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LIVE: Personalization
Still Needs a Pulse

As AI makes it easier to automate content, decisions, and journeys, brands face a bigger question: what should technology personalize, and where does the human touch still matter most? Join contributors from the Personalization issue of Customer Engagement Magazine: Human or AI?, as they explore how marketers can scale relevance without making experiences feel robotic or over-engineered.


Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 10 AM PT/1 PM ET

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The Speakers

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Deborah Matteliano

Global Head, Restaurants

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Justin Keller

VP Growth Marketing

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Stacey Hunsdon

AVP, Marketing Technology

About This Session

Personalization has become easier to automate and harder to get right. The tools are faster, the variants are cheaper to produce, and the result is often more volume with less relevance. The brands doing this well are not sending more. They are sending smarter, with better context and a clearer sense of when to hold back.

Relevance

What separates genuine personalization from faster spam at scale, and why generating more variants is not the same as being more relevant

Scale

How leading brands are scaling relevance across channels and customer journeys without making experiences feel robotic or over-engineered

Restraint

Why knowing when to hold back is one of the most underrated personalization strategies, and how to build that discipline into your workflows

The Customer Engagement Magazine Series.
3 Issues. 1 Question: Human or AI?

A quarterly printed and digital magazine for B2C marketing leaders, featuring insights from practitioners at brands like Amazon Music, Calm, FanDuel, T-mobile, Pennymac, and SoundCloud. Subscribers receive all three issues automatically as each one launches.

Issue #1 Data, Featuring: Jeffrey Lee

Lifecycle Marketing Technical Lead (Marketing Engineer), Calm

Scott Brinker

Analyst & Advisor, chiefmartec

Gary Kamikawa

Head of Marketing & Growth Tech, Amazon Music

Bryce Macher

VP- AI Engineering, FanDuel

Nick Albertini

Global Field CTO, Tealium

Issue #2 Personalization, Featuring: Stacey Hunsdon

AVP - Marketing Technology, Pennymac

Blair Bendel

SVP Marketing, Foxwoods Resort Casino

Anya Edstorm

Director Digital Product & Marketing, T-mobile

Phil Gamache

Founder, Humans of Martech

Aboli Gangreddiwar

General Manager - Lifetime Value, Credible

Issue #3 Risks, Featuring: Juan Mendoza

CEO, The Martech Weekly

Dan Morris

Global Head of Industry Solutions for Marketers, Databricks

Hope Barrett

Sr Director of Product Management & MarTech, SoundCloud

Kevin Ertell

Founder & CEO, Mistere Advisory

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