Author: Geoff Spick

British Airways’ Chairman Talks Up the Passenger Customer Experience

Airlines and the travel industry have one of the toughest CX jobs. When something goes wrong, out of a very long list of aircraft, airport, air traffic control and weather issues, it can leave large numbers of people in the...

Five9 Launches New Genius AI Innovations at its CX Summit to Accelerate Agentic CX

While the UK arm of Five9 was busy chatting to CXM at Contact Centre Expo. The US wing was running its live event at Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, and a virtual Five9 CX Summit for those at distance. Alongside...

Contact Centre Expo Roundup: Blending AI and People Skills

After a hectic couple of days, Contact Centre Expo from London’s ExCel Arena has come to a end. From running around the floor, a welcome feeling given the freezing weather outside, bagging key vendor interviews, and gathering insights and trends...

AI-Powered Bank Klarna Shows off the Power of Intelligence, After Earlier Automation Stumble

Financial firm Klarna has been making great strides across global consumer markets in recent years, but is better (or worse) known in the CX world for fluffing its early AI agent launch. Popular in Europe for its “pay in three...

CXM Gets the Latest Views From Contact Centre Expo on Industry Trends and Ambitions

Contact Centre Expo is drawing to a close at London’s Excel Arena, but CXM was roving the show floor to capture the chat, insight and gossip from the key vendors, analysts and the movers and shakers of the call centre...

A Judge’s View from the International Customer Experience Awards with Ana Pia Pušić

The recent ICXA final judging and awards presentations were a rollercoaster of emotions and excitement for the finalists, judges as well as the organisers. We’ve already had a look from the perspective of some of the judging panels on the...

Contact Centre Expo 25 Takes Off With A Strong AI Vibe

Excel, London is host to today’s (Wednesday 19th November) “Contact Centre Expo, co-located with Customer Experience Expo UK” event to give it its full name. The show is also on tomorrow if you fancy getting down to explore the latest...

Windows 11 Heads to the Agentic AI Future

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 event is running this week with plenty of news across the company’s massive business software footprint. But back at the traditional heart of the company, the Windows OS is also changing. Windows 10 recently ended its working life...

London Luton Airport Boosts Career Pathways for the Next Generation

London Luton Airport has been doing a star turn at recent customer experience awards events. The hard-working airport CX team took home Bronze for Best Customer-Centric Culture at last week’s International Customer Experience Awards. And at the recent UK Customer Experience...

Report Roundup: CX Vendors Cite Contextual Intelligence and Change Resistance as Key Trends for 2026

Tis the season for tech types, big brands and software planners to drag a crystal ball out and have a peek into their roadmap and conceptual futures. Personally, I wish they’d give it rest, so we could all have a...