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What is a consumer insight? In an ever-changing customer landscape, and with constantly evolving competition it becomes ever more important to intimately understand your consumers’ needs, to successfully win them and then retain brand loyalty.

In a world where customers have more choice, advocacy, and a two-way feedback loop through social media, the cost of failure has never been higher.

Brands embarking on new product development also need to be absolutely sure of a market opportunity ahead of investing in expensive manufacturing and marketing activity.

Effective customer research and data insights provide a stable platform to deliver products and services that resonate with consumers and drive tangible return on investment.

We have gathered some of the leading minds in data survey and consumer research to explore solutions to these challenges.

• Kristine Howard - Director of Developer Relations at YOW! Australia (MC)
• Rob James - Group CTO at Qantas
• Jenny Young - Advisory Partner at EY
• Robyn Elliott - CIO at Fairfax
• Jason Juma-Ross - Head of Tech, Entertainment & Connectivity at Facebook
• Tim Fung - Founder and CEO at Airtasker