About Seth Godin

Session: This Is Strategy @ 1:25-1:45PM

Seth is the founder of Yoyodyne, one of the world's first internet companies, where he pioneered email marketing. He's the author of 22 worldwide bestsellers, but can't help marketing and developing software... it's been 40 years since he started at Spinnaker creating science fiction adventure games. His latest book is THIS IS STRATEGY, which became a bestseller the day it was launched.

About Godard Abel

Session: The Future of Agents @ 12:35-1:00PM

CEO, Co-Founder at G2

A 5x SaaS entrepreneur, Godard Abel is CEO of G2, the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace, which he co-founded in 2012. He is also Executive Chairman of ThreeKit, a leading 3D visualization technology company, and Logik.io, a next generation configuration technology.

Previously, Godard served as CEO of SteelBrick which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 where he subsequently served as SVP/GM of the SteelBrick business unit until May 2017 when he left to refocus on entrepreneurial adventures. Godard previously co-founded BigMachines, where he served as CEO and built it into a leading SaaS provider which was acquired by Oracle in 2013. He also served as a GM at Niku prior to its IPO in 2000 (and subsequent acquisition by CA).

Before entering the technology industry, Godard consulted for McKinsey & Company and advised leading manufacturers in the U.S. and Germany on strategy development and business process improvement. Godard was a Finalist for EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019, named to the Tech 50 list by Crain’s Business Chicago in September 2014, and to the Chicago Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2011. He earned an MBA from Stanford University and both a B.S. and M.S. in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

About Lena Waters

Session: How Grammarly Stands Out Among 600+ AI Writing Assistants @ 2:45-3:05PM

Lena Waters is Grammarly’s Chief Marketing Officer. She leads marketing strategy, focusing on delivering the brand promise to customers, driving demand for products, and growing revenue to scale the company.

Effective communication and bringing clarity to every interaction have always been important to Lena. She believes deeply in Grammarly’s mission to improve every communication and make life better for customers.

Prior to Grammarly, Lena scaled global consumer and B2B teams at high-growth companies like DocuSign, Lookout, and Responsys.

About Tomasz Tunguz

Session: The Future of Agents @ 12:35 - 1:00PM

Tomasz Tunguz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, an early stage software & infrastructure firm investing $1-25m in early stage companies. Tomasz writes a blog at tomtunguz.com & has worked with companies like Looker, MotherDuck, Monte Carlo, Hex, Omni, Lilt, Chorus, & Dremio. He co-authored the book Winning with Data.

About Jason Lemkin

Session: The Future of Agents @ 12:35-1:00PM

Jason M. Lemkin is founder and chief executive officer of SaaStr, the world's largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90M venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise investments.

About Sydney Sloan

Session: How Grammarly Stands Out Among 600+ AI Writing Assistant Products  @ 2:45-3:05PM

Sydney Sloan is CMO at G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. Before G2, she was the first-ever CMO at compliance automation software company Drata. Before that, as CMO of revenue workflow platform Salesloft, Sydney helped scale the company 10x in less than four years — expanding the marketing team as the company grew from series C to E, with a $2.3B valuation and investment by Vista Equity Partners. She was also CMO at Alfresco, and held several marketing leadership roles at Adobe during a 17-year tenure.

Sydney is also an Advisor for Scale Venture Partners and a Limited Partner at Stage 2 Capital, where she advises founders and leaders on GTM strategy, brand, strategic partnerships, customer journey, and employee culture. A champion of DEI, Sydney serves as a Master Mentor at Women in Revenue, a co-sponsor of WISE (Women in Sales Everywhere), and previously spearheaded Salesloft’s DEI program in 2020.

About Scott Brinker

Session: How to Integrate AI Into Your Stack @ 2:15-2:45PM

Scott Brinker, dubbed the "godfather of martech" by AdAge, has been analyzing marketing technology and its impact on marketing organizations for more than 16 years as the editor of the chiefmartec.com blog. He serves as VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, helping to grow and nurture the company's community of technology partners. He also authored the best-selling book Hacking Marketing and co-authored the recent best-seller The New Automation Mindset.

About Kelly Hopping

Session: How to Integrate AI Into Your Stack @ 2:15-2:45PM

Kelly Hopping is the Chief Marketing Officer at Demandbase and a seasoned business executive, speaker, and author. Prior to joining Demandbase, Kelly served as the CMO at HYCU and Garter Digital Markets, and she held numerous marketing leadership positions at Rackspace, AMD, and Dell.

Kelly’s passion for branding and product marketing began at Kraft Foods, where she managed a variety of brands like Chips Ahoy!, Nutter Butter, and Kraft string cheese.

She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University. Kelly resides in Austin, Texas, with her husband and three children.

About Rob Giglio

Session: From the Leader’s Quadrant: What it Takes to Win the AI Race @ 1:45-2:15PM

Rob Giglio is the Chief Customer Officer at Canva, where he oversees Canva’s sales and go-to-market functions. Rob brings to Canva over 20 years of industry experience leading and executing large-scale marketing and sales initiatives for global enterprises.

Rob joins Canva from HubSpot, where he was also Chief Customer Officer, and before that, he was the Chief Marketing Officer at Docusign. Prior to Docusign, Rob spent over ten years at Adobe, leading the global sales and go-to-market teams for their Digital Media Business Unit and holding responsibility for over $7B in revenue. Rob’s previous professional experiences include general management and marketing roles at Gap, Williams-Sonoma, Clorox and Procter & Gamble. Rob holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University.

About Tim Sanders

Session: The 3 AI Mega-Trends We’re Watching at G2 @ 12:00-12:35PM

Tim Sanders is the VP of Research Insights at G2. He’s also an executive fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, where he’s laser focused on how AI impacts businesses. He’s a NY Times bestselling author of five books, including Love is the Killer App.

About Sara Rossio

Session: G2 Innovation Update - Connecting Buyers to Sellers with AI @ 1:00-1:25PM

Sara Rossio is Chief Product Officer at G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace, where she manages the entirety of G2's product portfolio and has a keen eye for identifying new market opportunities. Having spent over 20 years building and managing software solutions in various product leadership roles, Sara is an effective leader, developing and executing both short and long-term strategic plans that drive profitability. Prior to joining G2, she held leadership positions at NAVTEQ/Here, Gogo, and PowerReviews. Sara holds five patents, and consistently focuses on solving user problems with technology. She earned her BSBA in Marketing & International Business from Ohio State University.

About Jen Niedel

Session: How to Integrate AI Into Your Stack @ 2:15-2:45PM

Jen leads a team of business analysts and domain experts who introduce and support new marketing technology, processes, and ideas to shape the way SAS does marketing. An innovative and collaborative leader for over 20 years, she is a change agent who continually seeks to make the business of marketing work better for customers, employees, and partners. Her passions include her family and dogs, Duke basketball, design thinking, digital tech, and the daily Wordle.

About Tim Handorf

Session: G2 Innovation Update - Connecting Buyers to Sellers with AI @ 1:00-1:25PM

Tim Handorf is a G2 co-founder and Head of G2 Labs, which is focused on innovating new product opportunities that will fuel the company’s growth. He is also Executive Chairman of CarrierSource and previously led Product Management at BigMachines, which was acquired by Oracle.

Active in the Chicago technology scene, Tim has been recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business Journal on their “Tech 50” list. He’s also a board member of Chicago Tech Academy and a member of the Young Professional Organization’s (YPO) Chicagoland Chapter. Having grown up on a farm in central Iowa, Tim currently resides in Southern Wisconsin with his wife and three kids.

About Whitney Donaldson

Customer Workshop: Integrate Intent Into Your Demand Gen Workflows @ 3:05-3:25PM

Whitney Donaldson is the Director of Demand Generation at impact.com, where she leads multi-channel strategies to drive pipeline growth and revenue across global markets. With extensive experience in leveraging intent data, Whitney specializes in creating scalable demand generation campaigns that align marketing and sales efforts for maximum impact. Whitney is passionate about empowering organizations to use data-driven insights to achieve their growth objectives efficiently and effectively.

About Amanda Kahlow

Session: From the Leader’s Quadrant: What it Takes to Win the AI Race @ 1:45-2:15PM

The founder and former CEO of 6sense, Amanda is a serial entrepreneur who started her first business at the age of 21. A 2x AI CEO, today Amanda is the CEO and Founder of 1mind, where she is dedicated to building GTM superhumans. Amanda is focused on giving back both personally and professionally and serves as an.advisor to the organization, Girl Rising.

About Neeraj Manivannan

Customer Workshop: Make the Most of Your G2 Profile @ 3:05-3:25PM

As Product Marketing Manager at Insider, Neeraj leads the positioning, messaging, and GTM strategy of the company's personalized cross-channel journey orchestrator, "Architect" and site search solution "Eureka" globally. Previously, he held Product Marketing roles at Netcore Cloud.

About Katlin Hess

Customer Workshop: Make the Most of Your G2 Profile @ 3:05-3:25PM

As the Director of Customer Marketing at G2, Katlin Hess is passionate about fostering customer relationships and helping innovative brands tell their stories. In her spare time, she loves reading anything mystery or true crime related, baking beautiful desserts, and is always on the hunt for the perfect cup of coffee.

About Eric Gilpin

Customer Workshop: Drive an Always-On Review Strategy @ 3:05-3:25PM

Eric Gilpin is Chief Revenue Officer of G2. In this role he oversees all aspects of G2's revenue generation, including global sales and customer success, enablement, partnerships, and revenue operations. An experienced leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling large technology businesses, Eric joined G2 from Upwork, where he oversaw a global team of 400+ and helped lead the company to a successful IPO in 2018 (NASDAQ:UPWK) where the business scaled to north of $600 million in annual revenue in 2022 while serving 50% of the Fortune 500. Prior to his tenure at Upwork, Eric held a number of leadership roles at CareerBuilder, most recently as President of Vertical Sales.

Eric also serves as a limited partner at the GTMfund investor network as well as an advisory board member at Sales Assembly. He’s been recognized as one of the Industry's top "40 under 40" by Staffing Industry Analysts in both 2017 and 2018 and as a Top 100 Global Sales Leaders in 2020 by The Modern Sale. Based in Chicago, Eric has a Masters of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.

About Michael Pannone

Customer Workshop: Integrate Intent Into Your Demand Gen Workflows @ 3:05-3:25PM

Michael Pannone is G2's Director of Global Demand Generation and oversees lead generation strategies, multi-channel campaigns and messaging, digital channel performance and optimization, and paid advertising from APAC to AMER for all business segments. From brand awareness and events, to full-funnel conversion optimization and customer lifecycle marketing, Michael’s passion is connecting audiences to business outcomes and results to the bottom line. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration in both Marketing and Management from Georgia State University, and resides in Atlanta, GA. When Michael is not at work you can find him working on his hobby business, spending time with his two dogs, cooking, or doing DIY house projects.

About Kraig Swensrud

Session: From the Leader’s Quadrant: What it Takes to Win the AI Race @ 1:45-2:15PM

Kraig is the founder & CEO at Qualified. Previously, Kraig was the Founder of GetFeedback. Before that, Kraig served as CMO of Salesforce where he was responsible for driving the global corporate and product marketing functions, leading a team that drove Salesforce into hyper-growth.

About Chris Dutton

Session: G2 Innovation Update - Connecting Buyers to Sellers with AI @ 1:00-1:25PM

Chris Dutton has spent the last 4 years at 6sense where he leads the marketing operations and demand generation team. He has spent the last 15+ years, focused on sales development, marketing operations, demand generation and reporting and analytics with a strong passion for the “art of the possible”.

About Jen Anderson

Customer Workshop: Drive an Always-On Review Strategy @ 3:05-3:25PM

Jen Anderson is a marketing maven with a knack for turning customers into superfans and teams into powerhouses. With 10+ years of experience across the customer lifecycle, she’s the go-to for crafting strategies for building high-performing teams, leading through change, and crafting customer-centric strategies that break silos and deliver measurable impact.

Known for rewriting the customer marketing playbook, Jen thrives on solving complex challenges and creating experiences that deliver real results—with a side of creative flair.