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ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference 2026

ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference 2026 is the longest-running and most trusted event for contact center and customer experience leaders, featuring over 70 educational sessions, hands-on training, and high-impact peer case studies. Attendees gain actionable insights to drive measurable business results, optimize operations, improve agent workflows, and in…

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9Speakers
24Sponsors
15On the bill · sessions
28Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at ICMI, in alphabetical order.
Brad
Brad Cleveland
Founding Partner and Senior Advisor, ICMI · ICMI
Gina Gibson
CEO of Think Forward · Think Forward
Jason Mercer-Pottinger
Vantive
Rachel Druckenmiller
Award Winning Speaker and Engagement Expert
Sarina Swan-Allen
Senior Director of Customer Contact Center at Vitalant · Vitalant
Steve Campbell
Sr. Consultant · ICMI
Todd Henry
Podcast Host and Best-Selling Author
Todd Piccuillo
Sr. Director · ICMI
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
ACCP
AgentAssist IQ
Aspect
BICS
Cloud Tech GurusMedia Partner
CRMXchangeMedia Partner
CXDiveMedia Partner
Cyara
DialIn
Dialpad
eSkill
EvaluAgent
Language Services Associates
Mind CommerceMedia Partner
Piedmont Global
Redial BPO
RingCentral
Rippit
Rippt
SecureLogix
Technology Reseller NewsMedia Partner
USU
Whatfix
Zoho Desk
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Agenda

Selected from 15 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    Agentic AI Explained: What It Really Means for the Contact Center

    In this session, we cut through the hype and explain Agentic AI in practical terms, with a specific focus on contact centers and the modern customer experience. You’ll learn how Ag…

  • TBA

    Agentic Customer Service in Action with CXone: From Insight to Intelligent Action

    Your AI can surface the insight. Can it act on it? Your customers aren’t waiting. And neither is the competition. In this live demo, see how CXone turns real interaction data into …

  • TBA

    Build. Stretch. Prepare. A Leadership System for Advancing High-Potential Talent

    In this session, you’ll learn a proven leadership framework designed to accelerate the growth of early-career professionals with clarity, intention, and impact. Developed by a mana…

  • TBA

    Culture Is Built in the Gaps

    Contact center culture isn’t built during offsites or engagement initiatives–it’s built in the gaps between policy, workload, tools, and expectations. This session helps leaders un…

  • TBA

    From Cost Center to Value Center: Designing Contact Centers to Deliver Enterprise Value at Scale

    Contact centers are among the most critical functions in modern organizations. They sit where customers experience the consequences of policies, products, operations, and technolog…

  • TBA

    From Vendor Overload to Confident AI Adoption A Customer-Led Contact Center Case Study

    In this customer-led case study, Sarina Swan-Allen, Senior Director of Customer Contact Center at Vitalant, and Gina Gibson, CEO of Think Forward, share how one organization moved …

  • TBA

    Half Your AI Budget is Going to Tools That Make Your Agents Slower

    Contact center leaders spent $2.1B on AI tools last year. A significant portion of that investment is actively degrading productivity because nobody taught them how to evaluate whe…

  • TBA

    How to Support Customers Who Never Make it to the Contact Center

    There has been a tremendous shift in our space when it comes to how customers are receiving service. They no longer start with a brand when they need help. They start with an AI-en…

  • TBA

    Inside 3 Award-Winning Contact Centers: What Actually Moves the Needle

    What does it take to build an award-winning contact center? In this panel, 2025 Global Contact Center Award winners will share the secrets to their success. From employee engagemen…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 28 companies, parsed from the program.

28 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
24Sponsoringsponsor only
4Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

44% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite111%
  • Founder / Owner111%
  • Director / Head of222%
  • Engineer · IC111%
  • Other roles444%

Of 9 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01ACCPSp
  2. 02AgentAssist IQSp
  3. 03AspectSp
  4. 04BICSSp
  5. 05Cloud Tech GurusSp·M
  6. 06CrmXchangeSp·M
  7. 07CXDiveSp·M
  8. 08CyaraSp
  9. 09DialInSp
  10. 10DialpadSp
  11. 11eSkillSp
  12. 12EvaluAgentSp
  13. 13ICMI3V
  14. 14Language Services AssociatesSp
Sponsors by tier
media partner5
21% of 24
unspecified19
79% of 24
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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