A strategic and highly practical session that challenges how Field Marketing is evaluated in an AI-driven world; not another “AI will help marketers be more efficient” talk. Field marketing has long been misunderstood as booths, swag, and badge scans. But it’s so much more than that. This session is not about AI tools. It’s focused on what actually drives results at events and how to use AI more effectively to prove the impact field marketers can have in business outcomes. Attendees will leave knowing exactly where AI helps field marketing scale, and where human judgment is still non-negotiable. Ready to challenge lazy marketing and elevate your thinking in the field?

In this session, you'll learn how to create unforgettable event experiences that capture attention, spark meaningful conversations, and drive measurable business outcomes. Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, we'll explore how creative concepts, booth experiences, customer engagement, and content strategy can all be intentionally designed to support pipeline generation and revenue goals.

Whether you're planning a flagship conference, executive event, or customer experience, you'll walk away with actionable ideas for balancing bold creativity with data-driven decision making, proving the impact of your programs, and turning every event into a growth engine for your business.

For years, field marketing has battled a perception problem. Too often, teams are viewed as event planners, swag managers, or execution resources rather than strategic contributors to revenue growth.

Having built and scaled field marketing organizations across multiple cybersecurity companies—from startup environments to publicly traded organizations—we’ve seen firsthand what separates transactional marketing teams from those that become trusted revenue partners.

In this session, we’ll share the lessons, frameworks, and hard-earned experiences from building field and partner marketing functions that earned credibility with sales leadership, aligned cross-functional teams around pipeline goals, and demonstrated measurable business impact.

Attendees will learn:

• How to establish trust and influence with sales leaders from day one

• The operating principles that help field marketing move from reactive support to proactive revenue generation

• How to align field marketing, partner marketing, customer success, and sales around shared business outcomes

• The metrics and reporting strategies that demonstrate real business value beyond activity-based measurements

• Common mistakes organizations make when scaling field marketing teams—and how to avoid them

• Practical examples of integrated regional campaigns that drove pipeline and strengthened executive confidence in marketing

Whether you’re building a field marketing team, leading one, or looking to increase your strategic influence within your organization, you’ll leave with actionable frameworks that can be immediately applied to your own business.

Your company just spent $30,000 on a conference and you sent three people to the show. They worked the booth for two days, scanned a couple hundred leads, and came home with one blurry photo and a LinkedIn post no one saw.

After the event, the only people who knew you were there were the ones who happened to walk past your booth. Your conference presence doesn't have to end on the show floor.

Instead, picture this: every event you attend is a packed content studio. The conversations are flowing, the energy is electric, the candid moments are plentiful, and the community is engaged. If you’re walking out of it empty-handed, you’re leaving value on the table.

Event content drives higher engagement and more follower growth than almost any other content type on LinkedIn. The opportunity is sitting right there, but most teams just don't have a system to capture it.

In this session, you'll learn how to build a field content engine that turns every event you attend into weeks of high-performing organic content, without a dedicated media team or production budget. We'll cover how to plan your content before you leave, what to capture on the show floor, how to turn it into multiple pieces of content, and how to activate your team's personal profiles to maximize your reach.

You'll leave with a process your team can run at the next event on your calendar, and a way to measure how far your presence actually extended past the show floor.