Day 1 - 6 May 2026

Featuring topics including:

Hyper-personalisation at Scale, Predictive Content, Timing & Channel Optimisation, Multi-channel Marketing Automation, AI-generated Content & Testing, Balancing Automation vs. Human Touch, Deliverability, Consent & Trust, Customer Lifecycle Orchestration, Behaviour-Triggered Journeys & Optimisation

09:20AM

Jimmy Newson

Founder

Moving Forward Small Business

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09:20AM - Day 1

View Chair’s Welcome – AI-Powered Automation & Lifecycle Marketing

05:10PM - Day 1

View Building a Resilient Marketing Strategy with Data Insights

09:20AM - Day 2

View Chair’s Welcome – AI, Agentic & Hyper-Personalisation

05:10PM - Day 1

View Utilizing Big Data to Uncover Untapped Market

09:20AM - Day 2

View Chair’s Welcome – AI & Marketing Automation

01:30PM - Day 1

View Workshop Continued: Strategic Planning Masterclass for Growing your Business/Marketing Department

11:30AM - Day 2

View Workshop: Strategic Planning Masterclass for Growing your Business/Marketing Department

03:00PM - Day 1

View Leveraging data and insights to create strategic partnerships and relationships to Increase Brand Awareness and Your Bottom Line

09:20AM - Day 2

View Chair Welcome – Data & Insights – 24 June

08:50AM - Day 1

View Chair’s Welcome – Data & Insights – 23 June

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Chair’s Welcome – AI-Powered Automation & Lifecycle Marketing

. Jimmy Newson, Founder, Moving Forward Small Business
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09:30AM

Duncan Wagner

Global AI Marketing Lead

Diageo

Associated Talks:

09:30AM - Day 1

View Responsibly using AI to Deliver Personalised Insights, Briefs, and Campaigns

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Responsibly using AI to Deliver Personalised Insights, Briefs, and Campaigns

  • Insights: Leveraging AI to unlock vast amounts of information and deliver actionable results
  • Briefs: Using AI to assist in writing high-quality briefs, JBPs, and more
  • Campaigns: Using AI to deliver bespoke and relevant experiences for our consumers
  • Responsibility and Governance: How we mitigate risk and ensure ethical, responsible use
. Duncan Wagner, Global AI Marketing Lead, Diageo
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10:00AM

Mark Yates

Head of Digital Customer Engagement

Greene King

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10:00AM - Day 1

View From Framework to Reality: Scaling Hyper-Personalisation with Greene King

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Rob Pellow

Technical Director

Bond

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10:00AM - Day 1

View From Framework to Reality: Scaling Hyper-Personalisation with Greene King

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From Framework to Reality: Scaling Hyper-Personalisation with Greene King

Most organisations know they need to deliver more personalised experiences, but far fewer know how to operationalise it across data, channels, content and teams.

Bond will introduce its Personalisation Maturity Framework, a practical model designed to help businesses assess where they are today, understand what “good” looks like, and prioritise the next steps towards true one-to-one engagement.

Bringing this to life, Greene King will share how it has evolved its approach over the past four years, from foundational investment in data and MarTech, through to delivering increasingly omnichannel, insight-led relevant experiences across a complex portfolio of brands and customer occasions.

Together, we’ll explore:

  • What it really takes to move from campaign-led CRM to orchestrated personalisation
  • How to progress across key capability pillars including data, decisioning, content and orchestration
  • The realities of scaling personalisation in a multi-brand, high-frequency environment
  • How this evolution is now powering Greene King’s next phase of growth

The session will also include a live demonstration of the Personalisation Maturity Framework, enabling attendees to assess their companies’ personalisation maturity and leave with a view of the priority jobs to be done.

. Mark Yates, Head of Digital Customer Engagement, Greene King
. Rob Pellow, Technical Director, Bond
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10:30AM

Daniel Wotherspoon

Programmatic & Display Manager

Livescore Group

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10:30AM - Day 1

View The 2026 Performance Playbook: Using AI to Turn Ad Waste into Growth

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Hazem EL Taha

Senior VP MarTech

HSBC

Associated Talks:

10:30AM - Day 1

View The 2026 Performance Playbook: Using AI to Turn Ad Waste into Growth

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Sara Sihelnik

Director, Client Partnerships - EMEA

Quantcast

Associated Talks:

10:30AM - Day 1

View The 2026 Performance Playbook: Using AI to Turn Ad Waste into Growth

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Yuki Kuyper

Manager, Corporate Sales EMEA

Quantcast

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10:30AM - Day 1

View The 2026 Performance Playbook: Using AI to Turn Ad Waste into Growth

11:40AM - Day 1

View Omnichannel Marketing Mastery – Overcoming Pitfalls and Driving Impact

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The 2026 Performance Playbook: Using AI to Turn Ad Waste into Growth

A significant portion of ad spend never reaches the right person. The result is wasted budget, inconsistent messaging and audiences that never make it to conversion.

In this session, we break down the real sources of ad waste, from spam retargeting to cross-channel inconsistency, and show how real-time data and AI can help you eliminate spend on people who are not ready and more on the ones who are.

You’ll leave with a clear plan for turning the budget you already have into the growth you actually want.

. Daniel Wotherspoon, Programmatic & Display Manager , Livescore Group
. Hazem EL Taha, Senior VP MarTech , HSBC
. Sara Sihelnik, Director, Client Partnerships - EMEA , Quantcast
. Yuki Kuyper, Manager, Corporate Sales EMEA , Quantcast
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11:10AM

Morning Networking Break

11:40AM

Julia Maguire

Integrated Marketing & AI Innovation Director

Optimizely

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11:40AM - Day 1

View Hidden in Plain Sight: Find AI Use Cases That Really Matter

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Find AI Use Cases That Really Matter

AI can technically do anything for marketers but when even anything is possible, it can be impossible to know where to start.

In this talk, you will discover how to uncover the high-impact agent opportunities, waiting to be found inside your marketing lifecycle.

You will learn how to:

  • Prioritize high-impact AI use cases
  • Refine workflows and tech stacks
  • Balance automation with human creativity

…and ultimately deliver more measurable impact for marketing.

. Julia Maguire, Integrated Marketing & AI Innovation Director, Optimizely
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12:10PM

Maxwell Minckler

Market Insights, Search and YouTube, EMEA

Google

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12:10PM - Day 1

View The Unsaid 2.0: The Winning Mindsets Behind Leading AI Organizations

09:30AM - Day 1

View The Unsaid: The Mindsets Driving AI Leadership in Marketing

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The Unsaid 2.0: The Winning Mindsets Behind Leading AI Organizations

  • AI transformation research from Google focused on accelerating AI impact for organizations and individuals with Behavioural Science, aiming to help companies move from initial AI awareness (the ‘wow’) to practical implementation (the ‘how’).
  • Learn how the FOMA Mindset (Focus on Maximizing Advantages) provides the right approach for enabling AI adoption and impact.
  • The session will provide an actionable playbook for both FOMA marketers and FOMA organizations on how to foster AI best practices and culture.

You’ll come away with real-world case studies from leading organizations driving tangible business impact through AI, to apply in your own team

. Maxwell Minckler, Market Insights, Search and YouTube, EMEA, Google
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12:40PM

Milan Knapp

Executive Director

Roivenue

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12:40PM - Day 1

View Traffic From ChatGPT Grew 800 Percent Last Year. Is A New Ecommerce Channel Emerging?

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Traffic From ChatGPT Grew 800 Percent Last Year. Is A New Ecommerce Channel Emerging?

Traffic from ChatGPT to ecommerce sites grew by 800 percent last year across more than 300 brands analyzed in Roivenue.

This is not a prediction about the future of AI. It is already happening.

AI interfaces such as ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, and Google Gemini are becoming a new discovery layer between customers and brands. They influence product research, brand comparison, and buying decisions before a user ever clicks on a traditional search result. LLMs are already sending measurable traffic to ecommerce sites and in many cases, contributing to conversions.

Yet most ecommerce teams are not measuring this channel properly. In many analytics setups, LLM driven sessions are misclassified as direct or referral traffic. As a result, leadership teams underestimate its growth and its strategic impact.

Based on aggregated data from 300 plus ecommerce brands, this session will reveal:

  • How fast AI driven traffic is actually growing
    • How LLM traffic behaves compared to SEO, paid search, and direct
    • Where standard attribution models break when AI enters the journey
    • Which verticals are seeing the strongest early impact
    • What ecommerce teams should change now in SEO, content, and paid strategy

This session moves beyond AI hype and focuses on hard data, measurement architecture, and practical implications for growth teams.

A new acquisition channel is forming in plain sight. The question is not whether it will matter, but who will adapt first.

. Milan Knapp, Executive Director, Roivenue
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01:00PM

Lunch & Networking Break

02:00PM

Mike McHardy 

MD & Head of Sales

Birdeye

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02:00PM - Day 1

View Scaling Local Success: How Timpson Drives Footfall Across 6,000+ Locations with AI

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Will Lankston 

Managing Director

Timpson

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02:00PM - Day 1

View Scaling Local Success: How Timpson Drives Footfall Across 6,000+ Locations with AI

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Scaling Local Success: How Timpson Drives Footfall Across 6,000+ Locations with AI

Join this session to discover how Timpson is driving footfall across its 6,250 locations by improving local SEO performance at scale, using reviews, listings, and AI-powered insights to increase visibility across every location. Hear how Timpson unified CX to enable cross-brand benchmarking, unlocking operational efficiencies and clear performance insights across regions. We’ll also explore the journey of moving away from legacy platforms and securing C-suite buy-in to deliver a scalable, future-ready strategy.

. Mike McHardy , MD & Head of Sales , Birdeye
. Will Lankston , Managing Director , Timpson
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02:30PM

Duarte Garrido

Co-Founder

DOJO AI

Associated Talks:

04:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: AI-Powered Performance: Measuring What Matters in Automated Marketing

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Rob Cross

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

LILT

Associated Talks:

02:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: Mastering Marketing in the Age of Intelligent Automation

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Esmeralda Cusati

Director of Creative Campaign Touchpoints

Novartis

Associated Talks:

05:10PM - Day 1

View Smarter Together: Blending Human Creativity with AI Speed

02:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: Mastering Marketing in the Age of Intelligent Automation

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Zoe Eungblut

Marketing & Digital Director

Cancer Research UK (CRUK)

Associated Talks:

02:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: Mastering Marketing in the Age of Intelligent Automation

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Marco Iannone

Group Chief AI Officer

Virgin Active

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02:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: Mastering Marketing in the Age of Intelligent Automation

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Panel: Mastering Marketing in the Age of Intelligent Automation

  • Distinguishing real AI impact from hype across strategy, execution, and measurement
  • Using AI to create anticipatory, personalised customer experiences
  • Leveraging automation to optimise campaigns, content, and lifecycle journeys at scale
  • Harnessing AI to enhance creativity and accelerate experimentation
Moderator: . Duarte Garrido, Co-Founder, DOJO AI
. Rob Cross, Senior Enterprise Account Executive, LILT
. Esmeralda Cusati, Director of Creative Campaign Touchpoints, Novartis
. Zoe Eungblut, Marketing & Digital Director, Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
. Marco Iannone, Group Chief AI Officer, Virgin Active
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03:10PM

Afternoon Networking Break

03:30PM

Wesley van der Hoop

Global Head of Search (PPC & SEO)

Unique Vacations, Ltd

Associated Talks:

03:30PM - Day 1

View Becoming The LLM Whisperer: How to Win the AI Consideration Phase Before Your Competitors Do

10:30AM - Day 1

View Panel: The Evolving Role of SEO in Marketing Strategies

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Becoming The LLM Whisperer: How to Win the AI Consideration Phase Before Your Competitors Do

  • How the consideration phase is being rewritten. LLMs have become the trusted friend buyers turn to before they ever land on your website. And if your brand isn’t part of that conversation, you’re already losing deals you never knew were in play.
  • How to GEO without destroying your SEO. The good news: you don’t have to choose. Drawing on real-world case studies, we’ll show how you can treat GEO and SEO as complementary forces, and how that combination gives you the power to reliably shape what LLMs say about you.
  • The executive’s playbook: how to own LLM answers before your competitors do. The window to move first is open right now, but it won’t stay that way. We’ll close with concrete, actionable moves business leaders can take back to their teams and implement immediately.
. Wesley van der Hoop, Global Head of Search (PPC & SEO) , Unique Vacations, Ltd
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04:00PM

Will Akhurst

Chief Data Strategy Officer

Brainlabs

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04:00PM - Day 1

View Infinite Creative – The Opportunities Ahead

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Infinite Creative – The Opportunities Ahead

With the outputs of AI generative models increasingly resemble a commodity, we look at how the landscape of creative production has altered and it’s profound impacts on creative optimisation and automated feedback loops within digital marketing.

. Will Akhurst, Chief Data Strategy Officer, Brainlabs
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04:15PM

Short Break

04:30PM

Dasha Shunina

Contributor

Forbes

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09:20AM - Day 1

View Chair’s Welcome – Influencer & Creator Economy

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Camille Cohen

Director of Product Marketing

ActiveCampaign

Associated Talks:

04:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: AI-Powered Performance: Measuring What Matters in Automated Marketing

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Thien Tran

Global Media Effectiveness Director

Dentsu

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04:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: AI-Powered Performance: Measuring What Matters in Automated Marketing

10:45AM - Day 1

View Panel: Beyond Automation: What Agentic AI Really Changes within Marketing Teams

10:00AM - Day 1

View Fireside Chat: Navigating Brand Safety in the AI Era

03:30PM - Day 2

View Panel: Digital Transformation 2025: Trends, Tech, and Tactics

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Bukola Odunaiya

Senior Partner Marketing Manager

Expedia Group

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04:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: AI-Powered Performance: Measuring What Matters in Automated Marketing

10:30AM - Day 1

View Panel: Human-AI Collaboration: Transforming CRM and Customer Insights

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Duarte Garrido

Co-Founder

DOJO AI

Associated Talks:

04:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: AI-Powered Performance: Measuring What Matters in Automated Marketing

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Panel: AI-Powered Performance: Measuring What Matters in Automated Marketing

  • Explore the AI shifts performance measurement from campaign metrics to real-time, predictive indicators of customer value
  • How automated optimisation loops continuously test, learn, and improve results with minimal manual effort
  • Examine attribution models, KPIs, and reporting frameworks must evolve in an AI-orchestrated, always-on environment
  • Discuss marketing teams effectively communicate AI-driven performance gains and insights to leadership
Moderator: . Dasha Shunina, Contributor, Forbes
. Camille Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, ActiveCampaign
. Thien Tran, Global Media Effectiveness Director, Dentsu
. Bukola Odunaiya, Senior Partner Marketing Manager, Expedia Group
. Duarte Garrido, Co-Founder, DOJO AI
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05:10PM

Esmeralda Cusati

Director of Creative Campaign Touchpoints

Novartis

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05:10PM - Day 1

View Smarter Together: Blending Human Creativity with AI Speed

02:30PM - Day 1

View Panel: Mastering Marketing in the Age of Intelligent Automation

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Smarter Together: Blending Human Creativity with AI Speed

  • How generative AI accelerates content creation and asset versioning
  • How automation enables rapid experimentation and performance optimisation
  • How AI streamlines production workflows and reduces creative bottlenecks
  • How brands scale output and maintain quality with AI-powered content systems
. Esmeralda Cusati, Director of Creative Campaign Touchpoints, Novartis
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