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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Conference

October 22- 24, 2006 - Nashville, TN

Preliminary Agenda

Day Time Topic
1 5:00 - 6:00 PM Conference Registration
1 6:00 - 7:00 PM "Welcome to Nashville" Reception
Dinner on your own
2 7:00 - 8:00 AM Continental breakfast
2 7:00 - 11:00 AM Conference Registration
2 8:00 - 9:45 AM General Session I
Welcome and Opening Remarks

Conference Chairs: Jim Rutland, Alabama Gas Corporation and June Moore, Piedmont Natural Gas

2 8:15 - 9:45 AM

"It's About Relationships - Customer Service"

Speaker: Bill Halbert, The Halbert Company

 
2 9:45 - 10:15 AM Refreshment Break - Sponsored by BillMatrix
2 10:15- 12:00 PM Roundtable Sessions
  • Call Center Operations
    Chair: Claire Taylor, Piedmont Natural Gas Company
  • Credit and Collections
    Chair: Tucker Blair, CenterPoint Energy
 
  • CRM Technology
    Co-Chairs: Rex Petrey, Atmos Energy Corp. and John DeGrange, AGL Resources

    Virtual Queuing…The Difference is Real

Ross Murdock, Account Executive and Eric Camulli, Director of Technology - Virtual Hold Technologies:

Description:  Educating and empowering customers with respectful options during periods of peak call volume, thereby increasing customer satisfaction and operational efficiency

Customer Field Services
Chair: James Bray, Atlanta Gas Light Company

Marketing
Chair: Jim Rutland, Alabama Gas Corporation

2 12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch with Exhibitors
2 1:30 - 3:00 PM

General Session II

"Serving Your Customers During a Crisis"

Moderator:  Bill Coffeen, Sr. Vice President, Mobile Gas

2 3:00 - 3:30 PM Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
2 3:30 - 4:30 PM

Roundtable Sessions

  • Marketing
  • Customer Field Services
  • Call Center Operations
  • Credit and Collections
  • Technology - Performance Management in the Real World:  Presentation by Merced Systems

This session will provide you with a practical understanding of how performance management can improve an operation. You will learn how the right combination of technology, processes, and people are needed to truly solve the performance management problem. And finally, you will understand how reporting "as we know it today is not enough to drive true business improvement.

2 5:30 - 7:00 PM Reception with Exhibitors

Dinner on your own

3 7:00 - 8:30 AM Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
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8:30 - 10:30 AM

 

 

 

 

8:30-9:30

 

 

 

9:30-10:30

Roundtable Sessions
  • Customer Field Services
  • Call Center Operations
  • Credit and Collections
  • Marketing
  • Technology

Customer Service Reporting with Dash Boards; How Atmos Energy Uses This Technology to Improve and Report Customer Service Results 

Craig White, Director, IT Strategy and Planning for Atmos Energy, will highlight the use of “Dash Boards” for the tracking of customer service in all facets of our business; operations, call center, business office, collections and revenue applications

BPO/Call Center Outsourcing…The Promise, The Process, The Pieces

John DeGrange, Applications Specialist, AGL Resources

Description:  Case study of AGL Resources effort to outsource customer service calls to BPO provider.  Take a look at the planning, process, and technology components utilized at AGL to deliver customer service calls to BPO provider in India.

   

3 10:30 - 10:45 AM Refeshment Break
3 10:45 - 12:00 PM

General Session III

During this segment of the General Session, a Debriefing Session on all of the CRM Roundtable programs will be conducted. Roundtable Chairs will give a brief presentation covering the information and highlights of their roundtable sessions.

Closing Comments/Adjourn