Decoding AI for Marketing Greg Stuart, Rex Briggs

Jonathan Nelson, CEO of Omnicom Digital, works with clients at the world’s largest organizations to shape the future of marketing. He’s spent his career picking the winners: deciding which technologies to invest in to help his company get an edge in the increasingly competitive marketing landscape. In the AI space, he’s partly doing that by not putting all his eggs in one basket; instead, his company has partnered with major players like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and more. He explains why you need to be all in - but also be able to pull out as things shift in the weeks and months ahead.

Jocelyn Goldfein, Managing Director at Zetta, has been there since the early days of the Internet, even starting as the first summer intern at Netscape. After time at Facebook and VMWare, she entered the venture capital space with the first AI-focused VC firm, Zetta. Now, she and her partners are looking for the biggest opportunities in the startup ecosystem around AI, and she explains what some of those developments mean for the marketing world.

Vikram Chalana, CEO of Pictory, says the future of marketing - and all content - is video. He looked at the ways in which AI could increase efficiency for content creators, and that was the inspiration behind the company. Pictory makes video creation easier by allowing the average business user to repurpose existing content like articles and white papers and make videos to publish across multiple channels. Chalana explains how their technology works, how it helps SMBs, and where he wants the space to go next.

Wesley ter Haar, founder of MediaMonks and Executive Director at S4 Capital Group, has always been on the cutting edge of digital first production. The company has doubled down on their AI bet, and he shares some of the latest use cases they are developing for clients with AI, including consumer proxies, scaling up personalization, retrieval-augmented generation, and streamlining workflows.

Amit Shah, founder and CEO at the startup Instalily.ai, says that the age of AI agents is on the horizon and it will change commerce, marketing, and our lives in all kinds of profound ways. Shah has previously seen major digital transformations while serving as president of 1-800-FLOWERS, among other roles. He explains that the increased use of agents will fundamentally change how marketers go to market, and other ways that AI is accelerating change in the space.

Marty Kihn, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Salesforce, explains some of the biggest ways that AI has impacted their business in recent years. Salesforce now centers around a Customer Data Platform, or CDP, and Kihn talks through some of the key decisions around data, vendors, and layers of AI models that can change the game for all marketers.