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The 8th Annual Government Customer Support Conference and  Expo Specializes in Contact Centers, Call Centers, Help Desks, Service Desks and Service Portals

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Track Leadership / People Skills Business Strategy & Best Practices Technology & Trends
Chairs  Yolunda Davis Karen Trebon Fran Felix
Monday, May 4, 2009
7:30-8:30 REGISTRATION & Complimentary Coffee and Tea - Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:30-9:00 Welcome & Introduction with Conference Chair - Daryl Covey, NEXRAD - Grand Ballroom
9:00-9:50 Featured Keynote:  Seven Star Customer Service: Starting at the Top to Impact the Bottom Line
Ruby Newell-Legner, RubySpeaks, Inc.
10:00-11:00 Best Practices: Remote Workers: Revolutionary Change for the Contact Center
Cindy Auten, Telework Exchange
How Self Service Will Add Muscle to Your Contact Center
Bill Price, Driva Solutions
11:15-11:45 2009 Government Customer Support Excellence Awards Ceremony - Grand Ballroom
11:45-1:30 Networking Luncheon and Visit Event Partners - Grand Ballroom
1:30-2:45 Leadership Workshop -
Part 1:  Ten Essential Leadership and Business Management Skills for Customer Support Managers

Part 2:  How to Transform your Agents into Successful Communicators
Rae Ann Bruno, Business Solutions Training

Case Study - Customer Experience Makeover -    A Practical Approach to Differentiated Service
Kevin Paschuck, RightNow Technologies
and Jennifer Johnson, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
 Learn Key Ways to Integrate Change and Release Management for IT Project Success
 Lou Hunnebeck, Third Sky
3:00-4:00

Case Study: NSF: Optimizing Your Contact Center’s Performance with Business Analytics
Lee Anne Arslan, National Science Foundation

Session Sponsored by Oracle

4:00-4:20 Afternoon Break  - Refreshments provided by Oracle
4:30-5:30 A Step-by-Step Strategic Guide to Turbo-charge Your Contact Center
Susan Grow, Federal Consulting Group
Best Practices for Improving Government Customer Service: A Roadmap to Success
Karen Trebon & Robert Smudde, GSA 
Green Customer Support: Taming the Environmental Beast
Stephen Fletcher, State of Utah
   
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
7:45-8:45 Mastermind Sessions and  Continental Breakfast  - Grand Ballroom
9:00-9:45

Keynote:  Federal Customer Service Enhancement Act
United States Representative Congressman Henry Cuellar

10:00-11:00 Case Study: Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Integrating Digital Media with National Contact Centers for the 2009 Peanut Recall / Salmonella Outbreak
Amy Burnett & Erin Edgerton,
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Workforce Management Workshop
Call Center Math: A Practical Workshop for Managing by the Numbers
Penny Reynolds, The Call Center School
Case Study: DCMA: How to Achieve Significant Quality Improvement Using Lean Six Sigma and ITIL
Jacob Haynes, Defense Contract Management Agency
11:15-12:15

Case Study: OPM Retirement Services Program: Building a Winning Contact Center Strategy: Deciding What and When to Outsource
Nick Ashenden,
Office of Personnel Management

Session Sponsored by Tech Team Government Solutions

Preventing Snowballs: Practical Ways to Realize Low Cost Resolutions
Bill Price, Driva Solutions
12:15-2:00 Networking Luncheon and Visit Event Partners - Grand Ballroom
2:00-2:50 Keynote Panel:   Ideapalooza! Become More Effective Delivering Contact Center Service and Support on a Limited Budget
3:00-4:00  Unleash Your Leadership Potential:
Seven Top Secrets to Becoming an Exceptional Leader
Doug Bear, Kitsap County Public Works
Case Study: Putting Citizens First: Strengthening Government Service Delivery in the City of New York
Jeanette Moy, City of New York
Workshop:
Game Changing Moves - Doing Business With Social Media
Joanne McGovern, GSA
4:15-5:15  Best Practices for Recruiting, Inspiring & Retaining the Next Generation of Government Employees
April Harris, US Office of Personnel Management
   
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
8:00-8:45 Mastermind Sessions and  Continental Breakfast  - Grand Ballroom
9:00-10:00 The Link Matters!  Satisfaction & Performance Metrics to Optimize Customer Needs
Susan Grow, Federal Consulting Group and Xavier Quenaudon, CFI Group
The Dirty Dozen of Common Survey Mistakes
Fred Van Bennekom,
Great Brook Consulting
10:15-11:15 Learn to Create Ideas that Maximize Success and Energize the Workforce
Yolunda Davis, IRS
Case Study: Taking a Centralized Approach to Service Management: Cultivating Greatness and Success.
Dee Clark & Debra Siler, EPA

Overall Excellence Award Winner 2008
Case Study: How to Develop and Deliver a Successful Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan
Corina Stretch, Puget Sound Energy
11:30-12:30

Closing Keynote: Guide to Managing and Mentoring a Multi-Generational Workforce
Ivy Meadors, High Tech High Touch Solutions, Inc.

12:30-1:00 Conference Wrap Up and Drawings
2:00-4:00 Site Tour - United States Patent and Trade Office

 

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