Partner Marketing Visionaries Summit

Technology organizations recognize the role strategic partnerships play in the growth of their business and the innovation they foster through their joint technologies, solutions and services. As a result, the partner ecosystem is becoming increasingly competitive and complex, so Partner Marketing teams must continuously adapt and be nimble. Despite the rapid growth of strategic partnerships and ecosystems, the Partner community lacks insights, and has limited access to market trends and best practices for leaders and practitioners alike to improve their go-to-market efforts to, with and through partners.

In this session, Michael Latchford, host of the Partner Marketing Visionaries series and Global VP of Strategic Alliances & Partner Marketing Services at TechTarget, will open the first day of The Partner Marketing Visionaries Summit with thoughts on where the Partner community has been and where it is going. He will set the stage for the two days of peer-to-peer insight sharing, conversations and learnings between 30+ Partner Marketing executives from the most innovative technology companies around the globe.

Once strategy is complete and messaging is perfected, it’s time to build a marketing plan with your partner. This requires key stakeholders at both organizations to come together to identify the best route to market and the activities that will yield measurable ROI to drive pipeline and market dominance. Join Kristin Heisner, Head of Global Partner Marketing at Commvault, as she sits down with partner marketing executives Scott Batchelor of Conga, Tricia Blade of Trellix, Kirstan Ryan of Dell Technologies, and Lori Gabrieli of Alteryx as they share insights on the critical elements of a successful Partner Marketing plan.

This session will address:
• Fundamental practices that all Partner Marketers should follow when building a marketing plan.
• How to yield the greatest ROI with limited resources and budget.
• Ways to measure success and identify where a marketing campaign may need to be pivot.

There has never been a greater emphasis than today on which partners to invest and co-invest in. With the influx of MarTech and ability to track which marketing activities work and simply don’t, the models and processes of how funding is distributed and tracked must advance.

Join Julie Malloy, Global VP of Global Accounts at Intel, as she sits down with Partner Marketing executives Gretchen O’Hara of Splunk, Raquel Okanla of Confluent and Claude Robinson III of Google Cloud as they share insights on the evolving partner funding models.

This session will address:
• How Partner funding models have evolved in recent years and where they are heading.
• The different funding types and best practices on tracking disbursement and claims for reimbursement.
• Successful ways to measure the ROI from market development funds (MDF).

As the saying goes “it takes a village” and this is applicable when examining a strategic partnership. Internal and external teams, strategies set, milestones in place and communication flows are just some of the key elements a strategic partnership requires to prevail in today’s hyper competitive market. Join Michael Latchford, Vice President, Strategic Alliances & Partner Marketing Services of TechTarget, as he sits down with Partner Marketing executives Samara Halterman of Pure Storage and Mark Murphy of Cisco as they share actionable insights on how to develop and sustain a thriving partnership.

This session will address:
• The blueprint of a strategic partnership and the key actions that sustain success.
• Key SLAs successful partnerships have in place.
• Factors that can distract and diminish an otherwise thriving partnership.

To successfully advance business objectives with strategic partners, tech organizations must carefully weave together the right marketing mix. That requires both a strong understanding of each partner’s strengths and the ability to drive collaborative innovation with every partner. Join Joseph George, Global Vice President of Alliances, Industry & Product Marketing of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), as he sits down with partner marketing executives Helen Kim of Red Hat, Brian Bakstran of Veeam and Jeanette Geary of Sysdig. They will discuss mission-critical marketing motions to drive success with and through partners.

This session will address:
• How to build a strategic marketing roadmap and plan to execute it.
• How to play off the strengths, technologies, and solutions to successfully position the partnership in market.
• How to develop customized and successful GTM plans by partner type.

A foundational element of partner marketing is the development of joint messaging. Communicating the value of a joint solution needs to be clear and articulate as two, or more, companies go-to-market and develop programs for awareness and demand. Join Eric Pan, Head of Global Partner + Alliance Marketing of Oracle as he sits down with Partner Marketing executives Tyillere Hansen of Slack, Annie Martin of Microsoft, and Lena Wiegering of Dataminr as they share insights into the art and science of developing joint messaging.

This session will address:
• What effective messaging must articulate with a strategic partnership and approaches to develop messaging that resonates with target audiences.
• Who should be involved in the development of the joint messaging and what the process looks like.
• How to communicate and educate key stakeholders within the alliance on the messaging before external assets are developed.

As the IT landscape changes and technology buying teams continue to evolve, those in the Partner world need to understand how their buyers make purchase decisions and use joint vendor/partner solutions. Join TechTarget’s Michael Latchford as he sits down with Doug Cahill, SVP of Analyst Services and Practices Director at Enterprise Strategy Group, to discuss key findings from their 2023 Partner Enablement Study. Looking through the partner lens, they will share insights on the IT decision-maker’s journey to discovering, understanding, funding and implementing integrated solutions from strategic partners.

Building the content strategy of a partner solution is often complex – it involves a multitude of influencers and decision makers, consuming a range of content in different environments and formats. As a result, Partner Marketing teams are charged with the challenge of developing content that maps to these decision makers based on their role, function, industry, company size and other factors.

Join Aimee Catalano, Marketing Executive at Google Cloud as she sits down with Partner Marketing executives Xander Uyleman of MongoDB, Kimberly Payton of Infosys Finacle and Mishel Fletcher of Fortinet. They will share insights on effective ways to build joint content with partners.

This session will address:
• Ways to uncover the key ideal customer personas that content must align to.
• The types of assets that must be developed for any strategic partnership.
• The macro and micro strategy to successfully deploying and activating content.

Partner Marketing teams are often faced with obstacles while they develop a go-to-market (GTM) strategy, whether working with a specific partner or several at once. The root of many of these challenges often lies in a lack of bandwidth, resources, direction, or perhaps budget to develop a GTM plan that yields an outcome that leadership and partners expect. Join Liz Fuller, Vice President & General Manager of Marketing at Zones as she sits down with Partner Marketing executives Jamie Mendez of Pega Systems, Loraine Wong of Red Hat and Heather Deggans of Microsoft as they share successful approaches and tactics to develop a comprehensive and powerful strategy.

This session will address:
• What factors need to be in place prior to building a partner marketing program.
• What resources and insights are needed to build an impactful strategy and who should be involved throughout the process.
• How to do more with less: The critical ingredients of a successful GTM strategy.

The Partner Marketing organization is one of several important teams that a CMO is responsible for, overseeing their growth, development and success. Because a Partner team encompasses stakeholders outside their organization that are involved with marketing decisions and activities, there are many complexities for a CMO to consider. Join Susanna Parry-Hoey, Chief Marketing Officer of SoftwareOne, as she sits down with CMOs May Mitchell of Ontinue and Michelle Chiantara of Alludo as they share perspectives on turbocharging their Partner Marketing organizations.

This session will address:
• Key challenges CMOs face with their Partner Marketing organization and how to overcome them.
• How CMOs can manage the rapidly growing and changing Partner ecosystems within their organization.
• Ways CMOs can support and empower their Partner Marketing team.
• Trends in Partner Marketing programs and techniques for leaders.
• Tips on getting the most out of your Partner relationships and maximizing their results.

As ecosystems expand, it is now more important than ever that Partner Marketing organizations have strategies in place to identify, develop and invest in those partnerships that help them grow and achieve success. Join Robin Wolf, Sr. Director of Partner Marketing at NVIDIA, as she sits down with Partner Marketing executives Patty Grow of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Joseph George of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Tyler Briggs of Box and John Manos of Virtusa as they discuss how they invest and prioritize partners over others to support the market demands of growth with and through partners.

This session will address:
• Why certain partners are prioritized over others to become strategic partners.
• How to sustain strategic partnership growth and overcome obstacles during economic uncertainty.
• Strategies a Partner Marketing team must take to successfully activate partners.