Media has moved beyond traditional definitions—content, commerce, and community now form one interconnected ecosystem. Organizations must touch infinite touch points while creating authentic human connections that matter. This conversation unpacks how forward-thinking leaders build media strategies that transcend categories, leveraging emerging platforms to deliver genuine engagement that drives both cultural impact and bottom-line results.
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Leaders shaping what's next often share one defining trait: they never stop learning. As technology expands what's possible, curiosity has become the foundation for lifelong growth, mental agility, and fresh thinking. This conversation explores how today's leaders can cultivate a mindset that sparks innovation, strengthens resilience, and unlocks new opportunities throughout their careers.
Technology can process information faster than any team, surface insights in seconds, and automate increasingly complex tasks. Yet judgment remains one of the most valuable skills in business. As organizations race to integrate AI into decision-making, we'll tackle the question of where technology adds the most value—and where human instinct, experience, and accountability remain irreplaceable.
Consumers no longer experience brands through a single channel or moment. They discover, engage, shop, stream, scroll, and connect across an increasingly complex ecosystem of platforms and experiences. We'll explore how brands are building connected experiences that feel cohesive, recognizable, and relevant wherever consumers choose to engage.
The role of the CMO is changing faster than ever. As AI reshapes how brands operate and consumers engage, marketing leaders are balancing a much bigger equation, driving growth, shaping culture, embracing new technology, and meeting rising expectations across the business. This conversation explores how CMOs are redefining their role, where they’re placing their bets, and what it takes to lead marketing through what comes next.
The most valuable opportunities rarely announce themselves. They begin as subtle shifts in consumer behavior, emerging cultural movements, or signals hiding in plain sight. The strongest CMOs aren't simply reacting to change; they're anticipating it. We'll discuss how marketing leaders identify what's next, separate meaningful trends from noise, and turn foresight into a competitive advantage before the rest of the market catches up.
The strongest communities don't simply consume; they help create. Consumers increasingly expect to have a voice in the brands, products, and experiences they support. This session looks at how organizations are inviting people into the process, turning customers into collaborators, and creating deeper relationships through participation. The future may belong to brands that build with their audiences rather than simply for them.
Loyalty is getting harder to earn and easier to lose. Consumers have more options, more information, and fewer barriers to switching than ever before. Yet some brands continue to build relationships that withstand competition, convenience, and changing market conditions. We'll examine what keeps customers coming back and why trust, consistency, and emotional connection remain some of the most valuable assets a brand can possess.
Media companies, publishers, creators, and platforms are all navigating the same reality: the business model keeps changing. Consumer behavior is evolving, revenue streams are shifting, and competition for attention continues to intensify. We'll connect the dots between audience growth, monetization, innovation, and sustainability as leaders rethink what success looks like in the next era of media.
Creators have become trusted collaborators who help brands build community, shape culture, and spark meaningful engagement. As sponsorships evolve into more strategic, long-term partnerships, organizations are discovering new ways to create value together. This conversation explores what makes today's strongest creator partnerships so impactful and how they're driving lasting growth.
Women are building and leading some of the brands shaping how we live, shop, and see ourselves. But lasting growth asks for more than a strong point of view. It requires knowing what to protect, what to change, and how to lead with conviction as the stakes get bigger. Hear from the leaders who know how to keep moving forward without losing the discipline that got them there.
For the first time in history, four generations are shaping the workplace at the same time. Different experiences, expectations, communication styles, and definitions of success can create opportunity. The organizations getting it right are building cultures where learning flows in every direction and curiosity is valued over certainty. We'll hear how leaders are turning generational differences into stronger collaboration, fresh thinking, and teams that never stop learning.
AI is no longer a side project or future initiative. It's reshaping how organizations operate, innovate, hire, compete, and create value. The companies pulling ahead aren't simply adopting new technology—they're redesigning the way work gets done. As AI becomes embedded into every corner of business, we'll examine what separates organizations experimenting with AI from those truly transforming because of it.
As AI, media, and technology reshape how people discover, evaluate, and engage with brands, confidence has become just as important as innovation. The organizations that stand out aren't simply moving faster. They're building transparency, consistency, and credibility into every interaction. Leaders across industries will discuss how trust is earned, strengthened, and sustained in an increasingly intelligent world.
Fans no longer want to sit on the sidelines. They want access, involvement, and opportunities to shape the experience themselves. Across sports, media, entertainment, and culture, organizations are reimagining what participation looks like and finding new ways to deepen engagement. We'll explore how fandom is evolving from passive consumption into active community and why participation has become one of the strongest drivers of loyalty and growth.
The expectations placed on marketing leaders have never been higher. Today's CMOs are expected to drive growth, strengthen brand equity, influence strategy, and demonstrate business impact. We'll take a closer look at how marketing leaders are redefining success, balancing short-term performance with long-term value, and building stronger connections between marketing investment and enterprise growth.
Discovery is no longer linear. Consumers are finding brands through AI assistants, creators, communities, algorithms, and conversations long before they ever type into a search bar. The brands that win are becoming discoverable wherever consumers seek inspiration and recommendations. Hear how AI is rewriting discovery and what it takes to stay relevant in a world where every interaction can influence the next decision.
AI is no longer waiting for instructions. Intelligent agents are beginning to execute workflows, solve problems, and collaborate across teams in ways that fundamentally change how work gets done. The opportunity isn't just greater efficiency. It's building organizations designed around human judgment and autonomous execution. This conversation examines where agentic AI is creating the biggest advantage, what leaders need to rethink, and how businesses prepare for what's next..
Some ideas seem to travel further, spark bigger conversations, and generate momentum that money alone can't buy. They capture attention, inspire participation, and become part of the cultural landscape. What's behind that magnetic pull? Together, we'll unpack the ingredients that create cultural resonance and why some brands, creators, and experiences continue to attract audiences long after the initial moment has passed.
Consumer attention isn't disappearing; it's dispersing. Audiences are spending time across more platforms, formats, and experiences than ever before, forcing brands and media companies to rethink how they reach and engage people. This discussion focuses on the evolving media landscape, shifting consumption habits, and the strategies organizations are using to remain relevant wherever audiences choose to spend their time.
Content has never been more abundant. Trust has never been more important. As audiences navigate an endless stream of information, quality and credibility are becoming powerful differentiators. We'll explore why premium environments continue to command attention, how trust influences consumer behavior, and why context matters as much as content in today's media landscape.
For years, the AI conversation focused on replacement. Today's most interesting stories are about collaboration. Across industries, leaders are discovering how intelligent tools can accelerate creativity, unlock new ideas, and expand what's possible. We'll pull back the curtain on how organizations are pairing human ingenuity with machine intelligence to create entirely new models for innovation.
The opportunities that shape careers, partnerships, and industries rarely begin when they're needed most. They are built through relationships, trust, and credibility developed over time. In a world where visibility is easier to achieve than ever before, credibility remains one of the most valuable forms of influence. We'll discuss how leaders earn trust, strengthen relationships, and build reputations that continue to open doors long after the initial introduction.
Sports has always been about more than the final score. It's where communities form, identities are shaped, and lifelong loyalty begins. Today, athletes, leagues, brands, and retailers alike are creating new ways for people to connect through movement, fandom, and shared experiences. Hear how sport has become one of the most powerful platforms for building community and lasting engagement.
The challenge is no longer reaching consumers. It's remaining meaningful long after the impression. As culture moves faster and loyalty becomes harder to earn, brands must create lasting relevance rather than momentary attention. This conversation explores how today's marketing leaders are building brands that people choose to return to through distinct experiences, cultural intuition, and ideas that endure beyond the campaign.
Leadership doesn't end when the workday does. Today's executives are balancing the demands of business, family, mentorship, and community while navigating increasingly complex expectations in every area of life. We'll explore how leaders manage competing responsibilities, define success on their own terms, and think about the legacy they hope to leave both inside and outside the office.
The path to purchase no longer follows a predictable formula. Recommendations from creators, online communities, AI-powered tools, and social platforms are influencing decisions in ways traditional models never anticipated. In this conversation, we'll take a closer look at how consumer behavior continues to evolve and what organizations need to understand about the increasingly complex journey from discovery to decision.
Fandom has become one of the most powerful forces shaping culture and consumer behavior. People are no longer passive audiences; they participate, share, create, and build communities around the people, experiences, and brands they care about most. This conversation will explore how marketers can show up authentically within these communities, turn cultural connection into lasting loyalty, and harness the energy of fandom to drive meaningful brand growth.
The possibilities of AI are no longer theoretical. The tools are here, and the ceiling on what marketers can do is quickly disappearing. As AI reshapes everything from content creation and discovery to customer experiences, campaign orchestration, and analytics, the opportunity is shifting from experimentation to strategy. This conversation explores how marketers can bring people, technology, and intelligent agents together to rethink how work gets done, decisions get made, and ideas come to life, building a more connected and intelligent marketing model for what comes next.
Every day, we encounter an endless stream of stories, perspectives, and messages competing for our attention. In this environment, knowing what is meaningful and credible has never mattered more. How can journalism, brands, and influential voices help us navigate complexity and make sense of the world around us? This conversation will explore what earns attention, how authority and influence are evolving, and the role trusted voices can play in shaping perceptions, decisions, and participation.
There’s rarely a perfect moment to make a big move. This conversation explores what it means to trust yourself when the path ahead isn’t completely clear, and how confidence often comes from acting before you have every answer. With humor, honesty, and real perspective, the session looks at what happens when you stop waiting for certainty and start taking ownership of what comes next.
Generational data is real, and marketers use it for a reason. But a 22-year-old and a 62-year-old might both be furnishing a home, following the same creators, and backing the same causes. Age doesn't always predict that. This panel breaks down the industry's habit of marketing to women by decade instead of by desire, and gives marketers a sharper way to think about it: where generational differences actually matter and where they don't, whether you're marketing a cosmetics line or a new car.
La La Anthony has never built her career around a single definition of success. Across entertainment, entrepreneurship, creative projects, and purpose-driven work, she continues to expand where her voice and influence can go. In this conversation, she talks candidly about the throughline connecting her many ventures and and where she's placing her focus next.
Retail media is moving beyond the point of purchase, and its next chapter may be less about retail and more about media. As retail media networks extend across CTV, digital, and off-site environments, retailers are becoming media and technology platforms in their own right. This conversation explores where traditional and retail media converge, how brands can connect discovery to decision and digital engagement to the physical store, and what advertisers should expect next. The opportunity is to create an ecosystem where every interaction feels connected, relevant, and built around the customer.
Inspired by Pam Sherman’s new book, Play You, the Role of a Lifetime, Pam joins Talia Bender Small, President of The Female Quotient, and Rachel Apirian, Chief Content Officer of The Female Quotient, for a practical conversation about turning your personal brand into business impact. Whether you’re actively building it or not, you already have a personal brand, and in a world where people increasingly want to hear from people, not logos, that voice can be one of a company’s most valuable platforms. Together, they’ll explore how leaders can use LinkedIn to put a personal voice behind company initiatives and share expertise. From defining what you want to be known for to turning the work you’re already doing into content, this session will offer tactics for building a presence that feels authentically you while amplifying the business you represent.
In recent weeks, maternal mental health has become part of the national conversation in an unprecedented way. Yet 3 in 4 maternal mental health conditions still go untreated and millions of women struggle in silence. This timely discussion brings together mothers, industry leaders, creative innovators and issue experts to explore the realities behind maternal mental health, the stigma that keeps so many experiences hidden, and the role storytelling can play in driving understanding and support.
What does it take to perform at the highest level and keep doing it? NFL legend Rob Gronkowski joins leaders across sports, science, technology, and business to unpack the forces behind sustained success. This conversation explores how brands, athletes and the audiences who root for us can push beyond perceived limits, evolve through different chapters, and build the resilience and longevity we need to perform for the long run.
Generative AI is giving marketers extraordinary new ways to bring ideas to life at speed and scale. Yet new research shows the most memorable advertising is still powered by something deeper: bold storytelling, emotional intelligence, brand distinction, and an unmistakable point of view. We’ll explore what the findings reveal about creative performance and how marketers can combine technological power with exceptional craft, fresh thinking, and creative ambition to create advertising that commands attention, resonates with audiences, and delivers lasting results.
Led by a branding expert, this session explores how to turn a personal brand into a world people want to be part of. They will break down the core strategies behind the world’s most recognizable personal brands, from positioning and point of view to storytelling, community and the experiences that make a personal brand feel authentic and credible. Attendees will walk away with tactical strategies for building a personal brand that is more recognizable, differentiated and commercially valuable. This session will be followed by a live conversation with three influential founders. They’ll break down how they’ve built worlds around themselves, translated attention into business and evolved their brands.
For years, the media industry optimized for more attention: more impressions, more page views, more scrolling. But more attention doesn’t always mean more meaningful attention. Today, consumers are becoming increasingly intentional about where they spend their time, embracing long-form content, premium entertainment, and ad-supported experiences that offer something valuable in return. This conversation will explore what truly earns attention today, why quality and context are becoming as important as reach, and how brands and media leaders can create experiences people actively choose to engage with.
A powerful voice isn’t just something you’re born with. It’s shaped by what you’ve lived, what you believe, and the confidence to stand behind it. In this session, we’ll explore what it takes to trust your own voice, especially when expectations, pressure, or other people’s definitions of success begin to compete with it.
Sona Movsesian never set out to become an on-air personality. What began as a job as Conan O’Brien’s assistant evolved into an unexpected career as an essential voice and creative force within Team Coco. In this candid conversation with SiriusXM’s Kelli Hurley, Sona will share how she found her voice, embraced opportunities beyond her original role, and built a career on her own terms – all without losing the authenticity that made audiences connect with her in the first place. Together, they’ll explore how personality and trust turn audiences into loyal fans, why authenticity has become one of the most valuable currencies in media, and what marketers can learn from creators who build communities by simply being themselves.
Money shapes some of the biggest decisions we make, yet it remains one of the least openly discussed parts of our lives. As more wealth and financial decision-making move into women’s hands, a new generation is redefining what it means to build security, opportunity, and legacy. Marking the debut of Generation Money, a new series created in partnership with JPMorgan Chase, this conversation will explore how women are changing the way we think and talk about money, from homeownership and relationships to independence and building wealth for the future.
What is a business responsible for beyond making money? Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen has spent decades asking that question through the way he builds, leads, and speaks about business. This fireside chat looks at the role companies can play in their communities, what it means to act on your values, and where the line sits between business interests and broader responsibility.