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Emily
Dowse
Head Of Support
Arbor Education
Emily Dowse is Head of Support at Arbor Education, where she leads B2B SaaS support for a customer base of 10,000 schools and multi-academy trusts. She has scaled the support organisation from a single-layer first-line team into a multi-layered operation spanning 2nd Line, Advanced Support and Partner Success, while maintaining CSAT above 95%. Emily has also implemented Zendesk AI agents, achieving a 60% automation rate across live messaging and email. She leads 90+ people across multiple locations and brings extensive experience in support operations, team management, AI adoption, major incident management and service improvement.
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02 December 2026 11:15 - 12:00
Panel | Keeping humans in the loop: Where human judgment still wins
Every AI support deployment eventually runs into the cases it should not touch alone, the emotionally charged complaint, the ambiguous policy exception, the customer who needs to feel heard before they need to be resolved. Knowing where that line sits, and building for it deliberately, is what separates a mature deployment from a brittle one. This panel brings together support leaders to talk through where they have deliberately kept humans in the loop, how they identify those cases before a customer has a bad experience, and what they have learned about designing the handoff so it does not feel like a downgrade. What this session will cover: - How teams identify which cases need a human before the customer has to ask for one - What makes a human in the loop handoff feel seamless instead of like a failure of the AI - Where human judgment has caught something the AI would have missed - How to train agents for the more complex, judgment heavy caseload AI leaves them with