Voice of Your Customer Summit

Agenda at Glance

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM
Mastering The Service Innovation Process: How Do You Put It Into Action?
8:15Registration
9:00Welcome From the Symposium Chairperson
9:15From Ideas to Actions: Building And Proving The Case For VoC In Your Organization
George Taylor, Vice President Customer Excellence, CARDINAL HEALTH
10:00Networking Break
10:30Customer-Based Innovation at Life Technologies: Institutionalizing Voc Best Practices throughout the Portfolio To Garner a Greater Roi
Liz Newton, Program Manager: Voice of the Customer, Molecular Biology Systems Division, LIFE TECHNOLOGIES
11:15Interactive Session: How Whirlpool Uses the House Of Quality Process To Stay True To Voc During Product Development, And To Keep The VoC Information Alive Between Projects
Cindy Kerr, HOQ Process Lead, WHIRLPOOL CORP.
12:00Lunch
1:30Building a Customer Focused Culture
Maura A. Sullivan, Customer Loyalty Manager, ZAPPOS.COM
2:15 The Truth Hurts. Consumer Driven Changes In Strategy Or Culture
David VerNooy, Vice President RDE, SCHICK WILKINSON SWORD
Mike O’Malley, Director Program Office, SCHICK WILKINSON SWORD
3:30Go Daddy: Helping Millions to The Online World through The Feedback Of Various Media
Miguel A. Lopez, VP, Customer Care Center, GODADDY.COM
4:15Interactive Activity: The 8 Most Common (And Deadly) Innovation Traps
Gerry Katz, Executive Vice President, APPLIED MARKETING SCIENCE, INC.
4:45Conclusion of the Symposium

TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2009MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE
7:30Registration
8:15Opening Remarks From the Conference Chairwoman
Liz Mountjoy, Manager, PRTM
8:30Keynote: Curiously Curious: Ideas, Innovation and the Customer Connection
Ken Carbone, Co-founder & Chief Creative Director,CARBONE SMOLAN AGENCY; Author of “The Virtuoso:
Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents”
9:15Keynote: The Customer, the Brand And The In-Store Experience
James Damian, SVP, Experience Development Group, BEST BUY CO., INC.
10:00Networking Break
10:30Blogs, Forums and Surveys: Make the Most Of Your Customer Feedback To Drive Loyalty
Bryan Jeppsen, Senior Analyst Customer Feedback, JETBLUE AIRWAYS
11:15Living the Voice of The Customer In Your Organization
Michaelle Van Linden, Director Customer Insights, FOLLETT CORPORATION
12:00Lunch
1:30Voice of The Customer For The Most Demanding Market Imaginable: The Elderly
Gerry Katz, Executive Vice President, APPLIED MARKETING SCIENCE, INC.
2:15B2B Perspective: Finding Unmet Needs
Jim Marks, Director, Market Research, LODGENET INTERACTIVE CORPORATION
3:00Networking Break
3:30EXTENDED SESSION: Voice of The Customer: Transforming Data Into Valuable Information That Can Enhance Your Organization And The Bottom Line
Sharon Bailey, Vice President of Customer Service and Voice of the Customer, HOME SHOPPING NETWORK
4:30Featured Panel: VoC to Drive Service Innovation
Moderator: Liz Mountjoy, Manager, PRTM

Russ Costentino, Business Development Director, CLARABRIDGE

Miguel Lopez, VP, Customer Care Center, GODADDY.COM

James Damian, SVP, Experience Development Group, BEST BUY

Michael Eckersley, PhD, Professor, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF DESIGN

5:15End of Day One

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009MAIN CONFERENCE DAY TWO
8:45First Day Flashback
Liz Mountjoy, Manager, PRTM
9:00Keynote: Do You Really Know Your Customers? A Scorecard and Benchmarks For Determining How Deeply You Understand Your Customers.
Jeremy Alexis, Assistant Dean / Professor, INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
9:45B2B Perspective: Guerrilla Voc Tactics: Low-Cost Methods For Customer Insight
Brad Barbera, Director of New Product Development, FELLOWES, INC.
10:30Networking Break
11:00 Being Insight Agnostic: Striking The Right Balance Of Left Brain And Right Brain Voc Techniques Throughout The Innovation Process
Mike Maddock, Founding Partner, MADDOCK DOUGLAS
Javier Flaim, Executive Vice President of Innovation, Partner, MADDOCK DOUGLAS
11:45

Front End Marketing For Innovators
Victor Welch, Marketing & Customer Insight Manager, GE

12:30Lunch
1:30Unlocking the Voice of the Customer to Innovate through Emerging Media

Erik Hauser, Founder and Executive Creative Director, Swivel Media, Founder, Experiential Marketing Forum

2:15Handling Innovation Objections
Odom Wu, Director of Strategic Initiatives, FARMERS INSURANCE
3:00Conclusion of Voice of the YOUR Customer Summit