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November 4, 2026

Town Hall, King’s Cross

London

For brands that are built to last. Your next strategy starts here.

INCENTIVIZE Summit is Talon.One’s flagship conference, where 600 of the world's top loyalty leaders come together to explore how incentives drive profitable growth — and how to win in a new era of agentic commerce. Through keynotes, breakouts, and curated networking, INCENTIVIZE Summit creates space for honest conversations, shared learning, and meaningful connection across the global loyalty community. We have reached capacity for this year's event. Registration is now closed.

Our speakers

Meet the speakers putting better incentives into practice

The program

One day, two tracks: main stage sessions and hands-on Learning Labs. Select a session to see all the details.

08:30 – 09:30

Registration & breakfast

09:35 – 09:55

Fireside chat

11 years on: Building what the world’s most forward-looking brands need next

Gerber
Ingo Uytdehaage

Christoph Gerber

Ingo Uytdehaage

11 years after Talon.One was founded, loyalty and promotions have moved from the edges of the customer experience to the heart of how brands drive growth. Now, 5 months after Talon.One officially became part of Adyen, a new chapter is beginning.
Talon.One CEO Christoph Gerber and Adyen Co-CEO Ingo Uytdehaage will share why the acquisition happened and what it means for the brands they serve. Expect an inside look at the problems the world’s most forward-looking brands are asking them to solve - and a first glimpse of what they’re building together in response.

09:55 – 10:15

Product keynote

Mind the loyalty gap: From knowing customers to knowing what works

Alexa Pak
Laurens Van Wiele

Alexa Pak

Laurens Van Wiele

What’s next for incentives, and how do we make them matter more? See how Talon.One and Adyen are bringing loyalty into the checkout through their first joint use cases, live on stage. Then explore how Talon.One helps brands test what resonates, understand what incentives deliver, and make better decisions about what comes next.

10:15 – 10:40

Customer panel

Loyalty & transformation: Where incentives, payments and identity converge

Sam
Nicolai Schnack
Gillian-Simpson

Sam Panzer

Nicolai Schnack

Gillian Simpson

Loyalty & promotions are maturing into key drivers of enterprise transformation. Leading brands use incentives to advance data & AI strategy, win in agentic commerce, and navigate a difficult consumer landscape.
One decisive domain for this transformation work is the moment of payment. The payment moment is no longer just where a transaction ends. It’s becoming the point where brands can recognize a customer, connect activity across channels, and decide which experience or incentive comes next. This panel explores how companies are beginning to connect loyalty, promotions, and payments, and the first steps they’re taking to turn that ambition into reality.

10:40 – 11:00

Customer spotlight

Built to scale: The architecture behind loyalty at Hugo Boss

Henrik
Meike

Henrik Bauer

Meike Schemionek

With its revamped membership program, Hugo Boss raised the bar for what loyalty can look like in fashion. This session goes inside Hugo Boss XP - a four-tier, gamified program that moved beyond earn-and-burn to create an omnichannel ecosystem built around collectible digital tokens, tiered membership, and hyper-local personalization.
We'll get into what it really takes to scale that across app, POS, and CDP - and what it means to build loyalty infrastructure for a global fashion house.

11:00 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 11:50

Fireside chat

Costa Coffee's loyalty journey: Tech, trust, and the business case for loyalty

Shetal Bhatt

Shetal Bhatt

What does it take to build a loyalty program that holds its own in the boardroom, not just with customers? Shetal Bhatt, Group Global Head of Digital Marketing, Loyalty & Consumer Engagement at Costa Coffee, takes us behind the scenes of Costa's loyalty evolution - including the brand's move to a composable tech stack with Talon.One and Braze, and what the business has learned in the two years since.

Shetal will share how her team navigates the perennial tension between short-term discounting and long-term emotional loyalty, and what it takes to bring finance and the C-suite along on that journey - turning loyalty from a perceived cost center into a growth engine.

11:30 – 12:30

Breakout

Learning Lab module #1: Gamification

11:30 – 12:30

Understand the key psychological principles that make loyalty & promotions work, and how to best leverage them in gamified experiences.

11:50 – 12:05

Customer spotlight

Kiosk, app, POS: How KFC built loyalty that works everywhere

Alberto KFC
Mariana KFC

Alberto Ascorve Santamaría

Mariana Akemi De Abreu Rodríguez

Every brand says they want loyalty that works across kiosk, app, and POS. Few can show you how they actually built it. KFC's Mariana Akemi De Abreu Rodríguez and Alberto Ascorve Santamaría take us inside the launch of KFC Spain's loyalty program and go beyond the "what" to the "how."
They'll walk through the tech stack behind the program and the harder problem of getting kiosk, app, and POS teams to actually work as one. We'll get into what surprised them along the way, the early results they're seeing, and what's next on the roadmap.

12:05 – 12:35

Gold keynote session

Reimagining loyalty & unlocking growth: The Footasylum story

Brad-Morton
Mark Collin
Katy Waddell

Brad Morton

Mark Collin

Katy Waddell

What does it really take to transform customer engagement into a powerful engine for commercial growth?
Join Brad Morton, Head of Change & PMO at Footasylum, alongside Apadmi and Braze as they take you behind the scenes of Footasylum's customer experience transformation, revealing how the retailer reimagined mobile, loyalty and customer engagement to build stronger customer relationships and unlock measurable business impact. Hear what worked, what they’d do differently, and how those lessons are shaping Footasylum’s next steps.

12:35 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 14:20

Customer spotlight

From zero to global in 6 months: How TUI made customer loyalty a business priority

Alexandra Swift
Colin Thomas

Alex Swift

Colin Thomas

TUI is one of the world's leading travel businesses, spanning airlines, hotels, cruises, resorts and experiences. Building end-to-end loyalty and promotions across a business that size, from scratch, against a go-live date that wasn't moving, is not a small ask.
Yet TUI not only delivered, it turned loyalty into a business priority. Today, adoption is ahead of expectations, and the programme is helping lay the foundations for stronger customer engagement across the group.
Join Alex Swift and Colin Thomas as they share the inside story of what it really takes to move at startup speed inside a global enterprise. From the trade-offs, the tech stack decisions, and getting teams aligned around one program. Expect an honest look at the mindset, operating model and practical lessons that helped TUI go from concept to launch at pace, and what other enterprise brands can learn from the journey.

14:00 – 15:00

Breakout

Learning Lab module #2: Member promotions

14:00 – 15:00

Learn how promotions can best be layered into a loyalty program, with a best practice design framework to leverage more than discounts.

14:20 – 14:40

Customer spotlight

How Estee Lauder manages promotions & loyalty at global scale

Catherine Ok

Catherine Ok

How does a global beauty giant manage multi-brand loyalty? Estée Lauder’s Catherine Ok reveals how to handle complexity at scale while keeping customer experiences consistent and commercially sharp.

14:40 – 15:05

Customer spotlight

The CEO view: Leadership lessons in scaling incentives

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Jennifer La Forge

What does it take to grow a large loyalty business when the macro picture won't sit still? Jennifer La Forge, President & CEO of Rakuten Canada, shares the leadership playbook behind scaling a rewards business through volatility - building teams and systems that perform under pressure, and knowing what's non-negotiable when conditions tighten.
Jennifer will get into the trade-offs that don't make the case studies: protecting margin while still investing in growth, keeping a team steady through constant change, and where leaders hold the line between performance and people.

15:05 – 15:35

Break

15:45 – 16:05

Talon.One spotlight

Beyond discounts: The 8 creative currencies in promotions

Sam
Celine-Kristensen

Sam Panzer

Celine Deleuran Kristensen

When 20% off becomes the default, brand value erodes - and margin follows. But most brands don't default to discounts because they lack imagination, they do it because their current tooling makes it easy. 
This session introduces the 8 Creative Currencies: a behavioral science backed framework for promotions that build brand equity without cutting price. From gamification to cultural moments, you'll leave with a practical playbook and a blueprint of the infrastructure required to bring these ideas to life.

15:45 – 16:40

Breakout

Learning Lab module #3: Building the loyalty business case

15:45 – 16:40

Learn how to build the business case for loyalty programs, whether a new launch or a revamp of an existing scheme.

16:05 – 16:20

Customer spotlight

How lastminute.com uses gamification to inspire behavior change

Carlo Andrea Banfi 2
Veronica

Carlo Andrea Banfi

Veronica Aulicino

Launching a loyalty program is just the beginning - what comes next is where the magic happens. One year on from launching their revamped program, lastminute.com shares their next chapter: a gamification strategy that keeps customers connected between bookings.
The strategy reimagines how a travel brand builds engagement, moving beyond points and tiers to quizzes, badges, and mini-games that reward activity. Carlo and Veronica will walk through the mechanics they're building and explain why emotional rewards are at the heart of it all.

16:20 – 16:45

Customer panel

Built to last: Creating resilient systems & teams

Brian Total Wine
Stuart Deaton
Sydney Segal Bilt
Connor Burke-Gaffney

Brian Vandegrift

Stuart Deaton

Sydney Segal

Conor Burke-Gaffney

Loyalty and promotions sit at the center of constant change: new channels, new customer expectations, new commercial pressures. They also sit at the center of the org chart - pulling in tech, marketing, finance, brand, and merchandising, each with their own priorities.
This session explores how to build systems and team structures that keep your growth steady as the landscape shifts, and how to get those teams working together rather than around each other. You'll walk away with practical ways to strengthen both your infrastructure and your operating model.

16:45 – 17:15

Closing keynote

What your data can’t see: The forces shaping tomorrow’s customer behaviour

Beth Bentley

Beth Bentley

We’ve never known more about our customers. But are we in danger of mistaking what’s measurable for what’s meaningful?
Drawing on what sociology, anthropology and philosophy have long taught us about human desire, and what contemporary culture is telling us so clearly now, this closing keynote looks beyond the data to explore the forces shaping what people want, and why: from identity and aspiration to status and belonging. This session is a powerful argument for making time to look beyond what our data can measure.

17:15 – 17:40

Celebrating our customers

Drinks reception & Customer Awards

Wind down with drinks and our inaugural Talon.One Customer Awards, celebrating the teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible with promotions, loyalty, and personalization.
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Relive last year’s summit

Didn't make it to INCENTIVIZE 2025? Catch up on the highlights and see why previous attendees call it the loyalty and promotions conference of the year. 

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