March 25, 2026

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CX Transformation Conference 2026

The Customer Experience Transformation Conference 2026 is a two-day premier event designed for private sector leaders seeking innovative strategies to elevate customer experience, drive retention, and deliver measurable business impact. With a mix of cutting-edge insights, real-world case studies, and practical frameworks, attendees will leave equipped to lead CX initiatives [...]
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The Customer Experience Transformation Conference 2026 is a two-day premier event designed for private sector leaders seeking innovative strategies to elevate customer experience, drive retention, and deliver measurable business impact. With a mix of cutting-edge insights, real-world case studies, and practical frameworks, attendees will leave equipped to lead CX initiatives that anticipate customer needs, balance technology with human empathy, and create experiences that strengthen loyalty in a competitive marketplace.

 

Event Theme

“Transforming Customer Experiences in a Digital-First, AI-Driven Era”
The conference explores emerging technologies, data-driven insights, and human-centric design to empower businesses to deliver seamless, personalised, and trustworthy customer experiences across all touchpoints.

 

Who Should Attend

  • Chief Experience Officers (CXOs) and Heads of Customer Experience
  • Marketing, Product, and Digital Transformation Leaders
  • Contact Centre Managers and Customer Operations Heads
  • Data & Analytics Leaders driving CX insights
  • AI, Automation, and Innovation Specialists
  • Retail, Banking, Telecommunications, and Service Sector Executives

 

Benefits of Attending

  • Gain actionable strategies for AI-driven and human-centric CX
  • Explore hyper-personalisation, retention, and omnichannel solutions
  • Learn to measure CX ROI and link improvements to revenue
  • Network with senior peers, innovators, and technology providers
  • Access practical frameworks for scaling CX transformation initiatives
SPEAKERS AND DATES

EVENT SCHEDULE

Enjoy the speeches from the best this industry has to offer!



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Welcome Speech & Event Opening

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Agentic AI for CX: Opportunities, Risks & Governance

Explore how autonomous AI resolves customer needs proactively, creates value, and requires strong governance practices to ensure trust, fairness, and consistent ethical decision-making in private sector operations.

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Hyper-Personalisation Without Creeping Customers Out

Discover practical approaches to deliver one-to-one journeys while safeguarding privacy, ensuring transparency, and building brand trust, increasing engagement, loyalty, and satisfaction without crossing ethical or emotional boundaries.

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Coffee/ Tea Break

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Designing CX to Reduce Customer Overwhelm

Learn tactics to simplify customer journeys, rationalise touchpoints, and prioritise interventions that reduce decision fatigue, minimise churn, and enhance satisfaction for consumers navigating complex service landscapes.

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Omnichannel Orchestration: Seamless Journeys Across Digital & Physical

Explore strategies to synchronise web, app, contact centre, and in-store experiences so customers enjoy consistent brand interactions, faster resolutions, and cohesive engagement across every channel and touchpoint.

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Networking Lunch Break

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AI-Augmented Contact Centres: Humans + Machines in Harmony

Understand workforce strategies, agent assist tools, and success metrics for blending AI automation with human empathy, enhancing outcomes, improving efficiency, and optimising both customer satisfaction and operating costs.

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CX Measurement 2.0: Beyond NPS — Actionable Signals & ROI

Learn how modern metrics, real-time signals, and experimentation frameworks link experience improvements directly to revenue, retention, and measurable business outcomes, going beyond traditional satisfaction surveys like NPS.

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Customer Data Platforms & Privacy: Building a Single Source of Truth

Explore implementing CDPs that enable reliable personalisation while complying with privacy regulations, securing customer consent, and consolidating fragmented data into a trusted, actionable single source for CX initiatives.

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Retention & Pricing Strategies in Tight Economies

Understand how value framing, frictionless loyalty, and targeted incentives protect margins, maintain loyalty, and keep customers engaged in sectors where consumer spending is under increasing financial pressure.

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Experience Design for Emerging Channels: Voice, AR & VR

Discover when and how to invest in voice assistants, augmented reality, or immersive retail experiences to elevate conversion, engagement, and satisfaction across new customer touchpoints and digital ecosystems.

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Coffee/ Tea Break

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Customer Trust & Responsible AI: Explainability, Bias & Auditing

Learn practical approaches for ensuring AI transparency, mitigating bias, maintaining explainability, and implementing audit trails that preserve customer confidence while leveraging advanced decision-making technologies.

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CX Transformation Playbook: From Pilot to Enterprise-Scale Change

Explore roadmaps for scaling CX pilots into full enterprise initiatives, covering organisational structures, funding strategies, KPIs, and change management practices that ensure sustainable customer experience improvements.

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Networking Lunch Break

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Using Real-Time Analytics to Anticipate & Prevent Churn

Learn how data pipelines, alerting systems, and intervention strategies empower teams to identify at-risk customers, act proactively, and reduce churn before customers disengage from the brand.

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Personalisation at the Edge: Making Retail & Banking Contextual

Explore strategies for contextual offers, frictionless verification, and instant fulfilment that drive higher conversion, increased satisfaction, and competitive advantage in retail, banking, and service sectors.

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CX Talent & Culture: Building Customer-Centric Teams for 2026

Understand hiring, reskilling, and operating models that empower CX teams, foster strategic thinking, and ensure organisational readiness as AI automates routine tasks and elevates value-driven work.


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EVENT SPEAKERS


Business Development & Marketing Director of KIWEB Events

Nicholas Geza


PAST EVENT

PAST SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker | Founder of Speakingdom, a Pan-African communication skills company, creating impact through the transformative power of communication.

Mahlodi Kgatle

Executive CX at Old Mutual Insure | Board Director of CXSA | Trailblazer in Customer Experience in Financial Services. Dynamic thought leader and sought after Keynote Speaker.

Antonia Oakes

Chief Commercial & Trade Officer at Wesgro | Experienced CMO | Board Member | Oxford Said Business School | Amazon Skills Centre ‘Demystifying Generative AI’ Trained

Jean Scheltema

Executive: CX, Marketing & Operations Strategist at Old Mutual | part-time GIBS faculty

Dr. Lara Sukhdeo

CEO at Mobitainment, Non-Executive Director of Direct Marketing Association of SA

Candice Goodman

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Mail & Guardian Top 200 South Africans 2024 (Technology & Innovation) | Rising Star 2024 (Africa Career Summit) | Marketing Leader 2024 (World Marketing Congress)

Mathabo Sekhonyana

Managing Director Arena Holdings | Motivational Change Leader, Action oriented CEO, Corporate and Brand Strategist.

Lyndon Barends

CEO at CMC & Conscious LeadHERS | Connected Marketer Leader for Fortune 500 | Architect of Authentic Intelligence | Podcast (50+ Countries) Speaker: Digital Transformation + Culture + Human Potential + Women Empowerment

Carmen Murray (PGDip) (She/Her)

Product Lead: Domo and Khoros at YOUKNOW Technologies

Alex Hoyland

Head: CX Strategy at Nedbank | Client Experience: Strategy and Culture

Taryn Shor

Head: Santam Experience and Client Care at Santam Insurance | ACXC®: Accredited Customer Experience Advisor CX Professional CXAD (Dip)Customer Experience

Khwathelani Tshikovhi

Head of Customer Experience Standard Bank Group | Senior Consumer Insights Professional/ Coach and Facilitator

Dieketseng Shabangu

Corporate LiveWire Global Awards Winner 2024/25 | MEA African Excellence Awards Winner 2024 | JCI Top Female Honouree | MEA Business Excellence Award Winner 2024 | E2 Media Global Award of Excellence 2025

Deidre Wolmarans

Digital Futurist, Kickass Author, Keynote Speaker, Tedx Speaker | Bridging the Gap Between People and Technology

Nicky Verd

Digital Transformation & CX LeaderDigital Transformation & CX Leader at Cadena Growth Partners | M&G Top 200 Young South Africans 2020 | MBA Supervisor, GIBS | Ex-Deloitte

Tim Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer at Helm | Advisory Panel Member - Next Generation Enterprises & Institutions Cluster (Smart Society Division) at CSIR | Former Executive: Digital Marketing at Telkom

Dawood Patel

Local CXPA chapter Lead | Chief Customer Experience Officer | Management Consultant in CX Strategy and Implementation | CX Thought Leader and Speaker | CX Coach

Yugeshree Frylinck, CXPA

Chief Growth Officer Ipsos in South Africa | Experienced in CX, some say "expert". Budding Researcher, some say "newbie"

Clint Payne CCXP, ACXP

Head of Customer Experience at Discovery Limited | Customer Centric Transformation | MBA | Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP)

Marnitz van Heerden

Head of Customer Growth - Personal Segment at FNB South Africa | Award-winning Digital Strategist | Executive Head | Speaker | Customer Value Proposition | Customer Growth Strategist | Tech Entrepreneur | Platform Business | MBA

Palesa Nhlapo





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