18 June 2026 | Main Conference Day 2

Embedding Customer-Centric Thinking Across Operations

Embedding Customer-Centric Thinking Across Operations

8:15 am - 9:00 am Morning Refreshments & Registration

Embedding Customer-Centric Thinking Across Operations

9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome & Housekeeping Address from CX Asia Week

Embedding Customer-Centric Thinking Across Operations

9:05 am - 9:10 am Opening Remarks from the Chair

Embedding Customer-Centric Thinking Across Operations

9:10 am - 9:40 am Case Study | From 1.6 to 4.3 CSAT: Sentosa's Approach in Value Realisation with AI
Kelly Yoong - CDO & Director, Sentosa Development Corp

As a tourism precinct that serves 17m visitors annually, Sentosa leverage AI across Experience, Operations and Staff for impact and value creation at a precinct level. In this session, we will share how AI is used as an enabler of value:

  • Application of GenAI across guest experience, operations and staff enablement to reduce friction, improve access to information and support better decision-making at scale.
  • Using GenAI to handle high-volume, repeat guest enquiries such as wayfinding, maps and general information, freeing frontline teams to focus on higher-value interactions.
  • Building trust and confidence in GenAI through strong governance, clear guardrails and stakeholder alignment in a public-sector environment.
  • Delivering measurable impact by contributing to a CSAT uplift from 1.6 to 4.3 within months of deployment while bringing internal teams and island partners on the transformation journey.

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Kelly Yoong

CDO & Director
Sentosa Development Corp

Operationalising AI-Driven Marketing to Deliver Measurable Performance 

Operationalising AI-Driven Marketing to Deliver Measurable Performance

8:15 am - 9:00 am Morning Refreshments & Registration

Operationalising AI-Driven Marketing to Deliver Measurable Performance

9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome Address from Next Gen Marketing

Operationalising AI-Driven Marketing to Deliver Measurable Performance

9:05 am - 9:10 am Opening Remarks from the Chair

Operationalising AI-Driven Marketing to Deliver Measurable Performance

9:10 am - 9:40 am Panel Discussion | Delivering Omnichannel Consistency for Mobile-First, Social-First Consumers
Ananditha Mayasari - Assistant Vice President and Head of Marketing, Kopi Kenangan

• Adapting communications to the behaviours, preferences and cultural nuances of mobile-first audiences

• Integrating social commerce, messaging apps and live shopping as core journey components
• Ensuring consistency in tone, offer logic and experience between retail, app, web and social
• Evaluating which channels most effectively drive discovery, conversion and long-term engagement

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Ananditha Mayasari

Assistant Vice President and Head of Marketing
Kopi Kenangan


9:40 am - 10:10 am Industry Thought Leadership (Delivered by Level3AI)

Level3AI is a Singapore-based, AI-native company building enterprise-grade AI agents for customer engagement across voice, email and chat. Founded in 2024 by Harry Yu and Zachary Wang, its proprietary platform combines advanced language models with deep system integration to deliver measurable performance outcomes. Designed for the complexity of the APAC market, Level3AI serves leading international brands, including GetGo, Carousell, Yuu Rewards and Carsome. 

Embedding Customer-Centric Thinking Across Operations

• Exploring how CX, digital and contact centre teams are building shared accountability for customer outcomes

• Discussing how to overcome silos, align incentives and create clear ownership across journeys.
• Examining leadership models that bring together operations, data and design to deliver consistent service
• Sharing examples of cross-department initiatives that have improved both efficiency and customer satisfaction

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Fatimah Hussein

Head of Department
RHB

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Xavier Chia

Head of Customer Service
Pacific International Lines

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Rajesh Grover

Group Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, Digital and Omnichannel
Kanmo Group

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Lolitta Suffian

SVP CX
Bank Simpanan Nasional

Operationalising AI-Driven Marketing to Deliver Measurable Performance 

Operationalising AI-Driven Marketing to Deliver Measurable Performance

10:10 am - 10:40 am Case Study | Personalising Fandom at Scale: How the NBA Uses Data and AI to Deepen Engagement Across Asia
Antoine Nazaret - Associated Vice President Digital Marketing & Growth, NBA

With Asia representing its largest and most diverse fanbase, the NBA must tailor its positioning, content, and engagement strategies market by market. This session explores how the league blends localisation, partnerships, and AI-driven personalisation to grow fandom, nurture loyal audiences, and power its direct-to-consumer ecosystem.

• Localising marketing and content strategy to reflect each country’s maturity - whether building new fandoms, nurturing existing communities, or partnering with local cultural icons like K-pop stars

• Using big data and AI to personalise the experience across the NBA ecosystem, enabling fans to follow specific players, teams, storylines, and game moments

• Leveraging technology to simplify the sheer volume of games and content, helping fans find what matters most to them

• Strengthening the league’s direct-to-consumer funnel through personalised journeys that drive League Pass adoption and deeper long-term engagement


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Antoine Nazaret

Associated Vice President Digital Marketing & Growth
NBA

10:40 am - 11:10 am Industry Thought Leadership

11:10 am - 11:30 am Human Bingo

Kick off the conference with a bingo-style networking activity designed to get conversations flowing. Delegates will receive a bingo card featuring different attendee profiles and roles across the room. The goal is to connect, match profiles, and punch as many holes as possible by meeting new people. Prizes (and bragging rights) go to the most connected.     

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Morning Break & Refreshments

Take a break and use this time to network with your fellow industry peers at our Exhibition Hall!

Customer Insights & Analytics


Customer Insights & Analytics

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Balancing Personalisation and Privacy: Using Customer Insight Responsibly
Emma Cabochan - Senior Vice President of Legal Services and Head of Data Privacy, Asia United Bank
  • Understanding what today's customers expect in exchange for their data, and where personalisation starts to feel intrusive rather than valuabl
  • Designing insight strategies that prioritise relevance, transparency and consent, rather than volume or surveillanc
  • Using analytics to identify when personalisation adds value, and when simplicity, consistency or choice matter mor
  • Balancing regulatory requirements, data governance and customer trust while still delivering differentiated experiences at scale 

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Emma Cabochan

Senior Vice President of Legal Services and Head of Data Privacy
Asia United Bank

Customer Insights & Analytics

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Case Study | Understanding Moments That Matter: How AboitizPower Used Customer Insight to Redesign Key Energy Journeys
Melody Lim - Head of Customer Experience, Aboitiz Power
  • Combining customer feedback, digital behaviour and service interaction data to pinpoint moments that most strongly influence satisfaction and retention
  • Moving beyond average CSAT scores to uncover specific breakdowns across billing, onboarding and digital engagement journeys
  • Using analytics to prioritise CX investments and focus improvement efforts where they would deliver the greatest commercial and customer impact.
  • Measuring success through improvements in digital adoption, engagement levels and overall customer trust 

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Melody Lim

Head of Customer Experience
Aboitiz Power

Customer Insights & Analytics

1:00 pm - 2:10 pm Networking Lunch Break

Customer Insights & Analytics

2:10 pm - 2:40 pm Case Study | Building a Customer Intelligence System: Lessons from a global FMCG snacking portfolio that drove 15%+ demand growth across AMEA
Imran Khan - Regional Insights & Analytics Lead | AMEA Snacks, Mars Snacking
  • From Insights-on-Demand to Data Intelligence System: How the Insights function moved from reactive support to a predictive intelligence system that informs every major brand decision - across Proposition, Place, Price, Pack, Promotion, and Product.
  • From Insight to Income: The customer decisions this system informed - predicting demand and innovation success, sharpening pricing and pack-price decisions, optimising media investment, identifying moments that matter for occasion-led communication, lifting creative effectiveness, and converting customers at the moment of truth — and how they delivered 15%+ demand growth in one of the most competitive snacking markets.
  • The Engine Underneath: The 16 AI experiments that powered the transformation across 10+ markets in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, the "better, faster, cheaper" filter that killed 6 and embedded 10 into commercial decisions, and the small, business-savvy team that built it.

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Imran Khan

Regional Insights & Analytics Lead | AMEA Snacks
Mars Snacking

Customer Insights & Analytics

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm Driving Experience Excellence through Data Insight and Action
Yash Sheth - Head of Customer Lifecycle Strategy GoFood, Gojek
  • Examining how leading organisations are transforming raw customer data into insight that informs design, service and strategy.
  • Discussing how to connect voice-of-customer, operational and behavioural data to uncover actionable intelligence
  • Highlighting the systems, skills and leadership required to turn analytics into meaningful change rather than dashboards 

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Yash Sheth

Head of Customer Lifecycle Strategy GoFood
Gojek

Customer Insights & Analytics

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm Panel Discussion | Unlocking the Power of Data-Driven Insights to Scale Personalisation and Customer Loyalty
Eduardo Imperial - Head Customer Success Management APACME, Vodafone Business
Dinesh Ramchandani - Director, Data and Analytics, Unilever
Yash Sheth - Head of Customer Lifecycle Strategy GoFood, Gojek

• Transforming raw customer data into meaningful insights that drive engagement

• Strengthening relationships by tailoring interactions to individual preferences
• Balancing automation and human touch for superior service
• Highlighting industry leaders' personalisation best practices

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Eduardo Imperial

Head Customer Success Management APACME
Vodafone Business

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Dinesh Ramchandani

Director, Data and Analytics
Unilever

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Yash Sheth

Head of Customer Lifecycle Strategy GoFood
Gojek

 Redefining Service Excellence in the Era of Intelligent Operations

Redefining Service Excellence in the Era of Intelligent Operations

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Driving AI Adoption with Trust and Impact: Lessons from Customer Services at Siemens Healthineers
Ricardo Ramires - Head of Customer Services Asia-Pacific, Diagnostics, Siemens Healthineers, Siemens Healthineers

In highly regulated healthcare environments, adopting AI is as much a people and change challenge as it is a technology one. This session explores how Siemens Healthineers Customer Services successfully drove AI adoption across its teams while keeping customer experience and patient care at the core of decision-making.

  • Taking a structured, customer-centric approach to AI adoption that builds confidence, trust, and frontline buy-in in a regulated healthcare context.
  • Using data and insight to measure both quantitative and qualitative impact - from operational performance to experience outcomes.
  • Balancing compliance, governance, and innovation without compromising on care quality or customer trust.
  • Embedding AI as an enabler of better decision-making and service delivery, rather than a replacement for human judgement 

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Ricardo Ramires

Head of Customer Services Asia-Pacific, Diagnostics, Siemens Healthineers
Siemens Healthineers

Redefining Service Excellence in the Era of Intelligent Operations

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Case Study | Closing the Loop: Using Automated Feedback Systems to Build Operational Intelligence and Strengthen Customer Trust
Joyce Espinoza - Head of Business Process and Contact Center, Shakey's Philippines

Exploring how Shakey’s expanded its contact center mandate by embedding structure and intelligence into its feedback and recovery operations at scale.

  • Unifying service operations across voice, social, delivery, franchise, and IT channels to eliminate silos, reduce friction, and streamline resolution
  • Rolling out “Project Sherlock”, a feedback automation initiative that enables real-time tagging, routing, and tracking of customer concerns
  • Transitioning public-facing customer feedback into a centralised, trackable recovery framework—boosting accountability, speed, and customer trust

The result: A more responsive, data-driven service ecosystem where every complaint becomes an opportunity to recover and improve. 

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Joyce Espinoza

Head of Business Process and Contact Center
Shakey's Philippines

Redefining Service Excellence in the Era of Intelligent Operations

1:00 pm - 2:10 pm Networking Lunch Break

Redefining Service Excellence in the Era of Intelligent Operations

2:10 pm - 2:40 pm Fireside Chat | Turning Service Insight into Faster Resolution with Data and AI
Dr Angel Lo - Director of Marketing Communications APAC, Olympus APAC
Dr. Kartina Sury - Asia Regional Leadership Council, CXPA
  • Using interaction, journey and operational data to identify the root causes of repeat contacts and service failure
  • Applying AI to route customers to the right channel, agent or resolution path in real time
  • Empowering frontline teams with context and insight to resolve issues faster and with greater confidence
  • Measuring impact through improvements in first-contact resolution, effort reduction and customer satisfaction 

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Dr Angel Lo

Director of Marketing Communications APAC
Olympus APAC

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Dr. Kartina Sury

Asia Regional Leadership Council
CXPA

Redefining Service Excellence in the Era of Intelligent Operations

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm Case Study | Reimagining Loyalty for Modern Shoppers: Inside Metro Singapore’s New Treasured Programme
Roxanne Lim - CRM and Customer Loyalty Manager, Metro Singapore

Metro Singapore has relaunched its flagship loyalty programme, Treasured, redefining how a heritage retail brand engages, personalises, and rewards today’s increasingly experience-driven shopper. This session explores how Metro rebuilt its loyalty strategy to deepen emotional connection, strengthen customer insight, and deliver measurable commercial impact.

• Revamping the loyalty value proposition to shift from transactional rewards to meaningful, relationship-led engagement

• Building a unified customer profile by integrating purchase, digital, and behavioural data to power more relevant and personalised interactions

• Designing modern tiers, benefits, and experiential elements that reflect evolving customer expectations and shopping behaviours

• Activating real-time personalisation to deliver the right offers, content, and service moments across touchpoints


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Roxanne Lim

CRM and Customer Loyalty Manager
Metro Singapore

  • Unpacking the current imbalance between automation and human intervention
  • Redefining the value of human capability as automation reshapes customer engagement
  • Developing adaptive skills and emotional intelligence as core competencies for the modern service workforce
  • Aligning leadership behaviours with empowerment, ownership and continuous learning 

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Babul Balakrishnan

Senior VP, Customer Experience (Cx)
Thunes

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Kirk Chua

Customer Service Lead, Associate General Manager, Airport Operations Services
Changi Airport Group

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Irene Lim

Assistant Vice President of Customer Relations
The Ascott Limited

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships 

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Redesigning the Consumer Journey to Close the Consideration Gap
Pragya Mehra - Global Equity & Communications Marketing Manager, Johnson's Baby, Kenvue

In an era of information overload, brand awareness alone is no longer enough to drive growth. Across APAC's most competitive categories, the brands gaining market share are not necessarily the loudest - they are the ones that understand and influence the complex, non-linear space between initial trigger and final purchase decision. Drawing on experience across health, wellness and FMCG, this session explores the concept of the "Consideration Gap" and what marketers must do to close it.

  • Understanding why high-awareness brands still lose market share despite strong visibility and reach
  • Mapping the messy, non-linear decision-making journeys where consumers repeatedly reassess and revalidate choices
  • Applying behavioural science and modern consumer frameworks to influence consideration more effectively across channels
  • Redesigning marketing and customer journeys to reduce friction, build confidence and accelerate conversion 

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Pragya Mehra

Global Equity & Communications Marketing Manager, Johnson's Baby
Kenvue

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm The 10 Hard Truths of Influencer Marketing: What Today’s Marketers Must Confront to Drive Real Impact
Jamie Say - Head of Marketing, Ego

• Revealing the uncomfortable realities behind inflated metrics, engagement volatility and misaligned creator–brand relationships

• Identifying the signals that distinguish genuine influence from short-lived reach, and why most brands optimise for the wrong outcomes

• Reframing influencer strategy around credibility, community and connection rather than vanity metrics or one-off campaigns

• Demonstrating how to rebuild trust and ROI by aligning influencers with behaviour change, brand integrity and consumer expectations


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Jamie Say

Head of Marketing
Ego

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

1:00 pm - 2:10 pm Networking Lunch Break

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

2:10 pm - 2:40 pm Leveraging Social Proof, Community Signals and Influencer Integrity to Drive Credibility in Experience-Led Brands

• Activating authentic member stories, community advocacy and peer validation to build trust in high-consideration lifestyle and wellness categories

• Designing influencer and creator strategies that prioritise credibility, alignment and long-term brand equity over short-term reach or vanity metrics
• Integrating social proof across digital, physical and experiential touchpoints to influence decision-making throughout the consideration journey
• Measuring the impact of community-led and influencer-driven marketing on conversion quality, retention and brand trust

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

2:10 pm - 2:40 pm Panel Discussion | Enhancing Real-Time Customer Support Journeys Through Marketing–CX Alignment
Adelise Ashdown - Regional Global Head of Marketing, Brand & Client Experience Lead (APAC), Jones Lang LaSalle
Wanda Pascua - Head of Marketing, Tonik
Antoine Nazaret - Associated Vice President Digital Marketing & Growth, NBA

• Bridging marketing and service teams to ensure consistent messaging from acquisition to resolution

• Deploying proactive communication to pre-empt issues, reduce inbound enquiries and improve outcomes
• Embedding feedback loops to refine journey moments with the highest emotional impact
• Quantifying the impact of reduced friction on satisfaction, NPS and repeat purchase

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Adelise Ashdown

Regional Global Head of Marketing, Brand & Client Experience Lead (APAC)
Jones Lang LaSalle

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Wanda Pascua

Head of Marketing
Tonik

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Antoine Nazaret

Associated Vice President Digital Marketing & Growth
NBA

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm Case Study | Turning Partnerships into Performance: Unlocking Growth Beyond Brand Visibility
David Chung - General Manager – Marketing and Customer Relationship, Trans Eurokars Pte Ltd (Mazda)
  • Rethinking partnerships as a strategic growth engine rather than a branding exercise
  • Designing collaborations that deliver both brand equity and measurable commercial outcomes
  • Maximising the value of large-scale partnerships and sponsorships across multiple touchpoints
  • Translating partnership activity into customer engagement, conversion and long-term value 

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David Chung

General Manager – Marketing and Customer Relationship
Trans Eurokars Pte Ltd (Mazda)

Leading for Trust, Empathy & Engagement in a Digitally Transformed World 

Leading for Trust, Empathy & Engagement in a Digitally Transformed World

3:40 pm - 4:10 pm Afternoon Break & Refreshments

Take a break and use this time to network with your fellow industry peers at our Exhibition Hall!

Leading for Trust, Empathy & Engagement in a Digitally Transformed World

4:10 pm - 4:40 pm Fireside Chat | Empowering the Frontline: How LEGO Turned Its Contact Centre into a Brand Experience Hub
Felicia Cao - Head of APAC Contact Centre Operations, LEGO Singapore Pte Ltd
Vivian Miao - Organizational Development Director - Global Customer Support Center, Trip.com

• Repositioning the customer centre as a key brand touchpoint and community builder

• Equipping agents to act as experience ambassadors rather than issue resolvers
• Streamlining workflows and tools to remove friction and elevate empathy
• Embedding continuous learning, creativity, and ownership into service culture

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Felicia Cao

Head of APAC Contact Centre Operations
LEGO Singapore Pte Ltd

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Vivian Miao

Organizational Development Director - Global Customer Support Center
Trip.com

Leading for Trust, Empathy & Engagement in a Digitally Transformed World

4:40 pm - 5:10 pm Designing Personalisation at Scale Without Adding Complexity
Chanelle Wang - Head of Experience Marketing for East Asia, Schneider Electric
  • Identifying where personalisation truly adds value across the end-to-end attendee journey, and where it is often over-engineered
  • Using data, AI, and journey design to create relevant, meaningful experiences without multiplying content or operational effort
  • Balancing scale and simplicity when delivering personalised touchpoints across registration, content, networking, and post-event engagement
  • Applying practical frameworks and real-world approaches to deliver high-impact personalisation without requiring major major technology investment

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Chanelle Wang

Head of Experience Marketing for East Asia
Schneider Electric

Leading for Trust, Empathy & Engagement in a Digitally Transformed World

5:10 pm - 5:30 pm Case Study | Reigniting Purpose and Care – Building a Culture of Experience Excellence
Hui Hwa Koh-Minjoot - Vice President & Head, Allied Health, Patient Experience, IHH Healthcare Singapore

Exploring how IHH Healthcare Singapore is strengthening its patient experience culture by reconnecting employees with purpose, care and service excellence.

• Embedding CX as a shared organisational responsibility across all departments - from F&B to clinical care

• Implementing the “People-Patient Experience” strategy to achieve positive employee experience with positive patient outcomes

• Using technology and AI to simplify daily work and free staff to focus on care

• Building a patient experience roadmap that fosters empathy, accountability and pride in service


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Hui Hwa Koh-Minjoot

Vice President & Head, Allied Health, Patient Experience
IHH Healthcare Singapore

Leading for Trust, Empathy & Engagement in a Digitally Transformed World

5:30 pm - 5:40 pm Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Conference

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships 

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

3:40 pm - 4:10 pm Networking Break

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

4:10 pm - 4:40 pm Case Study | Building a closed-loop growth system in digital wealth
Seong Yee Teoh - Head of CRM and Digital Marketing, Stashaway

In digital wealth, effective growth depends on how well acquisition, lifecycle marketing, and media reinforcement work together. This session explores how StashAway has built a closed-loop model in which first-party data informs acquisition, CRM journeys shape progression and repeat engagement, and always-on media presence keeps the brand visible across moments that matter. By linking these elements more deliberately, growth becomes more efficient, more targeted, and more durable.

  • Turning first-party data into a stronger acquisition feedback loop
  • Using CRM to shape both customer progression and ongoing engagement
  • Sustaining visibility across key decision-making moments to keep intent warm and reduce drop-off
  • Bringing channel, journey, and customer signals into closer alignment
  • Focusing on growth quality, not just growth volume

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Seong Yee Teoh

Head of CRM and Digital Marketing
Stashaway

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

4:40 pm - 5:10 pm Proving Marketing Impact in Long-Term B2B Partnerships
Anurag Bhargava - Area Marketing Director for Asia Pacific, Core Diagnostics, Abbott Laboratories
  • Demonstrating how marketing contributes to measurable business outcomes beyond awareness in complex, high-consideration environments
  • Linking diagnostic, operational, and customer KPIs to broader organisational value for stakeholders across the business
  • Using pre- and post-implementation measurement frameworks to quantify impact and strengthen long-term customer relationships
  • Aligning marketing, sales, and customer teams to communicate value consistently throughout multi-year contracts 

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Anurag Bhargava

Area Marketing Director for Asia Pacific, Core Diagnostics
Abbott Laboratories

Accelerating Growth Through Loyalty, Community & High-Value Customer Relationships

5:10 pm - 5:20 pm Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Conference