April 20-22, 2026 in Las Vegas
Join IBM at Adobe Summit to see how Adobe’s world-class marketing technologies, combined with IBM’s expertise in trusted AI and the Adobe platform, help organizations unlock the full value of agentic AI across marketing, content creation, and brand governance. Together, these capabilities deliver personalized customer experiences that drive growth at speed and scale.
Tuesday, Apr 21 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
CMOs are moving beyond isolated generative AI pilots and toward something far more ambitious: re-architecting their operating model for agentic AI. The question is no longer if AI will transform marketing, but how to scale it responsibly, systematically, and with measurable impact. To succeed, brands need a clear vision and a pragmatic roadmap for how agentic AI will reshape workflows, elevate decision-making, and deliver truly personalized customer experiences at scale. IBM Marketing is living this transformation in real time.
This session highlights IBM Marketing’s firsthand journey in redesigning their marketing operating model, including a roadmap to agentify more than 70% of core marketing workflows. You’ll get an inside look at how agentic AI can be embedded at the foundation of marketing to create an intelligent, adaptive system that drives real business outcomes.
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Monday, Apr 20 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
CMOs are under intense pressure to deliver revenue growth, a challenge faced by 58% of marketing leaders in 2025. Meeting this demand requires end‑to‑end agentic AI orchestration, enabling real‑time, always‑on engagement. This session highlights how Adobe Experience Cloud, combined with IBM’s industry expertise and technology stack, powers an intelligent experience engine that strengthens loyalty, builds trust, and accelerates revenue.
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Monday, Apr 20 | 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM PDT
Global consumer use of applications like ChatGPT has jumped 62% in just two years, signaling the arrival of agentic commerce. As AI search becomes the primary interface between consumers and brands, marketers must adapt to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and how it reshapes brand visibility and mediates the entire purchase journey.
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Monday, April 20 | 8:30-9:30 AM PDT
Marketing teams aren’t being replaced by AI, they’re being freed by it. As AI-driven automation accelerates and digital buying becomes the primary growth motion, leading organizations must rethink how work gets done. The opportunity isn’t about swapping people for agents; it’s about removing the operational drag that keeps marketers from driving revenue.
Monday, April 20 | 11 AM-12 PM PDT
Healthcare and life sciences organizations sit at a defining moment: an unprecedented convergence of generative and agentic AI, exploding volumes of health data, and rising consumer expectations for simplicity, personalization, and coordinated care. As organizations race to reinvent the healthcare experience, the challenge isn’t just adopting AI, it’s orchestrating trustworthy, scalable, human‑centered experiences across complex ecosystems. In this roundtable, hear how IBM and Adobe have partnered to empower HCLS organizations to orchestrate unified, AI‑enabled experiences that reduce friction, enhance personalization, and drive better outcomes across the healthcare ecosystem.
Monday, April 20 | 1:00-2:00 PM PDT
Hear how IBM, Adobe, and Conductor collaborate to enable development and deployment of GEO‑friendly content at scale. By combining Conductor’s GEO and content intelligence with seamless integration into the Adobe suite, teams can rapidly create and optimize content, publish faster, and adapt to constant shifts in AI Search.
Discover how IBM and Adobe are helping healthcare payers transform member and broker engagement with connected, personalized and compliant experiences powered by AI‑driven orchestration.
Learn how leading auto marketers are using answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) strategies to stay visible, relevant and competitive as algorithms become the new first point of contact.
How to go from bottlenecks to breakthrough ROI. A study in partnership with Adobe and AWS.
T-Mobile shares their journey with Adobe Workfront and the steps they are taking with data and governance to be successful in a new AI-powered world.
Speakers:
Jay Trestain, Partner, Intelligent Content Supply Chain, IBM
Betsy Rohtbart, VP, IBM.com, IBM
Tim Merkle, Senior Global Director, Digital Experience and Innovation, Steelcase
Speakers:
Pierre Charchaflian, Vice President and Senior Partner, Marketing Transformation, IBM
Sam Yeung, Associate Partner, Marketing Transformation
Thomas Schäck, Distinguished Engineer, watsonx Development, Solutions Architecture CoE, SAP and Adobe Partnerships, IBM
Wealthy Desai, Head of e-commerce, AT&T
Speakers:
Alexis Zamkow, IBM Marketing Transformation Global Offering Lead, IBM
Carolyn Heller Baird, Global Research Leader, Customer Experience and Design, IBM Institute for Business Value, IBM