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From Stagnant Data to Real-Time Decisioning

You've centralized the data. The stack still can't decide anything in the moment that matters. Here's an honest conversation about why — and what to actually do about it.

October 15, 2026 11:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM BST
Scott Brinker Scott Brinker Analyst & Advisor, chiefmartec
Chris Marriott Chris Marriott President & Founder, Email Connect
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Why this, why now

The next 200 milliseconds

For years, the industry's answer to "do more with your data" has been to centralize everything into one warehouse. That solves where your data lives. It doesn't solve what happens with it in the next 200 milliseconds — and that gap is where the next MarTech shift is actually happening.

Join Scott Brinker, Chris Marriott, Amanda Cole (Bloomreach), and Databricks for a candid conversation on where modern customer engagement is really headed: why the industry's attention is moving to real-time decisioning for personalization, what's real versus hype in the "AI decisioning" conversation, and how a data foundation and a real-time decisioning layer actually work together — instead of being two separate purchases you have to justify twice.

What you'll walk away with

Three things worth clearing your calendar for

01

Why the stack is churning right now

The structural forces making this an unavoidable decision this cycle — not a trends list, the actual "why now."

02

Where "unifying data" ends and "deciding in real time" begins

Two different jobs, often sold as one. Understand the handoff so you're not buying — or building — the wrong half.

03

A framework for actually deciding

Build vs. buy vs. wait, and the exact questions to put to any vendor in the room — so you leave with a next step, not more homework.

Who's talking

Speakers

Scott Brinker

Scott Brinker

Analyst & Advisor, chiefmartec

Chris Marriott

Chris Marriott

President & Founder, Email Connect

Amanda Cole

Amanda Cole

CMO, Bloomreach

Databricks speaker

Dan Morris

Global Head of Industry Solutions - Customer & Marketing, Databricks

Picking wrong in front of your team is the fear. Staying frozen has a cost too.

This is the conversation to get unstuck.

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