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Craig
Woods
Senior Director of Customer Success
SurveyMonkey
Craig helps companies become successful advocates of new solutions, driving adoption, promoting best practices, and identifying ways to improve efficiency through software as a service (SaaS). With experience supporting clients across a wide range of industries, he is passionate about increasing solution awareness, delivering measurable ROI, and championing the importance of Customer Success in building strong, sustainable business relationships. Craig works closely with both sponsors and end users to educate, collaborate, and enhance daily workflows.
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23 September 2026 09:15 - 09:45
Organic intelligence: Why human connection is the future of CS
As AI transforms how customers interact with businesses, the experiences that truly stand out may be the ones that feel most human. Customer Success sits at the forefront of this shift, uniquely positioned to bring empathy, intuition, emotional intelligence and genuine connection into increasingly automated customer journeys. This session explores why human feeling is becoming a competitive advantage, and how CS teams can use ā€œOrganic Intelligenceā€ to keep customers engaged, understood and loyal. Key takeaways: - Why human connection is becoming more valuable as customer experiences become increasingly automated - How CS can use empathy, intuition and emotional intelligence to create deeper customer relationships - Where AI should enhance the customer experience — and where the human touch must remain - How to design moments of genuine connection that keep customers engaged and invested - Why ā€œOrganic Intelligenceā€ could become one of CS’s biggest differentiators in an AI-first world