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Optimising mobile technologies and customer data to drive engagement and reduce churn

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Event
  • Session
  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018
  • 10:22 - 10:22
  • Duration: 1 hr
  • Publication date: 04 Jun 2018
  • Location: Keynote Conference, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility Week Live - Keynote Conference

About the session

This panel will explore how utilities are accelerating the pace of change in customer engagement through mobile, apps and social media; explore gamification as a tool to enhance engagement with smart meters; assess opportunities for utilities to tap into customer data to build new bundled propositions; address the potential impact of GDPR; and explore the potential of using crowdsourcing and online forums to improve customer intimacy.

Keywords:
  • GDPR
  • apps
  • crowd sourcing
  • customer engagement
  • gamification
  • mobile
  • online forum
  • smart meter
  • social media

Channels

Power

Power

Speakers

  • Ellen Bennett

    Ellen Bennett

    Editor, Utility Week

  • John Beaumont

    John Beaumont

    Thames Water, Chief digital officer

  • Michael Jary

    Michael Jary

    Verv, Managing Director

    Michael Jary is managing director of Verv, the home energy assistant that uses artificial intelligence to reduce energy bills, reduce carbon footprint, and make homes safer. Previously, he was director of connected homes at SSE and held several senior strategy roles at SSE and British Gas. Michael is passionate about transforming the energy industry using IoT for the benefit of the customer and the environment.
  • William Hewish

    William Hewish

    United Utilities, Chief information officer

    William has worked in the water industry for 8 years, having been CTO at Severn Trent Water and now in his current role at United Utilities for 5 years. He has previously worked in a number of different customer focussed sectors ranging from retail, hospitality and a digital start-up company.William was the elected chair of the water industry CIO Forum and continues to draw together the CIOs from across the industry on a quarterly basis to discuss technology innovations that will disrupt the sector such as robotic process automation.
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