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Marie
Ross
Former Senior Director, Global Integrated Marketing & Content
PayPal
Marie Ross is a marketing leader and AI-powered marketing architect with 25+ years building integrated campaigns, lean content operations, and high-performing teams across B2B SaaS and enterprise tech — including PayPal, Workday, Zendesk, and EMC. She sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution: setting the narrative, designing the operating model, and building the AI infrastructure that drives revenue and fills pipeline. Her work speaks for itself — an 85% reduction in content costs at Workday, a 475% engagement lift, and integrated campaigns that delivered 75% reach lift and 8× traffic growth for Workday's marquee customer brand program. A recognized speaker on customer marketing and AI in B2B, Marie is known for using AI to amplify human creativity — not replace it. She has led marketing transformation across nine business units and three global markets, and coached teams to own outcomes at enterprise scale.
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10 September 2026 13:30 - 14:15
Fireside chat - The growth expectations are AI-at-scale The budget isn't.
The promise of AI-powered marketing has reset what the board and the CFO believe is achievable. Targets are up. Timelines are shorter. The expectation of doing more with less has never been louder. But for most enterprise marketing teams, the budget didn't scale with the ambition - and the pressure to deliver is compounding fast. This fireside chat brings together senior marketers navigating that tension in real time. The conversation will challenge a commonly held assumption: that the problem is resources. In most enterprise environments, the real constraint isn't budget. It's orchestration. Disconnected tools, siloed data, duplicated capability and AI investments that don't talk to each other are quietly consuming the budgets that should be driving growth. The teams closing the gap aren't spending more. They're connecting better. What you'll learn: - Why the AI budget problem in enterprise marketing is predominantly an orchestration problem — and how to diagnose where the waste and disconnection are actually occurring in your own stack - How leading enterprise teams are rationalising their AI investments, removing duplication and building connected systems that deliver more from existing spend - How to reframe the budget conversation with the CFO and board — shifting the narrative from cost and tooling to infrastructure, capability and compounding return