Thursday, September 24, 2026
When AI becomes the gateway between customers and brands, what creates competitive advantage? Join fellow marketing leaders to challenge long-held assumptions about search, visibility, and what it takes to be discovered in an AI-first world.
What You'll Explore
• The future of SEO, GEO, and AI-powered discovery
• How trust and authority influence visibility
• What marketing leaders should measure and prioritize next
Marketing no longer owns just awareness. It increasingly shapes growth across the entire business. Join fellow marketing leaders to explore how the CMO role is evolving as marketing, sales, customer success, and product become more connected than ever.
What You'll Explore
• Where marketing begins—and where it should end
• How ownership of growth, revenue, and customer experience is changing
• The leadership skills and organizational models defining tomorrow's CMO
Your team has a $2M AI modernization budget and one objective: build the marketing organization of the future. Decide what to build, what to buy, what to integrate, and what simply isn't worth the investment and why. Your Team Will Deliver • An AI operating blueprint • Strategic investment priorities • A roadmap for a connected marketing technology ecosystem
Your competitors are producing significantly more content using AI while your budget and team remain unchanged. Where do you compete instead of trying to out-produce them? Working alongside fellow marketing leaders, determine where human creativity creates lasting competitive advantage and where AI should accelerate your efforts. Your Team Will Deliver • A roadmap for building brand differentiation at scale • A content advantage strategy • Human and AI content priorities
Your marketing budget has been reduced by 30%, leaving little room to buy more attention. Working alongside fellow executives, design the experiences, moments, and interactions that customers will remember and willingly share. Your Team Will Deliver • An experience journey blueprint • Signature moments that build loyalty • Investment priorities for creating memorable customer experiences
An AI assistant repeatedly provides inaccurate information about your company, and customers believe it. Working alongside fellow executives, develop a response strategy that protects your reputation while building long-term trust. Your Team Will Deliver • A trust and reputation framework • Crisis response and transparency priorities • Long-term strategies for strengthening brand credibility
Your CEO wants AI integrated into every marketing function within 18 months. Working alongside fellow marketing leaders, determine where AI should lead, where people should lead, and where the greatest value comes from combining both. Your Team Will Deliver • An AI operating philosophy • Principles for human and AI collaboration • Guardrails for responsible adoption
Your board has eliminated every vanity metric from your quarterly report. Working alongside fellow executives, identify the measures that truly demonstrate marketing's contribution to business growth. Your Team Will Deliver • An executive marketing dashboard • A modern set of performance indicators • Metrics that connect marketing activity to business outcomes
A transformational marketing initiative has executive sponsorship, but the organization is skeptical. Working alongside fellow executives, determine how to build alignment, create momentum, and turn support into action. Your Team Will Deliver • Executive Alignment Blueprint • Stakeholder engagement and communication strategies • A roadmap for gaining organizational buy-in
Everyone is publishing, posting, predicting, and presenting. The result is a lot of commentary that sounds confident but rarely helps you make a better decision.
The most valuable perspectives are still shared in the conversation after the panel, the dinner after the conference, the call before the board meeting, or the candid exchange between people who know the public answer isn't the whole answer.
Rather than covering every marketing topic, the inaugural gathering will focus on the observations, tensions, doubts, and strategic bets that rarely make it into public commentary but shape executive decisions—often without complete information.
Where is AI creating genuine advantage, and where is it simply making work faster?
Which behaviors are actually shifting—and which are being overread?
Where does brand continue to create measurable business advantage?
What are you willing to back before the market agrees?
To express interest, reply to the person who shared this with your name, title, company, and one sentence on the perspective you would bring to the room.
