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David
Slater
CMO
Front
David Slater is the CMO of Front, a unicorn CX platform backed by Sequoia and Salesforce Ventures. With $100M+ ARR in the rearview mirror, he’s now busy helping Front barrel into the AI era—starting with customer service and a healthy disregard for business-as-usual. Before Front, Dave led brand and marketing teams at Salesforce, Adobe, and Mozilla—where he pulled off a revenue turnaround that made the CFO smile (and that never happens). He also founded Flixlab, a global video app, giving him startup scars and some great branding war stories. Dave’s specialty? Cutting through noise, aligning teams around a clear story, and building brands that actually mean something to customers and employees. He’s especially skilled at explaining the importance of brand to non-marketers—getting even the most skeptical engineers and finance folks to buy in. He’s also served on the board of a major SF arts nonprofit and volunteers with The Marine Mammal Center, helping rehabilitate injured sea lions and seals—because building brands isn’t the only kind of rehabilitation he believes in. Dave holds degrees from UC Berkeley (MBA), Stanford (MA in Learning, Design, and Technology), and Ithaca College (BS in Comms), but his true credentials are forged in the chaos of rebrands, product launches, and making the complex feel simple.
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14 April 2026 11:30 - 12:10
Your Website is Broken — And the B2B Buyer Journey is Being Rebuilt From Scratch
B2B websites were built for a world where buyers arrived curious and patient. That world is gone. AI search, LLM-native interfaces, and a generation of buyers who expect instant answers have made the traditional website experience feel like a checkout line at a store that's been closed for years. This panel brings together marketing leaders who are actively rethinking the buyer journey — from how prospects first discover them, to the moment they land on a website, to what happens when they're not ready to book a demo. Expect candid conversation, real examples, and practical frameworks CMOs can take back to their teams. The session moves through three connected themes: 1 The Broken Website Why the traditional B2B website experience creates friction — and how it's losing buyers before the conversation even starts. 2 The Changing Buyer Journey How AI search, LLMs, and changing buyer behavior are reducing website traffic and transforming how decisions get made. 3 The New Playbook What CMOs are actually doing to adapt: from personalised on-site experiences and interactive demos, to new CTAs and MQL qualification strategies. Why now: AI-driven search is fundamentally reshaping how B2B buyers discover, evaluate, and engage with vendors before they ever reach a website — if they reach it at all. This panel equips CMOs with a strategic framework for what comes next.