September 15, 2026 City Winery New York (Pier 57)
Explore a full day of EMARKETER’s most far-reaching research, paired with executive dialogue from the brand and agency leaders setting digital strategy. You’ll hear from the experts on AI’s impact across marketing operations, the converging social-video landscape, commerce media's expanding footprint, and the rise of agentic commerce. Close the day with direct conversations with the speakers, our analysts, and your peers. You’ll leave with the roadmap you need to plan the next three years of digital.
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AI is rewriting how consumers find brands and reshaping which ones the machines surface. Streaming, social video, and connected TV are converging into a single attention economy. Commerce media is moving from performance line item to full-funnel engine. And agentic commerce is starting to reshape the path to purchase from the inside out. The brands willing to read the signals and act on them will separate from the ones still planning quarter to quarter.
The Future of Digital returns to City Winery NYC to explore these trends and more.
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Platform and ad tech executives who champion adoption of new solutions and create revenue channels for partners.
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Agency teams that design and direct client investment strategies.
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CMOs and senior marketers who demand measurable business impact and invest in strategies that drive growth.
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The next three years will redraw digital marketing more than the last 10.
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The day’s capstone block opens with a look at EMARKETER's proprietary AI Visibility Index, showing the brands that surface in AI-generated recommendations and the ones losing ground. Then, experts take the stage to share tactics on organic AI visibility. The closing panel turns to paid, mapping where advertising inside AI services is heading and which brands are placing the early bets.
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Opening Keynote
The Future of Digital 2027: EMARKETER’s annual forecast on the forces reshaping marketing through the next several years.
Analyst Spotlights
How AI Is Remaking Marketing: Creative, automation, chatbots, vibe-coded experiences, and the analytics finally closing the gap between insight and action.
The Path to Purchase Rewired: Commerce media’s expansion, AI’s compression of the funnel, and why transactions still converge at retail.
The AI Visibility Index Reveal: What the machines see when they see your brand, with leaderboards across consumer categories.
Panel Discussions
Social Meets Video: Where Advertiser Dollars Are Flowing Next
Engineering the Modern Marketing Org: AI, Measurement, and Go-to-Market Discipline
Commerce Media’s Place in the Media Mix: From Performance Channel to Full-Funnel Anchor
Agentic Commerce: How AI Shopping Agents Are Reshaping the Transaction
Optimizing for AI Visibility: What’s Real and What’s Not
Advertising in the AI Layer: The Paid Playbook for 2027 and Beyond
Networking Forum
Drinks, conversation, and direct access to EMARKETER analysts to close the day.
Additional partner sessions will be announced in the coming weeks. Check back for updates as the full agenda comes together.
Programming Preview
Opening Keynote: The Future of Digital
EMARKETER analysts will release our latest Future of Digital analysis, packed with bold predictions for marketing and advertising.
Keynote 1:1 Chats with Marketing Leaders
Analyst-Led Panel Discussion: Streaming & Digital Video
Analyst-Led Panel Discussion: Commerce Media
Spotlight Presentations with GIPHY, TripleLift, and more to come!
Analyst-Led Panel Discussion: AI Search & Discovery
Networking Forum & Happy Hour
Join exclusive, rapid-fire discussions with EMARKETER analysts and your peers over drinks and snacks.
AGENDA
Doors open at 8:30am ET. Programming begins at 9:30am ET. Agenda subject to change. Additional speakers and sessions announced in the coming weeks.
Doors open at 8:30am ET. Programming begins at 9:30am ET.
Agenda subject to change. Additional speakers and sessions announced in the coming weeks.