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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

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. 

2025 Summer Best Practice Showcase (In-person)

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

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 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”.

On-Demand Conferences

Catch up on the presentations from our previous conferences.
Partner Article: The Contact Company Selects Calabrio WFM to Power BPO Operations

Published on 19 June 2023

Partner Article: The Contact Company Selects Calabrio WFM to Power BPO Operations

The Contact Company Selects Calabrio WFM to Power BPO Operations
Merseyside based contact centre with 1500 people chooses technology to support ambitious growth plans

 
Calabrio, the workforce performance company, has announced that business process outsourcer (BPO) The Contact Company (TCC) has selected Calabrio ONE software to support the company’s ambitious growth plans. TCC plans to implement a broad range of Calabrio’s automated, data-driven solutions to support the contact centre complexity of its growing client base and hybrid-working in a multi-channel customer service environment. 
 
Matthew Jorgensen, Resource Planning Specialist at The Contact Company commented, “Over the past few years, our sales have doubled and our client base has expanded in number and complexity.  We looked for a partner that could offer best-in-class technology while truly understanding the unique challenges that outsourcers face.  From our initial conversations with Calabrio, we felt they were the partner for us.  We are confident their unmatched experience in the contact centre industry will bring greater agility to our operations and boost our clients’ success.  The Calabrio team is also a joy to do business with, extremely knowledgeable and very supportive.”
 
Calabrio ONE will support a large part of TCC’s 1,500-strong workforce, making it easier to meet multiple client service levels and deliver carefully tailored customer service packages for clients including household names such as Argos, John Lewis, BT, and The Health Lottery. The five-strong planning team will maximise Calabrio’s proven Workforce Management (WFM) capabilities to produce fast and flexible schedules for customer-facing staff and improve longer-term forecasting activities.
 
Olle Düring, Senior Vice President of Sales, International, at Calabrio added, “Dynamic, fast-growing businesses like The Contact Company can rely on our proven track record, technology, and expert professional services during times of unprecedented growth. Our cloud-first approach is perfectly suited to building a highly flexible workforce that can adapt to rapidly changing customer demand, whatever the channel. We look forward to working alongside TCC to achieve their business aspirations by creating an agile customer service delivery framework that is poised for the future.”
 
TCC intends to expand the Calabrio ONE implementation as the business grows with a continued focus on recruiting and developing local people. Chief executive Asif Hamid also invests his time in local enterprise, as vice chairman of Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership, chairman of Wirral Chamber of Commerce, and a former winner of the Liverpool ECHO’s DLA Piper Business Person of the Year award.  Under Mr Hamid’s leadership, TCC invested in multimillion pound offices at Kingsgate, Tower Wharf in Birkenhead which the company sees as a further catalyst for future growth. 
 
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About The Contact Company (TCC)
Established in 2006 and based in Birkenhead near Liverpool, The Contact Company (TCC) is a leading provider of call centre outsourcing services to organisations around the world.  The company also helps companies to relocate their offshore customer service operations back to the UK with minimal upheaval and disruption.

Today, TCC employs nearly 1,500 people and clients include leading retailers Argos, River Island, Sainsbury’s and Superdrug.  For more information, visit www.tcc.co.uk

About Calabrio
Calabrio is a trusted ally to leading brands. The digital foundation of customer-centric contact centres, Calabrio helps enrich and interpret human interactions, empowering the contact centre as a brand guardian.  We maximise agent performance, exceed customer expectations, and boost workforce efficiency using connected data, AI-fuelled analytics, automated workforce management and personalised coaching.  Only Calabrio ONE unites workforce optimisation (WFO), agent engagement and business intelligence solutions into a true-cloud, fully integrated suite that adapts to your business.

Calabrio, Calabrio ONE and the Calabrio logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Calabrio, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
 
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