IBM at Adobe Summit 2026

April 20-22, 2026 in Las Vegas

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IBM and Adobe GenStudio Partner of the Year award
IBM named an Adobe GenStudio Partner of the Year 2025
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Orchestrating trusted, agentic experiences at speed and scale

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.

Main sessions

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. 

In this session, you will:

  • Discover where agentic AI delivers the greatest business value—from faster, smarter strategic decisions to new levels of creative and operational agility. 
  • Learn the leadership, governance, and risk-management playbook required to operationalize autonomous AI in a compliant, brand-safe way.
  • Gain practical guidance on redesigning talent, workflows, and measurement so agentic AI becomes a durable growth engine—not just another technology investment. 

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.  

In this session, you will:  

  • Learn how to unify your marketing stack with agentic AI to deliver continuous, personalized experiences across all customer touchpoints.
  • Understand how IBM and Adobe connect with partner platforms to enable end‑to‑end agentic orchestration that increases loyalty, trust, and measurable business impact.

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.

Key takeaways:

  • Learn how to evolve your search, content, and brand strategies to stay visible as GEO reshapes discovery
  • Understand how to redesign customer acquisition models for an AI‑mediated purchase journey
  • Discover how to position brands so that AI gatekeepers consistently surface, prioritize, and recommend your content

Roundtables sessions

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.

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Replay our 2025 sessions
WOW to HOW: The Evolution of the AI-powered Content Supply Chain

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

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3 Pillars of Purpose-driven Experiences: Trust, Data and gen AI

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

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From Piloting to Scaling—How Marketers Operationalize Generative AI in 2025

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

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