#ai-marketing

At the May 2026 MarTech Conference, a panel moderated by Angela Vega, director of capabilities and operations at Expedia Group, featured marketing leaders discussing how brands can deliver personalized customer experiences without appearing invasive. The session, titled "Winning attention without losing trust: creating meaningful moments across the customer journey," included Alec Haase, general manager of AI products at High Touch; Sean Nowlin, founder and CEO of Spotlight IQ; and Ed Poppe,...

Artificial intelligence sits at the center of modern demand generation, touching nearly every buyer interaction through targeting, personalization, content creation, and journey orchestration, according to Demand Gen Report. This adoption has surged, providing greater relevance, faster execution, and more efficient scale, but buyer confidence has not kept pace, with just 32% of U.S. respondents reporting trust in AI as per the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer.

B2B event marketers are leveraging AI to repurpose single live events into extensive libraries of targeted content, thereby extending the lifespan and reach of event messaging, as detailed in a recent Demand Gen Report feature. This approach connects event engagement data with multi-channel account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns, enabling marketers to convert trade shows into drivers of pipeline creation and revenue.