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 Summer Best Practice Showcase (Virtual)

16th June - 22nd August 2025

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.

2025 Autumn: #RaisingStandards (Virtual)

13th - 17th October 2025

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”.

2025 Autumn Conference #RaisingStandards (In-Person)

Wednesday 5th November 2025, Coventry Building Society Arena

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”.

2026 Spring Customer Strategy & Planning Conference (In-person)

Tuesday 28th April 2026, Grand Hotel Gosforth Park, Newcastle

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. 

On-Demand Conferences

Catch up on the presentations from our previous conferences.
Karen Scott

Published on 08 December 2021

Karen Scott

Karen is an experienced Senior Leader whose current role is Senior Tactical Manager at Sky. She has held this position since April 2021 and her key responsibilities are delivering the real time performance for Sky’s customers contacting us about all aspects relating to servicing their account via the telephony route. Karen works as part of the wider planning team to ensure 4500 service colleagues located across multiple sites are mobilised to support being there for their customers. This involves reacting at pace to resolve challenges, deploying tactics where necessary, whilst working closely with a wide range of stakeholders internally and externally to smooth out challenges and recommend actions to deliver a more agile model.
Prior to her role at Sky, Karen worked for Lloyds Banking Group for 22 years’ where she held a variety of different roles across both operational customer facing and central teams. Leading units of 150+ colleagues with experience in managing teams remotely with a proven track record in leading and transforming teams to succeed.

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