Where Australia’s Top CMOs Shape the Future of Marketing

Name: CMO Summit 2026
Start: 2026-02-25 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2026-02-26 00:00:00 UTC

The CMO Summit is an invitation-only, premium forum bringing together leading marketing executives, innovative agencies and solution providers. The summit’s content is aligned with key marketing challenges and interests, relevant market developments, and practical, progressive ideas and strategies adopted by successful pioneers.

Key Sessions Include:

Marketing Powered by AI
Transforming marketing functions through generative AI, predictive analytics, and real-time personalization.

Winning the Next Generation
Mastering the mindset and expectations of future generations for hyper-personalized marketing.

CMO as a Growth Powerhouse
Bridging the gap between marketing and the boardroom to secure long-term budget commitments.

Agile Marketing
Staying agile with data-driven insights to meet evolving consumer needs and market volatility.

Brand Purpose & Trust in a Distracted World
Building lasting trust amid misinformation and deepfakes through authentic, transparent, and purpose-driven messaging

Shaping Tomorrow's Marketers
Attracting, retaining, and reskilling talent to meet evolving demands in data science, creative innovation, and tech fluency, while redefining the CMO’s role in the C-suite

Attendees will benefit from invaluable networking opportunities, connecting with peers and industry leaders to share insights and foster collaboration. The CMO Summit 2026 promises to equip marketing professionals with the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the evolving landscape of the industry.

Registrations are now open! Don’t miss your chance to be part of this transformative event.

For more information and to showcase interest, click here.

Key Themes & Topics

🤝 Our mission is to create a space where knowledge meets inspiration — where marketing visionaries connect, challenge ideas, and drive the shared vision of building stronger, more connected brands. Through collaboration and exchange, we turn bold ideas into lasting impact.

The CMO Summit provides a platform that helps Australia’s leading marketing executives evaluate and partner with relevant agencies and solution providers, while we connect innovative marketing companies with these chief marketers.

The Executives

🔸 Chief Marketing Strategists Representing Leading Organisations

To marketing heads we are an essential professional intelligence resource and business catalyst. We conduct annual assessments focused on their strategic goals and needs. This allows us to introduce effective products and solutions to them and assist them with streamlining their exhausting vendor selection process.

The Service Providers

🔹 Innovative Marketing Companies from Around the Globe

We are very selective about the agencies and solution providers we partner with. We ensure your profile and your offerings are aligned with the needs of marketing leaders prior to approaching you. Our collaborative approach allows us to match your value proposition with the needs of your prospective clients.

The Connectors

🔸 Your Experienced Outsourced Sales Partner

Marcus Evans' mission is to modernise outdated sales processes by replacing them with an efficient and cost-effective approach that creates partnerships between leaders in the marketing community. We exist to add value to the decision making of marketing heads, and to the search of qualified prospects for our agencies and solution providers clients.

An Unrivalled Formula

The Marcus Evans group has 40 years experience in the production of premium business events. Known globally for our unwavering dedication to quality and excellence, we aid our clients in achieving their strategic goals by providing market leading business intelligence otherwise inaccessible to them.

At Marcus Evans, we craft products that empower our clients to drive organisational growth and achieve effective decision-making. Developing major sector-focused events, Marcus Evans provides unique business and networking opportunities across diverse industries and professions through a variety of media. We consider innovation to be vital. Our extensive proprietary analysis of our clients’ business needs enables us to equip you with the tools you need for future success.

CMO Summit 2026

Where Australia’s Top CMOs Shape the Future of Marketing

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Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Julie Webster

Nadia Adelina

Preeti Ghorawat

Valentyna Melnyk

Moderators

Wendy Mak

Speakers

Adam Ross

Andrea Marinoni

Ben Hughes

Courtney Cusack

Dan Wilkins

Jessica Park

Jo Whyte

Kit Wan Yau

Lisa Jarvis

Nathan Borg

Shadiya Hocking