Upcoming Webinars

These webinars are hosted by The Forum or in association with our partners. Register for the upcoming webinars below. New webinars will be added here as they are added to the calendar.

Catch up with past webinars.

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Workshop: Automated Quality

Originally broadcasted on Wednesday 18th March, 15:30

Automated Quality gives us the chance to reset what QA exists to do. This session looks beyond automation as efficiency, and instead explores how redefining the QA role can unlock greater value, shifting focus from checking interactions to shaping performance, insight and outcomes.

Keynote: Redefining Data, Analytics & Insight

Originally broadcasted on Thursday 19th March, 09:30

Resetting Insight explores how data, analytics and AI are moving from reporting to responsible, autonomous decision-making, and how organisations can embed insight directly into the systems that shape customer and colleague experiences.

Workshop: Data Principles in a CCaaS World

Originally broadcasted on Thursday 19th March, 10:30

This session highlights the essential principles needed to manage, govern, and activate data in a cloud‑native environment and discussed the differences from how data is presented from on premise platforms. 

Workshop: Opensource Tooling & Methods

Originally broadcasted on Thursday 19th March, 13:30

Whilst Excel remains the original example of “Open Source Tooling” in our industry it does come with its limitations. In this session we will discuss how tools such as “Python” “R” and “Shiny” can be utilised within planning and insight and the benefits they can bring. This session will feature expert input from Phil Stubbs from Atlantic insight.

Workshop: Why a ‘reset’ in vulnerability customer service is necessary now

Orginally broadcasted on Thursday 19th March, 14:30

In this session, Helen Pettifer will explore why traditional approaches to vulnerability are no longer fit for today’s customer landscape. Vulnerability has not simply increased — it has changed in nature, complexity and visibility.

Reset | Redefining Outsourcing

From Procurement Decision to Professional Discipline

For many organisations, outsourcing customer operations has historically been treated as a commercial transaction rather than a professional capability. Contracts are negotiated, suppliers are appointed, and governance frameworks are established to monitor performance. Yet despite the scale, complexity and strategic importance of these relationships, outsourcing is rarely managed with the same discipline applied to areas such as workforce planning, customer experience design or operational transformation. This gap is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Webinar: See the WFM AI Assistant in Action in partnership with Sabio

Tuesday 21st April 2026, 12:00

WFM AI Assistant: Real-Time Intelligence for Smarter Workforce Decisions
Spot problems early. Understand the cause. Fix them immediately.
Managing workforce performance in real time has never been more complex. Volumes spike unexpectedly, AHT drifts, shrinkage creeps up — and by the time daily reports arrive, the damage is already done. The Sabio WFM AI Assistant changes that.

The WFM AI Assistant is a platform-agnostic AI solution that draws real-time data from:
 - Contact centre platforms
 - WFO and analytics platforms
 - HR systems
 - CRM solutions

Webinar: From Insight to Impact: How IGLU Is Using Quality & Analytics to Drive Operational Performance in partnership with Calabrio & Business Systems

Friday 24th April, 12pm

Operational leaders are under increasing pressure to improve performance, maintain service quality and demonstrate measurable impact - all while managing rising demand and increasing complexity across channels.

In this session, we’ll explore how IGLU is using Quality Management and advanced Analytics within its WEM platform to move beyond compliance reporting and towards true operational control.

Featuring practical insight from IGLU’s recent WEM journey, alongside perspectives from Calabrio and Business Systems.

Benchmarking Sickness: Resetting How We Read the Numbers

Our latest shrinkage benchmarking survey shows average sickness absence at around 8%. At first glance, this appears higher than last year’s 7.6%, suggesting an upward trend. That conclusion would be misleading.

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Webinar - The Harrods Story: What It Really Took to Turn Data into Excellence in Partnership with Calabrio

Wednesday 20th May, 12:00

We’re excited to invite you to something truly special.

Join Calabrio for an exclusive webinar on 20th May at 12pm, where we’ll go behind the scenes with Harrods, one of the world’s most iconic luxury brands, renowned for its uncompromising focus on customer experience and excellence.

This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from Liz Whitehouse, Harrods Analytics Analyst, as she shares an honest, practical look at what it really takes to embed analytics and drive value.

RESET | REDEFINING

Across Customer Operations and Resource Planning, there is a growing realisation: we are still relying on outdated assumptions, legacy habits, and inherited “best practices” that no longer fit the complexity of today, let alone the volatility of tomorrow. To prepare for 2026 and beyond, organisations need more than incremental  improvement.
 
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Agentic AI in Practice: Transforming Contact Centres and Beyond

Agentic AI marks a new era in enterprise automation. Unlike traditional bots or scripted workflows, Agentic AI introduces autonomous digital agents that can reason, adapt and act independently within defined boundaries. These agents are not just reactive tools; they are proactive collaborators, capable of navigating complex tasks, learning from interactions and driving measurable outcomes.

This article explores how Agentic AI is reshaping contact centres, from customer experience and service delivery to planning and operational improvement. It will also highlight broader applications across sectors.

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Webinar: The Manager's New Toolkit: Closing the Action Gap in the AI Era in Partnership with Centrical

Watch at your own pace

Frontline managers have never had more performance data, and never had less time to act on it. Signals are scattered across QA, WFM, LMS, CRM, and a growing stack of dashboards. Now AI agents are joining the workforce as a new layer to oversee, and the gap between performance insight and performance change is widening fast.

This is the action gap. Closing it is the defining challenge facing frontline leaders this year.

Join Ian Chappell, Director of Consulting, EMEA at Centrical, for a practical follow-up to The Forum's Best Practice Showcase. Ian opens with a look at why most platforms are widening the gap rather than closing it, then previews three Centrical capabilities built for the manager's job in a hybrid human-AI workforce.

Customer Strategy & Planning

Breaking the Failure Loop and Building a Sustainable Path to Success

A joined-up approach to customer strategy is the difference between firefighting and sustainable success. This article explores how short-term performance measures, long-term performance indicators and a culture of learning can break the failure loop and position Resource Planning as the strategic brain, cultural heart, and operational nerve centre of today’s contact centre.

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Customer Expectations: Resetting Our Assumptions

In a recent networking group, customer experience professionals were asked to reflect on their own expectations as customers and how these compare with the expectations of the customers they serve. The themes that came back were consistent. They show what people really value in service interactions, and where organisations most often fall short. This article explores those insights and the practical lessons they offer for designing experiences that meet customer expectations reliably and effectively.
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