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HDI Service & Support World
April 25-29, 2027
Caesars PalaceLas Vegas, NV

Conference Tracks

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Five Tracks. One Goal: Better Service & Support.

Build stronger teams. Achieve ITSM excellence. Design better experiences. Activate AI for real-world impact. Optimize results. Wherever you are on your journey, you’ll find practical ideas to help you navigate what’s next with confidence.

Choose your track. Make your move.

Build High-Performing Service & Support Teams

Your team doesn’t need another leadership theory. They need leaders who can bring out their best.

Explore practical ways to coach more effectively, strengthen culture, navigate change, and create an environment where people want to stay and are equipped to succeed.

You’ll Learn How To

  • Coach people toward stronger performance
  • Attract, develop, and retain great talent
  • Strengthen engagement without adding more meetings
  • Lead teams confidently through change
  • Build a culture where people can do their best work

Topics Include

  • Coaching and performance management
  • Employee engagement and retention
  • Leadership development
  • Change leadership
  • Team culture and psychological safety
  • Career pathways and succession planning
  • Communication and accountability
  • Burnout prevention and team resilience
  • Leading hybrid and distributed teams
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Achieve IT Service Management Excellence

Yesterday’s processes won’t solve tomorrow’s service challenges.

From smarter metrics and streamlined processes to governance, ITIL, and continual improvement, this track will give you practical ideas for turning service management into a true business advantage.

You’ll Learn How To

  • Simplify processes that have become too complicated
  • Connect ITSM priorities to business outcomes
  • Choose metrics that drive better decisions
  • Modernize service delivery without disrupting everything
  • Build continual improvement into everyday operations

Topics Include

  • ITSM modernization
  • ITIL in practice
  • Process simplification
  • Governance and service strategy
  • Business and IT alignment
  • Metrics and value measurement
  • Continual improvement
  • Enterprise service management
  • Service portfolio management
  • Organizational change management
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Design Better Service Experiences

Every interaction shapes how people feel about IT.

Learn how to remove friction and design service experiences that are easier, more intuitive, and more valuable for the people using them. Explore practical approaches to experience management, journey mapping, knowledge, XLAs, and human-centered service design.

You’ll Learn How To

  • Design smoother, more intuitive support journeys
  • Turn customer and employee feedback into action
  • Build knowledge people can easily find, trust, and use
  • Measure the experiences that matter—not just the transactions
  • Create more consistent, accessible, and human-centered service

Topics Include

  • Customer and employee experience
  • Experience-level agreements (XLAs)
  • Journey mapping and service design
  • Voice of the customer
  • Experience measurement
  • Knowledge management and Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS)
  • Self-service experience
  • Accessibility and inclusive service
  • Omnichannel support
  • Human-centered digital service
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Activate AI for Real-World Results

AI has plenty of potential. This track is about activating it.

Move from possibility to practice to with real uses cases, honest lessons, and straightforward guidance you can use to put AI to work across your service and support organization.

You’ll Learn How To

  • Identify the right AI use cases for your organization
  • Move from experimentation to practical implementation
  • Automate work without losing the human touch
  • Accelerate knowledge creation and maintenance
  • Build responsible governance into AI adoption

Topics Include

  • Practical AI use cases
  • AI strategy and roadmaps
  • AI-powered service delivery
  • Intelligent automation
  • Generative AI for knowledge management
  • AI governance and responsible adoption
  • Human-AI collaboration
  • AI implementation and scaling
  • Measuring AI value and ROI
  • AI readiness and workforce skills
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Optimize Service & Support Operations

Faster resolutions. Fewer bottlenecks. Less firefighting.

Learn how to improve the processes, tools, metrics, and workforce strategies that keep service and support moving. This track will help you make smarter operational decisions and build an organization that delivers consistent results without exhausting the people responsible for them.

You’ll Learn How To

  • Streamline workflows and eliminate unnecessary steps
  • Use data to spot problems before they escalate
  • Reduce resolution times and recurring bottlenecks
  • Apply automation where it creates real value
  • Build scalable operations that can adapt under pressure

Topics Include

  • Workflow and process optimization
  • Service desk metrics and KPIs
  • Workforce and capacity planning
  • Incident and request management
  • Problem management
  • Automation and orchestration
  • Operational resilience
  • Resource optimization
  • Resolution times and bottleneck reduction
  • Proactive support
  • Tool and technology optimization
  • Vendor and partner management
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Not Sure Which Conference Track Is Right for You?

Choose the track that best matches the challenges you're solving today, or explore sessions across multiple tracks to create a conference experience tailored to your goals.

If you want to...Start with...
Become a stronger people leaderBuild High-Performing Service & Support Teams
Improve ITSM strategy and processesAchieve IT Service Management Excellence
Deliver better customer and employee experiencesDesign Better Service Experiences
Learn practical AI skillsActivate AI for Real-World Results