Sheila Walthoe

Sheila Walthoe

Director, Marketing Contact Center Zendesk
Sheila Walthoe

Sheila Walthoe is Director of Marketing for Zendesk Contact Center, having led the marketing and GTM for Local Measure’s CCaaS platform through to the acquisition last year. With 30 years experience across B2B SaaS, and multiple global brands, Sheila believes in the importance of consistent yet exceptional customer experience in growing businesses through loyalty and referral. In this session, she’ll share how CX leaders can think about agentic contact centers: where autonomous workflows, copilots, and orchestration help teams move faster, stay consistent, and scale great service for everyone

Tuesday 10 March 2026

10:30 AM Contact center modernization in the agentic era

As customer expectations for speed, accuracy and personalisation continue to rise, contact centers are entering a new phase of transformation powered by advanced conversational AI and agentic automation. In this session, discoverhow to modernize your service operations by combining intelligent self-service with seamless agent workflows to reduce operational burden while strengthening customer trust. Learn how smart automation can resolve issues faster, personalise interactions at scale and free agents to focus on higher-value, complex customer needs, all while delivering measurable improvements in cost-to-serve and customer satisfaction.

Through real-world examples and proven integration patterns, this session will explore how AI-driven self-service and agent support can work together across channels to create consistent, reliable and trusted customer experiences.

Key takeaways:

  • Discover new techniques for building personalised, accurate and error-free self-service journeys
  • Learn how to reduce reliance on live agents without degrading customer experience
  • Understand integration patterns that unify bot and agent workflows across digital and voice channels
  • Explore the proof points of upgrading CX capabilities, including reduced cost-to-serve and improved customer satisfaction
  • See how smart self-service can become a critical trust builder when implemented correctly