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8am - 5pm

July 30, 2026

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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.

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

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Axel Sukianto
Founder
Generate
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Axel Sukianto

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.

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Axel's day job: VP Marketing, Truescope.

Kayla Medica
Head of Programming
Generate
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Kayla Medica

Kayla Medica

Head of Programming

Generate

Kayla is the author of The Mehdeeka Method and a fractional product marketer for B2B SaaS businesses, having been in the Australia tech ecosystem for a decade. She also writes the Mehdeeka newsletter.

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Kayla's day job: Fractional Product Marketer, Mehdeeka.

Natalie Fagg
Chief Customer Officer
Sydney Swans
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Natalie Fagg

Natalie Fagg

Chief Customer Officer

Sydney Swans

Natalie has over 20 years' experience in the sports industry. As Chief Customer Officer at the Sydney Swans, she leads teams to solve complex challenges and deliver transformative customer-focused initiatives that drive growth and engagement.

Aisling McMahon
Sales Leader
LinkedIn
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Aisling McMahon

Aisling McMahon

Sales Leader

LinkedIn

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
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Chris Chow

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
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Christopher Doyle

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
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Gaston Riera

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
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Kate Dinon

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
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Cate Mayer

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
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Vanessa Lennon

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
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Jay Wheatley

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
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Tanu Kaushik

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.

Ben van Opzeeland
Director of Digital Marketing
LawVu
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Ben van Opzeeland

Ben van Opzeeland

Director of Digital Marketing

LawVu

An NZ-based demand gen and marketing ops expert, Ben loves the slow burn and plentiful data of long B2B tech buying cycles. At LawVu he's been finding, educating and converting in-house legal teams the across regions for almost five years.

Christina Knock
VP Marketing
Fergus
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Christina Knock

Christina Knock

VP Marketing

Fergus

Christina Knock is VP Marketing at Fergus, leading global RevOps and GTM strategy. She focuses on turning marketing into an efficient, consistent driver of revenue, and has spent over a decade leading teams across high growth tech scale-ups.

Samuel Williamson
Global Head of Marketing
Smokeball
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Samuel Williamson

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.

Darren Chait
CMO
beehiiv
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Darren Chait

Darren Chait

CMO

beehiiv

Darren is the CMO of beehiiv – recently joining after four years as the VP of Growth at Calendly. He brings over a decade of experience scaling some of the most well-known product-led growth companies in SaaS.

Sophie Mckay
Head of APAC Marketing
Notion
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Sophie Mckay

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.

Nicholas Kontopoulos
VP of Marketing, APJ
Twilio
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Nicholas Kontopoulos

Nicholas Kontopoulos

VP of Marketing, APJ

Twilio

Nicholas leverages 30+ years of cross-industry experience to challenge management dogma and promote creative thinking for exceptional customer experiences. He prioritizes customer experience as a core business ideology.

Leandro Perez
CMO Australia & New Zealand
Salesforce
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Leandro Perez

Leandro Perez

CMO Australia & New Zealand

Salesforce

Leandro Perez is the SVP and Chief Marketing Officer for Salesforce ANZ, where he leads the strategic direction for the world’s leading AI-powered CRM.

Andrew Beeston
GM Customer Experience
Compare Club
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Andrew Beeston

Andrew Beeston

GM Customer Experience

Compare Club

Andrew Beeston works from a simple belief: marketing should be useful, repeatable, and built to last. He focuses on principles over tactics, consistency, clarity of thinking, and respect for the customer.

Banks Benitez
Founder & CEO
Future Forest
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Banks Benitez

Banks Benitez

Founder & CEO

Future Forest

Founder & CEO of Future Forest: We run newsletters for small businesses

Sam Koslowski
CEO
The Daily Aus
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Sam Koslowski

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
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Claire Fawbert

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.

Bruna Diehl Passarelli
Head of Marketing Operations
Dropbox
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Bruna Diehl Passarelli

Bruna Diehl Passarelli

Head of Marketing Operations

Dropbox

Bruna brings 20 years of experience in the technology industry and leads global Marketing Operations at Dropbox. She focuses on building scalable systems, modernising MarTech, and enabling AI across the organisation.

Mael Hartl
Head Of Revops
Shippit
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Mael Hartl

Mael Hartl

Head Of Revops

Shippit

I run RevOps at Shippit - human duct tape, self-appointed chief janitor, aspiring coder. I help marketers stay close to the commercial engine -  so the work lands, not just looks good.

Michael Candiloro
Founder
CogniOps
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Michael Candiloro

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
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Kaylee Liu

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.

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Kaylee's day job: Growth Marketing Manager, Shippit

Lara Vandersluis
Head of Partnerships
Generate
Your MCs
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Lara Vandersluis

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.

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Lara's day job: Head of Marketing, Kinetic IT.

An agenda for curious marketers

Main Stage
9:00am - 9:10am
Founder's welcome
9:10am - 9:20am
MC opening remarks
9:20am - 9:45am
Keynote
Showing up with intent

A culture-led look at what the Sydney Swans learned entering AFLW, and how it evolved our brand.

Natalie Fagg
Chief Customer Officer
Sydney Swans
9:50am - 10:15am
Keynote
The Creator Economy: The business of influence on LinkedIn

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.

Aisling McMahon
Sales Leader
Linkedin
Chris Chow
Head of Growth Marketing
Smokeball
10:20am - 10:55am
Panel
ABM: Practical tips and tricks for campaigns, channels, and targeting

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.

Axel Sukianto
Founder
Generate
Cate Mayer
Marketing Lead
CAAsie
Vanessa Lennon
Head of Marketing & Partnerships
Glider
Jay Wheatley
Director of Demand Generation
PageUp
10:55AM - 11:25AM
Morning tea
Stage 1
11:25am - 11:50am
Panel
Old school chic: Marketing to slow moving or traditional industries

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.

Tanu Kaushik
Head of Marketing
ProSpend
Ben van Opzeeland
Director of Digital Marketing
LawVu
Christina Knock
VP Marketing
Fergus
Samuel Williamson
Global Head of Marketing
Smokeball
Stage 2
11:25am - 11:50am
Panel
APAC vss the World: Working in international organisations

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.

Darren Chait
CMO
beehiiv
Leandro Perez
CMO Australia & New Zealand
Salesforce
Sophie Mckay
Head of APAC Marketing
Notion
Nicholas Kontopoulos
VP of Marketing, APJ
Twilio
Main Stage
11:55am - 12:45pm
Roundtables
12:45pM - 1:45pM
Lunch
Stage 1
1:45pm - 2:10pm
Keynote
Authenticity in the artificial age

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.

Christopher Doyle
Creative Director
Christopher Doyle & Co
Stage 2
1:45pm - 2:10pm
Keynote
The basics of SEO still work in the era of AI

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.

Gaston Riera
Technical SEO Manager
Sportsbet
Stage 1
2:15pm - 2:50pm
Panel
B2B newsletters are so hot right now

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.

Kayla Medica
Head of Programming
Generate
Andrew Beeston
GM Customer Experience
Compare Club
Banks Benitez
Founder & CEO
Future Forest
Sam Koslowski
CEO
The Daily Aus
Stage 2
2:15pm - 2:50pm
Panel
Operations: How to get the most out of your sales ops, rev ops, and marketing ops teams

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.

Claire Fawbert
Hubspot Solutions Architect
MYOB
Bruna Diehl
Head of Global Marketing Operations
Dropbox
Mael Hartl
Head of Revops
Shippit
Michael Candiloro
Founder
CogniOps
Main Stage
2:50pm - 3:20pm
Afternoon tea
3:20pm - 3:30pm
Generate community update

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.

3:35pm - 4:05pm
The price is right

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!

4:10pm - 4:35pm
Keynote
Slow Brands: The case for doing less, better

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.

Kate Dinon
Partner
Character + Distinction
4:35pm - 4:45pm
Closing remarks
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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Generate Summit for?

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.

When and where is Generate Summit 2026?

Generate Summit 2026 will be held on Thursday, July 30, 2026 at the W Sydney (31 Wheat Rd, Sydney NSW 2000).

What is the agenda for Generate Summit 2026?

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.

I am not an in-house marketer or a Generate member. Can I still buy a ticket to Generate Summit 2026?

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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Past sponsors to Generate Summit include G2, Outsource Group, ON24, Smartsheet, Mixpanel, Online Marketing Gurus.

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