SummitX Day 2: Expertise, Advice, and Ideation in Telecom Retail Strategy and Technology
Following an incredible Day 1 and epic Monday Night Party, the second and final day of SummitX offered a host of new innovation, insights, inspiration, and interconnection!
Here are some of the key day-two highlights from these beautiful event spaces at the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort.
Tim Tebow: NFL star, former baseball player, sports commentator, and public speaker Tim Tebow delivered an inspiring and emotional keynote about empathy in leadership and compassion with colleagues, and how that creates real business results. He had a ton of stories to share with lessons learned from his football, baseball, and philanthropic activities.
Josh Linkner: Start-up venture capitalist and entrepreneur Josh Linkner, also an accomplished jazz musician, had a fascinating keynote presentation on creativity and adaptability in business. He set out his Find a Way five-step framework for success that had the audience scribbling notes and snapping photos of slides to take home and apply to their business!
John Lund: This entrepreneur and AI consultant who was formerly in the wireless accessories space gave a totally riveting breakout session on how AI can elevate the work and productivity of leaders, next leaders, and their teams. He had a host of practical and quick-win applications of AI for telecom retailers — watch this space for a full blog post on the topic!
Jeff Moore: The head of Wave7 Research and organizer of the well-known All Wireless and Prepaid Expo, Jeff offered his insightful take on The State of the US Wireless Retail Sector in 2024, and where it’s going. He delved into store counts, carrier news, retail stats and much more.
The iQmetrix Hackathon Pitch Finals: iQmetrix showcased its ongoing innovation to the SummitX audience by sharing five projects from its annual Hackathon. The iQmetrix Hackathon is a yearly internal competition between teams of iQers, designed to generate new product and process ideas and solutions. At the closing session of SummitX, five of the Hackathon teams’ ideas were pitched to the audience, who voted on a winning solution. The winning idea was SalesIQ, which is an AI-driven virtual assistant to help wireless store sales reps personalize their customer service with insightful information at their fingertips. This solution, along with other potential ideas, will now be explored and tested further by iQmetrix product and development teams.
In addition, a host of breakout sessions on a range of telecom retail-specific topics, from harnessing AI, to fraud and theft prevention, to change management, and much more. Plus we had interconnections and conversations throughout the day at both our Vendor Showcase and Product Showcase.
The event ended with a Cocktail Farewell round of drinks to toast two days of incredible sessions, awesome vendor exhibitors, remarkable innovations, and great times with valued colleagues and friends.
Thanks to everyone for coming to SummitX 2024, and we’ll see you soon!
