CEM Summit leads the way for the African customer experience industry

With traditional methods of data collection on the way out, customer experience management is more important than ever before. Today, due to necessity and rapid technological advancements, organisations need to be even more innovative in creating multisensory brand delight. The CEM Africa Summit is the most influential customer experience event, helping organisations to fully understand the fundamentals of customer-centricity therefore enabling them to reap the benefits of customer loyalty, customer satisfaction and equity.

Kinetic hosted the first independent CEM event in 2012 with a small audience, this year it is sold out. The event has been at the very forefront of the African Customer Experience industry, leading the way one event at a time. Five years ago, Kinetic forecasted it to be the ‘next big thing’ in business and it has in fact grown in direct correlation with the development of the industry itself.

"The CEM Summit has been meeting industry demands since its inception five years ago when CXM was merely a buzzword. To today, where it is not only proving to be a necessity but is the single factor by which great businesses differentiate themselves from the ordinary," says Shannon Mackrill, Joint Managing Director of Kinetic.

The summit will critically engage with industry leaders allowing them to convey trends, map out growth strategies and explore various aspects of the customer experience industry. Comprising of four hot tracks, namely: CEM in 2016 & Beyond; The Connected & Online Customer; The Human Element of CEM; and Mapping the CEM Strategy; the agenda seeks to deconstruct customer experience management with the notion of educating for future development in Africa. It is specifically designed to benefit heads of client services, operations, technology, CEM, CRM and contact centres across a wide range of industries.

45 industry experts will be speaking at the 5th annual Customer Experience Management Summit: Corne Krigé, Former Springbok Captain and Motivational Speaker, Tebogo Molapisane, CEO BPeSA and Professor Adré Schreuder, CEO: Consulta Research & Founder & Chair of SAcsi, to name just a few. The advisory panel is made up of five of the most dynamic names in CEM in Africa namely: Eddie Moyce, Former Chief Customer Experience Officer at MTN; Jean Ochse, Head of Customer Experience, Standard Bank; Chantel Botha, Head of Brand Design and Customer

Experience Strategy, BrandLove; Craig Lee, Former Customer Experience and Brand, Emirates Group; and Simon Cranswick, MD Anana Africa.

CEM creates a space to share ideas and initiate growth within the company- customer relationship. Besides the keynotes, panel discussions and master classes by and for industry professionals, expert-led workshops are designed to delve into customer experience trends and shape the African Customer Experience sphere for the future.

While the event was originally very niche in terms of product offerings, it has evolved considerably since, with sponsorship opportunities selling out months before the event. The event is now endorsed by massive brands such as Oracle, SAS and Adobe.

Lead Sponsors include: Anana and Genesys.
Platinum Sponsors include: Cornastone, Interactive Intelligence and Oracle.
Gold Sponsors include: IQ Business, Adobe, Achievement Awards Group and IBM.
Silver Sponsors include: Kofax, Ninzi and SAS.
Bronze Sponsors include: Effective Intelligence.
Lunch Sponsor: Crimson Hexagon.

For more information about CEM please contact:

ten.stnevecitenik@aicram +27 (0) 21 180 4700
2nd Floor, Dean Street Arcade, Dean Street, Newlands, Cape Town

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About Kinetic

Kinetic is an international conference and exhibition company established as a key strategic information provider to the IT and Telecoms sector. Our mission is to equip senior management executives with knowledge, market intelligence and viable commercial opportunities.