CONNECT: Marketing Executive Summit: Drive Smarter Growth

Name: CONNECT: Marketing Executive Summit: Drive Smarter Growth
Start: 2026-10-05
End: 2026-10-07
Location: Hyatt Regency New Orleans

Hyatt Regency New OrleansOctober 5 - 7, 2026

Join Marketing Leaders Driving Smarter Growth

CONNECT Marketing Executive Summit gives senior marketing leaders a more useful way to spend three days: candid peer conversations, timely sessions on smarter growth, AI, changing buyer behavior, and marketing’s expanding influence across the business, and curated 1:1 meetings with solution providers selected around their business priorities.

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Agenda

Choose from 35+ Sessions, 30 Speakers, 6 Networking Events & More.

3:00 PM–3:15 PM

General SessionWelcome Remarks

Jorge Quant

Global Marketing Director

Carestream

3:15 PM–3:55 PM

General SessionMarketing’s New Mandate: Prove Growth or Lose Ground

Marketing leaders are under more pressure than ever to show measurable business value. Hear how top organizations are tying strategy, spend, and execution to pipeline, revenue, retention, and growth.

Andy Garrett

Global Head of Marketing

SitusAMC

Gerardo Muyshondt

Senior Director of Marketing and Brand Strategy

Driscoll Children's Hospital

Greg Paone

Philadelphia Director of Regional Integrated Marketing

American Cancer Society

Matt Gosselin

Global Head of Marketing

Xebia

4:45 PM–5:25 PM

General SessionOne Revenue Team: Fix Dysfunctional GTM Silos

The highest-performing companies are aligning marketing, sales, and customer teams around shared goals and data. Learn how leaders are building unified revenue engines.

Aparna Sharma

Vice President, Product Marketing

Candescent

Ben Carrillo

Global Marketing Director

Forward Air Corporation and Omni Logistics

Bharti Sharma

Director of Marketing Operations

Greensky LLC

Claire MacDuff

Managing Director, Marketing

Elevate

Jocelyn Sexton

Vice President of Growth Marketing

Growth Acceleration Partners

Mindy Russell

Senior Vice President, Marketing

Quisitive

5:30 PM–6:30 PM

MealWelcome Cocktail Reception

Key connections. Elevated ambience.

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Attendee Benefits

Qualified in-person attendees receive:

Hotel accommodations at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans
Meals and refreshments throughout the event
Access to on-site and off-site networking events
Support from a dedicated event concierge

AWS in one-on-one meetings with attendee

Curated Research Meetings

Your time is valuable, which is why we skip the usual “wandering the exhibition hall” and connect you directly to relevant solution providers.

Tell us about your current challenges during registration, and we’ll arrange meetings with a tailored set of solution providers who can help. It’s a simple, fun way to do solutions research in a relaxed, no-pressure environment.

Solution Providers

We ‘re proud to work with the best in the business. By learning about your projects up front, we match you for 1-on-1 meetings with those best-suited to tackle the challenge.Sponsor here

Testimonials

Quartz is exactly what I've been looking for as a busy marketer who is looking for the solutions for our company's needs at a specific time. It gives us the option to explore and connect directly with relevant vendors that we are actively looking for in such a convenient way, without being flooded with non-relevant vendors."– Head of Performance Marketing, Patreon

Quartz Events always delivers on their promise of a valuable event with a quality group of attendees."– NA Campaign Lead, SAP

When I first received the invitation to CMO Connect I wasn't sure I wanted to attend to "yet another event", but the format made me curious early on and that made me attend to it, and i'm glad I did. It was a high level event, I loved the format of the facilitated meetings, how the vendors came prepared to our conversations, leaving more time for us to focus on what's important, if we are a good fit for each other and can work together. Looking forward for the next one!"– CRO, Outsmart Digital

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