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Customer trust: the challenges and opportunities

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Event
  • Session
  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018
  • 15:22 - 15:22
  • Duration: 18 mins
  • Publication date: 08 Jun 2018
  • Location: Customer Solutions Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

This session, hosted by Utility Week in association with WNS, will look at the critical issue of customer trust, asking how to maintain and in some cases, build trust in challenging circumstances. Members of the Utility Week/WNS Customer Trust council will speak about their business’s experiences of working with customers in a diverse range of contexts, from vulnerable customers to customers and other stakeholders participating in the price review process. Utility Week & WNS will also launch an exclusive research report looking at the critical issue of customer trust, including best practice case studies from across the sector.

Chair: Lois Vallely, Features Editor, Utility Week 

Keywords:
  • GDPR
  • climate change
  • cloud migration
  • cyber defence
  • data governance
  • decarbonisation
  • electric vehicle
  • energy
  • energy crisis
  • energy sector
  • fuel bank
  • npower
  • power consumption
  • priority services
  • renewable
  • smart meter
  • smart meter data
  • water sector

Channels

Power

Power

Speakers

  • Lois Vallely

    Lois Vallely

    Features editor, Utility Week

  • JF

    Jen Felton

    United Utilities

  • Matt  Rudling

    Matt Rudling

    UKPN, Director of customer service

    Matt has worked in the electricity industry for 30 years, fulfilling a variety of operational and managerial roles. The last 15 years have been spent focussed on Matt’s passion of customer service and during that time he has been involved in major change programmes and initiatives which supports changing customer expectations. Matt’s current role covers both an operational element in his responsibility for the team who engage 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with our customers, but also has the strategic objective of ensuring the whole of UK Power Networks business is customer focussed. This means changing as Matt puts it from ‘an engineering business with customers’ to ‘a customer first business which has an engineering product’. This means changing many years of ingrained culture.Matt’s role also includes external communications, such as media relations, public affairs and stakeholder engagement, which is at a time when reputation is critical to the business’ success. UK Power Networks leads the industry in innovation on customer choice. They were the first network operator to embrace digital and social media as a core channel for real time engagement with the 20 million customers they serve, winning many awards along the way.Outside of work, Matt has a family of three young boys, which provide fun, enjoyment, inspiration and despair, all in equal measure! He is a huge football fan and has been shaped and formed by the trials and tribulations of following Norwich City FC all his life.
  • Matthew Cole

    Matthew Cole

    Npower, Head of home & business policy and social energy

    Matthew is responsible for both the corporate response to evolving public policy plus defining and commissioning services to support npower customers most in need. A policy-geek and change manager by training, over the last two years, Matthew has redefined npower's charitable projects and partnerships, generating greater business buy-in and advocacy by aligning them alongside npower's main business activities. Recently two of Matthew's key initiatives, the npower Fuel Bank™ (a project with the Trussell Trust to tackle the ‘heat or eat’ choice that some families have to make) and npower's Macmillan Fund have won prestigious awards recognising both their innovative nature and the positive outcomes delivered for clients.
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