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Smarter Services Executive Symposium — Intercontinental Chicago Magnificent Mile

May 1st - May 2nd 2012

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Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet

Ron Kaufman, Founder & Chairman, UP! Your Service

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Our Integrated Approach to Delivering on the Customer Promise

Stu Reed, President, Home Services, Sears Holdings

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Leveraging Analytics in Customer Experience: A Path to Profitable Relationships

Brad Smith, Vice President, Global Support Experience, Yahoo

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Avoiding Commoditization: Leveraging Data to Infuse New Product & Service Innovation

Larry Wash, President, Global Services, Thermo King and Trane (Ingersoll Rand)

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Service Automation: Automating the New Network

Brad Kashani, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Customer Service, Juniper Networks

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Culture is Service: Aligning Employee Engagement with Customer Engagement

Vicky Stennes, Vice President, Inflight Experience, JetBlue Airways

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Service 3001: An Odyssey to Smarter Services

Bill Pollock, The Service Council

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Innovation in Customer Experience

Grace E.M. Cowan, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience, Waste Management

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Service Transformation Management

Bob Johnson, Chief Service and Information Technology Officer

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Global Customer Centricity: Engagement Rules

Jay Topper, Senior Vice President, Customer Success, Rosetta Stone

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Service Chain Transformation: The Service Life Cycle Management Maturity Model

Will McNeill, Research Analyst, Gartner

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We Are One!

Denise Grubb, Vice President, Service Operations, Farmers Insurance

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Service Optimization: Best Business Practices

James Mylett, VP & GM Field & Business Operations Service NA, Johnson Controls

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overview

The Service CouncilTM presented its annual Smarter Services Executive Symposium in Chicago, May 1 and 2, 2012. The Symposium provided an invaluable opportunity to network with Field Service, Customer Service, and Customer Experience executives in an environment conducive to creating and advancing executive-level relationships.

The Smarter Services Symposium emphasizes a case-study driven approach and is organized around a combination of workshops, roundtable discussions and presentations, creating an experiential learning environment.

The 2012 symposium was held at the Intercontinental hotel on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

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About Ron Kaufman
Best-selling author, The Smarter Way to an Uplifting Service Culture
For over two decades UP! Your Service Founder and Chairman Ron Kaufman has helped companies on every continent build a culture of uplifting service that delivers real business results year after year. Making transformation his mission, Ron is one of the world’s most sought-after educators, consultants, and thought-leaders in achieving superior service. learn more »

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The 2012 Executive Symposium agenda can be reviewed below and downloaded here.

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arrival - April 30th, 2012

day 1 - May 1st, 2012

7:00am-8:00am
Breakfast and Registration (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)
8:00am-8:10am
Opening Remarks - Smarter Services™
Speaker - John Carroll, President & Founder of The Service Council™
8:10am-9:00am
Keynote Presentation: "The Smarter Way To An Uplifting Service Culture"
Keynote Speaker - Ron Kaufman (Author, Educator and Motivator)
9:00am-9:45am
"Our Integrated Approach to Delivering on the Customer Promise"
Speaker - Stu Reed, President of Sears Holdings Corporations, Home Services
9:45am-10:15am
Coffee Break (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)
10:15-11:00am
"Leveraging Analytics In Customer Experience: A Path to Profitable Relationships"
Speaker - Brad Smith, VP of Global Support Experience at Yahoo!
11:00am-11:45am
"Avoiding Commoditization: Leveraging Data to Infuse New Product and Service Innovation"
Speaker - Larry Wash President, Global Services at Ingersoll Rand
11:45am-12:45pm
Lunch Break (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)
12:45pm-1:15pm
"Maintaining A Customer Support Automation Network"
Speaker - Brad Kashani, SVP of Worldwide Customer Service at Juniper Networks
1:15pm-1:45pm
"The Impact of Employee Engagement on Customer Service on Service Revenues"
Speaker - Vicky Stennes, VP of Inflight Experience at JetBlue Airways
1:45pm-2:15pm
"3001: A Service Odyssey"
Speaker - Bill Pollock, Chief Research Officer at The Service Council™
2:15pm-3:00pm
Round Table Discussions
3:00pm-3:30pm
Coffee Break (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)
3:30pm-4:15pm
Round Table Discussions
4:15pm-5:15pm
"Sustainable Service"
Speaker - Grace Cowan, SVP of Customer Experience at Waste Management, Inc.
5:15pm-5:20pm
Closing Remarks
Speaker - John Carroll, President & Founder of The Service Council™
5:30pm-7:00pm
Cocktail Reception (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)

day 1 - roundtable discussions

The Service Council™ has organized the afternoon of Day 1 to feature co-moderated round table discussions, enabling an interactive environment to not only hear from leading Executives from service-centric organizations, but to also engage with and test the strategies presented. The interactive sessions are designed to infuse an experiential learning environment, enabling relationship development amongst your peers and the ability to capture key takeaways in an intimate setting.

Round Table #1
Ron Kaufman at UP! Your Service - Official Education Partner of TSC™
Up! Your Service:
"Aligning the Building Blocks of Service Culture"
Round Table #2
Brad Smith, VP of Global Support Experience at Yahoo!
SAP:
"Service Excellence in the Social Era"
Round Table #3
Jamie Morin, SVP of Service Operations at Wright Express
Topic:
"Enchanting Voice of Customer Intelligence with Call Recording and Speech Analytics"
Round Table #4
William McNeill, Research Analyst at Gartner
PTC:
"The Service Life Cycle Management Maturity Model"
Round Table #5
Andrew Gallan, Assistant Prof. at Case Western Reserve U & Research Faculty at ASU, Center For Services Leadership
Topic:
"Understanding Customer Failures"
Round Table #6
Larry Wash, President of Global Services at Ingersoll Rand
Field Solutions:
"Talent Acquisition Lifecycle: Acquisition, Retention, Succession, or Outsource?"
Round Table #7
Cary Chapman, National Service Manager at Mettler Toledo
Field Technologies:
"Mobile Workforce Management"
Round Table #8
Thomas Schlick, VP of Global Service at ACCO Brands & Tim Saur, Co-CEO and SVP of Durst Phototechnik AG Americas
ServiceSource:
"Service Revenue"
Round Table #9
John Hamilton, President of ServiceStrategies
ServiceStrategies:
"The Cost Of Knowledge Management"
Round Table #10
James Mylett, VP & GM Field & Business Operations Service NA at Johnson Controls
Topic:
"Employee Engagement: Managing A Distributed Workforce"
Round Table #11
Vicky Stennes, VP of Inflight Experience at JetBlue Airways
Topic:
"Service Culture, Its Impact On Service Profitability"
Round Table #12
Sudipto Ghosh, Chief Customer Support Officer at Acer India
Renova Technology:
"Emerging Geographies: Establishing a Service Business Globally"
Round Table #13
Tim Spencer, Vice President of Customer Experience at WMS Gaming
Topic:
"New Product Introduction and Field Readiness"
Round Table #14
Hal Kolp, VP of Information Technology at Source Refrigeration & HVAC
IFS - 360 Technologies:
"Advanced Scheduling"
Round Table #15
Bernie Schaeffer, VP of Service at Motorola and Larry Maye, COO at Precision Camera
DEX Systems:
"Returns, Repair and Refurbishment"
Round Table #16
Mike Landry, President North America, Barkawi
Stratix Corporation:
"Key Performance Metrics"
Round Table #17
Denise Grubb, Vice President of Service Operations at Farmers Insurance
ServicePower:
"Get Back to Where You Belong: Profitable Service"
Round Table #18
TBD
ServiceMax:
TBD
Round Table #19
Mike Flannagan, Director Product Management, Cisco Remote Management Services
ThingWorx:
"The Future of Remote Services"
Round Table #20
TBD
N.E.W., ServiceBench:
"Using Warranty and Service Data to Drive Improvements in Service Delivery through Active Analytics?"
Round Table #21
TBD
Flash Global Logistics:
TBD

day 2 - May 2nd, 2012

7:00am-8:00am
Breakfast and Registration (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)
8:00am-8:10am
Opening Remarks
Speaker - John Carroll, President & Founder of The Service Council™
8:10am-9:00am
"Service Transformation Management"
Keynote Speaker - Bob Johnson, Chief Service and Information Technology Officer at Sprint
9:00am-9:45am
"Bonjour! ¡Hola!, Konnichiwa!": Making Your Customers Say, "You Had Me at Hello"
Speaker - Jay Topper, SVP of Customer Success at Rosetta Stone
9:45am-10:15am
Coffee Break (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)
10:15-11:00am
"The Service Lifecycle Management Maturity Model"
Speaker - William McNeill, Research Analyst at Gartner
11:00am-11:45am
Get Back Where You Belong: Profitable Service
Speaker - Denise Grubb, Vice President of Service at Farmers Insurance
11:45am-12:30pm
Field Service Optimization
Speaker - James Mylett, VP & GM Field and Business Operations Service NA at Johnson Controls
12:30pm-12:35pm
Closing Remarks
Speaker - John Carroll, President & Founder of The Service Council™
12:35pm-1:30pm
Lunch Break (Networking and Sponsors Area Open)

speakers & moderators

The following companies sponsored the inaugural Smarter Services Executive symposium.

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For information about room reservations, please contact Michael Israel at michael@theservicecouncil.com or 702 556 3511 (00 1 702 556 3511 outside the US).