Redefining BPO for the AI Era:
Growth, Governance, and the Human Edge
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Microsoft Headquarters | Redmond, WA
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. PST
This one-day, in-person executive briefing brings CX leaders together to examine how outsourcing is evolving in an AI-accelerated environment. Rising costs, increasing regulatory scrutiny, shifting customer expectations, and rapid automation are reshaping how leaders evaluate partners, manage performance, and protect brand trust.
You’ll explore real-world examples, exchange candid perspectives with peers, and leave with practical frameworks to strengthen governance, performance, and customer outcomes.
Your Experience at a Glance
Together, we will explore the critical themes shaping modern outsourcing strategy in an AI-enabled CX landscape.
- Human-Centered by Design: Ensuring AI, automation, and outsourcing strategies elevate empathy, judgment, and the human element of CX.
- From Headcount to Outcomes: Shifting from volume-based contracts to performance-aligned partnerships.
- AI in the Operating Model: Embedding agent assist, automated QA, intelligent triage, and real-time analytics into outsourced environments to elevate performance.
- Journey Orchestration Over Channel Expansion: Moving beyond channel management toward seamless, context-driven customer journeys.
- Governance as Competitive Advantage: Elevating cybersecurity, compliance, and third-party oversight into strategic differentiators.
- Delivery Model Resilience: Rebalancing nearshore, offshore, and hybrid strategies amid geopolitical risk and specialization demands.
- Quality as a Performance Engine: Transforming QA from oversight to continuous performance optimization.
- Talent as Strategy: Advancing agent wellbeing, speed-to-competency, and workforce redesign as core drivers of CX impact.
Inside a Culture of Innovation | Microsoft Headquarters
Hosted at Microsoft’s global headquarters, this briefing places you inside a company culture built on innovation, accountability, and continuous reinvention. It’s a setting that reflects the level of strategic conversation today’s outsourcing decisions demand.
Beyond the agenda, attendees will experience an environment designed for experimentation, disciplined execution, and responsible AI at scale.
Location matters. And this conversation will take place at the center of enterprise innovation.


