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Experience live on the AI Stage how AI is transforming customer service and opening up new opportunities for your business.

THIS IS THE SPEAKER'S FORUM 2026

24.02.2026

10:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

How AI turns customer conversations into clear insights and saves time with automatic notes

Gerald Zankl | Co-Founder / CEO

24.02.2026

10:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Hinter den Kulissen der KI: So gelingt echte Integration in der Praxis

Cornelius Pfohl | CSO

24.02.2026

11:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Building a Best-In-Class AI Strategy

Sean Taylor | CEO | Content Guru Ltd.

Alex Williams | Head of Contact Centre | UK Power Networks

24.02.2026

11:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Ready for 2026: AI revolution in the contact centre

Marc Voigt | Solutions Consultant

24.02.2026

12:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

EMMA®AI: The only legally compliant and hallucination-free AI agent – Best Practice by Bechtle

Lea Kati | Business Development

Martin Mollet | Consultant Service Design

24.02.2026

12:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

TP.talks: Strategy or AI - what determines our CX?

Mayleen Micke | Head of Solution Design & Bid Management

Matthias Riveiro | CEO

 

24.02.2026

13:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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AI reality check: How brands translate customer signals into real experiences

Tri Jan Tran Anh | Lead Solutions Consultant | Sprinklr

Isabelle Haydary | Delivery Team Lead | Raffish

24.02.2026

13:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Rise of the Machines: The Dawn of Agentic CX

Steve Blood | VP of Market Intelligence and Evangelism

 

24.02.2026

14:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

AI Makes Humans Better: Training for Real Customer Moments

Mitch Lieberman | VP Fuel CX

Matthes Thompson | Senior Client Success Executive

24.02.2026

14:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Empowered customer service: How you can independently create AI agents for your entire customer journey across all channels

Tobias Meyn | Head of Innovation & Digitalisation

Luca Knobloch | Product Owner AI

24.02.2026

15:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

From Conversations to Experiences: AI Redefined

Lewe Zipfel | Senior Director Solutions Consulting

Jonas Pilling | Solutions Consulting

24.02.2026

15:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

How AI makes every agent a top performer in Microsoft Teams contact centres

Andreas Huetter | Sales Manager Contact Center

24.02.2026

16:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Guarantee AI voicebot project success and track ROI – 7 ways to succeed

Kevin Wu | CEO

24.02.2026

16:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

Capturing what counts: The GASAG story with Telekom Conversational AI

Ingo Breite | Head of Sales Communications, Business IT | GASAG AG

Frank Semmler | Technical Sales Consultant | Telekom Deutschland

24.02.2026

17:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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More than outsourcing: How DialogWorld is becoming a strategic CX innovator as a BPO with Amazon Connect

Max Wall | Senior Solution Manager

Martina Bischofberger | Chief Digital Officer & Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung

24.02.2026

17:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

Your AI agent - live in 5 minutes: From the initial prompt to the first "hello"

Daniel Selbach | Head of Customer & Partner Enablement

25.02.2026

09:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Before, during and after the call. A day in the life of a support agent

Denise Karli | Key Account Manager

25.02.2026

10:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Reactive was yesterday, how NiCE Cognigy Proactive Agents are rethinking customer interactions

Philipp Heltewig | Chief AI Officer, NiCE und GM

25.02.2026

10:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

From Conversations to Experiences: AI Redefined

Lewe Zipfel | Senior Director Solutions Consulting

Jonas Pilling | Solutions Consulting

25.02.2026

11:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

Next Level GKV: How the Omnichannel Platform 2.0 is delighting insured persons

Marcel Füchtenhans | Head of GVK Area

25.02.2026

11:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

Bringing people and AI together to elevate CX

Wilco van Schaik | CX Sales Manager EMEA North, Germany and MEA

25.02.2026

12:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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From AI Promise to AI Impact: The AI Strategy Canvas as a path to measurable success

Daniel Krantz | Vice President AI

Hamdi Bozkurt | VIER AI Consultant

25.02.2026

12:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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What's the latest challenge keeping CX leaders up at night? AI agent sprawl.

Paul Biggs | Head of Product Marketing

Ziv Baum | Principal Product Manager

25.02.2026

13:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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How TUI is leveraging a BPO Partnership to accelerate their AI strategy.

Dario Bakovic | Operations Director | Transcom

Leo Ooms | Head of Customer Services BPO | TUI Group

25.02.2026

13:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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7 reasons why AI voice agents suddenly work in the IT service desk - and how Randstad Professional uses them

Gregor Mohr | AI Voice Agent Consultant | TENIOS GmbH

Karl-Heinz Kunicki | Senior Service Manager | Randstadt Professional

25.02.2026

14:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

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From the first call to the solution: Voice AI in everyday service in the housing industry

Yasin Kizilhan | AI Sales Expert | NFON AG

Peter Gemander | Geschäftsführer | Zöllner Büro- & IT-Systeme GmbH

25.02.2026

14:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

Energy supplier WEMAG electrifies its customer service with AI powered by Talkdesk CXA

Jakob Harder | Enterprise Account Executive | Talkdesk Germany GmbH

Oliver Maaß | WEMAG

25.02.2026

15:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

Roll out AI agents without crash landing

Vanessa Nagel | Solutions Consultant

25.02.2026

15:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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AI under control: Sovereign agentic automation through tool separation, governance and MCP

Michael Kloos | Geschäftsführer

Marlen Schall | Account Manager

25.02.2026

16:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

Customer Service in the Age of AI

Luke Mills | Global Customer Service Lead | Accenture Song

Christian Baumgärtel | Regional Vice President, Service Cloud | Salesforce

25.02.2026

16:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

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Tone of voice: the often underestimated tool in customer service - empathy as a superpower

Tom Hoch | Sales Executive Large Enterprise

Patrick Nowotny | Director Business Development

25.02.2026

17:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

CX meets efficiency: How Juwelo is rethinking its customer service with AI-UCC.

Boris Kirn | COO & Managing Director | elumeo SE (Juwelo)

Nikolai Bakschies | Head of Solution Sales Large Enterprises | 1&1 Versatel

26.02.2026

10:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

The orchestration problem: Why your 80% AI resolution rate hasn't changed your operation

Ryan Wang | CEO

26.02.2026

10:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

First the customer, then the hype - digitalisation with a clear focus instead of actionism

Florian Otto | CEO

26.02.2026

11:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

Leveraging CX Excellence: Why the Future of AI is Human-Augmented

Ahmed Belahsen | CEO

26.02.2026

11:30

AI Stage, Hall 2

From Cost Centre to Growth Engine: Voice AI in the Real World with PolyAI

Patricia Suhrcke | Head of ISV Partnerships

26.02.2026

12:00

AI Stage, Hall 2

The knowledge you need compared to the knowledge you have. Why knowledge is the hidden bottleneck of the call centre

Uwe Schiefelbein | Strategic Client Director

Your contact for questions about the CCW Trade Show

Claudia Mühler | Senior Project Manager Sales CCW

Claudia Mühler
Senior Project Manager Sales CCW

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Phone: +49 6196 4722-679

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E-Mail: t.krueger@managementcircle.de
Phone: +49 6196 4722-693

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