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Service Summit Day One

Service Summit Day One

The program of the first day of the Service Summit on 4th November 2026.

Service Summit Day Two

Service Summit Day Two

The program of the second day of the Service Summit on 5th November 2026.

The Conversations Leaders Avoid – and Why That Weakens Teams

In this interactive workshop, we explore one of the biggest challenges in day-to-day leadership: the conversations we postpone or avoid altogether.

Together, we will gather real-life situations from participants’ working environments, identify common patterns, and develop practical approaches in small groups. Rather than focusing on communication models or one-size-fits-all solutions, the workshop looks at why difficult conversations are often avoided, the impact this can have on teams, performance, and collaboration, and how leaders can approach these situations constructively.

The workshop is designed for experienced leaders, people who already have leadership responsibilities, and those who are looking to take on leadership roles in the future. The aim is to create a practical exchange of experiences and provide concrete ideas and insights that participants can apply directly to their everyday leadership.

05.11.2026
10:45 - 11:45 Uhr
Workshop Room
Moderation: Thorve Räker
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AI Bots After Implementation: Sharpening Success Goals, Sharing Experiences & Unlocking Potential

Many voice and chatbots are already performing reliably, but are not yet realizing their full potential. In this workshop, we will identify the different success goals companies pursue with their bots – from increasing efficiency and improving service quality to enhancing customer satisfaction.

Together, we will develop practical approaches to achieving these goals and taking them to the next level. A key part of the workshop will be the exchange of experiences, best practices, and challenges with companies at a similar stage of development. This will provide practical insights and inspiration for advancing your bot solution to the next level.

04.11.2026
14:15 - 15:15 Uhr
Workshop Room
Moderation: Annika Rasch
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Value Beyond Discounts: What Competitive Advantages Can We Offer Our Retail Partners That Have a Greater Impact Than Another Percentage Point Off?

New approaches to creating value, differentiation, and partner loyalty. How can we help our retail partners become even more successful without relying solely on discounts and commercial terms?

In this workshop, we will jointly develop ideas, offerings, and services that create genuine business value, support our partners’ growth, and sustainably differentiate us from the competition.

The aim is to identify added value that matters more to our retail partners than another percentage point off.

04.11.2026
15:45 - 16:45 Uhr
Workshop Room
Moderation: Pierre Hartmann
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4th Nov 2026 Service Summit Day One

  1. SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE live translation available
    Hosted by:
    Nona Brodersen
  1. ZUGSPITZE Masterclasses
    Hosted by:
    Pascal Possler
  1. MATTERHORN Masterclasses
    Hosted by:
    Richie Bielau
  1. MONT BLANC Masterclasses
    Hosted by:
    Lea Bücker
  1. SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE live translation available
    Hosted by:
    Franziska Zimmermann
  1. 08:30
     

    08:30 Welcome!

    Our doors open at 08:30 - so you can start networking at the first coffee and secure the best seat

  1. 09:15
     

    A welcome from the Service & Sales Summit team - Service Main Stage

    Opening  of the event with a warm welcome from the organizers.

  2. 09:30
    Keynote

    Next Level Leadership: How Gamification Is Redefining Employee Motivation and Measurably Increasing Customer Loyalty.


    Motivate your team not through targets, but through experiences.

    - Why traditional leadership approaches no longer work today
    - How gamification positively impacts employee motivation, service quality and customer satisfaction
    - Practical examples and concrete implementation approaches from the retail and service sectors
    - Insights that leaders can immediately apply to their teams

  3. 10:00
     

    Coffee break

    Enjoy coffee and breakfast and make new contacts with the visitors and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

  4. 10:30
    Keynote Service

    Context trumps tools: Why AI agents in customer service can only solve problems when using real customer data

    An AI model is quick to purchase. Without context, however, it remains nothing more than an expensive answer machine, particularly as customers are increasingly starting their searches in external generative AI tools. Companies have one advantage over these tools: they know their customers, their contracts and their open cases. The real transformation does not come about through isolated chatbots. It happens when AI utilises this knowledge throughout the entire service process, from identification and routing through to case handling and follow-up. AI agents access the same database across all channels (telephone, email, messaging). They resolve standard enquiries independently, whilst handing over complex cases to staff with the full context. This shortens processing times, increases the first-call resolution rate and noticeably reduces the workload on teams.
    Together with Salesforce and Opta Data, we’ll demonstrate what this means in practice. In a demo, AI agents, telephone support and models specifically trained for customer service will work together to resolve even complex enquiries.

    Key takeaways

    • Customer knowledge as an enabler: Language models only work effectively when they can access customer data, case history and process knowledge.
    • Action rather than answers: AI agents do more than just provide information; they complete tasks, from address changes to complaints.
    • Architecture rather than silos: A shared database for all channels enables seamless handover between AI and staff.
  5. 11:00
    Panel discussion

    The Tool Jungle in Customer Service – What Really Works?

    How modern service teams design their tool landscape efficiently – from CRM and ticketing systems to collaboration platforms – to break down silos and sustainably boost productivity.

  6. 11:45
    Panel discussion

    Diversity in Customer Service – How Diverse Teams Make the Difference

    How do different perspectives and backgrounds in service teams strengthen empathy and customer satisfaction?
    Which leadership approaches help embed diversity sustainably in team culture, collaboration, and performance?

  1. Keynote Service

    10:00 8 Arms But Zero Grip: Stop Hoarding Data, Start Driving Action

    Almost every company today uses AI to transcribe customer calls and generate automated summaries. But what actually happens to all that valuable data afterwards? Usually: absolutely nothing. It ends up as an unread text block or an unstructured data dump in the CRM that no agent can efficiently use. Companies are gathering massive amounts of data points (the "8 Arms") but fail to translate them into operations ("No Grip"). 

    In this practical deep-dive, Dominik Holoubek shows how to escape this data dead-end. He demonstrates how to turn unstructured transcriptions and deserts of text into structured, actionable data. How do you process conversational insights so they deliver measurable KPIs and seamlessly empower agents in their follow-up tasks? Learn how to stop merely collecting data and start getting a firm grip on your actionable insights.

  2. Keynote Service

    10:30 The State of agentic AI Automation in Customer Experience: how the top 15% are achieving higher ROI

    AI adoption has surged, but most organizations are still struggling to turn it into meaningful customer and business outcomes. New global research from Talkdesk and NewtonX reveals the gap: only 15% of organizations have reached the point of orchestrating agentic AI across the customer journey. So what separates organizations experimenting with AI from those actually seeing results? Discover how agentic AI and orchestration leaders are creating real impact—they are 4x more likely to report major CSAT/NPS gains and roughly twice as likely to drive retention and cost efficiency.

  3. Keynote Service

    10:45 The new hire is an AI. We’re onboarding it live.

    One new colleague, four channels, no onboarding week: Daniel Selbach and Martin Jeschar show how AI assistants support phone, WhatsApp, email and website. They'll set one up live on stage – from the first briefing to the first customer conversation. That's all the onboarding AI really needs.

  4. Keynote Service

    11:00 Customer Service Reimagined: What AI Changes Next

    AI is fundamentally transforming customer service: From automating individual processes to creating entirely new service experiences. In this masterclass, Christopher Harms, Principal Sales Engineer at Zendesk, explores the opportunities AI creates for businesses and how it can help deliver more efficient, intelligent, and customer-centric service.

  5. Keynote Service

    11:30 30 real-world learnings for AI agents that actually deliver

    AI agents promise a lot, but real impact only emerges when they are properly designed, integrated, tested, monitored and continuously improved. This masterclass covers 30 concrete learnings from the field: from use case selection and human oversight through data quality, latency and monitoring to scaling, compliance and measurable customer service impact.

  6. Keynote Service

    12:00 More Practice, Less Hype: How Companies Save Time and Boost Revenue with Salesforce and AI

    More than half of all companies use AI, yet only a few achieve measurable results. Drawing on two customer projects, this talk shows how Salesforce and AI save time in day-to-day work: with voice-based visit reports and with automated order processing all the way into SAP. It also presents five success factors for your own implementation.

  1. Keynote Service

    10:00 How Did That Work Again? Keeping Knowledge in Customer Service

    “How did that work again?” – in many service teams, this question keeps landing with the same experienced colleagues. Modern helpdesk systems can already show which answers are missing. But finding a gap is not the same as closing it: someone still has to write the guide – and the most experienced people have no time for that. What your team can’t find, no AI agent will find either. In 15 minutes, Dr.-Ing. Enrico Pannicke uses a case from technical service to show how an open question reaches the experienced field colleague via a link, how he records his technique on the device with the MESHwerk app in a few minutes, and how the AI turns it into a finished guide – without anyone writing an article. Bring the question your team is asked most often: at booth N01, it goes up on the wall.

  2. Keynote Service

    10:15 Masterclass

    In preparation

  3. Keynote Service

    10:30 Conversational AI bei EWE: Vom Plan abweichen, im Plan bleiben

    How EWE and MUUUH! are implementing successful voice and chat automation on time and within budget
     

  4. Keynote Service

    11:00 The Goldmine in Customer Service: How Trust, Employee Participation, and AI Together Unlock New Potential

    How can AI, employee participation, and trust work together? This session explores how organisations can turn customer interactions into a strategic asset, empower employees with AI-driven support, and successfully navigate regulatory and workplace requirements in the DACH market. Through the latest CX trends, real-world examples, and live demonstrations, you'll discover how modern AI-powered Customer Experience solutions can drive measurable business value while fostering transparency, employee trust, and collaboration.

  5. Keynote Service

    11:30 From Concept to Agentic Customer Service in 58 Days: The Arxada Story

    58 days. Three continents. One connected customer experience. Discover how Arxada moved customer service to Microsoft Dynamics 365, integrated it with SAP, and went live simultaneously across the Americas, Europe, and APAC. In this masterclass, Arxada, Microsoft, and Visionet reveal what made the rapid launch possible. You will also see how service, sales, and marketing now collaborate on one platform—and how Copilot and Agents are already reducing manual effort in customer service. Join the session for practical lessons from a transformation delivered at speed and scale.

  6. Keynote Service

    12:00 Greater security. Less effort. – lmbit Security extensions for Matrix42

    Whether it’s compromised accounts, detected vulnerabilities or suspicious files: the lmbit extensions for Matrix42 translate security information from trusted security vendors such as Pentera directly into automated actions, thereby ensuring greater transparency, assessment and a faster response in day-to-day IT operations.

  1. Keynote Sales

    10:00 Less clicking. More closing. - Unlocking new opportunities for sales and service with AI agents

    AI has long since moved beyond simply answering questions. It helps to qualify sales opportunities, gain a better understanding of the sales pipeline and handle service cases in a targeted manner. But what becomes possible when digital support evolves into genuine collaboration?
    Discover how integrated AI assistants, Joule and AI agents work together with interconnected business processes. We’ll show you how the latest innovations are transforming day-to-day operations in sales and service, and how AI innovations turn valuable insights into concrete next steps.

  2. Keynote Sales

    10:30 Masterclass

    In preparation

  3. Keynote Sales

    10:45 Everything is a pitch. From first contact: personalized customer engagement with SalesRoom, AI Avatars and Sales Experience Configurator

    Customer meetings, product presentations, the internal hand-off to the decision-maker: everything is a pitch. 

    Most of these pitches happen without your sales team in the room. In 15 minutes, Daniel Moj and Till Müller show you how to stay in control of your pitch, from first contact to follow-up.

    They deliver the talk itself in a SalesRoom. You'll see how AI Avatars, Digital PitchDecks and Interactive WebDecks work together inside it. They also show how the Sales Experience Configurator combines these into a tailored approach for each customer, one that fits your brand and works reliably every time. 
    15 minutes that are a pitch in themselves. 

    Find out what comes next at booth C01. 

    Or get a head start at: 👉 neyroo.de

  4. Keynote Sales

    11:00 Masterclass

    in preperation

  5. Keynote Sales

    11:30 Masterclass Gongio

  6. Keynote Sales

    12:00 AI That Can Act: Why MCP Matters for Sales

    Generative AI can answer questions and create content. But for AI to become truly useful at work, it needs access to the business context, data and tools where work actually happens. In this session, we’ll demystify AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP), explain how MCP connects AI with business applications, and explore what this means for sales and service teams. Through practical examples, we’ll show how an AI assistant can move beyond generating an answer to retrieving customer context, working across CRM and service systems, and taking authorised actions, while keeping permissions and control in place.

  7. Keynote Sales

    12:30 AI in Field Sales: Turning Customer Conversations into Revenue Intelligence

    Every field sales rep carries valuable knowledge after a customer visit: what the client is planning, where competitors stand, which deals are taking shape. The problem is that this knowledge rarely gets captured in any structured form. CRMs stay incomplete, leadership makes decisions without field intelligence, and sales managers lose sight of what is actually happening on the ground. 

    VoiceLine is the Field Intelligence Platform that closes this gap. After each visit, reps spend a few minutes with the AI assistant, which automatically creates CRM entries, prepares visit reports and briefings, and generates coaching insights for sales leaders. Across all conversations, the platform builds an aggregated picture of the market, giving leadership a view into what their teams are actually experiencing in the field.

  1.  

    09:30 A welcome from the Service & Sales Summit team - Sales Main Stage

    Opening  of the event with a warm welcome from the organizers.

  2. Keynote Sales

    09:45 How your CRM gives AI the context it needs to decide revenue

    Every quarter, the same question: are we hitting the revenue number? Usually it's not a lack of effort — it's a lack of context. Revenue breaks where context goes: critical knowledge about buyer intent gets lost between teams and handoffs. In this keynote, you'll learn how modern AI agents in the #1 CRM capture that context, preserve it across every handoff, and turn every sales opportunity into a close faster.

  3.  

    10:15 Coffee break

    Enjoy coffee and breakfast and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit. 

  4. Panel discussion

    10:45 Sales in Transition: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Sales Leaders

    How sales leaders respond to market shifts, technological developments, and changing customer expectations – and which strategies are currently making the difference.

  5. Panel discussion

    11:30 Women in Leadership in Sales

    What structural, cultural, and personal challenges do women in sales leadership face today? This session explores how companies can attract, support, and retain more women in sales and leadership roles in a targeted and sustainable way.

  1. 12:30
     

    12:30 Lunch break

    Enjoy the food while making new contacts with visitors and exhibitors at the Service & Sales Summit.

  1. 14:00
    Keynote

    Service Summit Startup Awards - Part 1

    You will see innovative startups presenting their clever new solutions in the service business. The best three will receive a Service Summit Startup Award – you decide!

  2. 15:00
    Keynote

    Keynote

    In preparation

  3. 15:30
    Panel discussion

    Global Customer Service: Success Strategies in the International Environment

    What defines global customer service, and how does it differ around the world? What adjustments are necessary to provide a consistent and outstanding customer experience globally?

  4. 16:15
     

    Coffee break

    Enjoy coffee and cake and make new contacts with the visitors and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

  5. 16:45
    Panel discussion

    Proactive Service Through AI & Analytics

    How companies use data, machine learning, and predictive analytics to anticipate customer needs and resolve issues before they arise.

  6. 17:30
    Keynote

    Speaker Awards Prizegiving

    The top three speakers from our Main Stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. Keynote Service

    14:00 Service That Lives Up to the Brand: How Breuninger Wins Customer Trust, Call by Call

    How do you automate customer service without losing the personal touch your brand is known for? German premium department store Breuninger has been live with babelforce since June 2026. In a candid interview, Breuninger shares how it earned customers' trust: people new to automated identity checks embraced them, and far more agreed to call recording than planned – making room to shift agent time from wrap-up to the conversations that matter. Expect real results, honest lessons, and a look at what Breuninger and babelforce are planning next.

  2. Keynote Sales

    14:15 Masterclass CreaLog

    In preparation

  3. Keynote Service

    14:30 The sound of Customer Experience: Parloa Voice AI Agents from Idea to Production

    How can a single call become a better customer experience? In this masterclass, we’ll show you live on the Parloa platform how an idea becomes a production-ready Voice AI Agent—and what it takes to bring it into service at scale. Fewer slides, more hands-on practice.

  4. Keynote Sales

    15:00 AI Evaluates. Who Develops People?

    AI coaching opens up new opportunities to improve customer service quality. But how much can AI actually achieve? And why does the human factor remain crucial?

  5.  

    15:30 Coffee break

    Enjoy some coffee and cake and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

  6. Keynote Service

    16:15 Not every ticket needs a human. Why Hiring More Service Staff Isn’t a Strategy.

    Together, dennree and SIEVERS demonstrate how increasing request volumes can be managed through smarter service processes: intelligently routing inquiries, automating routine cases, and freeing up employees to focus on the issues where their expertise really matters.

  7. Keynote Service

    16:45 #NextLevel | The end of ‘either/or’ – why EWE set up its own service company and what others can learn from it

    Two years ago, EWE and Deloitte reported on the successful transformation carried out as part of KIM26 at the Service Summit. However, as the transformation achieved success, a new strategic question arose: what capabilities must companies possess themselves in future to be able to actively shape customer service in an era of AI, rising customer expectations and growing pressure to innovate?

    In this masterclass, EWE and Deloitte offer exclusive insights into the next major step in their development: setting up their own service company. Find out why EWE deliberately chose a new path between traditional outsourcing and full reintegration, what challenges and decisions shaped the set-up process, and why the organisation achieved its target performance level after such a short time.

    Look forward to an honest account of the transformation, concrete lessons learnt from real-world experience, and insights into the key management question facing many companies: Which capabilities should be strategically embedded in-house in future – and which should not?
     

  8. Keynote Service

    17:30 Customer Support Reinvented in 6 months: A Case Study in AI-Driven Service Management

    Discover how we transformed Customer Support in just six months by consolidating two legacy service management platforms into a single, Matrix42 built solution. Learn how we redesigned every major support process, restructured teams, and modernized operations while keeping business continuity intact. What made this transformation different was our AI-first mindset: every data model, configuration and workflow decision was evaluated through a single lens, will this make AI more effective? The result was an AI-native service organization with streamlined workflows, unified data, and a foundation for autonomous service management. Join us to explore the lessons learned, challenges overcome, and measurable impact of putting AI at the center of transformation.

  9.  

    17:45 Speaker Award Prizegiving

    The top three speakers from our Masterclasses will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. Keynote Service

    13:45 The Production Gap: Why Enterprise Voicebots Fail After Week Three

    Launching a voicebot used to mean hoping it would work for real callers. Would it understand them, complete the task, and respond fast enough? Voicemark by Sipfront calls your voicebot from outside the platform, just like a real customer, and scores every call on SIP and RTP performance, audio quality, conversation handling, task completion and compliance. You see what works and exactly what to fix.

  2. Keynote Service

    14:00 Congstar Puts Customer Service into High Gear Lessons from the Service Center: Using AI and Salesforce to Deliver Faster Customer Service

    How can AI be successfully implemented in customer service? Congstar and ilume share insights from a real-world project in the service center. The session explores practical implementation experiences and shows how Salesforce AI helps accelerate processes, reduce the workload of service teams, and handle customer inquiries more efficiently. What challenges need to be addressed, and which factors determine whether technological capabilities translate into real business value for customer service? Join us for practical insights and key learnings from the collaboration between congstar and ilume.

  3. Keynote Service

    14:15 Sky is the limit: From your first AI Voice Agent to a live Zendesk workflow

    The sky is the limit, as the legendary Notorious B.I.G. once said. But how high can you really get with an AI agent in customer service, without IT spending six months planning first?

     We'll show two levels live: the quick start with Aircall AI Action, and the deep integration from Leafworks, who connected their agent to Zendesk via a custom API. You'll see what happens in the ticket while the call is still running, and leave with a clear idea of which level is right for you.

  4. Keynote Service

    14:45 From Contract Award to Go-Live in Six Months: Voice and Email Bots at the Federal Employment Agency | What Regulated Industries Can Learn About Use Cases, Data Protection, and Change Management

    Six months from contract award to live operation - for a project of this scale at a federal agency, that’s a tight schedule. We’ll show how it worked out anyway: which tasks are truly suitable for automation, how data protection is built in from the start rather than added as an afterthought, and why employees need to be on board early on so that voice and email bots can become part of everyday life.

    This presentation is aimed at anyone who is considering the use of AI in customer service and wants to know what really matters in practice. No flashy slides, just honest insights into a project that is now up and running.

  5.  

    15:30 Coffee break

    Enjoy coffee and cake and make new contacts with the visitors and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

  6. Keynote Service

    16:00 From Strategy to Implementation – Your System Integrator for Customer Experience Solutions

    In preparation

  7. Keynote Service

    16:15 Solve First, Sell Second: How AI Agents Are Changing Customer Interactions

    It starts in the FAQ centre: a question that seamlessly turns into a conversation with an AI Agent. The result is a quick solution and, potentially, the next purchase. AI Agents bring service and sales together, understand the context and draw on centralised knowledge. We show how a simple touchpoint can become a key moment in the customer relationship.

  8. Keynote Service

    16:30 Salesforce Contact Center by Bucher + Suter & MYCOM

    See Salesforce Contact Center in action. In this hands-on masterclass, we’ll:

    • A brief introduction to the partnership between MYCOM and Bucher+Suter 
    • Spin up a contact center live
    • Take you inside the architecture and key integrations
    • Share what we’re learning from pilot projects
    • Show Bucher + Suter-powered Microsoft Presence Sync 

    Come see how it works, ask questions, and get into the technical details with us.

  9. Keynote Service

    17:00 Masterclass

    In preparation

  10.  

    17:30 Speaker Awards Prizegiving

    The top three speakers from our Masterclasses will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. Keynote Sales

    14:15 Agentic AI rewiring complex indirect sales

    Most AI in sales today helps the direct seller: faster emails, better call prep, more time with customers. In many industrial companies, though, a large share of revenue moves through dealers and distributors, configured products and tenders. 

    Those motions still run on email, spreadsheets and a few experts who know the rules. This masterclass shows what changes when AI agents take on that complexity and your people keep the customer relationships.

    You leave with: 

    • A clear view of where AI pays most beyond direct sales 
    • How to measure impact on volume, conversion, time and trust 
    • Three questions to take to your team on Monday
  2. Keynote Sales

    14:45 AI + CRM: Everyone’s talking about it. But what actually works?

    AI in CRM offers enormous potential – and the market is full of promises. However, what matters is not how many AI features a system has, but how effectively companies use them. In this masterclass, we’ll use real-life client projects to demonstrate how AI in monday CRM is already supporting sales processes, reducing manual tasks and making customer relationships smarter. You’ll discover which use cases really make a difference, where the limitations lie and how to get started in practice. 
    Less theory, more practice: this is how AI in CRM becomes a genuine competitive advantage.

  3. Keynote Sales

    15:15 Great customer service can't be automated? Think again. What it takes for AI agents to actually improve service

    Long wait times, the same questions over and over, and a team with barely any time left for the tricky cases: many service departments know this all too well. AI agents could take some of the load off, but implementation often gets in the way. Writing prompts, connecting systems, bringing employees on board: it all sounds like a major IT project. Vanessa Nagel, Solution Consultant at sipgate, shows that it doesn't have to be. She explains the building blocks an AI agent needs in customer service: the right knowledge, a fitting tone, clearly defined tasks, and access to systems like the CRM. Using sona as an example, she shows how all of this can be set up without prompt engineering. She also shares insights from real implementation projects: how the first integration works, who needs to be involved, and how service teams are trained to keep developing the system on their own.

  4. Keynote Sales

    16:30 The Best Buyer Experience Wins

  5.  

    17:30 Speaker Awards Prizegiving

    The top three speakers from our Masterclasses will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. Keynote

    13:45 Sales Summit Startup Awards - Part 1

    Here you will get to know innovative startups that present their smart and new solutions for digital innovations in sales. The best three will receive a Sales Summit Startup Award - you vote!

  2. Keynote

    14:45 In medical sales, mistakes don’t cost deals – they cost lives. What this means for trust, leadership, and responsibility in sales.

    This keynote reveals why sales in medical technology is fundamentally different. When decisions can affect human lives, trust becomes the most critical currency — trust in the brand, in customer relationships, and in the people who sell. And this is where leadership begins: as the true source of trust, mindset, and responsibility.

  3. Panel discussion

    15:15 Hybrid & Remote Sales: New Formats, Challenges, and Opportunities

    How sales is evolving toward remote and hybrid working, which communication and collaboration models have proven effective, and how sales teams can stay closely connected in the long term.

  4.  

    16:00 Coffee break

    Enjoy some coffee and cake and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

  5. Panel discussion

    16:30 Sales Under Pressure – How Mental Health and Resilience Safeguard Performance

    Why pressure in sales is increasing, how psychological strain impacts performance, and which strategies teams and leaders can use to ensure sustainable well-being and long-term success.

  6. Keynote

    17:15 less processing – more selling: ACO's Transformation Towards a Sales-Active Customer Service Organization

    How can a traditional back-office organization become a true growth engine? In this inspiring keynote, ACO shares its transformation journey from cost center to profit center. By redesigning processes, leveraging an integrated Microsoft platform, and empowering employees to actively support sales, administrative work is reduced while customer-facing activities increase. Discover how digitalization, automation, and organizational change free up capacity for value-creating tasks, unlock new revenue opportunities, and redefine the role of Customer Service in the construction industry. A practical and thought-provoking story of transformation with measurable business impact.

  7.  

    17:45 Speaker Award Prizegiving

    The top three speakers from our Main Stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. 18:00
     

    18:00 AFTERSHOW LOUNGE

    Drinks and networking for all participants & special Live Act!

  1. 19:00
     

    19:00 Beerpong Tournament!

    Sign up for our legendary beer pong tournament via the app!

  1. 23:00
     

    23:00 End of today's event

4th November 2026 Service Summit Day One

08:30

Welcome!

Our doors open at 08:30 - so you can start networking at the first coffee and secure the best seat

09:15 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

A welcome from the Service & Sales Summit team - Service Main Stage

Opening  of the event with a warm welcome from the organizers.

09:30 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Next Level Leadership: How Gamification Is Redefining Employee Motivation and Measurably Increasing Customer Loyalty.


Motivate your team not through targets, but through experiences.

- Why traditional leadership approaches no longer work today
- How gamification positively impacts employee motivation, service quality and customer satisfaction
- Practical examples and concrete implementation approaches from the retail and service sectors
- Insights that leaders can immediately apply to their teams

09:30 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

A welcome from the Service & Sales Summit team - Sales Main Stage

Opening  of the event with a warm welcome from the organizers.

09:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote Sales

How your CRM gives AI the context it needs to decide revenue

Every quarter, the same question: are we hitting the revenue number? Usually it's not a lack of effort — it's a lack of context. Revenue breaks where context goes: critical knowledge about buyer intent gets lost between teams and handoffs. In this keynote, you'll learn how modern AI agents in the #1 CRM capture that context, preserve it across every handoff, and turn every sales opportunity into a close faster.

10:00 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Coffee break

Enjoy coffee and breakfast and make new contacts with the visitors and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

10:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

8 Arms But Zero Grip: Stop Hoarding Data, Start Driving Action

Almost every company today uses AI to transcribe customer calls and generate automated summaries. But what actually happens to all that valuable data afterwards? Usually: absolutely nothing. It ends up as an unread text block or an unstructured data dump in the CRM that no agent can efficiently use. Companies are gathering massive amounts of data points (the "8 Arms") but fail to translate them into operations ("No Grip"). 

In this practical deep-dive, Dominik Holoubek shows how to escape this data dead-end. He demonstrates how to turn unstructured transcriptions and deserts of text into structured, actionable data. How do you process conversational insights so they deliver measurable KPIs and seamlessly empower agents in their follow-up tasks? Learn how to stop merely collecting data and start getting a firm grip on your actionable insights.

10:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

How Did That Work Again? Keeping Knowledge in Customer Service

“How did that work again?” – in many service teams, this question keeps landing with the same experienced colleagues. Modern helpdesk systems can already show which answers are missing. But finding a gap is not the same as closing it: someone still has to write the guide – and the most experienced people have no time for that. What your team can’t find, no AI agent will find either. In 15 minutes, Dr.-Ing. Enrico Pannicke uses a case from technical service to show how an open question reaches the experienced field colleague via a link, how he records his technique on the device with the MESHwerk app in a few minutes, and how the AI turns it into a finished guide – without anyone writing an article. Bring the question your team is asked most often: at booth N01, it goes up on the wall.

10:00 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Less clicking. More closing. - Unlocking new opportunities for sales and service with AI agents

AI has long since moved beyond simply answering questions. It helps to qualify sales opportunities, gain a better understanding of the sales pipeline and handle service cases in a targeted manner. But what becomes possible when digital support evolves into genuine collaboration?
Discover how integrated AI assistants, Joule and AI agents work together with interconnected business processes. We’ll show you how the latest innovations are transforming day-to-day operations in sales and service, and how AI innovations turn valuable insights into concrete next steps.

10:15 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Masterclass

In preparation

10:15 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Coffee break

Enjoy coffee and breakfast and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit. 

10:30 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote Service

Context trumps tools: Why AI agents in customer service can only solve problems when using real customer data

An AI model is quick to purchase. Without context, however, it remains nothing more than an expensive answer machine, particularly as customers are increasingly starting their searches in external generative AI tools. Companies have one advantage over these tools: they know their customers, their contracts and their open cases. The real transformation does not come about through isolated chatbots. It happens when AI utilises this knowledge throughout the entire service process, from identification and routing through to case handling and follow-up. AI agents access the same database across all channels (telephone, email, messaging). They resolve standard enquiries independently, whilst handing over complex cases to staff with the full context. This shortens processing times, increases the first-call resolution rate and noticeably reduces the workload on teams.
Together with Salesforce and Opta Data, we’ll demonstrate what this means in practice. In a demo, AI agents, telephone support and models specifically trained for customer service will work together to resolve even complex enquiries.

Key takeaways

  • Customer knowledge as an enabler: Language models only work effectively when they can access customer data, case history and process knowledge.
  • Action rather than answers: AI agents do more than just provide information; they complete tasks, from address changes to complaints.
  • Architecture rather than silos: A shared database for all channels enables seamless handover between AI and staff.
10:30 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

The State of agentic AI Automation in Customer Experience: how the top 15% are achieving higher ROI

AI adoption has surged, but most organizations are still struggling to turn it into meaningful customer and business outcomes. New global research from Talkdesk and NewtonX reveals the gap: only 15% of organizations have reached the point of orchestrating agentic AI across the customer journey. So what separates organizations experimenting with AI from those actually seeing results? Discover how agentic AI and orchestration leaders are creating real impact—they are 4x more likely to report major CSAT/NPS gains and roughly twice as likely to drive retention and cost efficiency.

10:30 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Conversational AI bei EWE: Vom Plan abweichen, im Plan bleiben

How EWE and MUUUH! are implementing successful voice and chat automation on time and within budget
 

10:30 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Masterclass

In preparation

10:45 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

The new hire is an AI. We’re onboarding it live.

One new colleague, four channels, no onboarding week: Daniel Selbach and Martin Jeschar show how AI assistants support phone, WhatsApp, email and website. They'll set one up live on stage – from the first briefing to the first customer conversation. That's all the onboarding AI really needs.

10:45 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Everything is a pitch. From first contact: personalized customer engagement with SalesRoom, AI Avatars and Sales Experience Configurator

Customer meetings, product presentations, the internal hand-off to the decision-maker: everything is a pitch. 

Most of these pitches happen without your sales team in the room. In 15 minutes, Daniel Moj and Till Müller show you how to stay in control of your pitch, from first contact to follow-up.

They deliver the talk itself in a SalesRoom. You'll see how AI Avatars, Digital PitchDecks and Interactive WebDecks work together inside it. They also show how the Sales Experience Configurator combines these into a tailored approach for each customer, one that fits your brand and works reliably every time. 
15 minutes that are a pitch in themselves. 

Find out what comes next at booth C01. 

Or get a head start at: 👉 neyroo.de

10:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Sales in Transition: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Sales Leaders

How sales leaders respond to market shifts, technological developments, and changing customer expectations – and which strategies are currently making the difference.

11:00 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

The Tool Jungle in Customer Service – What Really Works?

How modern service teams design their tool landscape efficiently – from CRM and ticketing systems to collaboration platforms – to break down silos and sustainably boost productivity.

11:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Customer Service Reimagined: What AI Changes Next

AI is fundamentally transforming customer service: From automating individual processes to creating entirely new service experiences. In this masterclass, Christopher Harms, Principal Sales Engineer at Zendesk, explores the opportunities AI creates for businesses and how it can help deliver more efficient, intelligent, and customer-centric service.

11:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

The Goldmine in Customer Service: How Trust, Employee Participation, and AI Together Unlock New Potential

How can AI, employee participation, and trust work together? This session explores how organisations can turn customer interactions into a strategic asset, empower employees with AI-driven support, and successfully navigate regulatory and workplace requirements in the DACH market. Through the latest CX trends, real-world examples, and live demonstrations, you'll discover how modern AI-powered Customer Experience solutions can drive measurable business value while fostering transparency, employee trust, and collaboration.

11:00 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Masterclass

in preperation

11:30 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

30 real-world learnings for AI agents that actually deliver

AI agents promise a lot, but real impact only emerges when they are properly designed, integrated, tested, monitored and continuously improved. This masterclass covers 30 concrete learnings from the field: from use case selection and human oversight through data quality, latency and monitoring to scaling, compliance and measurable customer service impact.

11:30 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

From Concept to Agentic Customer Service in 58 Days: The Arxada Story

58 days. Three continents. One connected customer experience. Discover how Arxada moved customer service to Microsoft Dynamics 365, integrated it with SAP, and went live simultaneously across the Americas, Europe, and APAC. In this masterclass, Arxada, Microsoft, and Visionet reveal what made the rapid launch possible. You will also see how service, sales, and marketing now collaborate on one platform—and how Copilot and Agents are already reducing manual effort in customer service. Join the session for practical lessons from a transformation delivered at speed and scale.

11:30 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Masterclass Gongio

11:30 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Women in Leadership in Sales

What structural, cultural, and personal challenges do women in sales leadership face today? This session explores how companies can attract, support, and retain more women in sales and leadership roles in a targeted and sustainable way.

11:45 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Diversity in Customer Service – How Diverse Teams Make the Difference

How do different perspectives and backgrounds in service teams strengthen empathy and customer satisfaction?
Which leadership approaches help embed diversity sustainably in team culture, collaboration, and performance?

12:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

More Practice, Less Hype: How Companies Save Time and Boost Revenue with Salesforce and AI

More than half of all companies use AI, yet only a few achieve measurable results. Drawing on two customer projects, this talk shows how Salesforce and AI save time in day-to-day work: with voice-based visit reports and with automated order processing all the way into SAP. It also presents five success factors for your own implementation.

12:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Greater security. Less effort. – lmbit Security extensions for Matrix42

Whether it’s compromised accounts, detected vulnerabilities or suspicious files: the lmbit extensions for Matrix42 translate security information from trusted security vendors such as Pentera directly into automated actions, thereby ensuring greater transparency, assessment and a faster response in day-to-day IT operations.

12:00 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

AI That Can Act: Why MCP Matters for Sales

Generative AI can answer questions and create content. But for AI to become truly useful at work, it needs access to the business context, data and tools where work actually happens. In this session, we’ll demystify AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP), explain how MCP connects AI with business applications, and explore what this means for sales and service teams. Through practical examples, we’ll show how an AI assistant can move beyond generating an answer to retrieving customer context, working across CRM and service systems, and taking authorised actions, while keeping permissions and control in place.

12:30

Lunch break

Enjoy the food while making new contacts with visitors and exhibitors at the Service & Sales Summit.

13:45 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

The Production Gap: Why Enterprise Voicebots Fail After Week Three

Launching a voicebot used to mean hoping it would work for real callers. Would it understand them, complete the task, and respond fast enough? Voicemark by Sipfront calls your voicebot from outside the platform, just like a real customer, and scores every call on SIP and RTP performance, audio quality, conversation handling, task completion and compliance. You see what works and exactly what to fix.

13:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Sales Summit Startup Awards - Part 1

Here you will get to know innovative startups that present their smart and new solutions for digital innovations in sales. The best three will receive a Sales Summit Startup Award - you vote!

14:00 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Service Summit Startup Awards - Part 1

You will see innovative startups presenting their clever new solutions in the service business. The best three will receive a Service Summit Startup Award – you decide!

14:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Service That Lives Up to the Brand: How Breuninger Wins Customer Trust, Call by Call

How do you automate customer service without losing the personal touch your brand is known for? German premium department store Breuninger has been live with babelforce since June 2026. In a candid interview, Breuninger shares how it earned customers' trust: people new to automated identity checks embraced them, and far more agreed to call recording than planned – making room to shift agent time from wrap-up to the conversations that matter. Expect real results, honest lessons, and a look at what Breuninger and babelforce are planning next.

14:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Congstar Puts Customer Service into High Gear Lessons from the Service Center: Using AI and Salesforce to Deliver Faster Customer Service

How can AI be successfully implemented in customer service? Congstar and ilume share insights from a real-world project in the service center. The session explores practical implementation experiences and shows how Salesforce AI helps accelerate processes, reduce the workload of service teams, and handle customer inquiries more efficiently. What challenges need to be addressed, and which factors determine whether technological capabilities translate into real business value for customer service? Join us for practical insights and key learnings from the collaboration between congstar and ilume.

14:15 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Masterclass CreaLog

In preparation

14:15 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Sky is the limit: From your first AI Voice Agent to a live Zendesk workflow

The sky is the limit, as the legendary Notorious B.I.G. once said. But how high can you really get with an AI agent in customer service, without IT spending six months planning first?

 We'll show two levels live: the quick start with Aircall AI Action, and the deep integration from Leafworks, who connected their agent to Zendesk via a custom API. You'll see what happens in the ticket while the call is still running, and leave with a clear idea of which level is right for you.

14:15 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Agentic AI rewiring complex indirect sales

Most AI in sales today helps the direct seller: faster emails, better call prep, more time with customers. In many industrial companies, though, a large share of revenue moves through dealers and distributors, configured products and tenders. 

Those motions still run on email, spreadsheets and a few experts who know the rules. This masterclass shows what changes when AI agents take on that complexity and your people keep the customer relationships.

You leave with: 

  • A clear view of where AI pays most beyond direct sales 
  • How to measure impact on volume, conversion, time and trust 
  • Three questions to take to your team on Monday
14:30 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

The sound of Customer Experience: Parloa Voice AI Agents from Idea to Production

How can a single call become a better customer experience? In this masterclass, we’ll show you live on the Parloa platform how an idea becomes a production-ready Voice AI Agent—and what it takes to bring it into service at scale. Fewer slides, more hands-on practice.

14:45 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

From Contract Award to Go-Live in Six Months: Voice and Email Bots at the Federal Employment Agency | What Regulated Industries Can Learn About Use Cases, Data Protection, and Change Management

Six months from contract award to live operation - for a project of this scale at a federal agency, that’s a tight schedule. We’ll show how it worked out anyway: which tasks are truly suitable for automation, how data protection is built in from the start rather than added as an afterthought, and why employees need to be on board early on so that voice and email bots can become part of everyday life.

This presentation is aimed at anyone who is considering the use of AI in customer service and wants to know what really matters in practice. No flashy slides, just honest insights into a project that is now up and running.

14:45 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

AI + CRM: Everyone’s talking about it. But what actually works?

AI in CRM offers enormous potential – and the market is full of promises. However, what matters is not how many AI features a system has, but how effectively companies use them. In this masterclass, we’ll use real-life client projects to demonstrate how AI in monday CRM is already supporting sales processes, reducing manual tasks and making customer relationships smarter. You’ll discover which use cases really make a difference, where the limitations lie and how to get started in practice. 
Less theory, more practice: this is how AI in CRM becomes a genuine competitive advantage.

14:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

In medical sales, mistakes don’t cost deals – they cost lives. What this means for trust, leadership, and responsibility in sales.

This keynote reveals why sales in medical technology is fundamentally different. When decisions can affect human lives, trust becomes the most critical currency — trust in the brand, in customer relationships, and in the people who sell. And this is where leadership begins: as the true source of trust, mindset, and responsibility.

15:00 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Keynote

In preparation

15:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

AI Evaluates. Who Develops People?

AI coaching opens up new opportunities to improve customer service quality. But how much can AI actually achieve? And why does the human factor remain crucial?

15:15 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Great customer service can't be automated? Think again. What it takes for AI agents to actually improve service

Long wait times, the same questions over and over, and a team with barely any time left for the tricky cases: many service departments know this all too well. AI agents could take some of the load off, but implementation often gets in the way. Writing prompts, connecting systems, bringing employees on board: it all sounds like a major IT project. Vanessa Nagel, Solution Consultant at sipgate, shows that it doesn't have to be. She explains the building blocks an AI agent needs in customer service: the right knowledge, a fitting tone, clearly defined tasks, and access to systems like the CRM. Using sona as an example, she shows how all of this can be set up without prompt engineering. She also shares insights from real implementation projects: how the first integration works, who needs to be involved, and how service teams are trained to keep developing the system on their own.

15:15 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Hybrid & Remote Sales: New Formats, Challenges, and Opportunities

How sales is evolving toward remote and hybrid working, which communication and collaboration models have proven effective, and how sales teams can stay closely connected in the long term.

15:30 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Global Customer Service: Success Strategies in the International Environment

What defines global customer service, and how does it differ around the world? What adjustments are necessary to provide a consistent and outstanding customer experience globally?

15:30

Coffee break

Enjoy some coffee and cake and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

16:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

From Strategy to Implementation – Your System Integrator for Customer Experience Solutions

In preparation

16:00 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Coffee break

Enjoy some coffee and cake and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

16:15 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Coffee break

Enjoy coffee and cake and make new contacts with the visitors and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

16:15 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Not every ticket needs a human. Why Hiring More Service Staff Isn’t a Strategy.

Together, dennree and SIEVERS demonstrate how increasing request volumes can be managed through smarter service processes: intelligently routing inquiries, automating routine cases, and freeing up employees to focus on the issues where their expertise really matters.

16:15 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Solve First, Sell Second: How AI Agents Are Changing Customer Interactions

It starts in the FAQ centre: a question that seamlessly turns into a conversation with an AI Agent. The result is a quick solution and, potentially, the next purchase. AI Agents bring service and sales together, understand the context and draw on centralised knowledge. We show how a simple touchpoint can become a key moment in the customer relationship.

16:30 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Salesforce Contact Center by Bucher + Suter & MYCOM

See Salesforce Contact Center in action. In this hands-on masterclass, we’ll:

  • A brief introduction to the partnership between MYCOM and Bucher+Suter 
  • Spin up a contact center live
  • Take you inside the architecture and key integrations
  • Share what we’re learning from pilot projects
  • Show Bucher + Suter-powered Microsoft Presence Sync 

Come see how it works, ask questions, and get into the technical details with us.

16:30 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

The Best Buyer Experience Wins

16:30 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Sales Under Pressure – How Mental Health and Resilience Safeguard Performance

Why pressure in sales is increasing, how psychological strain impacts performance, and which strategies teams and leaders can use to ensure sustainable well-being and long-term success.

16:45 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Proactive Service Through AI & Analytics

How companies use data, machine learning, and predictive analytics to anticipate customer needs and resolve issues before they arise.

16:45 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

#NextLevel | The end of ‘either/or’ – why EWE set up its own service company and what others can learn from it

Two years ago, EWE and Deloitte reported on the successful transformation carried out as part of KIM26 at the Service Summit. However, as the transformation achieved success, a new strategic question arose: what capabilities must companies possess themselves in future to be able to actively shape customer service in an era of AI, rising customer expectations and growing pressure to innovate?

In this masterclass, EWE and Deloitte offer exclusive insights into the next major step in their development: setting up their own service company. Find out why EWE deliberately chose a new path between traditional outsourcing and full reintegration, what challenges and decisions shaped the set-up process, and why the organisation achieved its target performance level after such a short time.

Look forward to an honest account of the transformation, concrete lessons learnt from real-world experience, and insights into the key management question facing many companies: Which capabilities should be strategically embedded in-house in future – and which should not?
 

17:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Masterclass

In preparation

17:00 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

In preparation

17:15 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

less processing – more selling: ACO's Transformation Towards a Sales-Active Customer Service Organization

How can a traditional back-office organization become a true growth engine? In this inspiring keynote, ACO shares its transformation journey from cost center to profit center. By redesigning processes, leveraging an integrated Microsoft platform, and empowering employees to actively support sales, administrative work is reduced while customer-facing activities increase. Discover how digitalization, automation, and organizational change free up capacity for value-creating tasks, unlock new revenue opportunities, and redefine the role of Customer Service in the construction industry. A practical and thought-provoking story of transformation with measurable business impact.

17:30 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Speaker Awards Prizegiving

The top three speakers from our Main Stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

17:30 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Customer Support Reinvented in 6 months: A Case Study in AI-Driven Service Management

Discover how we transformed Customer Support in just six months by consolidating two legacy service management platforms into a single, Matrix42 built solution. Learn how we redesigned every major support process, restructured teams, and modernized operations while keeping business continuity intact. What made this transformation different was our AI-first mindset: every data model, configuration and workflow decision was evaluated through a single lens, will this make AI more effective? The result was an AI-native service organization with streamlined workflows, unified data, and a foundation for autonomous service management. Join us to explore the lessons learned, challenges overcome, and measurable impact of putting AI at the center of transformation.

17:30 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:

Speaker Awards Prizegiving

The top three speakers from our Masterclasses will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

17:30 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:

Speaker Awards Prizegiving

The top three speakers from our Masterclasses will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

17:45 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:

Speaker Award Prizegiving

The top three speakers from our Masterclasses will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

17:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Speaker Award Prizegiving

The top three speakers from our Main Stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

18:00

AFTERSHOW LOUNGE

Drinks and networking for all participants & special Live Act!

19:00

Beerpong Tournament!

Sign up for our legendary beer pong tournament via the app!

23:00

End of today's event

5th Nov 2026 Service Summit Day Two

  1. SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE live translation available
    Hosted by:
    Nona Brodersen
  1. ZUGSPITZE Masterclasses
    Hosted by:
    Pascal Possler
  1. MATTERHORN Masterclasses
    Hosted by:
    Richie Bielau
  1. MONT BLANC Masterclasses
    Hosted by:
    Lea Bücker
  1. SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE live translation available
    Hosted by:
    Franziska Zimmermann
  1. 09:00
     

    09:00 Welcome!

    Our doors open at 09:15 - so you can start networking at the first coffee and secure the best seat

  1. 09:45
     

    Opening - Service Summit Main Stage

    Opening of the event with a warm welcome by the moderator.

  2. 10:00
    Keynote

    We’re Automating the Wrong Thing: Why AI Doesn’t Solve Tickets - It Just Keeps Them Alive.

    Many service organizations use AI to answer customer inquiries more quickly and cost-effectively. However, a significant proportion of these contacts should never exist in the first place: they arise because a company failed to deliver, explain, or fulfill something beforehand. Automating these contacts simply makes a broken process more efficient.
    Using the example of an e-commerce company with complex logistics, this presentation shows how service teams can identify unnecessary contacts, eliminate them at the source, and deploy AI only where it creates genuine value.

  3. 10:30
    Panel discussion

    From a Small Team to a Scalable Service Organization – Success Strategies & Getting Started with AI in Customer Service

    Many service organizations recognize the potential of automation and AI - yet taking the first step often raises questions. In this panel discussion, the speakers share how they implemented initial automation initiatives in customer service, which use cases are best suited for getting started, and the key learnings they gained on their journey toward scalable service operations.

  4. 11:15
    Panel discussion

    Emotional Boundaries in Customer Service

    A discussion on how service teams can remain empathetic and solution-oriented in challenging customer situations without compromising their own mental health. The session explores practical methods for handling emotional strain in daily work and how leaders can actively support their teams.

  1. Keynote Service

    10:00 How Agentic Self-Learning Is Transforming Customer Experiences

    True agentic AI doesn’t wait to be retrained. It improves itself.

    Most contact centre AI investments have hit an automation plateau, and the cause is architecture, not implementation. If improving your CX platform depends on manual tuning or your vendor’s PS team, it isn’t agentic.

    Omilia’s self-learning agents monitor every interaction, identify what to improve, build better agents automatically, and deploy them with human approval.

    In this session you’ll learn:

    • What self-learning looks like at enterprise scale

    • Where LLMs add real value, and where they don’t

    • Why specialised voice AI, not general-purpose models, should power live customer calls

    • How full decision transparency supports compliance teams and regulated industries

    The outcome: a non-technical team can stand up an agent and see measurable gains within days, reach ROI in three months, and get resolution rates that keep compounding instead of plateauing.

  2. Keynote Service

    10:30 The final clicks are made by humans: From the grand vision of full automation to what really matters in day-to-day operations

    A service that runs completely automatically, end-to-end. That’s the vision many providers are currently promising. The reality is quite different. Using real-world projects as examples, we’ll show where full automation consistently falls short—and why, in the end, a human still has to make the final decisions. These decisions are made long before anyone even considers AI agents. So what else is essential besides the technology? How do you define what an AI agent is allowed to do? What decisions must be made right at the very beginning? And who takes over if the AI agent fails? We’ll show you how we answer these questions in our day-to-day operations

  3. Keynote Service

    11:00 Masterclass

    In preparation

  4. Keynote Service

    11:30 Masterclass ElevenLabs

  5. Keynote Service

    12:00 AI in Customer Service without losing control – use ServiceNow, retain Data Sovereignty

    AI has made its way into customer service. However, data protection, compliance, and concerns about data leakage are holding many companies back. The question is therefore no longer “AI: yes or no?” but rather “How can we use AI securely and with control?” A real-world example demonstrates how ServiceNow can be operated on a sovereign cloud while keeping data sdata secure and sovereign in Germany.

  1. Keynote Service

    10:00 Press 1 for Customer Experience: AI-native. End-to-end integrated. Digitally sovereign.

    A contact center alone does not create a customer experience. Only when AI, the contact center, and downstream service processes work together seamlessly across channels a truly connected customer journey does emerge: intelligent, personalized, and efficient.

    With Agentic AI, entirely new possibilities are opening up. AI can do more than answer customer inquiries. It can initiate processes, orchestrate workflows, and resolve requests across system boundaries. But how can organizations move from isolated technologies to a holistic, AI-powered customer experience without relinquishing control over their data, systems, and processes?

    In this masterclass, we will share practical insights from real projects, demonstrating how organizations can work with Telekom to build an end-to-end and digitally sovereign customer experience. The focus will be on the successful integration of AI, contact center, and service processes; secure and sovereign operations; and the critical success factors for effective implementation in practice.

  2. Keynote Service/Sales

    10:30 Hands-on Odoo: A Sales & Service Flow in Practice

    In this masterclass, we leave theoretical slides behind and dive straight into the software. Experience a seamless end-to-end process: from the initial sales contact to the successful delivery and invoicing of the service. Anthony Schulz will demonstrate live in Odoo how integrated workflows work in practice and where the real efficiency gains lie for mid-sized businesses.

  3. Keynote Service

    11:00 AI Works Best on a Short Leash – Customer interactions that feel personal, AI that stays on script

    Most AI in customer service disappoints for the same reason: it is given too much freedom. A bigger model won't fix that. Enforced rules will. Pierce Buckley, CEO of babelforce, shows how service teams describe a process once and turn it into an AI agent that cannot skip a step, with every change under their control. He explains why the same principle now lets companies hand AI responsibility for real customer outcomes, not just conversations. Practical, grounded in our work with service teams, and free of hype.

  4. Keynote Service

    11:15 Value over Vision: The Business Case for AI in the Contact Center

    Many AI projects in the contact center never make it past the pilot stage. The technology is there, but the business case isn’t. Drawing on a selection of our customer projects, Eva Ramuschkat shows how AI investments in Amazon Connect can be systematically translated into measurable business value: cost savings of more than 40%, higher service quality and a clearly quantifiable ROI. The talk gives contact center leaders a strategic framework for turning AI initiatives from a nice-to-have into a must-have investment, backed by numbers that convince the board.

  5. Keynote Service

    11:30 From 0 to 50: How Rabot Energy handles every second service request with AI Agents and what happens to the other 50%

    Everyone talks about AI. We show it. Using the concrete example of our customer Rabot Energy, we show how the company achieved this within a year: automatically resolving every second service request via email using AI agents. We talk openly about what it took to get there: which prerequisites must be in place for an AI agent to handle email requests reliably and autonomously, and where the limit of that 50% lies and why that’s not a coincidence, but a deliberate decision. But we also show what companies with a more complex, historically grown IT landscape are doing to still benefit from AI agents in customer service: pragmatic and with practice-relevant examples.

  6. Keynote Service

    11:45 Service with AI-supported scheduling and workflows

    Customer service is only as strong as the operation behind it. Customer requests arrive by phone, email, portal, chatbot, or Voice AI—but customer service does not stop when the conversation ends. It continues until the request has become a structured work order, a realistic appointment, a well-prepared technician visit, and a successfully completed job. 

    This session demonstrates how AI-supported service workflows transform incoming information into clear operational action with fewer manual handovers. The presentation follows the complete service lifecycle—from work order creation and validation through automated scheduling, technician assignment, and on-site guidance to customer communication, documentation, reporting, and monitoring. 

    Attendees will see how connected workflows can give technicians clearer information, enable dispatchers to focus on exceptions, and keep customers updated throughout the service process.

  7. Keynote Service

    12:00 From Prompt to Resolution: How to Get Started with AI Agents in Customer Service

    Where should a business actually start with AI agents? The answer is rarely “automate everything.” This practical session presents a simple approach for identifying the right first use case, connecting the required business tools and data, defining permissions and human checkpoints, and gradually moving from AI assistance to Agentic workflows. We’ll bring the approach to life with a live example connecting Claude, MCP and Zoho applications such as CRM and Desk. Attendees will see how an agent can gather customer context across systems, reason over that information, and recommend or execute the next step, turning a natural-language request into a real business process. The goal is to give both SMEs and larger enterprises a practical framework they can use to begin experimenting with agents responsibly.

  1. Keynote Service

    10:15 Blended AI + human: how this UK fashion brand turned customer care into a sales channel

    T.M.Lewin, the 125-year-old British shirtmaker, runs customer care with AI and people working as one team. Response times dropped from four days to four hours, every Q4 surge is absorbed without missing service levels, and support became a sales channel: 10% of contacts end up as a sale. Tobias shows how in 15 minutes.

  2. Keynote Service

    10:30 Masterclass SNCOM

  3. Keynote Service

    11:00 Masterclass lmbit

  4. Keynote Sales

    11:30 Masterclass Donna

    Meet Donna: from sales admin to field insights in action Field sales teams don’t lose deals because reps lack knowledge. They lose them because of an execution gap, and more sales admin won’t close it. In this session, we’ll show how Donna captures what happens in every customer conversation and turns it into the next best action. The result is double the selling time and 30% higher conversion rates.

  1.  

    09:45 Opening - Sales Summit Main Stage

    Opening of the event and welcome by the moderator.

  2. Keynote

    10:00 Disruptive Innovation - Transitioning from the Physical to the Virtual World: Selling Digital

    Safety as a Mission – From Physical to Digital World shows how safety is being redefined through the transition from physical products to scalable SaaS solutions and why data-driven platforms are becoming the key to growth and customer value.

  3. Keynote

    10:30 The End of the Average Traveler?

    Unlimited choice is reshaping the role of travel sales: success is no longer all about offering the widest range, but about creating relevance. Sophia's keynote explores how personalization and a clear focus on specific target groups can turn a broad portfolio into meaningful offers for individual needs, and why the future role of travel sales is, above all, to provide guidance and orientation.

  4. Panel discussion

    11:00 Sales Technologies & Sales Tools – From CRM and AI to Social Selling

    Which digital tools and technologies help sales teams work more efficiently, automate processes, and engage customers in a more targeted way today?

    Presentation:

    Dennis Nenner Dennis Nenner  
  5. Panel discussion

    11:45 How Sales Leadership differs across markets and what we can learn

    Sales is led very differently across markets – from decision-making processes and go-to-market strategies to the way teams are managed. But which of these differences actually make a meaningful impact on success?

    In this panel, sales leaders from different countries will share their approaches, priorities and experiences. The discussion goes beyond simply exploring what is different, focusing instead on what truly works – and which of these approaches can be applied across markets.

  1. 12:00
     

    12:00 Lunch break

    Enjoy the food while making new contacts with visitors and exhibitors at the Service & Sales Summit.

  1. 13:15
    Keynote

    Next exit to the future

    In no phase of history has there been a comparable surge in innovation as in our time. As a result of the new technical possibilities, the world is growing together into a networked global system of great heterogeneity. Opportunities and risks are closely intertwined. Dealing with the new in society has become a major challenge. At this high pace of innovation, citizens are looking for ways to understand the new and to recognize the social and technical processes in context. In dealing with the new, we are currently experiencing the transition from a “considerate” to a “cautious” society.

    I will use many examples to illustrate our changed approach to the new and show ways of creating a culture of change.

  2. 14:00
     

    Coffee break

    Enjoy some coffee and cake and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

  3. 14:30
    Keynote

    Efficiency Meets Empathy: How Human‑AI Teams Transform Customer Service

    How can customer service become more efficient and more human at the same time? This keynote explores how AI can be used intentionally to support employees, streamline processes, and create space for empathy, active listening, and genuine customer relationships. At its core is the collaboration between humans and AI as one team – enabling service that not only meets but exceeds customer expectations.

  4. 15:00
    Panel discussion

    Voice AI & Conversational Interfaces – Human or Machine on the Phone? How Much AI Are Customers Willing to Accept?

    This session explores the opportunities voicebots, speech assistants, and AI-powered conversational systems offer for service quality and efficiency – and where customers still clearly prefer personal, human interaction.

  5. 15:45
     

    Speaker Awards Prizegiving

    The top three speakers on each stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. Keynote Service

    14:00 Help, my Service is making money! Turning costs into revenue with practical AI use cases for service

    “Service as a cost center” is yesterday’s thinking. For a long time, customer service was seen as a necessary evil: it consumed budgets, was burdened by manual admin work, and let upselling opportunities slip away. In this masterclass, we turn that idea on its head!

    As part of our “Salesforce X” initiative, we’ll show how combining telecom expertise—from telephony integration and process automation with n8n to interactive messaging via RCS—with Salesforce Agentforce can turn your service operation from a pure cost center into a real cash cow. We break down the silos between service, marketing and sales: every customer conversation becomes an opportunity for the next campaign and the next deal. Forget theoretical AI castles in the sky. We bring the technology straight into practice.

  2.  

    14:30 Masterclass Award Prizegiving

    The top three speakers on each stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1.  

    14:30 Masterclass Awards Prizegiving

    The three best speakers on each stage will be honoured. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1.  

    14:00 Masterclass Awards Prizegiving

    The three best speakers on each stage will be honoured. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. Keynote

    14:00 Sales Summit Startup Awards Part 2 + Award ceremony

    Here you will get to know innovative startups that present their smart and new solutions for digital innovations in sales. The best three will receive a Sales Summit Startup Award - you vote!

  2. Keynote

    14:45 Stop Managing. Start Designing. How Leading Backwards Unlocks AI-Driven Sales Excellence.

    Most sales teams plan for the future. Yannick de Jong shows why that's no longer enough - and what it means to think backwards from the future instead. In the age of AI-driven sales, success no longer belongs to those who react best, but to those who design their system best. Stop Managing. Start Designing. 30 minutes, one shift in perspective – and a decision you make yourself before you leave the room.

  3. Panel discussion

    15:15 War for Talent

    Sales teams aim to grow strongly in 2026 and compete for the best sales professionals in a highly competitive talent market. This session explores which approaches truly make a difference – from employer branding and tools to external partners – and what it takes to successfully attract and retain talent in today’s market.

  4.  

    16:00 Speaker Award Prizegiving

    The top three speakers on each stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

  1. 17:00

    17:00 End of Service & Sales Summit 2026

5th November 2026 Service Summit Day Two

09:00

Welcome!

Our doors open at 09:15 - so you can start networking at the first coffee and secure the best seat

09:45 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Opening - Service Summit Main Stage

Opening of the event with a warm welcome by the moderator.

09:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Opening - Sales Summit Main Stage

Opening of the event and welcome by the moderator.

10:00 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

We’re Automating the Wrong Thing: Why AI Doesn’t Solve Tickets - It Just Keeps Them Alive.

Many service organizations use AI to answer customer inquiries more quickly and cost-effectively. However, a significant proportion of these contacts should never exist in the first place: they arise because a company failed to deliver, explain, or fulfill something beforehand. Automating these contacts simply makes a broken process more efficient.
Using the example of an e-commerce company with complex logistics, this presentation shows how service teams can identify unnecessary contacts, eliminate them at the source, and deploy AI only where it creates genuine value.

10:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

How Agentic Self-Learning Is Transforming Customer Experiences

True agentic AI doesn’t wait to be retrained. It improves itself.

Most contact centre AI investments have hit an automation plateau, and the cause is architecture, not implementation. If improving your CX platform depends on manual tuning or your vendor’s PS team, it isn’t agentic.

Omilia’s self-learning agents monitor every interaction, identify what to improve, build better agents automatically, and deploy them with human approval.

In this session you’ll learn:

  • What self-learning looks like at enterprise scale

  • Where LLMs add real value, and where they don’t

  • Why specialised voice AI, not general-purpose models, should power live customer calls

  • How full decision transparency supports compliance teams and regulated industries

The outcome: a non-technical team can stand up an agent and see measurable gains within days, reach ROI in three months, and get resolution rates that keep compounding instead of plateauing.

10:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Press 1 for Customer Experience: AI-native. End-to-end integrated. Digitally sovereign.

A contact center alone does not create a customer experience. Only when AI, the contact center, and downstream service processes work together seamlessly across channels a truly connected customer journey does emerge: intelligent, personalized, and efficient.

With Agentic AI, entirely new possibilities are opening up. AI can do more than answer customer inquiries. It can initiate processes, orchestrate workflows, and resolve requests across system boundaries. But how can organizations move from isolated technologies to a holistic, AI-powered customer experience without relinquishing control over their data, systems, and processes?

In this masterclass, we will share practical insights from real projects, demonstrating how organizations can work with Telekom to build an end-to-end and digitally sovereign customer experience. The focus will be on the successful integration of AI, contact center, and service processes; secure and sovereign operations; and the critical success factors for effective implementation in practice.

10:00 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Disruptive Innovation - Transitioning from the Physical to the Virtual World: Selling Digital

Safety as a Mission – From Physical to Digital World shows how safety is being redefined through the transition from physical products to scalable SaaS solutions and why data-driven platforms are becoming the key to growth and customer value.

10:15 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Blended AI + human: how this UK fashion brand turned customer care into a sales channel

T.M.Lewin, the 125-year-old British shirtmaker, runs customer care with AI and people working as one team. Response times dropped from four days to four hours, every Q4 surge is absorbed without missing service levels, and support became a sales channel: 10% of contacts end up as a sale. Tobias shows how in 15 minutes.

10:30 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

From a Small Team to a Scalable Service Organization – Success Strategies & Getting Started with AI in Customer Service

Many service organizations recognize the potential of automation and AI - yet taking the first step often raises questions. In this panel discussion, the speakers share how they implemented initial automation initiatives in customer service, which use cases are best suited for getting started, and the key learnings they gained on their journey toward scalable service operations.

10:30 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

The final clicks are made by humans: From the grand vision of full automation to what really matters in day-to-day operations

A service that runs completely automatically, end-to-end. That’s the vision many providers are currently promising. The reality is quite different. Using real-world projects as examples, we’ll show where full automation consistently falls short—and why, in the end, a human still has to make the final decisions. These decisions are made long before anyone even considers AI agents. So what else is essential besides the technology? How do you define what an AI agent is allowed to do? What decisions must be made right at the very beginning? And who takes over if the AI agent fails? We’ll show you how we answer these questions in our day-to-day operations

10:30 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service/Sales

Hands-on Odoo: A Sales & Service Flow in Practice

In this masterclass, we leave theoretical slides behind and dive straight into the software. Experience a seamless end-to-end process: from the initial sales contact to the successful delivery and invoicing of the service. Anthony Schulz will demonstrate live in Odoo how integrated workflows work in practice and where the real efficiency gains lie for mid-sized businesses.

10:30 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Masterclass SNCOM

10:30 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

The End of the Average Traveler?

Unlimited choice is reshaping the role of travel sales: success is no longer all about offering the widest range, but about creating relevance. Sophia's keynote explores how personalization and a clear focus on specific target groups can turn a broad portfolio into meaningful offers for individual needs, and why the future role of travel sales is, above all, to provide guidance and orientation.

11:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Masterclass

In preparation

11:00 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

AI Works Best on a Short Leash – Customer interactions that feel personal, AI that stays on script

Most AI in customer service disappoints for the same reason: it is given too much freedom. A bigger model won't fix that. Enforced rules will. Pierce Buckley, CEO of babelforce, shows how service teams describe a process once and turn it into an AI agent that cannot skip a step, with every change under their control. He explains why the same principle now lets companies hand AI responsibility for real customer outcomes, not just conversations. Practical, grounded in our work with service teams, and free of hype.

11:00 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Masterclass lmbit

11:00 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Sales Technologies & Sales Tools – From CRM and AI to Social Selling

Which digital tools and technologies help sales teams work more efficiently, automate processes, and engage customers in a more targeted way today?

Presentation:

Dennis Nenner Dennis Nenner  
11:15 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Emotional Boundaries in Customer Service

A discussion on how service teams can remain empathetic and solution-oriented in challenging customer situations without compromising their own mental health. The session explores practical methods for handling emotional strain in daily work and how leaders can actively support their teams.

11:15 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Value over Vision: The Business Case for AI in the Contact Center

Many AI projects in the contact center never make it past the pilot stage. The technology is there, but the business case isn’t. Drawing on a selection of our customer projects, Eva Ramuschkat shows how AI investments in Amazon Connect can be systematically translated into measurable business value: cost savings of more than 40%, higher service quality and a clearly quantifiable ROI. The talk gives contact center leaders a strategic framework for turning AI initiatives from a nice-to-have into a must-have investment, backed by numbers that convince the board.

11:30 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Masterclass ElevenLabs

11:30 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

From 0 to 50: How Rabot Energy handles every second service request with AI Agents and what happens to the other 50%

Everyone talks about AI. We show it. Using the concrete example of our customer Rabot Energy, we show how the company achieved this within a year: automatically resolving every second service request via email using AI agents. We talk openly about what it took to get there: which prerequisites must be in place for an AI agent to handle email requests reliably and autonomously, and where the limit of that 50% lies and why that’s not a coincidence, but a deliberate decision. But we also show what companies with a more complex, historically grown IT landscape are doing to still benefit from AI agents in customer service: pragmatic and with practice-relevant examples.

11:30 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Sales

Masterclass Donna

Meet Donna: from sales admin to field insights in action Field sales teams don’t lose deals because reps lack knowledge. They lose them because of an execution gap, and more sales admin won’t close it. In this session, we’ll show how Donna captures what happens in every customer conversation and turns it into the next best action. The result is double the selling time and 30% higher conversion rates.

11:45 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Service with AI-supported scheduling and workflows

Customer service is only as strong as the operation behind it. Customer requests arrive by phone, email, portal, chatbot, or Voice AI—but customer service does not stop when the conversation ends. It continues until the request has become a structured work order, a realistic appointment, a well-prepared technician visit, and a successfully completed job. 

This session demonstrates how AI-supported service workflows transform incoming information into clear operational action with fewer manual handovers. The presentation follows the complete service lifecycle—from work order creation and validation through automated scheduling, technician assignment, and on-site guidance to customer communication, documentation, reporting, and monitoring. 

Attendees will see how connected workflows can give technicians clearer information, enable dispatchers to focus on exceptions, and keep customers updated throughout the service process.

11:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

How Sales Leadership differs across markets and what we can learn

Sales is led very differently across markets – from decision-making processes and go-to-market strategies to the way teams are managed. But which of these differences actually make a meaningful impact on success?

In this panel, sales leaders from different countries will share their approaches, priorities and experiences. The discussion goes beyond simply exploring what is different, focusing instead on what truly works – and which of these approaches can be applied across markets.

12:00

Lunch break

Enjoy the food while making new contacts with visitors and exhibitors at the Service & Sales Summit.

13:15 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Next exit to the future

In no phase of history has there been a comparable surge in innovation as in our time. As a result of the new technical possibilities, the world is growing together into a networked global system of great heterogeneity. Opportunities and risks are closely intertwined. Dealing with the new in society has become a major challenge. At this high pace of innovation, citizens are looking for ways to understand the new and to recognize the social and technical processes in context. In dealing with the new, we are currently experiencing the transition from a “considerate” to a “cautious” society.

I will use many examples to illustrate our changed approach to the new and show ways of creating a culture of change.

14:00 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Coffee break

Enjoy some coffee and cake and establish new contacts with the attendees and exhibitors of the Service & Sales Summit.

14:00 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:
Keynote Service

Help, my Service is making money! Turning costs into revenue with practical AI use cases for service

“Service as a cost center” is yesterday’s thinking. For a long time, customer service was seen as a necessary evil: it consumed budgets, was burdened by manual admin work, and let upselling opportunities slip away. In this masterclass, we turn that idea on its head!

As part of our “Salesforce X” initiative, we’ll show how combining telecom expertise—from telephony integration and process automation with n8n to interactive messaging via RCS—with Salesforce Agentforce can turn your service operation from a pure cost center into a real cash cow. We break down the silos between service, marketing and sales: every customer conversation becomes an opportunity for the next campaign and the next deal. Forget theoretical AI castles in the sky. We bring the technology straight into practice.

14:00 MONT BLANC MASTERCLASSES:

Masterclass Awards Prizegiving

The three best speakers on each stage will be honoured. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

14:00 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Sales Summit Startup Awards Part 2 + Award ceremony

Here you will get to know innovative startups that present their smart and new solutions for digital innovations in sales. The best three will receive a Sales Summit Startup Award - you vote!

14:30 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Efficiency Meets Empathy: How Human‑AI Teams Transform Customer Service

How can customer service become more efficient and more human at the same time? This keynote explores how AI can be used intentionally to support employees, streamline processes, and create space for empathy, active listening, and genuine customer relationships. At its core is the collaboration between humans and AI as one team – enabling service that not only meets but exceeds customer expectations.

14:30 ZUGSPITZE MASTERCLASSES:

Masterclass Award Prizegiving

The top three speakers on each stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

14:30 MATTERHORN MASTERCLASSES:

Masterclass Awards Prizegiving

The three best speakers on each stage will be honoured. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

14:45 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Keynote

Stop Managing. Start Designing. How Leading Backwards Unlocks AI-Driven Sales Excellence.

Most sales teams plan for the future. Yannick de Jong shows why that's no longer enough - and what it means to think backwards from the future instead. In the age of AI-driven sales, success no longer belongs to those who react best, but to those who design their system best. Stop Managing. Start Designing. 30 minutes, one shift in perspective – and a decision you make yourself before you leave the room.

15:00 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

Voice AI & Conversational Interfaces – Human or Machine on the Phone? How Much AI Are Customers Willing to Accept?

This session explores the opportunities voicebots, speech assistants, and AI-powered conversational systems offer for service quality and efficiency – and where customers still clearly prefer personal, human interaction.

15:15 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:
Panel discussion

War for Talent

Sales teams aim to grow strongly in 2026 and compete for the best sales professionals in a highly competitive talent market. This session explores which approaches truly make a difference – from employer branding and tools to external partners – and what it takes to successfully attract and retain talent in today’s market.

15:45 SERVICE SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Speaker Awards Prizegiving

The top three speakers on each stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.

16:00 SALES SUMMIT MAIN STAGE:

Speaker Award Prizegiving

The top three speakers on each stage will be honored. You decide which speakers you found particularly inspiring, charismatic and innovative. Voting will take place using our app. Access is via your ticket code.