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Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo™

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Who should attend Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo™

Connect with Gartner analysts and fellow marketing leaders to gain new perspectives on leading a high-performing marketing function.

  • Chief marketing officers

  • Digital marketing leaders

  • Marketing operations leaders

  • Marketing tech leaders

  • Marketing analytics leaders

  • Brand marketing leaders

  • Product marketing leaders

  • Marketing professionals

Why you should attend Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo™

At Gartner marketing conferences, you’ll find objective insights, strategic advice and practical tools on topics spanning digital marketing, product marketing, content marketing, transformation, customer experience and brand management. You’ll hear straight from Gartner analysts, who conduct research and engage with chief marketing officers and their teams throughout the year, about how to tackle key challenges and achieve your most critical priorities.

Join us at this global marketing summit to explore how to lead a highly productive marketing function, deliver customer experiences that drive retention, unlock enterprise data to improve marketing performance, generate sales through integrated buying experiences and build a differentiated brand. Determine where to focus to deliver impact, and explore the technologies and best practices that will future-proof your marketing strategy. 

Session Spotlights

  • Creating and Delivering an AI Marketing Strategy
  • Breaking Through Dysfunctional Collaboration to Drive Growth
  • In the Company of Genius: Learnings From the Best Digital Marketing Brands
  • Demonstrating Brand Marketing’s Commercial Impact
  • Magic Quadrant for Content Marketing Platforms

AI coverage at Gartner Marketing Conferences

Explore how CMOs, brand marketing leaders, digital/channel marketing leaders, product marketing leaders and marketing operations and analytics leaders can gain actionable insights into harnessing AI for growth, brand trust and customer-centric marketing.

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AI skills and insights you’ll walk away with:

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How to build AI-ready foundations, including AI governance, AI literacy, marketing analytics maturity and AI-native organizational design

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How to apply AI and GenAI across ideation, asset creation, channel optimization, real-time GTM decisions and analytics-driven personalization

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How to turn AI ambition into results by leading marketing AI transformation, sustaining influence, capturing AI value and operationalizing your AI-powered marketing organization

“Gartner conferences have proved invaluable to me and my team. We apply the learnings and insights year after year, and Gartner’s support, guidance and knowledge continue to deliver for the whole team, not just those who attend the conference.”

Michele Slepekis, VP of Marketing
Reitmans

Marketing conferences and events FAQs

What are the main topics covered at this marketing conference?

Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo™ will cover how to collaborate to drive business value in digital and product marketing, deliver measurable growth and earn loyalty with powerful customer experiences, establish an effective multichannel marketing strategy, increase sales through integrated buying experiences and lead your organization’s strategic brand management. 

Will there be workshops or interactive sessions focused on strategic marketing and innovation?

Through a variety of presentations and interactive session types including workshops, ask-the-expert sessions and roundtables at the marketing summit, Gartner analysts will share actionable insights on innovative growth marketing strategies that CMOs can implement to achieve stronger performance.

Who are the speakers and industry leaders presenting at the marketing conference?

Attendees will hear from the analysts behind Gartner insights, who are dedicated to translating industry trends into actionable, objective guidance. You will also hear from guest speakers, who bring best practices from years of success in their fields.

How is Gartner creating an environment of inclusion at its conferences?

Gartner is committed to creating a respectful, friendly and inclusive experience for all participants. Diversity, equity and inclusion are core components of Gartner culture, and we take pride in bringing together a welcoming, considerate community. Gartner conferences include accessibility ambassadors, prayer/meditation rooms, and parent/mother rooms to help foster a deeper sense of inclusion and further enable attendees to bring their whole selves to the conference. Please email GlobalConferences@gartner.com with any additional questions or feedback on accessibility.

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