Category: Expert Mode

This article was based on the interview with Georgia-Pacific’s Jason Ippen on the intersection of brand creativity and AI by Greg Kihlström, AI and MarTech keynote speaker for The Agile …

This article was based on the interview with From Ai4: Dataiku CMO Mark Abramowitz on speed versus agility in AI adoption by Greg Kihlström, AI and MarTech Futurist for The …

Most leaders don’t recognize the moment their own defensiveness closes a door. “Defensiveness and ego rarely feel like that from the inside,” Cure says. The behavior surfaces when a leader is already afraid or under threat, and fear is precisely the state in which self-awareness gets harder to reach.…

The mandate from the C-suite is clear, and it has been for some time: “Do something with AI.” For enterprise marketing leaders, this directive has become a constant hum in the background of every strategic discussion. The most common response, and a logical one at that, is to spin…

Donatas Smailys, co-founder and CEO of Billo, a user-generated content platform that turns creator videos into ads for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, thinks the ground under that advice is moving. Just not the way the headlines say it is.

As leaders, we understand that the real challenge isn’t simply adopting the latest generative tool. It’s about integrating this powerful technology with discernment. It’s about drawing a clear, unwavering line between tasks that can be accelerated and decisions that must remain fundamentally human. This is where true agility lies—not…

The promise of hyper-personalized campaigns at scale, predictive analytics that feel clairvoyant, and content generation on an unprecedented level is too great to ignore. Yet, in this gold rush for technological advantage, a quiet, nagging question persists: in our pursuit of the perfectly optimized, algorithmically-driven machine, what essential human…

I recently had a conversation with Coca-Cola FEMSA’s Chief Data Officer, Jose Martinez, at the AI4 conference in Las Vegas, and his perspective is a masterclass in pragmatism. He’s not a futurist selling a vision of a fully autonomous enterprise; he’s an architect in the trenches, building a data…

As marketing leaders, we’ve operated for years under a new-ish paradigm: a brand is no longer what a company says it is, but the sum total of every experience a customer has.

Answering questions for The Agile Brand Guide ahead of his Ai4 session on safe AI adoption, Shawn Surber argued that a blocked AI tool doesn’t buy you a delay. It buys you a detour, and the detour is where your data actually goes missing.