On Thursday, May 30 at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, the Pulse 2013 Customer Success Conference will bring together the industry’s leading innovators in Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), advertising and other B2B markets to discuss today’s rapidly evolving Customer Success strategies that can help companies proactively manage retention, reduce churn and identify upsell opportunities within the customer base.

Over 200 executives from industry leading organizations will share best practices at Pulse 2013 on developing a customer-centric culture across the entire organization, and how their companies are organizing, planning, staffing, training, analyzing, cost justifying and automating Customer Success efforts.

I will be moderating an executive panel that will examine Best Practices regarding Customer Success Management (CSM) Renewal and Up-Sell. The panel will include:

• Bernie Kassar, VP Community Success at Xactly
• Kathy Lord, VP Customer Success at Intacct
• Lori Wright, VP eCommerce Retention at Symantec.

Other Pulse 2013 speakers include:

• Geoffrey Moore, Author of Crossing the Chasm
• Aaron Levie, CEO at Box
• Tien Tzuo, CEO at Zuora
• Chris Cabrera, CEO at Xactly
• Aaref Hilaly, Partner at Sequoia Capital
• Kia Puhm, VP Customer Success at Oracle Eloqua
• Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh, SVP Distribution Chief of Staff at Salesforce.com
• Abhay Rajaram, VP Customer Success at YouSendIt
• Amanda Schmidt, Senior Director of Customer Success at Marketo
• Eitan Saban, VP Head of Client Success at Adobe Echosign

Register now to attend this important event and use promo code “THINK” to receive 20% off the registration fee. I hope you can join us in San Francisco.

Customer Satisfaction Management Gainsight Pulse 2013