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CONNECT: Marketing Tech + Growth

Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, San Diego, CAMay 5–7, 2027
Four Centerstage Keynote Speakers
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An invitation-only gathering for senior marketing, growth, and go-to-market executives shaping the future of customer acquisition and sustainable growth.

Agenda

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

2:00 PM–2:30 PM

General SessionWelcome Remarks

2:30 PM–3:20 PM

General SessionPanel | One Marketing Function, Two Buyers: Unifying B2C and B2B Under a Single Team

What happens when one marketing organization has to win over two very different audiences? This panel explores how teams can bring B2C and B2B marketing together under a single, unified function without losing the distinct strategies, experiences, and buying journeys each audience requires. Hear from marketing leaders navigating the realities of shared teams, resources, data, technology, and goals.

  • Where B2C and B2B strategy must stay separate. Messaging, channels, and sales cycles versus where infrastructure can be shared
  • Structuring a unified team so specialized B2C and B2B expertise doesn't get diluted
  • Measuring marketing's revenue impact when one team serves two very different funnels
  • Where budget and headcount tension shows up first when one function serves two audiences
  • What actually changed in the first 12 months of unification: what worked, what had to be rebuilt
Bo Anderson

Bo Anderson

Vice President of Marketing

Lakeshore Learning Materials

Jason Langford

Jason Langford

Vice President of Marketing

Retro Fitness

3:30 PM–4:20 PM

BreakoutBoardroom | MarTech Consolidation: Building the Case With Finance and IT

Years of "got a problem, buy a tool" have left most stacks with overlapping platforms, duplicate customer data, and no clear owner for the whole picture. Now AI investment is adding new line items while Finance and IT are asking harder questions about return. This boardroom brings marketing leaders together to share how they're consolidating deliberately, cutting what's redundant, protecting what teams depend on, and building a case the CFO and CIO will sign off on.

  • Deciding what to cut, what to keep, and what AI can replace in the stack
  • Who sits at the table: dividing stack ownership between Marketing, IT, and Finance
  • Setting realistic productivity expectations for AI investments
  • Building the business case leadership actually approves, and keeping it on track after launch

3:30 PM–5:25 PM

Business MeetingsBusiness Meetings

4:30 PM–5:20 PM

BreakoutBoardroom

5:30 PM–6:20 PM

General SessionFireside Chat | Inside the Deal: How We Built a Brand Partnership That Worked

Brand partnerships look great in a press release, but the real story is what happens before and after the handshake. In this fireside chat, Brian Reames, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Duvel Moortgat USA Ltd, and Kevin Green, Director of Promotional Partnerships, Fandango, pull back the curtain on one specific deal: how it came together, what nearly derailed it, and how they knew it was working. Expect a candid, no-slides conversation for marketing leaders weighing partnerships as a channel in their own growth mix.

  • Discuss how the partnership came together: who initiated it, and why it made sense for both brands
  • Learn what it took to secure internal buy-in, from budget approval to cross-functional alignment
  • Explore how the deal was structured operationally, including co-marketing, media, and data-sharing components
  • Measuring partnership success in both revenue and brand terms, and reporting it back to leadership
Brian Reames

Brian Reames

Vice President Sales & Marketing

Duvel Moortgat USA Ltd

Kevin Green

Kevin Green

Director of Promotional Partnerships at Fandango / NBCUniversal

Fandango

6:30 PM–8:30 PM

MealWelcome Cocktail Reception + Dinner

Key connections. Elevated ambience.

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Curated Research Meetings

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May 5–7, 2027 | Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, San Diego, CA