45
Breakout Sessions
50
Expert Speakers
30
Exhibitors & Sponsors
500
Service Desk Professionals

Mar

19

Mar

20

Registration, expo and refreshments
08:15  to  09:15
Welcome to the SDI Conference!
09:15  to  09:30
Speakers:
David Wright šŸ“ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó æ. SDI Chief Value & Innovation Officer.
Paul Rodrigues. Chair. SDI.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
09:30  to  10:30
Tea & Expo
10:30  to  11:00
Keynote - Mark Boyer "Why Great Service Desks Shouldn't Exist"
11:00  to  11:45

What if the best service desk was the one that didn’t need to exist? Not because support isn’t valuable—but because the way we think about it is overdue for a reset.

In this provocative session, Mark challenges the traditional model of IT support, where ā€œgreatā€ often means recovering quickly from failure. Instead, we reimagine the service desk as an insight engine and experience architect—less focused on closing tickets, more invested in designing journeys where tickets aren’t needed in the first place.

He’ll explore:

  • Why traditional SLAs, ticket queues, and time-to-close metrics miss the real point

  • The promise and pitfalls of XLAs—when they reflect experience, and when they mask it

  • How ā€œzero-touchā€ support, predictive assistance, and contextual tools shift the game

  • The untapped power of service desks as cultural change agents and user advocates

  • Why tech isn’t the blocker—culture is

During Mark's session you will hear about a bold reframing of support, where success is measured not by speed of recovery, but by how rarely users need to recover at all. Let’s design for confidence, not just resolution.

Key Takeaways:

  • Rethink what ā€˜value’ means in modern IT support

  • Use experience data as a design input, not a vanity metric

  • Start transforming your service desk into a strategic experience hub

Speaker:
Mark Boyer. Services Operations Director. Softcat.
Headline Sponsor
11:45  to  12:15

To feature your thought leadership inĀ this session contact partnerships@sdi-e.com

Breakouts
12:20  to  12:50
Lunch and networking
12:50  to  13:50
Breakouts
13:50  to  14:20
Breakouts
14:30  to  15:00
Breakouts
15:00  to  15:30
Breakouts
15:40  to  16:10
Keynote - Paul Brandvold
16:15  to  17:00
Speaker:
Paul Brandvold. Manager, International Customer Operations. Cegal.
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