In 48 days – 7 weeks – I and a bunch of other folks are making our annual pilgrimage to Cleveland for #MAICON26, the SmarterX Marketing AI Conference.
What’s on tap this year?
Katie Robbert and I will be recording an episode of our In-Ear Insights podcast live from the show floor on Wednesday, 14 October. What the topic will be, no idea yet because the world of AI moves so damn fast.
I’ll be doing the first MAICON BUILD session, shepherded by Ashlee Moehring, on robust data analysis with generative AI that anyone, even basic Copilot users (one of the most restrictive AI environments) can do and get amazing results. For those who attend, you’ll get a complimentary prompt and example workbook from Trust Insights.
Looking forward to the meetups, especially the community meetup for our Analytics for Marketers Slack group, organized by Angie Bailey and Chad Treadway. Last year, we were building subagents in Claude Code. This year, I’ll bet there will be a lot of local AI setup and I have a whole bag of tricks for that.
Seeing friends old and new like Wil Reynolds, Mitch Joel, Rebecca Bultsma, Heather DelCarpini, Andy Crestodina, and many, many more.
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