Day 2, 22 October: AI, innovation, and what’s next
AI has moved from side experiment to marketing infrastructure. The pressure now is not just to use AI, but to make it useful, governed, creative, and commercially meaningful. Explore how marketers can redesign workflows, protect trust, improve customer journeys, and build the capabilities needed before AI scales the wrong habits.
Agenda
22 October
08:30
REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS
09:00
Welcome Remarks
09:10
[Opening Fireside Chat]
Agentic marketing: When AI starts changing how marketing gets done
- Exploring how AI agents could reshape everyday marketing operations
- Identifying which workflows are ready for automation, and which still need human control
- Reassessing what leaders must fix before agentic marketing scales across the business
09:40
[Case Study]
Pilot fatigue: Turning scattered AI experiments into real marketing transformation
- Redesigning marketing processes around clearer business outcomes
- Moving AI adoption beyond isolated tools and individual users
- Addressing why many pilots fail to change how marketing actually works
10:10
[Panel Discussion]
AI decisioning: Setting guardrails before automation acts on behalf of marketing
- Defining who owns the decision when AI recommends an action
- Setting boundaries before automated optimisation affects customers
- Assessing when human approval is still needed to protect brand control
10:40
MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING
11:00
[Lightning Talk]
Zero-click journeys: Building brand visibility when the website is no longer the first stop
- Exploring how AI search and answer-led discovery are changing the role of brand websites, and what marketers need to make visible before customers reach owned channels.
11:15
[Case Study]
Predictive engagement: Using AI to spot customer intent before it becomes obvious
- Identifying churn risk before customers disengage
- Spotting repeat purchase opportunities earlier
- Measuring how early indicators improve retention decisions
11:45
[Lightning Talk]
AI search readiness: Preparing brand and product information for machine-led discovery
- Exploring how structured data, product information, localised content, and digital authority can help brands become more visible in AI-led discovery.
12:00
[Case Study]
AI ROI: Proving marketing impact beyond productivity gains
- Defining what AI success should look like beyond speed and cost savings
- Measuring where AI improves customer value, conversion, and retention
- Assessing how marketers can link AI investment to commercial growth
12:30
NETWORKING LUNCH
13:30
[Fireside Chat]
Adaptive UX: Designing journeys that respond to intent
- Creating digital experiences that adjust to customer intent and behaviour
- Reducing friction across key conversion points
- Using journey data to improve engagement, relevance, and business outcomes
14:00
[Case Study]
Multi-agent marketing: Orchestrating AI systems without losing strategic control
- Mapping where AI agents can reduce manual handovers across the marketing workflow
- Identifying the risks when automated systems optimise in different directions
- Building clearer controls before multi-agent workflows scale across the business
14:30
[Lightning Talk]
AI-assisted discovery: Measuring how brands appear in answer engines
- Understanding how generative search is changing brand visibility, product accuracy, and customer discovery.
14:45
[Lightning Talk]
When platforms do the optimisation: Keeping control of AI-led media buying
- Exploring how marketers can set clearer objectives, signals, and guardrails so automated media buying supports business growth instead of chasing platform metrics.
15:00
AFTERNOON BREAK & NETWORKING
15:20
[Case Study]
The AI operating gap: What slows marketing down after the tools are switched on
- Identifying where workflows still break once AI enters daily marketing work
- Reworking approvals and ownership before automation creates more confusion
- Assessing how leaders can turn AI capability into faster, better decisions
15:50
[Closing Panel Discussion]
Harnessing marketing talent and new capabilities
- Identifying the skills marketers need as AI takes on more execution
- Reframing the marketer’s role around strategy and orchestration
- Building AI-ready teams without losing trust or business focus
16:20
Closing remarks by MARKETING-INTERACTIVE
16:30
LUCKY DRAW & END OF CONFERENCE
Who should sponsor?
If your organisation helps brands improve customer experience, apply AI responsibly, strengthen engagement, personalise journeys, build loyalty, or connect marketing technology around customer value, Day 2 is designed for you.
- AI marketing and automation solutions
- Customer experience and digital experience platforms
- CRM and loyalty technology providers
- Marketing automation and personalisation platforms
- App engagement and mobile marketing solutions
- Customer service and conversational commerce platforms
- Payment, fulfilment, and journey optimisation providers
- Data privacy, consent, and security solutions
- AI marketing and automation solutions
- Customer experience and digital experience platforms
- CRM and loyalty technology providers
- Marketing automation and personalisation platforms
- App engagement and mobile marketing solutions
- Customer service and conversational commerce platforms
- Payment, fulfilment, and journey optimisation providers
- Data privacy, consent, and security solutions
- Social listening and multilingual customer intelligence tools
- Content, creative, and customer education solutions
- Digital transformation and systems integration partners
- Customer data platforms
- Analytics and attribution providers
- Messaging, chatbot, and virtual assistant providers
- And many more!
- Social listening and multilingual customer intelligence tools
- Content, creative, and customer education solutions
- Digital transformation and systems integration partners
- Customer data platforms
- Analytics and attribution providers
- Messaging, chatbot, and virtual assistant providers
- And many more!
Get in touch with us at partnerships_northasia@marketing-interactive.com to find out more.