Customer Salience in Practice

Schedule

Tue Apr 21 2026 at 12:00 pm to 04:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Pier Eight Restaurant | Salford, EN

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An afternoon at The Lowry dedicated to exploring how communities, closeness, communications and CX improve Customer Salience.
About this Event

Stay tuned for speaker and agenda announcements!

Ready to turbocharge your insight team and take the lead in building a customer-centric culture? This exclusive, Northern event explores the practical steps research teams can take to deliver long-term value, create a culture of customer-centric decision making and solve some of the most pressing commercial challenges.

Join FlexMR, a roster of experts in marketing and culture building, plus experienced clientside presenters to learn the secrets of Customer Salience and how to effectively operationalise it.

This event acts as a companion to the annual Customer Salience Summit, held in central London every October. Hear what delegates have previously had to say about the event, which has been cosistently. rated 4.5+ / 5 by attendees:

"The day was really inspiring. I've come away with lots of new ideas" - Rose Hadden, Head of Customer & Market Insight at City & Guilds

"A fantastically organised event with great speakers and content offering food for thought plus many actionable tips" - Anna Apostolopoulos, Global Director of Insights at Pearson

"Really relevant, engaging and honest speakers. Plus the summit was great for networking too" - Andy Smith, Customer Insight Manager at NFU Mutual




Who Can Attend?

This event is exclusively designed for clientside researchers, marketers and customer experience professionals. Due to limited capacity, we are unable to accommodate agency or independent attendees.

The event is free, but attendence requires advance registration. Your ticket includes lunch on arrival, access to all sessions - including the popular Room 101 panel - and post-event networking.


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A Primer on Customer Salience

If you'd like to know more about Customer Salience before joining, check out the complete guide and toolkit - available here. Inside, you'll find tools for assesing your organisation's current capacities, an introduction to the 4C Framework and practical templates to kickstart your journey.

You can also watch the full, on-demand recording from the 2025 Customer Salience Summit .



Agenda

πŸ•‘: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Registration & Networking Lunch

Info: Arrival from midday to enjoy a hot fork buffet on arrival.


πŸ•‘: 01:00 PM - 01:20 PM
The Role of Human Insight and Influence in 2026
Host: Paul Hudson

Info: Join FlexMR CEO Paul Hudson for a review of how customer insight is changing in 2026 and what it takes to place customers at the heart of decisions.


πŸ•‘: 01:20 PM - 01:45 PM
TBA Clientside Presentation
πŸ•‘: 01:45 PM - 02:10 PM
Panel: Customer Insight Room 101
Host: Simon Dunn

Info: Back after a two year hiatus, Room 101 pits two teams of researchers against each other - competing to convince you that their pet peeve should be banished from the insutry for good.


πŸ•‘: 02:10 PM - 02:35 PM
TBA Clientside Presentation
πŸ•‘: 02:35 PM - 02:46 PM
Beyond Insight: The Strategic Mandate of Market Research
Host: Jane Frost CBE

Info: What elevates insight to influence? Join MRS CEO Jane Frost to explore how insight teams can capitalise on the mandate of market research to become strategic partners to senior leadership and promote evidence-based decision making.


πŸ•‘: 03:20 PM - 03:45 PM
TBA Clientside Presentation
πŸ•‘: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Talk It Out: The Key to Building Better Client-Agency Relationships
Host: Claire Rainey

Info: Join Claire Rainey, Head of Insight at VMO2 and Gurpinder Sidhu of Curiouser Insights for an electrifying debate about what causes client-agency relationships to break down - and they talk through solutions that benefit both sides.


πŸ•‘: 04:00 PM - 04:25 PM
TBA Clientside Presentation
πŸ•‘: 04:25 PM - 04:45 PM
The Customer Salience Blueprint for Rewiring Business Decision Making
Host: Paul Hudson

Info: Join Paul Hudson one last time for a roundup of strategies and tactics from the day, plus a forward-looking challenge that asks what you'll do next.


πŸ•‘: 02:45 PM - 03:20 PM
Networking Break

Info: Take a short breather, catch up with colleages, and refresh with tea or coffee at this halfway point in the programme.


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