Speakers Interview

Vice President, Customer & Market Insights, Salesforce, Karen Mangia discusses how customer changes drive technology changes. “The pandemic placed pressure on every organisation to consider how to make interactions easier, not just easy. Easy may not be a realistic outcome. Easier implies an interactive journey of constant co-creation and continuous improvement,” said Karen Mangia, Vice […]

Destination marketing expert Waleed Al-Toukhi says  technology-driven strategies can  boost the travel and hospitality industry “Metaverse travel and tourism solutions can significantly improve booking procedures by giving essential information that other methods cannot communicate appropriately. It will increase the likelihood that a consumer will complete the booking rather than cancel it,” said Waleed Al-Toukhi, Executive […]

eCommerce director of Evidea, Ayşe Gedikli discusses several aspects of customer experience, technology and trends.

Building customer experience comes down to organising and using the data you have about your customers, and customer data platform (CDP) provides organisations a single source to manage data that might otherwise be chaotic. But businesses need to understand their expectations and needs. With over 15 CDP vendors in the market, asking the right questions […]

Securing customer loyalty is increasingly challenging, but adopting specific technology trends like blockchain could hold the key. Smart, strategic use cases for NFTs are emerging, and brands are using it as an opportunity to redefine how they engage with their most loyal customers and fans and leveraging it to modernise their loyalty programs. In this […]

Data and marketing expert Christopher Penn discusses the data trends impacting marketing, the skills required of marketers today and more “You have to be able to dig in and measure your performance goals. Be very careful with what you deem a technology problem because, in a lot of cases, it’s not a technology problem. Ninety […]

Senior Lecturer of Marketing Jonathan R. Copulsky digs deeper into challenges, crises and disruptions faced by marketers.

Customer strategist Christopher Brooks digs deeper into loyalty and customer experience “Customer Experience (CX) is not the product, the function or the channel itself. Therefore, claiming that CX has driven up sales or reduced churn is misleading. It’s only part of the reason, not all of it,” said Christopher Brooks, CX Consultant, Lexden CX With […]

Snapchatters in MENA are adopting new behaviours that are changing the world. For example, users are twice more likely than non-Snapchatters to say they use AR to try-on products. Is the Snapchat Generation building the future of retail? Snap’s bringing AR to the population along with immersive video and gamification, and brands are hungry to […]

While the conversation about data-driven decisions is hotter than ever in the marketing world, fundamental challenges such as siloed data present a real operational problem. Maha Alaoui, Manager – Solution Engineering – Middle East & North Africa (MENA) at Salesforce speaks about the steps companies need to take to build a single system of record. […]