Nexus: Agenda
AI-first CX, made real.
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 11
08:00 - 20:00 / Afterparty until 12 am
8:00
Morning Coffee & Badge pickup9:15
Opening Keynote
09:15 - 10:15
Expert Session
Speakers: Philipp Heltewig, CAIO @NiCE & Scott Russell, CEO @NiCE
- 10:15
A warm welcome from your hosts
10:15 - 10:30
Hosts: Ikenna Azuike Journalist & Presenter @IkennaAzuike and Sarah Halley, Director PreSales Engineering, AI @NiCE Cognigy
- 10:30
Fabletics: How the world’s largest digitally native activewear brand scales retention with agentic AI
10:30 - 11:00
Enterprise Case Study
Speaker: Jack Roberts, Senior Global Director, GMS Technology and Applications @FableticsOS
- 11:00
Networking, Tech Labs & Expo Zone - 11:45
Lufthansa Group: Agentic AI agents take the lead in a globally unmatched Conversational AI deployment.
11:45 - 12:15
Enterprise Case Study
Speakers: Edgar Marques, Product Owner and Rosa-Maria Kern, Product Owner @Lufthansa Group
- 12:15
Generali: Strategy and best practices. How agentic AI turns into an enterprise growth engine
12:15 - 12:45
Enterprise Case Study
Speakers: Cristian Sidoti, Head of AI & Automation Strategy and Adoption & Michele Loverre, Smart Process Automation Project Leader @Generali
- 12:45
Openreach (British Telecom): How Proactive AI took Trustpilot from 2.0 to 4.7
12:45 - 13:15
Enterprise Case Study
Speakers: Chris Herbert, Director of Customer Service, Eifion Lloyd, Senior Manager Customer Enablement & Strategy @Openreach, part of British Telecom, & Giles Bryan, GM of Proactive AI @NiCE Cognigy
- 13:15
Networking Lunch, Tech Labs & Expo Zone - 14:45
Entertainment - 15:00
COGNIGY: Product Keynote
15:00 - 16:00
Expert Session
Speakers: Thys Waanders, VP of Transformation & Sebastian Glock, Director of Product Marketing @NiCE Cognigy
- 16:00
The decisions that mattered: From market noise to measurable impact
16:00 - 16:40
Enterprise Panel
Speakers: Stefan Weih, Head of Operations Digital Transformation @Allianz Partners, Edgars Ozolnieks, Director AI & Process Enablement Solutions @Circle K, Lora Ross Lawson, Vice President of Contact Centers @Careington, Tjeerd Schopman, Manager AI Automation @Vattenfall, Dr. Bernhard Kirchmair, Group Vice President, Digital Business & Partnerships @Heidelberg Materials
Moderation: Jarrod Davis, Senior Product Marketing Manager @NiCE Cognigy
- 16:40
Refreshment break - 17:10
Award Ceremony & Drinks
17:10 - 17:55
Success Stories
Presenter: Matt Greenslade, Director Customer Success @NiCE Cognigy
- 17:55
Session Closing - 18:00
Dinner, Tech Labs & Expo Zone
18:00 - 20:00
- 20:00
Afterparty & Entertainment
Thursday, March 12
- 08:00 - 17:30
- 8:00
Morning Coffee, Tech Labs & Expo Zone - 09:15
Conference Opening
Hosts
Hosts: Ikenna Azuike Journalist & Presenter @IkennaAzuike and Sarah Halley, Director PreSales Engineering, AI @NiCE Cognigy
- 09:30
Allianz: Mastering Agentic AI and building high-impact agents
09:30 - 10:15
Enterprise Case Study
Speaker: Benno Schindler, Lead of Conversational AI Tribe @Allianz Technology
- 10:15
Schwarz Group: The path to Europe’s largest agentic AI workforce – data sovereignty meets innovation
10:15 - 10:45
Enterprise Case Study
Speakers: Christian Wuttke, Director Chat & Voice Technology & Amelie Fischer, Teamlead Customer AI Agents @Schwarz Group
- 10:45
Networking, Tech Labs & Expo Zone - 11:30
Tech Deep Dive: From launch to orbit - operating Cognigy in production
11:30 - 12:00
Tech Deep Dive
Speaker: Alex Miller, International Enablement Manger AI @NiCE Cognigy
Parallel Session, Tech Hall
- 11:30
Telekom, Accenture, Deloitte & Microsoft: Redesigning the Enterprise for Agentic AI
11:30 - 12:10
Expert Panel
Speakers: Alexander von der Goltz, Conversational & Agentic AI in Customer Service @Accenture Song, Stephan Schuessler, Partner – Lead Intelligent Automation & C.AI Transformation @Deloitte, Eti Leshem, Sr. Account Technology Strategist @Microsoft, Claudia Buhne, VP Portfoliomanagement Digital Communication & Collaboration @Deutsche Telekom
Parallel Session, Main Hall
Moderation: Liz Miller, VP and Principal Analyst @Constellation Research
- 12:00
Tech Deep Dive: The interconnected Agentic world - Tools, MCP, Apps and beyond
12:00 - 12:30
Tech Deep Dive
Speaker: David Scheier, Team Lead @ Team X / AI Innovation @NiCE Cognigy
Parallel Session, Tech Hall
- 12:00
PostNL: Inside an agentic AI strategy for personalized metachannel experiences
12:10 - 12:40
Enterprise Case Study
Speakers: Jeroen Manten, Director IT & Merel Donkers, Product Owner Agentic AI @PostNL
Parallel Session, Main Hall
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- 12:30
Tech Deep Dive: Beyond the phone number - the rise of multimodal voice experiences
12:30 - 13:00
Tech Deep Dive
Speaker: Dilek Imseytoglu, Group Product Manager @NiCE Cognigy
Parallel Session, Tech Hall
- 12:40
NiCE: Delivering outcomes at scale, across the Customer Experience
12:40 - 13:10
Expert Session
Speaker: Kevin Lee, Field CTO & Key Pursuits Leader @NiCE
Parallel Session, Main Hall
- 13:00
Networking Lunch, Tech Labs & Expo Zone - 14:30
SKY: How Agentic AI transforms CX - Leading to better interactions than before
14:30 - 15:00
Enterprise Case Study
Speakers: Dennis Kubitza, Vice President Digital Experience and Christian Patz, Senior Vice President Customer Operations @SKY
- 15:00
Keynote: The rise of intelligent CX
15:00 - 15:45
Expert Session
Speakers: Julie Ask Founder & Analyst @Julie Ask Advisory & Derek Top, Principal Analyst & Research Director @Opus Research
- 15:45
Conference Closing
15:45 - 16:00
Speaker: Philipp Heltewig CAIO @NiCE
- 16:00
Open Networking with Coffee & Cake
16:00 - 17:30
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