2025 Best Practice Guide
Raising Standards

Conferences

The Forum holds key conferences through out the year including our flagship Spring Customer Strategy and Planning, Summer Best Practice Showcase and Autumn #RaisingStandards conferences that offer a great opportunity to learn, share and network.

2025 Spring Customer Strategy & Planning Conference (In-person)

Tuesday 29th April 2025, Grand Hotel Gosforth Park, Newcastle

2025 Spring Customer Strategy & Planning Conference (In-person)

Learn WHY we need to keep “Raising Standards in Customer Operations" 
Our flagship Conference, this highly rated event is far more than just a conference. Designed specifically to focus on the hot topics within the industry and thought leadership whilst also delivering practical skills with new ways of thinking that will enhance you as a person. 

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2025 Summer Best Practice Showcase (In-person)

Thursday 12th June 2025, Park Royal Hotel, Stretton, Cheshire

2025 Summer Best Practice Showcase (In-person)
Learn WHAT our award finalists are doing to continue “Raising Standards in Customer Operations”
This conference offers a unique chance for you to learn directly from our Awards winners. You will hear from the teams and individuals who are making a difference in their business, powerful partnerships whether that is with a technology provider or an outsource partnership. Finally, you can discover how large transformation projects have made massive changes in any business.
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2025 Summer Best Practice Showcase (Virtual)

16th June - 22nd August 2025

2025 Summer Best Practice Showcase (Virtual)
Learn WHAT our award finalists are doing to continue “Raising Standards in Customer Operations”
This conference offers a unique chance for you to learn directly from our Awards winners. You will hear from the teams and individuals who are making a difference in their business, powerful partnerships whether that is with a technology provider or an outsource partnership. Finally, you can discover how large transformation projects have made massive changes in any business.
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2025 Autumn: #RaisingStandards (Virtual)

13th - 17th October 2025

2025 Autumn: #RaisingStandards (Virtual)
Learn HOW you can apply "Best Practice"
Designed specifically for Planning, Insight and Quality & Customer Experience Professionals. Learn first-hand from practitioners and business leaders who are delivering successful change whilst having the opportunity to collaborate with others. Bring new ideas and techniques back that will raise standards within your “Customer Operation”.
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2025 Autumn Conference #RaisingStandards (In-Person)

Wednesday 5th November 2025, Coventry Building Society Arena

2025 Autumn Conference #RaisingStandards (In-Person)

Learn HOW our community is applying “Best Practice”
This conference is designed specifically for Planning, Insight and Quality & Customer Experience Professionals. Learn first-hand from practitioners and business leaders who are delivering successful change whilst having the opportunity to collaborate with others. Bring new ideas and techniques back that will raise standards within your “Customer Operation”.

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On-Demand Conferences

Catch up on the presentations from our previous conferences.
Endnote: The 2025 Awards

Endnote: The 2025 Awards

Originally broadcast Thursday 4th July, 14:15

How you can gain recognition for your and your teams work through our Awards. Tips for entering.

Partnership Perfection: Hear from our associate heroes

Partnership Perfection: Hear from our associate heroes

Originally broadcast Thursday 4th July, 13:15

Join our Associate Heroes as they share their key ingredients for the perfect partnership

Awards Winners: Planning Managers

Awards Winners: Planning Managers

Originally broadcast Thursday 4th July, 10:30

Managers of the Year; Alex Gold from OVO Energy and Steven Miller at Benenden Health share their stories. 

Award Winners: Quality Teams

Award Winners: Quality Teams

Originally broadcast Thursday 4th July, 09:30

Learn from Benenden Health on Continuous Improvement Strategy, The Knowledge Management Team of the Year, Utility Warehouse and our Quality Team of the Year, ACCA.

Award Winners: Quality Individuals

Award Winners: Quality Individuals

Originally broadcast Wednesday 3rd July, 14:15

Hear from 2024 Quality & Improvement Rising Star, Jess Baldock at DAS, our Knowledge Management Professional, Alexandra Jordan from Zopa and the Quality & Improvement Manager of the Year, Susan Drape-Comyn. 

Award Winners: Planning Analysts

Award Winners: Planning Analysts

Originally broadcast Wednesday 3rd July, 13:15

Learn from Analysts of the Year; Michelle Adshead at VitalityHealth and Kristie-Leigh Armstrong from BT Group and our Rising Stars; Lauren Laycock at NFU Mutual and Kirsty Ritchie of Wheatley Housing.

Best Practice Partnerships: Hear from the judges

Best Practice Partnerships: Hear from the judges

Originally broadcast Wednesday 3rd July, 10:30

In this session our Partnership Awards Judges will share their highlights from this year's finalists stories. Sharing what has inspired them, and the learning that they have taken from the process. 

Innovation Winners: Bank of Ireland & TSB

Innovation Winners: Bank of Ireland & TSB

Originally broadcast Wednesday 3rd July, 09:30

Hear from Best Practice in Branch Planning winners Bank of Ireland and the Planning Team of the Year, TSB.

Award Winners: Planning Teams

Award Winners: Planning Teams

Originally broadcast on Tuesday 2nd July, 14:15

Learn how Real-Time Team of the Year, eBay reintroduced Real-Time globally. Hear from Lloyds Banking Group on how they achieved a Best Practice Shift Review. 

Award Winners: Insight Teams

Award Winners: Insight Teams

Originally broadcast on Tuesday 2nd July, 13:15

Hear from Manager of the Year, Katie Harrison from NFU Mutual Agencies, Forecasting Analyst of the Year, Paul Cooper at The AA and our Rising Star, Mike Connor of Capita Regulated Services

Innovation Winners: Indeed & OVO Energy

Innovation Winners: Indeed & OVO Energy

Originally broadcast Tuesday 2nd July, 10:30

Learn from overall Innovation of the Year winners, indeed on Leading Global Transformation and OVO Energy talking about their Service Transformation.

Opening Keynote: How to Learn

Opening Keynote: How to Learn

Originally broadcast Tuesday 2nd July 09:30

How you can use this week to learn from our members. 

As a member, you are not on your own but part of a community with others facing many similar challenges. We are here to help you to make a tangible impact in your organisation and show how developing the capability of each specialist professional function is fundamental to your business.
Book for one of our events to experience our exceptional community or get in touch to talk about how we can help you and your teams to be fully effective in adding value to your business. Email advice@theforum.social, call 0333 123 5960 or contact any of The Forum Team .