AI meets CX: smarter journey’s start here - oct 15 - GDS Group

AI meets CX: smarter journey’s start here

IN-PERSON EVENT
8 October 2025, Dallas 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm EST
In partnership

Dinner Location: The Mercury

In today’s customer centric economy, organizations face mounting pressure to deliver seamless, personalized, and responsive experiences at scale. Implementing AI across the customer journey is essential but challenging. Common hurdles include data privacy concerns, difficulty balancing automation with human interaction, and fragmented data systems.

To address these challenges, organizations are embracing a more strategic and phased approach to AI integration. Embedding generative AI into customer workflows, such as intelligent self-service, real-time analytics and sentiment analysis, can dramatically improve service quality while easing the burden on human agents. Adopting transparent data governance practices ensures compliance and builds customer trust. So, where do you start?

Join AWS and a select group of your peers as we discuss how to implement AI into your CX journey to help drive business value while maintaining the human touch in customer service.

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Discussion topics

Balancing automation with human touch:

Exploring how to integrate AI without losing empathy and personalization in customer interactions

Embedding AI for impact:

Identifying high-impact use cases, like self-service, sentiment analysis, and real time insights, that enhance CX and agent productivity

Building trust through data governance:

Addressing privacy, compliance, and transparency challenges as AI becomes embedded in the customer journey

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Art DuRivage, VP Sales
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David Kidder, CEO & Co-Founder, Bionic
"It's all about exposure and visibility, right? Getting us in front of the right CEOs or the practitioners or whatever, bringing people together to share new techniques, new processes, and new technologies. "
Jason Mical, Cyber Security Evangelist, Devo
"It was a very qualified audience. It was exactly the level and the type of people we want to talk to. The dialogue, the nature of those one on ones gives you the ability to really understand what the client is seeking."
Hamp Hampton, Chief Revenue Officer, Cadalys

Event Agenda

Day one

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Arrivals, welcome drinks, and networking

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Event welcome and introductions

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

Table discussions and three-course dinner

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Event Wrap Up

Why Attend

Closed door, tailored conversations to benchmark, share and get better equipped to solve complex transformation projects.

Experience shared learning

Meet industry leading like-minded executives tackling similar initiatives.

Benchmark with your industry peers

Discover and network to gain expertise and experience on how to best act and succeed.

Accelerate your projects

Accelerate In-depth face time with the world’s leading organizations pushing the boundaries to solve your challenges.

An engaged experience

An expert host facilitates conversations, with live polling, Q&As, and gamification to ensure focused conversation.

Discover next-level ideas

Ensure project success with access to industry experts and cutting edge thought leadership.

De-risk new projects

Gain a range of insights from peers and technical experts who are current with emerging business trends.

About AWS

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.

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