The Great AI Roast: The Marketing Ops Reality Check

Somewhere between “AI will change everything” and “just plug this into your workflow,” we’ve ended up with a lot of… questionable output.

Join Sara McNamara (Vector), Jomar Ebalida (Bowtie Funnel), and Mike Rizzo (MarketingOps.com) for a marketing AI roast. They’ll take on the overhyped workflows, cringy copy, and big promises showing up across the marketing landscape—and unpack why so much of it doesn’t hold up in real marketing ops environments.

2026 Webinar Benchmark Report Revealed

Every year, Goldcast digs into the data behind thousands of real webinars to see what top-performing teams are doing differently. This year’s Webinar Benchmark Report is the biggest yet, analyzing 26,190 webinars across 522 B2B organizations, representing 6.8 million registrants and more than 2.2 million attendees.

No Engineer Required: How Vibe Coding is Unlocking a New Kind of Marketer

Marketers have always had the ideas. Now they have the tools to build them.

Vibe coding is changing what's possible for non-technical marketers — and the early movers are already shipping landing pages, internal tools, and full product experiences without writing a single line of code (or filing a single ticket).

In this session, Elena Verna, growth advisor at Lovable, joins the AI Marketing Alliance to talk about what this shift actually looks like in practice, and what it means for how marketing teams operate, experiment, and create value.

Cvent CONNECT 2026

Cvent CONNECT is where demand gen marketers and event pros trade real campaign results, compare what is actually driving pipeline, and see how event data fuels smarter targeting, personalization, and reporting. You'll build event-led growth strategies through ROI-focused sessions, case studies from brands like Asana, Workhuman, Elastic, Capital Group, and Teradata, hands-on Cvent and Goldcast product training, and structured peer-to-peer networking. For a limited time, Goldcast customers can get 50% off with code GOLDCAST50.