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This year’s conference theme Architecting Sales Success in the Age of AI, explores AI-driven strategies, leadership insights and proven frameworks for building agile, high-performing sales organizations ready to thrive in a fast-changing world. Explore the topics, all developed with this theme in mind.

Agentic AI in Sales

Uncover how agentic AI is transforming sales, driving action and insights, enhancing decision making for sales teams.

AI-First Sales Strategy

Discover how an AI-first sales strategy empowers teams by augmenting work, making it more efficient and driving insights that lead to improved sales outcomes.

Buyer Insights and Experience

Create and develop insights and strategies that drive high-value buyer engagements across all target personas.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM PDT

Braintrust: The AI Habit Trap: Avoid The Fatal Flaw Sales Leaders Never Saw Coming

Jeff Bloomfield, FOUNDER, Braintrust
Sales leaders are turning to A.I. to sharpen their teams' skills—but what if it's reinforcing the wrong ones? A.I. doesn’t fix bad habits; it multiplies them. Without the right communication training upfront, sales teams risk hardwiring ineffective messaging at scale. In this session, discover the hidden flaw in A.I.-driven sales enablement, why "garbage in, garbage out" is more than a cliché, and how to ensure A.I. accelerates success, not failure. Don't let your team fall into the habit trap. ... Show More Show Less

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM PDT

SAP: Practical Adoption of AI Driven Sales - Accelerate decisions, Unleash productivity

Gajanan Betigeri, PRODUCT MANAGER, SAP
AI has the power to revolutionize B2B selling. This however places significant pressure on sales organizations to form tangible strategies and tactics to adopt game-changing technologies like AI Agents and Generative AI… and sales leaders find themselves bombarded with noise and fluff not rooted in truth.

Join this session to discover how SAP is helping sales organizations harness AI today to create immediate benefits while ensure long-term success with connected, intelligent, and adaptive sales processes.

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11:00 AM - 11:20 AM PDT

3 Things You Should Know About the Revenue Enablement Platform Market

Melissa Hilbert, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will provide you with three key features of revenue enablement platforms you should know about to evaluate and make the best purchase. This will help your organization drive performance. It will explore vendors in the space and where the market is headed in the future. ... Show More Show Less

01:15 PM - 01:35 PM PDT

Whatfix: Unlock Sales Excellence: Driving Change and Adoption Across Sales Tools with First American

Vispi Daver, GLOBAL HEAD OF SALES & PARTNERSHIPS, Whatfix
Lesley Applegate, Senior Manager of Change Sustainment, First American Title
As sales teams increasingly adopt a variety of tools to enhance productivity, focusing on seamless adoption is just as crucial as integration. This session will explore strategies for driving adoption, using First American’s real-world change management experience to highlight the challenges and solutions in embracing new technologies. We’ll discuss how Whatfix helps sales teams drive adoption across a wide range of tools—AI-driven and traditional—ensuring that sellers are equipped to fully leverage these tools and maximize their sales success. ... Show More Show Less

01:15 PM - 01:35 PM PDT

Salesforce: Plan, Enable, Incentivize: How to Maximize Sales Performance with AI and Data

Derek Jamieson, SPM PRODUCT MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR, Salesforce
Chandra Patel, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Salesforce
Your sales team fuels your organization’s growth – but too often, overly manual sales plans, unclear go-to-market prioritization, and inefficient or error-ridden compensation get in the way of your success. Join us to discover how you can take a unified, AI-powered approach to planning, enablement, day-to-day account execution, and incentives – all with an ongoing improvement cycle built in. You'll walk out of this session with actionable ways to motivate sellers, improve operations, and accelerate revenue. ... Show More Show Less

01:40 PM - 02:00 PM PDT

Clari: The Revenue AI Foundation – Why Broken Data Flows Are Killing Sales Execution

Kevin Knieriem, Chief Revenue Officer, Clari
AI won’t fix your sales process if it’s built on siloed, inconsistent, or incomplete data. This session explores how leading companies are unifying their GTM stack — bringing together internal signals, external data, and unstructured inputs — to power AI that actually works. Only with an accurate, comprehensive foundation can you generate the meaningful, contextual recommendations that drive rep productivity, accelerate decisions, and move the needle. ... Show More Show Less

01:40 PM - 02:00 PM PDT

Mediafly: Myth Busting Enablement for Distributors, Partners and Dealers (and how AI helps)

Steve Richard, SVP, REVENUE ENABLEMENT, Mediafly
Distributors and channel partners are often sales enablement’s forgotten ‘children.’ They’re out selling your solutions, but are they set up for success? Most companies struggle with partner onboarding, content sharing, and measuring performance. Learn how to:
- Streamline onboarding: Train with AI-driven intelligence to reduce downtime and close deals fast.
- Give every seller superpowers: Use AI-based metrics, content recommendations, and repeatable strategies.
- Crush the “I can’t measure results” myth: Use AI to track engagement, performance, and forecast revenue like never before.
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02:05 PM - 02:25 PM PDT

Salesforce: Unlock Sales Potential: Agentforce & the Power of AI Coaching

Chandra Patel, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Salesforce
We’re in the midst of a productivity and workforce revolution. With Agentforce for Sales, humans with agents drive sales success – so your reps can sell faster and your team can scale its impact. In this session, get a closer look at AI-powered sales coaching right in the flow of work. Give every rep dedicated coaching to make them your best rep, and learn how personalized, objective, measurable feedback can lead to increased win rates and revenue. ... Show More Show Less

02:05 PM - 02:25 PM PDT

Copy.ai: The Right Way to Use AI for Sales

Ryane Bohm, VP of Product Marketing, Copy.ai
For sales teams, the results of AI have not lived up to the promise. Full automation, skyrocketing pipeline generation, record revenue results! Not quite. Sellers and sales teams are disillusioned. In this session, we’ll explore the best use cases for AI in 2025 that can generate real results. How it requires a healthy combination of human strategy and powerful AI workflows. And, how you can use AI to unify the entire go-to-market engine. ... Show More Show Less

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