Pre-Summit Workshops
Tuesday, February 23, 2027
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. PT
Workshop Registration Opens
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PT Workshop AThe Agentic Workflow Framework: A Repeatable Method for Turning Any Marketing Process into an AI-Run System By 2027 the question isn't whether to hand work to agents, it's how to do it without reinventing the wheel every time. This hands-on workshop gives you a repeatable framework for breaking down any marketing process — campaign builds, reporting, lifecycle flows — into the steps an AI system can own end to end. You'll leave with a working method for mapping inputs, guardrails, and handoffs, plus a template you can apply to your first (or next) agentic workflow the week you're back | 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PT Workshop BAEO and GEO in Practice: Auditing and Rewriting Your Content for AI Search Search doesn't look like it did two years ago, and the content that wins in AI-generated answers follows a different set of rules. In this working session you'll audit real pages against how AI engines actually surface, cite, and summarize content, then rewrite for answer engine and generative engine optimization in real time. You'll leave with a concrete checklist and before-and-after examples you can operationalize across your site. |
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. PT
Lunch Break
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. PT Workshop CThe Marketing AI Data Layer: Building the Infrastructure That Lets Your Models Talk to Each Other Agents are only as good as the data they can reach. This workshop goes under the hood of the modern marketing stack to show how leading teams build the connective tissue — a unified data layer — that lets models, tools, and platforms share context instead of operating in silos. We'll cover what to centralize, how to structure it, and the practical decisions that separate a stack where AI compounds in value from one where it stalls. | 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. PT Workshop DGetting Your Team to Actually Use AI: A Change-Management Framework for Marketing and Comms Buying AI tools is easy. Getting your team to actually change how they work is the hard part — and where most AI initiatives quietly stall. This workshop lays out a practical change-management framework built specifically for marketing and comms teams, covering how to build buy-in, redesign workflows people will actually adopt, and address the resistance that kills momentum. We'll cover what to prioritize, how to sequence the rollout, and the practical decisions that separate a team that embraces AI from one that reverts to old habits the moment you look away. |
3:00 p.m. PT
Workshops Conclude
Live Virtual Summit: Day One
Wednesday, February 24, 2027
7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. PT
Registration and Badge Pick-Up • Light Morning Refreshments
Track A — AI Strategy and Leadership | Track B — AI for Content, Creative and Comms |
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. PT Shop TalkThe Differentiation Gap: What Data Marketers Actually Need to Win with AI Every marketer now has access to the same AI tools — so what actually makes one brand's results different from another's? This shop talk invites a candid conversation about the data your business already owns, the data it doesn't yet know it needs, and how to connect the two before your competitors do. It's also a conversation about the shift underway in how marketers even find these answers: as static dashboards give way to AI agents that can surface anything on demand, the hard part stops being what data to gather and becomes what questions actually need answering. | 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. PT Shop TalkWhen AI Gets Your Brand Wrong: Quality Control for High-Volume Creative Output When you're shipping ten times the creative, you inherit ten times the ways to get it wrong. This shop talk takes on the quality-control problem head-on: how high-output teams keep AI-generated work on-brand, accurate, and on-standard without a human eyeballing every asset. Expect a frank exchange on review systems, brand guardrails, and the failure modes worth watching for as creative volume climbs. |
9:15 a.m.–10:00 a.m. PT
Keynote Panel
Building AI at Scale: Executive Perspectives on Infrastructure, Investment, and Growth
This opening keynote panel takes stock of where the most advanced marketing organizations actually landed post-adoption — what changed in how they're structured, staffed, and measured, and what turned out to be hype. Leaders who've moved well past pilots share what maturity really looks like, where the durable advantages are showing up, and what still isn't working. The honest state of the field, framing everything that follows.
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. PT
Expo Floor Opens
11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m. PT Case StudyThe AI Operating Model: How to Run Marketing When Agents Do the Execution When agents handle the execution, the marketing org itself has to be redesigned around them. This case study walks through a real operating model: how work gets briefed, routed, and reviewed when humans set direction and AI does the doing. You'll see how roles, rituals, and accountability shift, where humans stay in the loop, and what a team running this way actually looks like on an ordinary Tuesday. | 11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m. PT Live DemoThe End-to-End Content Pipeline: Brief, Draft, Approve, and Publish Without Leaving Your AI Stack Watch a single piece of content travel from brief to published without ever leaving the AI stack. This live demo focuses on the parts most teams get wrong — building a brief the model can actually act on, and running the edit-and-approve loop — then carries it all the way through to publish. A practical, screen-share look at a working content pipeline, with the handoffs, prompts, and checkpoints made visible. |
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. PT
Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. PT Case StudyMeasuring What Matters: Productivity Benchmarks, ROI Proof Points and What Good Actually Looks Like Everyone claims AI made them faster. This session puts numbers to it. Drawing on real benchmarks, a marketing leader breaks down how to measure AI's impact credibly — the productivity metrics that hold up, the ROI proof points that convince a CFO, and what “good” actually looks like at a mature organization. You'll leave with a measurement framework you can use to separate genuine gains from activity theater. | 1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. PT Case StudyHow [Brand] Scaled Content Output 10x: The Real Numbers, Process and Tradeoffs Ten-times content output makes a great headline. This case study tells the real story behind one. A team that genuinely scaled production walks through the numbers, the workflow that got them there, and the tradeoffs they accepted along the way — where quality held, where it strained, and what they’d do differently. An unvarnished look at what 10x actually costs and delivers. |
2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. PT PanelWhat Humans Own Now: Taste, Judgment and Creative Direction in an AI-Executed Org If AI can execute almost anything, human value moves to what it can't do: taste, judgment, and direction. This panel digs into the parts of the job becoming more important, not less — setting the standard, making the calls models can't, and steering creative vision when production is nearly free. A thoughtful conversation for leaders rethinking what to hire for, and what to develop, in an AI-executed org. | 2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. PT Multimodal Production at Scale: Real Workflows for AI-Generated Image, Video, and Audio Text was the easy part. In this session, a hands-on practitioner walks through the real workflows behind AI-generated image, video, and audio at production scale — the tools, the pipelines, and the quality bar to hold across formats. You'll see how multimodal generation folds into everyday output without the process buckling under its own complexity, plus a candid read on where the technology is ready to trust and where it still needs a human hand. |
3:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m. PT Rationalizing the AI Stack: A Framework for Auditing, Governing and Measuring Value The rapid adoption of AI has created a new challenge for organizations: not simply choosing the best tools, but understanding what they already have, why they have it, and whether it is delivering meaningful value. As experimentation expands across teams, organizations can quickly find themselves with overlapping capabilities, unclear ownership, inconsistent governance, and limited visibility into what employees are actually using. This session will explore a practical framework for moving from AI experimentation to intentional AI portfolio management. We’ll look at how leaders can assess their AI landscape, distinguish valuable experimentation from unnecessary duplication, establish clearer ownership and governance, and evaluate tools based on business need, adoption, and measurable value. The goal isn’t necessarily a smaller AI stack. It’s a more purposeful one. Attendees will learn how to:
| 3:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m. PT Building Your AI Grounding Engine: The Brand, Messaging and Competitive Canon Behind On-Brand Output On-brand AI output doesn't come from better prompts, it comes from better grounding. This case study reveals the source of truth behind consistently on-brand work: a structured canon of brand voice, messaging, and competitive context the models draw from every time. You'll see how one team built and maintains its grounding engine, and why this infrastructure is fast becoming the difference between AI that sounds like you and AI that sounds like everyone. |
4:00 p.m.
Expo Floor Closes
5:30 p.m. PT
Networking Event
Live Virtual Summit: Day Two
Thursday, February 25, 2027
8:00 a.m. PT
Registration and Badge Pick-Up
9:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m. PT
Keynote Panel
The Next 18 Months: What AI Capabilities Are Coming and How to Build Org Readiness Now
A forward look at the AI capabilities landing over the next 18 months — what's real, what's near, and what it changes. Leaders share how to build organizational readiness now, so you absorb what's coming instead of scrambling to catch up.
10:00 a.m. PT
Expo Floor Opens
Track C — AI for Growth and Demand Gen | Track D — AI Search and Performance Marketing |
10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m. PT Case StudyAgentic GTM in Practice: Real Orgs, Real Workflows, Real Results Agentic go-to-market has moved from concept to production. This case study shows real organizations running real agent-driven workflows — how the work is structured, where humans step in, and the results it's producing. | 10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m. PT Owning AI Search: A GTM Playbook for Marketing Leaders in the Age of GEO AI-native search is rapidly evolving from a place where consumers retrieve information into an agentic customer journey where they turn to AI for research, comparisons, recommendations, and eventually transactions. In this new environment, winning is no longer just about achieving a top search ranking or generating a single click. Brands must earn a place in the AI’s answer — and build the proof points, product data, reputation, and pathways that enable confident, accurate recommendations. This keynote explains why Generative Engine Optimization is not simply “SEO for chatbots,” but a new GTM discipline at the intersection of brand strategy, product marketing, data infrastructure, content, commerce, and media. Drawing on a product-marketing and ad-tech perspective, Patricia Clark will introduce the GEO Control Tower: a practical operating model for CMOs and marketing leaders to manage earned answer visibility, third-party proof, machine-readable product and brand data, AI-native measurement, and emerging paid AI opportunities. Key takeaways:
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11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m. PT Case StudyRunning the Full Demand-Gen Engine as a Team of One: What Connects, What Doesn't, and the Real Funnel Impact AI as the connective tissue, not just a tool. This case study shows one operator running content, paid media, SEO, and CRM through a single AI-driven system, with specifics on what stayed human, what didn't, and the pipeline results it produced. | 11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m. PT Performance Max, Advantage+ and What's Next: Operating Inside AI-Native Ad Platforms The ad platforms now run themselves, so the craft is operating inside the black box. This case study covers what levers you still control, how to feed the algorithms well, and how to hold AI-native campaigns accountable. |
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. PT
Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m.–1:45 a.m. PT Hyper-Personalization Without the Overhead: AI-Driven Segmentation and Journey Orchestration at Scale AI breaks the old tradeoff between personalization and effort. This session explores dynamic segmentation and self-orchestrating journeys that deliver individualized experiences at scale, and where the line sits between relevant and unsettling. | 1:00 p.m.–1:45 a.m. PT Case StudyZero-Click World: Measuring and Attributing Traffic When AI Search Doesn't Send Clicks When AI answers without sending a click, attribution breaks. This case study tackles how to value visibility you can't track to a session, what proxies actually work, and how to defend budget for presence in AI results. |
2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. PT LIVE DEMOCompetitive Intelligence at AI Speed: Systems for Real-Time Market Signal and Response Market intelligence no longer waits for a quarterly deck. This session looks at the systems teams use to sense competitive signals in real time and respond at the same speed, without drowning in noise. | 2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. PT Live DemoAn AI Reporting Stack That Cuts Analysis Time in Half Reporting eats hours that could go to strategy. This live demo shows a working AI reporting stack that pulls data, surfaces what changed, and drafts the narrative — run end to end, with the tools exposed. |
3:00 p.m. PT
Expo Floor Closes
