7:30 am
7:30 am
DAY TWO REGISTRATION & NETWORKING BREAKFAST: BUILD COMMUNITY CONTACTS
8:00 am
8:00 am
LEADERS’ CIRCLE (C-LEVEL INVITATION-ONLY SESSION)
Reflecting on 2024 and Setting Strategic Priorities to Stay Ahead of the Evolving Technological Landscape
Don’t miss this exclusive session designed for C-level financial services leaders. Bringing together 25 senior marketing and digital executives to drive organizational success and business impact in 2025. Take away specific solutions to:
- Identify the impact of key trends on fellow financial services CMOs and how that will shape their strategy going forward.
- Plan your next steps for delivering exceptional growth and customer experiences.
- Benchmark investment priorities and success metrics.
Achieve a winning vision and actionable strategies to ensure your teams excel, guided by industry-leading experts
8:50 am
8:50 am
DAY TWO OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIRPERSON
9:00 am
9:00 am
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: TECHNOLOGY ENABLED CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Building a Business Case and Momentum to Drive Change Within Your Organization
Unlock the potential of technology to spearhead transformative change within your organization. This keynote presentation will equip you with the insights and strategies needed to build a compelling business case and foster the momentum necessary for successful change management. You will walk away with advice on how to:
- Get your organization comfortable with innovation and identify how to prioritize transformation projects.
- Engage stakeholders and garner support around your vision.
- Think about change and risk-taking as a leader.
Amplify your ability to drive change and innovation to ensure your business remains dynamic and adaptable.
9:30 am
9:30 am
INDUSTRY EXPERT PRESENTATION: CUSTOMER TRUST AND LOYALTY
How Should You Approach Customer Trust to Build Deeper Relationships in a Cookie-Less World?
Build customer trust through robust first- and zero-party data strategies, fostering a mutually beneficial value exchange between your brand and customers. Create a roadmap to:
- Cultivate relationships with customers centered around data and value exchange.
- Consolidate first-party data to create a comprehensive understanding of your customers and effectively target the right audience.
- Design meaningful personalized interactions to improve customer engagement and loyalty.
Optimize your data strategy to enhance customer trust and nurture long-term loyalty.
10:00 am
10:00 am
PANEL DISCUSSION: AI-DRIVEN TRANSFORMATION
Driving Your Organization Towards Rapid and Responsible Exploration of AI Capabilities for Process Optimization, Scaling, and Customer Journey Improvements
Discover how early adopters discern the most impactful business use cases, separating reality from hype and swiftly involving relevant internal stakeholders. Adopt best practices to:
- Navigate a use case from pilot setup to execution stage.
- Address privacy and bias concerns within internal teams and external customers.
- Identify opportunities to upskill your teams with AI-powered tools.
Transform your AI capabilities to unlock new levels of efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage in your marketing strategies.
10:40 am
10:40 am
REFRESHMENTS BREAK & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: ATTEND VENDOR DEMOS & CONSULT INDUSTRY EXPERTS
11:10 am
11:10 am
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Break into smaller groups of approximately 10 industry peers to work through a series of questions and challenges to share knowledge on a particular topic that is most critical to your role and business.
12:00 pm
12:00 pm
TRACK A: DIGITAL INNOVATION & GROWTHPANEL DISCUSSION: FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
Redefining Financial Services to Resonate with a Younger Consumer Demographic
Adapt to the shifting landscape of the next generation of consumers and their needs, preferences, and values to set your business up for long-term growth. Take away effective blueprints on how to:
- Connect with the Gen-Z generation.
- Balance tradition and innovation.
- Refine your value proposition based on the younger generation’s values.
Foster long-term relationships with digitally-savvy consumers.
12:00 pm
12:00 pm
TRACK B: CONTENT STRATEGYPANEL DISCUSSION: VIDEO CONTENT IN FINANCE
Best Ways to Leverage Video in 2025 to Boost Customer Engagement
Integrate video top tips and practices into your content strategy to maximize engagement, conversation, and customer experience. Gain practical takeaways from early adopters on how to:
- Scale video capabilities through partnerships and video-generating technologies.
- Identify the most impactful metrics and measurements to assess success.
- Interpret data to identify patterns, compare channels, and maximize engagement.
Embrace data-driven video marketing to capture attention and educate your customers.
12:00 pm
12:00 pm
TRACK C: INTERACTIVE SESSIONWORKSHOP 4: USING DATA TO SHRINK THE AUDIENCE BULLSEYE
Using Company, Customer, Channel, and Contextual Data to Multiply the Impact of Marketing
Learn analytical approaches to model highly targeted and accurate audiences and segments using customer engagement data from CRM, marketing systems and third-party sources to:
- Improve the business impact of paid, owned, earned, and shared media.
- Allocate more resources to relevant and in-market prospects.
- Leverage the signal value of media response in owned marketing and sales channels.
Improve the financial impact of your marketing investments by a third or more by using customer engagement data to better plan, allocate, and optimize your media.
12:30 pm
12:30 pm
TRACK A: DIGITAL INNOVATION & GROWTHINDUSTRY EXPERT PRESENTATION: MARKETING INSIGHT AND ANALYTICS
Increase the Insight Maturity of Your Organization to Measure Success, Drive Growth, and Maximize Customer Experience
Leverage advanced analytics to identify the most effective marketing methods and optimize campaigns for maximum engagement, conversion, and sales. Develop a blueprint to:
- Consolidate fragmented data across your marketing technology stack.
- Bridge the data and analytics skills gap in your organization using powerful insight technologies.
- Use predictive models to simulate and measure the impact of your marketing and advertising campaigns.
Improve how your advertising and marketing campaigns reach and impact audiences across multiple channels to maximize ROI.
12:30 pm
12:30 pm
TRACK B: CONTENT STRATEGYINDUSTRY EXPERT PRESENTATION: CONTENT STRATEGY OPTIMIZATION
Create Content that Captivates Audiences, Builds Trust, and Drives Conversion Within a Highly Regulated Industry
Tailor your approach to enhance relevance and messaging impact, fostering relationships built on value and trust. Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:
- Craft content tailored to every stage of the customer journey.
- Measure content success across different stages of the customer journey.
- Embrace cutting-edge AI content creation tools to scale your content capabilities.
Increase your content’s effectiveness through a customer-centric approach, supported by AI-powered tools, to enhance engagement and drive conversions.
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE VISITS
2:00 pm
CASE STUDY: GROWTH THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
Unlocking New Avenues for Business Growth and Enhancing Customer Value by Leveraging Strategic Fintech Partnerships
Identify and collaborate with fintech partners that align with your business goals and customer needs, offering your customers superior value. This session will provide a detailed blueprint on how to:
- Identify and evaluate a beneficial partnership.
- Develop collaborative strategies that integrate fintech solutions to enhance your product offerings and customer experience.
- Navigate regulatory considerations and manage risks associated with fintech partnerships to ensure compliance and trust.
Differentiate your brand in the competitive market through driving innovation and growth through harnessing the power of fintech collaborations.
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
TRACK B: CONTENT STRATEGYCASE STUDY: PODCASTS AS AN EFFECTIVE MARKETING TOOL
Launching a Podcast in a World Where Everyone Has a Podcast
Grow your brand awareness, educate your customer base, and reach a new audience by launching your own podcast. You will walk away with first-hand practical tips from the FS Investments podcast journey on how to:
- Overcome the most common technical and business challenges.
- Navigate any budget.
- Define success measures.
Stand out in a saturated financial market by facilitating valuable conversations and enabling sales and business development teams.
2:30 pm
INDUSTRY EXPERT PRESENTATION: AI-ENABLED PERSONALIZATION
Driving Marketing Effectiveness, Customer Value, and Loyalty with Personalized Communication at Scale
Deliver a boost in revenue by shifting towards AI-driven personalization, utilizing predictive insights to understand and tailor to your customers’ needs. Walk away with a strategy on how to:
- Find new ways to use your existing data to reach your customers at the right place and at the right time.
- Build towards a centralized, unified view of data.
- Leverage the context of each customer interaction to drive customer experience enhancement.
Establish true brand differentiation based on personalized customer experience.
2:30 pm
2:30 pm
TRACK B: CONTENT STRATEGYINDUSTRY EXPERT PRESENTATION: LINKEDIN AS A POWERFUL CONTENT PLATFORM
The Most Effective Ways to Use LinkedIn as a Tool for Lead Generation and Customer Engagement
Ensure your LinkedIn presence serves a real business purpose and drives traffic and engagement to other channels. Take away specific solutions to:
- Analyze high-performing content types on LinkedIn.
- Identify ultimate goals and tracking mechanisms.
- Engage employees and independent advisors to embrace LinkedIn.
Transform your LinkedIn presence into a revenue-generating powerhouse to increase lead generation and customer engagement.
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
REFRESHMENTS BREAK & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: ATTEND VENDOR DEMOS & CONSULT INDUSTRY EXPERTS
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
FIRESIDE CHAT: GROWTH LEADERSHIP
Raising The Profile of Your Team as a Revenue-Generating Center
Elevate your team’s role as a key driver of revenue growth. This session will provide you with actionable strategies on how to:
- Directly connect your team’s role, remit and results to their impact on the revenues, profits, and the value of the customer relationship.
- Leverage technology, data, and AI to inform and enhance the quality, effectiveness, consistency, and compliance of your entire go-to market team.
- Work across product, marketing, sales, and response to improve the workflow, productivity, knowledge sharing, responsiveness and the customer experience of the revenue team.
Transform your marketing team into a recognized revenue-generating powerhouse within your organization.
4:10 pm
4:10 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: CONTENT STRATEGY AND STORYTELLING
Pushing the Boundaries of Your Brand to Increase Content Effectiveness for Modern Audiences
Elevate your content strategy by mastering the art of storytelling and adapting to the needs of modern audiences. In this presentation, you will draw from Mark’s extensive experience bringing brands into their digital future and how the knowledge learnt can be effectively applied to the financial services industry, based on examples from Harding Loevner. Walk away with a blueprint on how to:
- Match your story to the most effective content form and platform, ensuring it resonates with your target audience.
- Maintain narrative consistency while telling the same story across multiple platforms.
- Produce timely and relevant content that aligns with how audiences consume information today.
Transform your content strategy to captivate modern audiences and drive meaningful engagement through powerful storytelling.
4:40 pm
4:40 pm