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LIVE: The Data Decisions
Defining Customer Engagement

Customer data has never been more powerful, or more complicated to act on. Join Gary Kamikawa, Bryce Macher, and Nick Albertini, contributors from the Data issue of Customer Engagement Magazine: Human or AI?, as they unpack what it really takes to turn fragmented signals into meaningful customer experiences.


Wednesday, July 22, 2026 | 10 AM PT/1 PM ET

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The Speakers

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Bryce Macher

VP, AI Engineering

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Gary Kamikawa

Head of Marketing & Growth Tech

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Nick Albertini

Global Field CTO

About This Session

Most teams assume their data problems will sort themselves out once they adopt better tools. They rarely do. The real challenge is knowing which signals to trust, which to question, and how to build the kind of data foundation that makes AI decisioning actually work.

Foundation

Why most AI failures trace back to the data layer, not the model, and what it actually takes to build a foundation worth trusting

Signals

How to tell the difference between a signal worth acting on and noise worth ignoring, and why that distinction is harder than it looks

Judgment

Where human judgment still has to make the call, even when the data looks clean and the model sounds confident

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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