2022 Community Conference

2024 Partnership Awards: Verint & Vitality Health

This collaborative and professional partnership has revolutionised back office operations and enhanced customer experiences at Vitality Health. The deployment of Verint Operational Manager has given visibility, streamlined processes, improved data analytics, and facilitated better demand planning. The outcome was not only a substantial increase in operational efficiency but also a significant reduction in customer complaint resolution times, reduced from two months to 72 hours. A strong sense of professionalism and a governance framework has been key to delivering and demonstrating the success of this implementation.
 

Opening Keynote: Shaping the Future

Originally broadcast Monday 13th May, 09:30

How can we prepare ourselves for whatever happens? How can we think forward and be confident with our best next decisions?

Hear from The Forum’s team of Specialists as they each share their inspiration thoughts on how to Shape the Future.

Technology Showcase: Sabio

Originally broadcast Monday 13th May, 12:30

Even with the best schedule, things often don't go according to plan! Learn how Sabio's Mission Control can compliment your Genesys Cloud solution to support your real-time management process. We'll take you through delivering on-the-fly skill and routing changes, as well as the upcoming 'Dynamic SLA Routing' feature which automatically reskills, based on SLA performance.

Technology Showcase: Calabrio

Originally broadcast on Tuesday 14th May, 12:30

Scott Budding from Calabrio reveals the latest Contact Centre trends. Drawing from real-life examples of award-winning Calabrio customers, Scott will showcase CX best practices. 

Technology Showcase: Business Systems

Originally broadcast on Tuesday 14th May, 13:15

In this session, Business Systems is joined by Zen Internet to discuss Zen’s Workforce Engagement Management transformation journey and how the business has improved employee engagement, customer experience, efficiencies and time savings through the right partnership and Workforce Management solution. 

Technology Showcase: Verint

Originally broadcast on Wednesday 15th May, 12:30

It's tough out there in the CX space - customer demands are growing faster than your budget and resources, but you still need to deliver the level of service they expect. To keep up with demand, organisations are turning to AI and CX Automation, and enjoying unrivalled CX potential that delivers enterprise-wide benefits. Hear from our partners Verint as they share new ideas. 

Endnote: Shaping the future: supporting your best next actions

Originally broadcast on Friday 17th May, 12:30.

Rounding off the virtual conference and first stage of this year's best practice programme with inspiration, ideas and clear next steps. This endnote will support your learning, and give you takeaway ideas on how to turn this into an action plan. 

Partner Article: Calabrio Introduces AI-Driven Bot Analytics to Enhance Quality Management

Calabrio, the workforce performance company, announced its new suite of Bot Analytics tools for Quality Management (QM). Bot Analytics gives contact centres more performance data and insights to streamline and enhance the user experience.  

Calabrio’s Bot Analytics helps monitor and improve the performance and quality of chatbots and voicebots; organising all transcript conversations into topics, simplifying the review process, and making it easier to address issues efficiently.  

Partner Article: Calabrio integrates its software with Avaya Experience Platform Public Cloud

Calabrio has announced that it has integrated another solution with Avaya as part of its longstanding relationship with the leader in customer experience and communications solutions. This one sees the award-winning Calabrio Workforce Management (WFM) solution integrate with Avaya Experience Platform™ (AXP) Public Cloud in a milestone collaboration that will revolutionise the landscape for contact centres looking to innovate and modernise in the cloud. 

How to win an award in less than 20 years!

In April 2007, Alison Conaghan and I attended The Forum’s annual Customer Strategy & Planning conference. Over the next two days we watched dozens of talks, keynotes, case studies, training events and, very importantly, the Innovation Awards ceremony. We learned a lot at that information-packed and inspiring event and walked away with our little  heads full of ideas to revolutionise WFM in our company. Above all though, that conference left us united by a single objective: to win the overall Innovation of the Year Award at the next Forum conference.

Opening Keynote: How to Learn

Originally broadcast Tuesday 2nd July 09:30

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

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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: 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.

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. 

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

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.

Partner Article: Calabrio Enhances its Innovative AI-driven Business Intelligence Tools

Corresponding 2024 Summer Release free webinar offers in-depth Insights and Interaction Summary product demonstrations 

Partner News: Sabio's latest news and resources

Partner News: Calabrio Unveils Latest Innovations at C3 2024: Transforming Customer Contact Centres for the Future

Calabrio, the workforce performance company, this week announced a series of groundbreaking innovations at its C3 user conference. The annual event, including the ONE Awards, is known for bringing together industry leaders, customers and industry analysts, to feature the launch of new products, share insightful industry discussions, and recognise outstanding customers. 

Opening Keynote - Shaping the Future

Originally broadcast Monday 14th October 2024, 10:30

This year we challenged you to Shape Your Future, but is the future already here?

Panel Discussion: Standards Benchmarking

Originally broadcast Monday 14th October 2024, 12:30

Hear from members who have completed the Standards Benchmarking process to understand how they approached the self-assessment process and implemented change from their learning. 45mins

Learning & Development with The Forum

Originally broadcast Monday 14th October 2024, 13:30

Hear from Chris and Dave, Directors at The Forum as they take you through some of the learning journeys of our members and how our cloud-based Learning Management System is enhancing the learner experience. 

Technology Showcase: Calabrio

Originally broadcast Tuesday 15th October 2024, 12:30

Join us for Calabrio's Tech Showcase, where Scott Budding from Calabrio will deliver a tailored, in-depth demo of the Calabrio ONE suite. Experience first-hand how Calabrio's latest innovations in AI-driven analytics, real-time insights, and intelligent automation will empower your organisation to deliver exceptional customer experiences while prioritising agent well-being. 45mins

How to Empower Your Employees Through Coaching

Discover how to elevate agent performance and transform customer experience using coaching & 

real-time guidance. Join Nick Rowe from CallMiner to discover best practices for providing agents with immediate feedback, personalised coaching, and actionable insights to improve customer interactions on the spot.

90% of bad Trustpilot reviews trace back to email, paper, and phone

If you want to see a new way to solve this problem, then this session is for you.

Mat Elliott from Nivo will share lessons from working with over 100 financial services companies to digitise customer facing processes, and dive into case studies with brands like CoOp bank, Barclays, and United Trust Bank, where Verified Identity Messaging has transformed NPS from minus figures to +90 and slashed timescales from weeks to hours.