This episode explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping customer experience across marketing, sales, and service. The discussion dives into the shift from efficiency gains to creating connected ecosystems that deliver a “total experience” for customers, employees, and partners. Key themes include the critical role of high-quality data, evolving operating models, and embedding AI into every layer of the business. The conversation also highlights why trust, integrity, and employee experience are essential pillars for success in an AI-driven world, and how governance frameworks must adapt to balance human and AI decision-making. Finally, the episode looks ahead to the biggest trends, shaping customer experience over the next five years and offers practical steps for organizations to start their transformation journey.

Our speakers this week:

Walt Becker, Global Customer Advisory CoE Lead, KPMG International Tim Knight, Partner, Head of Customer Experience, KPMG in the UK Carmen Bekker, Partner, ASPAC Customer Lead, KPMG in Australia

As companies get to grips with inflation, cost of living crises, supply chain issues, and geopolitical conflicts, meeting customers' expectations has never been so challenging. Today, we're having a roundtable with two of KPMG's global sector leads to talk about trends that we're seeing in the marketplace around customers and consumers, and how companies are interacting and engaging with their customers, and how they're trying to stay ahead of disruption.

Our speakers this week:

• Julio Hernandez, Global Customer and Operations Service Line Lead, KPMG International
• Anna van Poucke, Global Sector Lead for Healthcare, KPMG International
• Judd Caplain, Global Sector Lead for Financial Services, KPMG International