturity against your peers in the room. This is a unique opportunity to share your key summit goals and identify fellow attendees who can help you conquer challenges in building scalable, ethical, and data-integrated personalisation strategies.

Guiding us through this session and the entire conference is Gianfranco Cuzziol, a renowned CRM & personalisation expert. With over 25 years of experience, Gianfranco has worked with major brands like Natura & Co (Aesop, Avon, Natura, The Body Shop), Dr. Martens, Disney, BMW, adidas, BT, and easyJet

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Gianfranco Cuzziol

Former Business Lead (Head of Customer)
Dr Martens

9:30 am - 10:00 am OPENING KEYNOTE: The Age of Relevance - Redefining Hyper-Personalisation with Agentic & Edge AI

Jonathan Woolf - Chief Revenue Officer, Intent HQ

As CMOs accelerate their personalisation strategies, agentic AI will be the change agent that scales how marketing teams plan, test, and execute campaigns. Yet, most agentic systems still rely on static, historical CRM or first-party data, limiting their ability to
respond to customers in real-time. So what happens when you combine Agentic AI with real-time behavioural signals from the edge?
This keynote explores how Agentic AI and Edge AI together enable brands to deliver true, privacy-safe hyper-personalisation, at scale, and in real time. Jonathan Woolf, Chief Revenue Officer at Intent HQ and previous practioners at O2 Telefonica for over 10 years, will share how global enterprises are redefining what “relevance” means in a privacy-first world.
Key Takeaways:
  •   From Static to Dynamic: Discover how Edge AI surfaces live customer intent directly from devices — with no personal data ever leaving the customer’s phone.
  •   Context-Driven Agents: Learn how grounding agentic systems in real-world behaviour makes every customer interaction more intelligent and empathetic.
  •   Real-World Impact: See how telco, retail, and financial brands are achieving up to 24x uplift in conversions and 14x campaign ROI through real-time intent activation.
  •   Practical Pathways: Understand the actionable steps CMOs can take to integrate Edge + Agentic AI responsibly — to cut waste, scale relevance, and demonstrate measurable ROI to the board.
For CMOs and CX leaders, this session offers a credible roadmap to move beyond experimentation — showing how Agentic + Edge AI can become the cornerstone of sustainable growth, ethical personalisation, and competitive differentiation. 

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Jonathan Woolf

Chief Revenue Officer
Intent HQ

10:00 am - 10:30 am CASE STUDY: UNLOCKING ATTENTION: UBER’S EYE-TRACKING INSIGHTS FOR PERSONALISED ADVERTISING

Paul Wright - Head of International, Uber Advertising, Uber

The promise of personalised advertising is immense: delivering the right message to the right person at the right time. However, if that perfectly tailored message flashes across a screen unnoticed, its potential is entirely wasted. Traditional metrics like impressions or clicks don’t fully capture whether an ad truly resonated or even registered with the viewer. This gap in understanding led Uber to invest in a sophisticated eye-tracking system to measure actual visual attention. Uber deployed an advanced eye-tracking methodology to observe how passengers interact with in-app advertisements during their rides. The study focused on personalised ads, aiming to understand the duration of attention these ads commanded. The key finding was both insightful and encouraging: people in Ubers, on average, dedicated approximately 6.6 seconds of attention to personalised advertisements with anything over 2.5 seconds of attention consistently led to demonstrable brand recall.

Join this session to learn more about Uber’s eye tracking strategy, in particular, we will focus on:

• Why attention is the new currency in personalised advertising

• How the 2.5-second recall threshold is a game-changer

• The pros and cons of in-transit environments offering unique attention opportunities

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Paul Wright

Head of International, Uber Advertising
Uber

10:30 am - 11:00 am HOW TO BUILD AN AI-DRIVEN PERSONALISATION PLAYBOOK

Mårten Bokedal  - Senior Solutions Strategy Director, Optimizely

Personalization has always been the promise. AI agents are how we finally deliver it. 

In this keynote, Mårten Bokedal reveals how AI agents are transforming personalization from a manual, rules-based effort into a self-improving system that scales with every interaction. Drawing from real-world examples and emerging trends, he’ll show how marketers and product teams can harness AI to build a new kind of personalization playbook—one built for relevance, speed, and scale. 

Key takeaways include: 

  • Why personalization has stalled—and how AI agents unlock a new level of automation and performance 
  • How to structure your personalization flywheel: combining data, content, decisioning, and activation 
  • Use cases for contextual bandits, LLM-aware experiences, and agent-assisted optimization 
  • How traffic from ChatGPT and other AI interfaces changes discovery—and what that means for your web experience 

  This is personalization reimagined—not just powered by AI, but orchestrated by it. 

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Mårten Bokedal 

Senior Solutions Strategy Director
Optimizely

11:00 am - 11:30 am MORNING REFESHMENT BREAK


Customers are increasingly aware of their digital footprint, and with this awareness comes a growing expectation for responsible data handling. The rise of personalised experiences, while incredibly powerful, has also introduced a significant ethical challenge: how can we use data to deliver relevant individual experiences without jeopardising consumer trust?

This panel discussion will tackle the pressing need for marketers to strike a balance between the potential of personalisation and the crucial importance of ethical practices.

Our expert key opinion leaders will offer practical insights for building a future of trusted personalisation, focusing on:

• Cultivate value-led engagement: Discover how aligning your data practices with customer values fosters deeper trust and stronger relationships.

• Master transparent & fair data practices: Learn practical strategies for communicating data usage clearly and ensuring equitable treatment of

customer information.

• Transform ethics into a loyalty & reputation advantage: Understand how prioritising ethical data stewardship becomes a powerful differentiator, driving

brand loyalty and enhancing reputation.

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Aswin Peter

Product Lead - Payments Strategy & Customer Experience - Energy Platforms
British Gas

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Hazem El Taha

Global Head of MarTech
HSBC.

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Antonio Pellegrino

Principle CVM MarTech Enterprise Architect
Vodaphone

STREAM A: CUSTOMER DATA & PRIVACY

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm REAL-TIME DATA ACTIVATION: FROM STATIC SEGMENTS TO STREAMING CONTEXT
George Cairns - Head of Product Personalisation, Lloyds Banking Group

Customer expectations have evolved. They no longer just want personalised experiences; they demand relevant experiences, delivered at the exact moment of need. This is the power of real-time data activation.In fact, companies leveraging real-time data analytics see an average 25% increase in customer acquisition and retention. Lloyds Bank is harnessing this power to elevate customer satisfaction and drive engagement. The ambition at Lloyds Bank is to design seamless and intuitive customer journeys across all touchpoints.

The challenge? Ensuring that the context of a customer’s interaction is immediately understood and acted upon. Legacy infrastructure, data fragmentation and governance concerns make real-time activation difficult to implement at scale.

Join us to learn how Lloyds Banking Group is shifting from a channel-centric view to customer-centric orchestration, ensuring that actions taken in one channel inform and enhance experiences in another. This session will explore how to move from batch-based strategies to real-time CX, focusing on:

• Architecting for real-time: Building modern data infrastructure that supports streaming ingestion, low-latency processing, and in-the-moment decisioning.

• From segments to signals: Techniques to evolve from pre-defined customer segments to using real-time behavioral triggers.

• Enabling cross-functional collaboration: Frameworks for aligning IT,marketing, and analytics teams to operationalisereal-time capabilities

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George Cairns

Head of Product Personalisation
Lloyds Banking Group

STREAM A: CUSTOMER DATA & PRIVACY

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm FROM SILOS TO PERSONALISATION: HOW A CDP TRANSFORMED NISSAN’S CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Jivesh Juneja - Head of Data Products, Nissan Motor Corporation

Before adopting a Customer Data Platform, Nissan operated in silos. CRM sat apart from the website, the website from advertising, and there was no single customer view. The website functioned largely as a brochure, offering the same experience to everyone, whether they were a first-time buyer, a loyal repurchaser, or a customer booking a routine vehicle service.

In this session, discover how Nissan implemented a CDP to unify online and offline data, create meaningful segments, and deliver real-time personalisation across channels. The results speak for themselves: five times higher lead conversion, double the engagement on repurchase campaigns, and payback achieved in under 12 months.

Today, Nissan is scaling its CDP globally. The next frontier is AI-driven decisioning.

Join this session to explore:

• How to unify data and build a single customer view

• Why focusing on journeys, not channels, delivers impact

• Why organisational alignment matters as much as the technology

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Jivesh Juneja

Head of Data Products
Nissan Motor Corporation

STREAM B: CONTENT & JOURNEY ORCHESTRATION

11:30 am - 12:00 pm CASE STUDY: LYCA MOBILE’S DYNAMIC JOURNEY MAPPING & MULTICHANNEL PERSONALISATION STRATEGY


Abhineet Kesarwani - Regional Director of Customer Value and Experience, Lyca Mobile

Join this session to explore how Lyca Mobile is revolutionising customer engagement through sophisticated dynamic journey mapping and hyperpersonalisation across every touchpoint. This session will delve into the strategic imperatives and practical applications of creating seamless, relevant, and proactive customer experiences in today’s complex mobile landscape.

Key discussion points include:

• Designing journeys across web, app, store, and service: Learn how Lyca and their team map out the diverse paths customers take from initial discovery on their website or app, through in-store interactions, to ongoing engagement with customer service channels.

• Leveraging behavioural triggers and dynamic rules: Uncover the power of real-time data and advanced analytics in driving personalisation. This session will highlight how Lyca Mobile identifies behavioural triggers and applies dynamic rules to adapt the customer journey in real-time.

• Ensuring fluid transitions between touchpoints: Explore how Lyca Mobile prioritises fluidity, ensuring that a customer starting an inquiry on the app can seamlessly continue it with a service agent, or that an online browsing session can inform an in-store recommendation.

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Abhineet Kesarwani

Regional Director of Customer Value and Experience
Lyca Mobile

STREAM B: CONTENT & JOURNEY ORCHESTRATION

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm TECH DEMO: DRIVE LONG-TERM CUSTOMER LOYALTY WITH DUNNHUMBY
Richard Dawson - Head of Loyalty & Personalisation Consulting, Dunnhumby

Loyalty initiatives are crucial for cultivating lasting customer value. Join this tech demo to discover how Dunnhumby empowers your brand to build a robust understanding of customer needs, leading to improved decision-making and increased loyalty through omnichannel personalisation. Learn how to deliver tailored recommendations and ensure a highly relevant experience at every stage of the customer journey.

Key takeaways include:

• Strategies for successful real-time personalisation, both online and offline

.• Developing personalisation that maps cross-channel behaviour.

• The importance of continuous performance measurement and strategy refinement.

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Richard Dawson

Head of Loyalty & Personalisation Consulting
Dunnhumby

STREAM B: CONTENT & JOURNEY ORCHESTRATION

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm PERSONALISING THE FULL LIFECYCLE: HOW LE CHAMEAU DROVE A 62% INCREASE IN LIFETIME CUSTOMER VALUE
Aaron Smedley - Chief Digital & Marketing Officer, Le Chameau

Over the past year, Le Chameau has transformed its customer communication strategy, moving beyond industry buzzwords to focus on actionable personalisation techniques that deliver tangible business results. By deeply analysing how they connect with their customer base, Le Chameau implemented a new approach that prioritised functional efficiency and profitability. This strategic shift led to an astounding 3,600% increase in email productivity by personalising both the timing and content of their communications based on customer intent. Ultimately, this focus on the full customer lifecycle, from onboarding to retention, has driven a remarkable 62% increase in lifetime customer value over the last 12 months, along with an 80% retention rate of new customers.

Join this session to discover how Le Chameau redefined its personalisation strategy to achieve such impressive outcomes. We’ll cover key topics, including:

• Mapping tailored tactics to each customer lifecycle phase.

• Implementing triggered communications and nudges that boost retention.

• Effectively measuring the impact on customer loyalty, lifetime value and churn

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Aaron Smedley

Chief Digital & Marketing Officer
Le Chameau

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm NETWORKING LUNCH


AI-driven personalisation has demonstrated unprecedented opportunities. By leveraging Generative AI organisations can manage vast datasets in real time, identifying customer needs and behaviors. This enables CX and marketing leaders to anticipate trends and deliver solutions that resonate deeply with their audiences. In practice, this means moving beyond traditional customer segmentation to true individualisation. However, these advancements come with a mandate: to balance innovation with ethics, scale with transparency, and efficiency with humanity. Ultimately, it’s not just about buying technology: it’s about buying outcomes that enhance customer experiences.

Join this panel discussion as we explore the foundational elements businesses need to achieve personalised experiences at scale through AI. We’ll discuss crucial considerations for ensuring ethical and transparent personalisation that delivers real value, enhances customer loyalty, and increases lifetime value.

Key discussion points will include:

  • Invest in continuous iteration: AI-driven personalisation needs constant fine-tuning to remain effective in rapidly changing markets.
  • Aligning AI-driven personalisation with strategic goals: Leaders must ask: How are we using AI-driven personalisation to not only meet customer needs but redefine success?·
  • Balance technology and human insight: The most effective personalisation strategies combine AI-driven insights with human expertise
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Janis Thomas

Managing Director
Look Fabulous Forever

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Emmanuelle Savarit

Head of User Research (Global)
JustEat Takeaway.com

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Curig Johnston

Former Director of Base Value & Personalisation
EE

STREAM C: TRUST & AI IN PERSONALISATION

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: PREDICTIVE PERSONALISATION: AI & ML MODELS IN LIFECYCLE JOURNEYS
Nessa O’Gorman - Director, Product Management, Expedia
Zeke Zhiqian Wu - Global CRM Program Manager, Nissan Motor Corporation

As brands strive to deliver tailored experiences, the integration of AI in predictive analytics has emerged as a game-changer, enabling marketers to anticipate customer needs and behaviours with unprecedented accuracy. As a result, the question isn’t whether to adopt AI but how to integrate it meaningfully across the entire CRM lifecycle.

In this session, our panel of key opinion leaders discusses how AI and ML are reshaping customer experiences by enabling brands to move from reactive engagement to proactive, predictive personalisation at scale.

Key discussion areas include:

• Dynamically adapting customer journeys using real-time behavioural signals

• Core capabilities required for leveraging streaming and contextual data

• Addressing challenges around data latency and system responsiveness

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Nessa O’Gorman

Director, Product Management
Expedia

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Zeke Zhiqian Wu

Global CRM Program Manager
Nissan Motor Corporation

STREAM C: TRUST & AI IN PERSONALISATION

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm INTERACTIVE GAME


STREAM D: OPERATING MODELS & SCALING SUCCESS

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm BUILDING TRUST THROUGH PERSONALISATION: THE LEGO® JOURNEY

Personalisation is never a finished project’s a journey of continuous learning and iteration. At LEGO®, we’re making significant leaps forward this year as we explore what personalisation means for one of the world’s most trusted brands. With children at the heart of our mission, but adults also a core part of our community, we’re finding our own way forward on the personalisation maturity curve. In this session, we’ll share how LEGO® is approaching personalisation thoughtfully and responsibly, the steps we’ve taken to introduce new features in 2025, and what it means to balance innovation with brand trust. You’ll hear about the challenges, successes, and lessons learned along the way.

Key Takeaways:

1. Personalisation is a journey, not a destination. No company ever truly “finishes” personalisation continuous progress and experimentation are

essential.

2. Trust shapes personalisation. For a brand like LEGO®, maintaining trust with families and children while offering personalised experiences for

adults is a unique and ongoing challenge.

3. Progress comes in leaps. New features and experiments help brands climb the maturity curve, finding the balance between customer needs, brand identity, and innovation

STREAM D: OPERATING MODELS & SCALING SUCCESS

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm RESERVED


STREAM D: OPERATING MODELS & SCALING SUCCESS

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm INTERACTIVE GAME


3:30 pm - 4:00 pm AFTERNOON REFRESHMENT BREAK


4:00 pm - 4:30 pm FINDING YOUR NORTH STAR: MAKING PERSONALISATION STRATEGIES TRULY EFFECTIVE

Vinay Parmar - Former Chief Customer Experience Officer, National Express

Personalisation often falls short because the conversation is fragmented. Customer experience teams, marketers, commercial leaders, and technologists each play a critical role yet too often, they operate in silos.
Personalisation isn’t just about sending a birthday voucher or launching a campaign. It’s about aligning strategy across functions: CX provides insights into customer behaviours and feelings, marketing delivers relevant and timely experiences, commercial teams focus on retention and revenue growth, and technology makes it all possible. Without a shared vision, efforts remain tactical rather than strategic.
In this session, Vinay Parmar will explore why many personalisation initiatives fail and how organisations can unite behind a clear “north star”. Discover how to build a cohesive culture where personalisation moves beyond surface-level gestures and creates lasting customer loyalty.
Key Takeaways:
1. Why personalisation efforts often fail without a shared vision across CX, marketing, commercial, and technology teams.
2. How to define and align around a “north star” that makes personalisation strategies deliberate, consistent, and effective.
3. Practical ways to create a collaborative, customer-centric culture that drives both loyalty and commercial results.

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Vinay Parmar

Former Chief Customer Experience Officer
National Express

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm BEYOND THE BASKET: HOW JD SPORTS IS USING TECH TO PERSONALISE THE OMNICHANNEL EXPERIENCE

Gavin Holland - Global Head of UX Design, Jd Sports Fashion

Join us for a deep dive into JD Sports’ strategic use of technology to create a truly personalised, seamless omnichannel experience for its customers. In this case study, we’ll explore how one of the world’s leading sports fashion retailers is moving beyond traditional e-commerce to connect the digital and physical worlds. Join us as we discuss the transition from concept to reality and explore the journey of implementing new technology, including the current testing phase and future ambitions.

This session will cover:

· Innovations in Retail Technology: A look at the new techincluding AR and VRthat JD Sports is exploring to enhance the in-store experience.

· Connecting the Dots: How JD Sports plans to link online user accounts and in-store interactions to recognise customers and offer tailored

recommendations.

· The In-Store Future: How kiosks and other digital tools are being re-imagined to provide a more personalised, responsive experience on

the shop floor

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Gavin Holland

Global Head of UX Design
Jd Sports Fashion

These interactive, informal sessions offer a unique opportunity to step away from formal presentations and engage in lively, peer-led discussions. Connect with industry colleagues, share your challenges and successes, and collectively explore innovative solutions in a relaxed, open environment. It’s an ideal space for deep reflection, practical problem-solving, and expanding your professional network across diverse sectors

Discussion topics include:

• Personalisation’s Billion-Dollar Bluff: Is Your ROI Just a Marketing Fairy Tale?

• Generative AI and Personalisation: Unleashing Creativity While Maintaining Brand Voice

• Personalisation Roulette: Are Your ‘Safe’ Pilots Actually Hiding Risky Blind Spots?

• The Loyalty Illusion: Can Personalisation Truly Earn Love, or Just Manipulate Behavior?

• The Personalisation Paradox: Why One-Size-Fits-All Data is Still Drowning Your ‘Tailored’ Experience

• Internal Culture: Trusting the Personalised Strategy

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Frank Martinez

Head of Customer Experience
Corpay

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Darren Kent

IT Marketing Platform Manager
Aviva

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Ronnie McGibbon

Head of Chief Risk Officer
Samsung

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Zu Afghan

Audience Strategy and Testing Manager, CRM and Personalisation
Asda

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Kasia Behvand

Former Head of Personalisation
EE

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm CLOSING REMARKS AND DRINKS RECEPTION

6:30 pm - 6:35 pm END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE