The marketing conference by marketers, for marketers.

W Hotel Sydney
8am - 5pm
July 30, 2026
Join us at Generate Summit to learn how other B2B marketers are driving impact with industry-leading marketing and actionable tactics.
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Attended by marketers at leading organisations


Why attend Generate Summit 2026?
Organised by the Generate Community, the leading B2B marketing community in Australia and New Zealand, top B2B marketers get together for a day of sharing marketing good practices and learning.
What can we expect from Generate Summit 2026?

Keynote speakers and panels
Insights from top-tier marketing experts who actually do the (marketing) work. Hear about how they ideate and execute both good and bad B2B marketing.

Interactive roundtable workshops
Share and learn from other B2B marketers in small group roundtables on the marketing topic of your choice.

Networking opportunities
Meet other Generate members in-person and connect with fellow B2B marketers to build valuable relationships.


Axel Sukianto
Founder
Generate
Axel is a B2B SaaS marketer for product-led and sales-led software businesses, and recently he has joined Truescope as their VP Marketing. He started Generate, the B2B marketing community for marketers in Australia and New Zealand.
Axel's day job: VP Marketing, Truescope.




Aisling McMahon
Sales Leader
Aisling McMahon is a senior leader at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, partnering with B2B brands and marketers across Australia and New Zealand to drive growth through modern demand strategy. She works at the intersection of marketing, influence, and data, helping organisations use LinkedIn to reach buyers earlier, build trust at scale, and create long‑term commercial impact. With deep experience in B2B thought leadership, creator‑led marketing, and LinkedIn’s Economic Graph, Aisling advises leaders on how to shift from brand‑only messaging to people‑powered influence—activating executives, employees, and industry creators to show up with credible, insight‑led content that shapes buying decisions well before customers are in market. She is passionate about helping organisations turn authentic voices into a sustainable growth engine.


Chris Chow
Head of Growth Marketing
Smokeball
Chris Chow is a marketing leader with over a decade of experience, having worked at Apple and Microsoft, and currently serving as Head of Growth Marketing at Smokeball. He has been recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice and has been featured in publications including Capital Brief, Mi3, and Mediaweek.


Christopher Doyle
Creative Director
Christopher Doyle & Co
With over 25 years experience, Christopher Doyle has worked at leading Australian brand and design agencies. His award-winning work for the likes of TikTok, Spotify and Tsu Lange Yor has been profiled internationally, informed educational programs, and appeared in major design publications. He speaks globally and lectures across Australia.


Gaston Riera
Technical SEO Manager
Sportsbet
Seasoned SEO, a bit technical (Electronics Engineering degree) with a passion for working on large websites, with a keen interest in ecommerces. He started in SEO right before Penguin happened, in 2012 and has worn hats on all shades of grey. Used to run a boutique SEO agency for 4 years in Argentina.


Kate Dinon
Partner
Character + Distinction
Kate Dinon is a Partner at Character + Distinction, a strategic brand and communications advisory working with ambitious companies including Culture Amp, Rokt, Luxury Escapes, Chobani and Heaps Normal. She is developing Slow Brands, a framework and forthcoming book on building distinctive, enduring brands.


Cate Mayer
Marketing Lead
CAASie
Cate Mayer is a growth-focused marketing leader with deep expertise across digital strategy, media, and customer acquisition. At CAASie, she guides brands on how to use Digital Out of Home (DOOH) advertising to reach audiences in high-impact environments and connect media investment to measurable business outcomes. With experience leading multi-million-dollar budgets across B2B and high-consideration categories, Cate is passionate about helping marketers prove ROI, simplify complexity, and drive sustainable growth.


Vanessa Lennon
Head of Marketing & Partnerships
Glider
Vanessa has spent 20+ years in B2B marketing, with nearly a decade of that at PayPal, and is now Head of Marketing & Partnerships at Glider, a fintech startup. She's a self-confessed ABM nerd who believes the best campaigns start with ruthless focus and end with pipeline you can actually brag about.


Jay Wheatley
Director of Demand Generation
PageUp
Jay is Director of Demand Generation at PageUp, where he leads global ABM and demand generation. He’s spent what feels like a lifetime in B2B tech, building programs from teams of one through to running global functions, with a few side quests along the way. Today, he focuses on turning complex buyer journeys into scalable, results-driven programs.


Tanu Kaushik
Head of Marketing
ProSpend
Tanu Kaushik is a brand marketer turned product marketer posing as a growth marketer, who has somehow spent 16 years selling life insurance, diamond jewellery, mosquito repellent and spend management software. She heads marketing at ProSpend, spends too much time analysing cricket stats and lamenting her F1 team's performance, and will try to school you on Indian food whether you asked or not.




Samuel Williamson
Global Head of Marketing
Smokeball
Sam’s spent 20 years sharpening his marketing skills across tech, payments, music, and magazines. He's held global roles at SaaS companies in San Francisco and Sydney. His passion is helping people with their career development. In his spare time, Sam has been an investor and advisor to startups since 2015.


Sophie Mckay
Head of APAC Marketing
Notion
Sophie Mckay leads APAC Marketing at Notion, where she drives brand awareness, demand generation, community led marketing, startups and go-to-market strategy across Asia Pacific and Japan. She brings 15+ years of B2B and B2C marketing experience in tech, with a track record of building marketing functions from scratch in high-growth startups across Asia Pacific. Prior to Notion, Sophie spent 9 years at Qualtrics as the first marketing hire in Australia, growing the APAC marketing team from zero to 17 people and launching the brand across 6 regions — A/NZ, SEA, Japan, Greater China, South Korea, and India. Sophie's expertise spans field marketing, demand generation, digital marketing, marketing operations, PR, content strategy, and analytics. Based in Sydney, Australia, Sophie holds a Bachelor of Business Studies in Marketing from Charles Sturt University, where she was awarded the Executive Dean Award.




Sam Koslowski
CEO
The Daily Aus
Sam Koslowski is the co-founder of The Daily Aus alongside Zara Seidler. The Daily Aus is Australia’s leading social-first news organisation targeted at young Australians with an audience of over 2.5 million Australians per month engaging with the brand on social media, newsletters, podcasts and video. 70% of their audience report The Daily Aus is their primary news source. Sam has been listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 and has released a book on understanding the news with Penguin Random House.


Claire Fawbert
Hubspot Solutions Architect
MYOB
Claire Fawbert is a Senior HubSpot COE Manager and Solution Architect at MYOB, leading marketing and revenue operations across ANZ. With 13+ years on HubSpot, she specializes in scalable go-to-market architecture, digital transformation, lifecycle automation, Revenue Operations and CX. She was privileged to have sat on the HubSpot Customer Advisory Board for 2 years and is super excited to learn from the Generate Community.



Michael Candiloro
Founder
CogniOps
Michael is the founder of CogniOps, a CRM and AI consultancy helping scaling businesses turn fragmented operations into intelligent, automated revenue systems. He works closely with teams to simplify processes, activate their data, and deploy practical automations and solutions that drive efficiency, adoption, and measurable growth without adding unnecessary complexity.


Kaylee Liu
Head of Operations
Generate
Kaylee is the Growth Marketing Manager at Shippit, leading demand gen, web strategy, and ABM. She believes great marketing comes down to clear perspectives, shipping fast, and iterating from real feedback. A designer-turned-marketer who kept collecting hats, she's passionate about building Generate as a space where all marketers can elevate their careers.
Kaylee's day job: Growth Marketing Manager, Shippit
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Lara Vandersluis
Head of Partnerships
Generate
As Head of Marketing at Kinetic IT and part of the core team behind Generate, Lara is a B2B marketing leader passionate about connecting brand to business growth, and creating spaces where marketers can learn, connect and build meaningful careers. In 2024, she was recognised as Rising Star at the ARN Women in ICT Awards.
Lara's day job: Head of Marketing, Kinetic IT.
An agenda for curious marketers
A culture-led look at what the Sydney Swans learned entering AFLW, and how it evolved our brand.

B2B marketing has entered a “creator moment,” where trusted individuals (not brands) are becoming the primary drivers of influence and generating demand. LinkedIn’s research shows buyers increasingly rely on expert voices, employee advocates, and industry creators to build trust during long buying cycles. The headline message is that thought leadership is no longer optional or brand‑only; B2B growth now depends on activating credible people to create authentic, insight‑led content that earns attention well before buyers are in market.


ABM is high effort, high reward. It's also high risk for ineffective spend and long timelines. These experts give their tips for processes, channels, tracking, targeting, and more.




Marketing to traditional, slow moving industries can be frustrating. We are expected to experiment with new tactics, but our audiences aren't always ready. This panel will discuss the challenges of being new school marketers with old school audiences.




An open discussion about the realities of working in a satellite office, including pros and cons How your marketing org is structured, what is "owned" in AU/APAC vs HQ Navigating cultural differences, career progression, collaboration tips for international teams.




A dive into Christopher Doyle & Co's design, development and delivery processes, and how their continued focus on authenticity, human-made craft and partner relationships defines the studio's point of difference.

How often are you asked "how can we appear in AI overviews more"? This session will prove that winning at AI means winning at SEO, the basics have never been more relevant.

Email is one of the most sprawling types of marketing, spanning nurtures, newsletters, product updates, and more. With so much going on, it's easy to find whole sequences have fallen through the gaps. This panel of email experts come from all ends of the spectrum to discuss this channel.




Ops is so much more than just correctly setting up your CRM, but how can marketers know what to ask for? Ops experts from different areas of the business dish the goss on what magic they can actually work for marketing teams.




Team Generate gives an update on community programs and how ANZ marketers can continue to build both connections and careers with an exciting new program announcement.
A fun break from talks, but not from learning! Play The Price is Right and see how accurately you know marketing costs, covering everything from salaries to CPMs. Prizes will be up for grabs!
Every B2B marketer knows this feeling: too many channels, too many campaigns, too many messages, and often to the same receiver. The response to underwhelming results is always "do more." But what if the answer is actually do less? Kate will introduce Slow Brands: a framework for cutting through the noise and building brands that compound over time. This is not a talk about slowing down. It's about speeding up the things that matter and stopping everything that doesn't.

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Frequently Asked Questions
The event is dedicated to senior and mid-level B2B in-house marketers. While we expect a lot of Generate community members to be in attendance, you do not have to be a Generate member to purchase a ticket.
Generate Summit 2026 will be held on Thursday, July 30, 2026 at the W Sydney (31 Wheat Rd, Sydney NSW 2000).
A detailed agenda for Generate Summit 2026 is coming soon and you can expect that the full day of learning and fun to take place 8:00am - 5:00pm.
If you are from an agency or a vendor (eg, martech, salestech, or otherwise), you are only eligible for a “Vendor / Agency” ticket class. We reserve the right to reject your ticket purchase of any other ticket class.
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Generate Summit was hands down the best marketing conference I've attended! The programming was excellent, with a broad range of relevant topics presented by engaging - and at times hilarious - speakers.
Shauna Butcher, Head of Marketing, Shippit
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