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IN-PERSON LIVE EVENT

zendesk

showcase

Melbourne

11 August 2026 | Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne

12:00pm - 5:30pm


 The next generation of AI purpose-built for service is intelligent, proactive, and resolution-led. Kick the day off with lunch before an afternoon of practical learning on how new innovations in Voice AI, autonomous service agents, Contact Centre, and employee service help you deliver more connected experiences that drive loyalty and build trust.

 

From real AI-led success stories to interactive panels and practical workshops, you'll walk away with a clear roadmap to scaling better service, fast.

 

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Here's what to expect

Discover

Preview AI innovations driving the future of customer experience.

Get inspired

Hear emerging trends from AI and CX visionaries.

Connect

Network with CX, IT and HR leaders across industries.

Here's what to expect


Join us for an afternoon of inspiring keynotes, interactive workshops, and live demos showcasing the latest AI innovations transforming the world of service. Here’s what you can look forward to during the day:

This demo wil showcase:


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Zendesk's latest innovations and what’s next in AI

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Inspiring stories from customers revolutionising service with Zendesk

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How Zendesk is rewiring Service during our keynote

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Workshops designed to boost your AI readiness and unlock new opportunities

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Meet our experts  & chat with industry peers

Agenda

12:00pm

Check-in, registration and lunch 

Start with a buffet lunch at our Ask the Experts Hall, while networking with over 400+ of your industry peers. 

12:05pm

AI Workshop: Creating Apps with App Builder

In this session we will cover ideating for App ideas, prompting and troubleshooting within the AI App Builder.


Duration: 45 mins

Location: Melbourne Room 3

Capacity: Limited seats 

1:30 pm

Keynote: From chaos to clarity - How Zendesk AI is rewiring service

The future of service demands more than quick fixes—it requires true resolution. Join Zendesk leadership as they unveil AI purpose-built for service, delivering connected, intelligent, and proactive resolutions at scale. Learn how the Zendesk Resolution Platform transforms service teams, powering billions of meaningful customer and employee moments worldwide.

2:20pm

Vision to resolution: How carsales and Sealy are mastering AI for service. 

The future of service is AI-powered CX. It's AI agents and humans working together to deliver infinitely faster, and better service. It's humans having more time for high value conversations, and agents delivering real time resolutions when customers need them. During this session, you will hear how Sealy and carsales built that future. They'll share how they navigated the hardest parts of automation, built the foundations, and transformed their CX with AI. They'll also share the learnings, challenges and the outcomes they're seeing for their business and their customers.

3:00 Pm

Afternoon Tea

Grab an afternoon bite (and some pancakes from our dessert bar!)  or speak to an expert at our Ask the Experts Hall. There’ll be plenty of time to get to know your fellow attendees.

3:05 pm

AI Workshop: Scale customer service with AI Agents


In this session we will cover the basics of setting up Zendesk AI Agent, a customer facing bot that can handle basic requests, with an option to escalate to a human agent. Together we will set up a bot within your instance, or sandbox that you can test and potentially deploy.


Duration: 45 mins

Location: Melbourne Room 3

Capacity: Limited seats 

3:30pm

Breakouts and Networking

Choose your own adventure: hear from industry leaders, dive into hands-on AI workshops, or see Zendesk in action.

4:05 pm

AI Workshop: Adopting AI forward workflows with Copilot

 

 In this session we will cover embedding Zendesk Copilot tools into your current workflows to increase efficiency and decrease repeatable tasks. We will talk about Intent, Sentiment and Entity, and ways these tools can be used to increase accuracy and consistency.

 

Duration: 45 mins

Location: Melbourne Room 3

Capacity: Limited seats 

Agenda 

14:30 PM

The kyenote

Our product vision is robust. We’re building on conversational experiences with AI and making the agent experience more intuitive for all. 

One day agenda

5:00 pm

Happy hour

Networking over drinks and canapés with your peers, industry leaders and Zendesk experts.

Agenda

 Breakout SessionS

Breakout Theatre 1 

3:30pm | 20mins 

Building your autonomous service workforce with Agent Builder and Action Builder

AI agents are automating conversations, but teams struggle to deploy them for complex back office work. Learn how Zendesk’s new Agent Builder unlocks automation across your operation with teams of specialised AI agents tailored to your business. In a demo, you’ll also see how Zendesk’s Action Builder and MCP simplify how your AI agents take action across systems.


4:00pm | 20mins

Kicking customer service goals: How Catapult delivers elite service to 5,500+ sporting teams worldwide

When you're supporting high-performance, professional sporting teams - from F1 to Premier League football teams - service can’t wait. Learn how Catapult (Melbourne-born sports tech company) scales its support team using Zendesk AI Agents, enabling them to meet growing volume, cut response time, and still deliver customer experience to the highest expectations.


 

4:30pm | 20mins

AI Agents for every channel

See how Zendesk’s agentic intelligence works across messaging, email, and voice to move beyond deflection and deliver real resolution. You’ll see autonomous AI agents handling complex conversations end-to-end, adapting to every channel, and a first look at what’s now possible when that same intelligence comes to voice. 

 

 

Breakouts and networking sessions

Afternoon keynote

Closing party

Breakout SessionS

Breakout Theatre 2

3:30pm | 20mins 

Cotality’s contact centre transformation: From fragmentation to connected service
As a trusted provider of property data to 80,000 customers worldwide, Cotality relies on a contact centre that can deliver connected, effortless service at scale. In this session, Cotality will share how it is transforming its contact centre with AI, what that change means for agents, and how it is building the skills and capabilities needed for the future.


 

4:00pm | 20mins

Orchestrating the Agentic Contact Center: Reaching the last mile of customer resolution

As AI increasingly handles simple tasks, complex, high-stakes problems still require the empathy and urgency of voice. Discover how Zendesk Contact Centre bridges the last mile of customer resolution by orchestrating humans, agentic AI, and enterprise voice on a single, unified platform. You’ll get to learn about the new Native Contact Center Workspace, Multimodal Video Calling, and see how Voice AI Agents execute complex workflows autonomously.

 

 

4:30pm | 20mins

Build a self-improving service operation with Copilot

Discover how the Resolution Learning Loop turns real interactions, quality signals, and performance insights into smarter workflows across your service organization. Copilots, QA, and Agentic Analytics work together as the drivers of continuous improvement.

 

Breakouts and networking sessions

Afternoon keynote

Closing party

LIMITED SEATS ONLY 

Hands-on AI Workshops 

12:15pm - 1:00pm | 45 mins | Melbourne Room 3

Creating Apps with App Builder

 

In this session we will cover ideating for App ideas, prompting and troubleshooting within the AI App Builder. 

 

Key takeaways for attendees:

- Evaluate how App Builder can understand gaps, and supplement your current workflows. 
- Understand the basics of App Building, Authorisation, and API connection.

 

3:15pm - 4:00pm | 45 mins | Melbourne Room 3

Scale customer service with AI Agents

In this session we will cover the basics of setting up Zendesk AI Agent, a customer facing bot that can handle basic requests, with an option to escalate to a human agent. Together we will set up a bot within your instance, or sandbox that you can test and potentially deploy.

 

 Key takeaways for attendees:

- Learn the basics of AI Agents
- Navigate the Admin Centre, set up, customise, and deploy an AI Agent 
- Evaluate how integration AI agents will impact and evolve your future CX strategy

 

4:05pm - 5:00pm | 45 mins | Melbourne Room 3

Adopting AI Forward Workflows with Copilot

 

In this session we will cover embedding Zendesk Copilot tools into your current workflows to increase efficiency and decrease repeatable tasks. We will talk about Intent, Sentiment and Entity, and ways these tools can be used to increase accuracy and consistency.

 

 Key takeaways for attendees:

- Learn how to customise and edit your Intent model. 
- Learn how to set up Entity detection, and how to consider this alongside Intent for partially automated workflows

Networking sessions

Lunch

Networking sessions

Breakouts and networking sessions

Afternoon keynote

Closing party

One day agenda

4:30pm

Networking Canapes

Continue networking with your peers, our partners and team with roaming canapés!

5:30pm

Event Close

Leave inspired and with the tools you need to drive service transformation.

Agenda Option 1

10:30AM

Keynote

Hear how we’re reprioritizing our product vision to help you do more with less while maintaining strong customer relationships. As told by Josh Bean, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Zendesk.

12:00PM

Product Innovations

Four mini masterclasses that guide you through the latest Zendesk releases, and how to leverage them for your business needs. 


Session 1: AI-powered conversations

Session 2: Intelligent operations at scale

Session 3: Open and flexible platform

Session 4: Trust and security

12:30PM

Expert tips

Three practical classes that help you get started with Zendesk and learn tips and tricks from our experts. 


Session 1: Boost productivity with Agent Workspace

Session 2: Move from live chat to messaging

Session 3: Optimize Zendesk for self-service

1:00PM

Live Q&A and wrap-up

See you on March 8, or whenever you choose to watch back on-demand.

2:30PM

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Schedule description.

One day agenda

Multi-day agenda

thursday

March 27

Breakfast and expo open

Networking sessions

Lunch

Networking sessions

Breakouts and networking sessions

Afternoon keynote

Closing party

thursday

March 27

Breakfast and expo open

Networking sessions

Lunch

Networking sessions

Breakouts and networking sessions

Afternoon keynote

Closing party

thursday

March 27

Breakfast and expo open

Networking sessions

Lunch

Networking sessions

Breakouts and networking sessions

Afternoon keynote

Closing party

One day agenda

5:30 pm

Happy hour

Cap off the day with great food & refreshing drinks with your peers, industry leaders and Zendesk experts.

Speakers 

Michael Chen

Head of Digital and CX, Sealy of Australia

Rodney House

Head of Customer Support and Sales Enablement, carsales

Andrea Juniper

Product Support Team Lead

Catapult Sports

Darcy Brown

Product Support Manager

Catapult Sports

Paul Churchill

Senior Manager, Capability and Performance,

Cotality

Craig Flower

Chief Operating Officer, Zendesk

Kellie Hackney

Vice President of ANZ, Zendesk

Jon Aniano

SVP, GM, CX Products, Zendesk

Andrea Gallego

SVP, Global Field Engineering, Zendesk

Jonathan Barouch

Vice President, GM Contact Centre

Zendesk

Keith Pearce

SVP, Product Marketing, Zendesk

Julian Takano

Senior Manager, Sales Engineering, Zendesk

Abdullah Ali

Sales Engineer, Zendesk

Richard Winston

Senior AI Specialist, Zendesk

James Hanley

Director, Product Management, Zendesk

Denae Brookstein

Principal Sales Engineer, Zendesk

Brendan Judde

Sales Engineer, Zendesk

Sheila Walthoe

Director Marketing, Contact Centre, Zendesk

Yuhang Du

Senior Sales Engineer, Zendesk

Francesca Zaman

Senior Manager, Customer Success, Zendesk

Event Details

Showcase Melbourne

11th August 2026

12:00pm - 5:30pm


Ritz-Carlton Melbourne

650 Lonsdale St

Melbourne VIC, 3000


A little help with your commute: Every registered attendee gets an uber voucher towards their travel on the day. 

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