Support Driven Summit
A dedicated in-person conference for Heads of Support and Senior Leaders in Customer Support and Customer Experience.
October 28 -30 | San Francisco, CA
Gain insights from industry leaders driving value and championing the importance of Customer Support and Customer Experience.
As a senior leader, your strategic decisions directly shape your organization's success. There’s no manual for the challenges you face or the economic landscape you’re navigating.
2025 Event Agenda
Presenters
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Breaking Barriers: How Case Swarming Reshaped Our Team Dynamics
Erika Semtei | Vice President, Customer Support at Braze
Learn actionable steps to initiate case swarming and revolutionise team collaboration for greater efficiency and responsiveness
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Support in the Spotlight: Bringing Technical Support to Customer Marketing Events
Emma Charles | Customer Learning & Enablement Manager, Team Lead at Everbridge
Learn how involving Technical Support in marketing events builds visibility, trust, and stronger customer relationships. This session shows how showcasing support expertise positions teams as strategic partners, boosting credibility and creating meaningful impact across the business.
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Lean, Mean, Next-Generation Support Teams
Victoria Crow Dog | Senior Manager, Technical Support at HackerRank
Next generation support teams are lean teams of talented problem-solving engineers who build with API, middleware, and other solutions to help customers and also scale their workloads, and love building real relationships by being out front with customers, not hiding behind tickets.
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Upgraded CSAT metric: how to make your CSAT more advanced?
Valeriia Golubieva | Customer Experience Program Manager at Manychat
Explore a fresh approach to CSAT with a three-tiered Total CSAT framework. Attendees will learn to create fairer evaluations, gain deeper actionable insights, and leave with practical strategies to measure customer satisfaction and strengthen their support teams.
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Use Proactive, White Glove Support to Double Customer Satisfaction and Half Wait Times
Damianne President | Happiness Product Lead at Automattic
Attendees will leave with a practical, step-by-step framework for implementing white-glove support that retains high-value customers and elevates service quality across all segments. Learn how customer segmentation, proactive outreach, and voice conversations can transform support from a cost center into a driver of retention, product improvement, and revenue growth.
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Hypergrowth: how to scale yourself with the company
Oleg Krasnov | Head of Customer Support at Manychat
Attendees will get an idea of what is expected from Support Leaders at different growth stages and how to operate ahead of the learning curve to exceed expectations and be highly valuable for the business.
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The Real Job of a Leader: Creating a Team That Talks Back
Kayleb McKelvain | Senior Director of Support at Tessitura Network
This session reframes leadership, emphasizing psychological safety over performance metrics. Attendees will learn to create an environment where people feel safe to speak up, be authentic, and be seen—building trust and engagement that naturally drive stronger performance.
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Aligning Marketing and Customer Experience for Success
Angel Funes | Head of Marketing at Horatio
Attendees will engage with a hands-on framework, filling in key details during the session to apply it directly to their own work. This interactive approach ensures they leave with practical, personalized takeaways ready to implement.
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Making CX Insights Work Cross-Functionally
Amanda Tarantino |CX Manager at True Botanicals
Attendees will walk away energized to champion the customer’s voice and confidently shape high-level decisions within their organizations.
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The Breakthrough That Turns Product and Support Into True Partners
Marilyn Lin | Director, Support Portfolio Transformation at Microsoft
Learn practical strategies and real-world examples to turn product and support into a high-impact partnership. This session shows how collaboration drives better customer outcomes, empowers teams, and creates significant business impact, leaving attendees ready to unlock their full potential.
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From Escalations to Collaboration: How Support Becomes Everyone’s Job
Ty Givens | Founder & CEO of CX Collective
This session presents a framework to turn escalations from “support’s problem” into cross-functional opportunities. Attendees will learn how to transform challenging situations into collaborative moments that build trust, enhance customer outcomes, and deliver stronger results for the business.
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QA at the Speed of AI
Ana-Alicia Siqueiros | Director of Support at Peek
Support teams can use AI not just to serve customers, but to evaluate and coach their own teams — scaling feedback, consistency, and growth without losing the human touch. By letting AI handle the repetitive QA work, managers and agents can focus on what matters most: building trust and developing in their role.
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How to say no to a customer and leave them and you feeling good - in 5 minutes!
Francoise Tourniaire | Owner and Principal of FT Works
Learn how to say no with clarity, confidence, and ease—while maintaining trust and respect.
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From Support to Strategy: How Patreon Turns Customer Feedback into Product Impact
Garrick Ho | Senior Operations Specialist at Patreon
The session isn’t so much about analyzing volume or anticipating feature impact, but more about how we turned customer feedback into influence by partnering with Product and Engineering. It focuses on building alignment, turning insights into action, and creating a repeatable framework that makes CX teams trusted partners.
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From Emotion to Business Impact: Leading with Data-Driven Escalations
Grant Stanis | Chief Executive Officer at TeamSupport
Explore real-world escalation successes and failures, and gain a repeatable framework that earns executive buy-in, builds trust, and drives effective customer solutions. Attendees will leave with practical tools to manage escalations confidently and create lasting impact.
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Building a Healthy, Customer-Driven Culture in CX
Melinda Roberts | Sr. Manager of Customer Experience at Dr. Squatch
I’ll share lessons from a decade in CX leadership on building healthy, customer-driven cultures—showing how empathy, ownership, and inspiration shape empowered teams more than process or compensation.
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Balancing AI and human empathy in support
Rita Saoud | Senior Vice President at Hire Horatio
Quick guide on how to balance AI and human empathy in support
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The Missing Layer Between AI Agents and Real ROI
Alden Seabolt | Product Lead at Assembled
Walk away understanding how workforce management turns AI deployment into measurable impact—aligning automation with staffing, forecasting, and performance goals.
PANEL SESSION
Support as a Value Driver: Why Customer Conversations Are Not a Cost Center
Moderated by: Greg Walder, CRO at TextExpander
Panelists: TBA
Hotels
We are happy to partner with a nearby hotel for discounted room rates for SD Summit 2025. You can find the details below, and the booking link will take you to the hotel website to complete your reservation.
Hotel G San Francisco
386 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
Available Dates
October 28 - 30
This deal is valid until rooms are available
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Slido is a platform that enables interactive audience engagement through live polls, Q&A, quizzes and word clouds during meetings or events.
Birdie.ai is a feedback analytics platform that uses AI to centralize, analyze, and quantify customer feedback across multiple sources to surface insights and prioritize actions.
A tech-enabled outsourcing partner providing trusted, handpicked support teams so businesses can focus on growth.
Intryc is an AI-driven customer experience platform that automates quality assurance, insights, training, and coaching for support teams.
Embrace.ai is an AI-powered platform that enhances customer and employee self-service by delivering fast, accurate answers through conversational search and personalized AI agents.
cis a productivity tool that lets users create and insert text snippets or boilerplate content via keyboard shortcuts to speed up repetitive typing tasks.
Assembled is a unified support operations platform that combines AI agents, workforce management, and analytics to help companies staff, manage, and automate human + AI customer support.
Craft CXM is a customer-experience consultancy and solutions firm that designs, implements, and optimises connected CX programs and operations.
Pylon is an AI-native customer support platform tailored for B2B companies, integrating omnichannel communication, AI-driven automation, and account intelligence to streamline post-sales operations.
Syncly is a customer feedback analysis platform for the Customer Experience / Support and the Product team.
Import2 is a one-click data migration service that automates transferring your data between SaaS apps, helping you switch or consolidate platforms with minimal hassle.
Fin delivers a high-performance AI agent for customer service that integrates seamlessly across voice, email, chat and social channels.
Attending Companies