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Bhawna
Sharma
Global Partnership Marketing Leader
PayPal
Bhawna Sharma is a global marketing leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling ecosystem marketing strategies at some of the world's most recognized technology and fintech brands. As Global Marketing Lead for Partners, Developers, and Agentic AI at PayPal, she drives growth marketing operating at the intersection of AI, payments, and partner ecosystems on a global scale. With prior leadership roles at Stripe and Oracle, Bhawna has spent her career unlocking the commercial value of partnerships and making the business case for marketing functions that are often misunderstood but quietly drive the most revenue. She brings a practitioner's perspective on how AI is fundamentally reshaping brand discovery, partner ecosystems, customer marketing and the path to purchase in high-trust, high-stakes environments. A sought-after voice in the B2B marketing community, Bhawna has been featured in several industry publications and has spoken at industry events on the future of marketing. She is passionate about elevating the strategic role of marketing inside organizations and mentoring the next generation of marketing leaders.
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09 September 2026 12:00 - 12:30
The zero-click future is here: The algorithm changed. Your customers are asking AI. Does your brand show up?
The way customers discover brands has fundamentally changed. AI-powered search engines, chatbots, and answer engines are replacing the traditional click and when a customer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overview which payment platform to trust, which software to buy, or which brand to choose, they get an answer. Not ten links. An answer. For marketers, this is the most disruptive shift since Google. The brands that show up in that answer win. The ones that don't are invisible no matter how strong their SEO, no matter how big their ad spend. From understanding how AI engines decide which brands to cite, to building a content and ecosystem strategy that earns AI's trust, this session gives marketers a concrete framework for winning the new discovery game. Because the algorithm didn't just change. It changed the rules entirely. You'll learn: - Why traditional SEO and paid search are no longer enough and what GEO demands instead - How AI engines decide which brands to surface, recommend, and trust - Actionable takeaways on what marketers at scale-up and enterprise brands can do right now to stay in the AI answer - Why marketers are the most exposed to the zero-click shift and the most uniquely positioned to win it