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Winning the New Attention Economy: How Marketing Leaders Harness AI for Real-World Impact

Join Blend, Sitecore, Perficient and Vercel for an executive dinner on how AI is transforming marketing, enabling personalized customer experiences, and driving measurable business impact.
Event Location
Al Biernat’s North
Event Date
April 28, 2026
Event Time
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
About this event

In today’s attention economy, capturing customer engagement has become more challenging and more critical than ever. Audiences are inundated with content across countless channels, while AI-driven platforms increasingly shape what customers see, when they see it, and how they interact with brands. 

For marketing leaders, the challenge is not simply producing more content. It’s delivering meaningful, personalized experiences that cut through the noise while maintaining efficiency and brand integrity. At the same time, organizations are navigating fragmented data environments, rising expectations for personalization, and pressure to deliver measurable growth with fewer resources. 

Join Blend, in partnership with Sitecore, Perficient and Vercel, for a private executive dinner bringing together senior marketing, digital, and technology leaders to discuss how enterprises are adapting to this new landscape. Together, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping the way organizations plan, create, personalize, and deliver digital experiences, all while balancing automation with human creativity and trust.

Our speakers
Colin Cosell
Head of Community - New York & Boston

Colin Cosell is a professional emcee, announcer, and executive communications expert with more than 25 years of experience across television, radio, film, stage, and corporate events. When he’s not at the lectern or moderating executive panels, Colin serves as the Public Address Announcer for the New York Mets, Army Football, the Premier Lacrosse League, and numerous other professional and collegiate teams. Over the course of his career, Colin has earned three Emmy Awards and has announced to more than 30 million attendees worldwide. His greatest source of pride, however, are his wife, Julia, and their little girl, Eloise.

Emma Wolin
Vercel

Emma Wolin works with enterprise organizations on modern web infrastructure and experience delivery. With a background spanning Vercel, Docker, and Coder, she brings a technical fluency to enterprise sales that bridges the gap between infrastructure and business outcomes.

Scott Liewehr
Sitecore

Scott Liewehr works across product, marketing, and go‑to‑market strategy to ensure the company stays aligned with the real needs of customers, partners, and the market. Prior to Sitecore, he spent more than 20 years as a leading analyst and advisor in the digital experience industry, founding the award‑winning Digital Clarity Group, leading the web content management practice at The Gilbane Group, and personally advising more than 200 brands on digital experience technology decisions. Scott has served as president of the Content Management Professionals association, led judging for the CODiE Awards’ Web Content Management and eCommerce categories, and hosted the long‑running CMS‑Connected program. He brings this deep, practitioner‑driven market perspective to Sitecore as the industry undergoes significant transformation.

Stephen Tynes
Perficient

For nearly 30 years, Stephen Tynes has helped customers build digital experiences as a developer, architect, and solution specialist. He is a 14-time Sitecore MVP.

Key themes & discussion topics

The Attention Gap
Where is the biggest gap today between the amount of content brands produce and the amount of meaningful attention they
actually capture?

Scaling Personalization Without Scaling Complexity 
How are marketing leaders delivering more personalized experiences while managing fragmented data, systems, and content workflows? 

Balancing AI Innovation with Brand Trust 
What guardrails are organizations putting in place to ensure AI enhances creativity and efficiency without undermining authenticity or customer trust? 

Orchestrating Data, Content, and Experience 
What strategies are helping teams unify data, content operations, and customer experience platforms to drive measurable marketing outcomes? 

Event agenda
01
Cocktails & networking

6:00 – 6:30 PM

02
Opening remarks & panel discussion

6:30 – 7:15 PM

03
Dinner & guided discussion

7:15 – 8:45

04
Event wrap-up & group reflection

8:45 – 9:00PM

Why should you attend?

Gain practical insights into how leading organisations are using AI to cut through noise and capture meaningful customer attention.

Learn how to scale personalisation and content delivery without increasing operational complexity or cost.

Explore how to unify data, content, and experience platforms to drive measurable marketing outcomes.

Exchange candid perspectives with peers on balancing AI innovation with brand trust, creativity, and control.

Who should attend
Senior marketing leaders shaping customer experience and growth strategy across the enterprise.
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Venue
Event Location Light
Al Biernat’s North
5251 Spring Valley Rd
Dallas
TX
TX 75254
United States
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