FORUM FOR NATURALS PRESENTS
The AI workshop built for CPG marketing teams.
An AI workshop — that gives your team a shared AI framework applied to your actual workflow. You leave with a 90-day action plan, not just inspiration.
Workshop: Aug 20–21 in Boulder
Founder Central, 2000 Central Ave #100 Boulder, CO
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Most AI programs aren't built for CPG marketing teams.
Your team is using different tools, prompting differently, and no one agrees on where AI fits in your actual workflow.
You've tried the YouTube tutorials and free courses. You need a structured path — not more content to consume alone.
The tools change faster than you can learn them. You need a framework that outlasts whatever ships next month.
You come back energized from every AI event. Your team doesn't. The gap keeps growing.
Presented in Partnership with
PRESENTERS & FACILITATORS
People who’ve actually done it.
No generalists. No keynote tourists. Every speaker is a practitioner with real CPG or AI implementation experience.
Chuck Aikens
DIR. OF BRAND MANAGEMENT · KETTLE & FIRE
One of the foremost AI practitioners in natural CPG. Works hands-on with brands including WishGarden, Wild Planet, and Humble on AI workflow integration and team capability building.
Jason Cormier
LEAD INSTRUCTOR · AI MARKETING FORUM
President of Rocky Mountain AI (RMAI), a 4,000+ AI community members in Colorado. Former marketing agency founder for 18 years. Runs the AI Marketing Forum school community and Mutual Intelligence consultancy.
Diego Norris
FOUNDER & CEO · VOLTANO
A 25-year CPG marketing veteran—Campbell's, Nestlé, Red Bull, General Mills, Gimme Seaweed—turned founder of Voltano, an agentic marketing platform that consolidates platform data and optimizes spend across every channel to make AI-powered marketing actually work for CPG brands.
Joshua Tabin
CEO · FLATIRONS FOOD FACTORY
An entrepreneur who uses AI agents daily to run and build companies, drawing on 30+ years and a dozen-plus businesses at the intersection of food and technology, with operational and financial strength from inspiration to exit.
Ankit Dhawan
FOUNDER & CEO· BLUEPILL
Ankit Dhawan is a three-time entrepreneur (one exit) currently building BluePill AI, which creates "AI consumers" — digital twins of real audiences, built from real-world data, that think and react like people to deliver instant, validated market research.
Kimberly Shenk
CEO & CO FOUNDER · NOVI
Kimberly is the CEO of Novi and a leading voice on AI search visibility for consumer brands. At Novi, she turns unstructured product data into AI-trusted information — delivering an average 257% improvement in visibility across beauty, food, supplements, and beyond.
Glen Baptiste
CEO · BACCHUS WORLDWIDE
Glenn has spent his career leading brands at some of the world's most recognizable consumer companies, with senior roles at L'Oréal and senior marketing positions at Unilever and Hasbro. He now leads Bacchus Worldwide, a brand strategy consultancy where he helps companies get sharp on who they are and what they stand for.
Chuck Aikens
Leah Swalling
LEAD INSTRUCTOR · TYMOO
Leah is a creative brand strategist with deep natural and organic CPG experience, known for crafting brand narratives and bringing them to life. She's become a genuinely AI-forward marketer — using AI in her daily work and constantly experimenting with new ways to sharpen and streamline marketing processes.
Kerry Fitzmaurice
CMO · HUMBLE BRANDS
Kerry has experience helping leaders scale without becoming the bottleneck—building AI tools and growth systems that streamline execution (not just "integrate"), backed by a career leading growth at 72andSunny and Mother and building brands across beauty, retail, and emerging tech.
BRANDS FROM LAST YEAR’S COHORT
What attendees said after
Brands including Quinn, Wishgarden, and Whole Earth Brands sent teams in 2025.
EVENT AGENDA
Thursday, August 20
Full Day
8:30 — 9:00
Doors Open — Coffee, Team Check-In, Sponsor Tables
9:00 — 9:15
WELCOME
The CPG AI Landscape — What Actually Matters Right Now
Ted Ning · MC, Forum for Naturals
State of AI in natural CPG. Why most teams are stuck. What these 1.5 days are designed to unlock.
9:15 — 9:45
KEYNOTE
The Marketing Team of the Future
Glenn Baptiste
How AI is restructuring marketing organization design, the CMO role, and team collaboration in the next 18 months.
9:45 — 10:45
Presented by Bluepill
10:45 — 11:00
SECOND BRAIN INTRO AND REVIEW
Speaking the Same Language — Brand Brain & Workflows
Jason Cormier
How Leading Teams Are Using AI to Bring Voice of Customer into Decision Making
11:00 — 11:30
11:30 — 11:50
SPONSOR BREAKOUT SESSIONS
A. Owning the Digital Shelf: The Category Intelligence Layer Driving AEO Selection by NOVI
B. How to Launch Products More Confidently: Concept, Packaging & Claims Testing with 1,000 AI Consumers by Bluepill
C. Beyond the Hype: Doubling CPG ROI with AI in 90 Days by Voltano
BREAK
12:00 — 1:00
LUNCH
Sponsored by quantilope
1:00 — 2:00
WORKSHOP BLOCK 02
The Other Half of AI Work
Chuck Aikens
Everything else today is tools and tactics. This is the part that doesn't show up in a demo: where the real friction lives, why your route will look nothing like the one you planned, and what it takes to keep going when it isn't working yet.
BREAK
2:00 —2:15
Afternoon Break · Refreshments · Sponsor Tables
2:15 — 3:15
3:15 — 3:30
Integrated Solution Sessions — Relevant Tools for Your Team Stack
3:30 — 4:30
WORKSHOP BLOCK 03
Chuck Aikens, lead · TAs at every table
The build sprint. Teams take their prioritized AI opportunity and begin constructing — a workflow, a prompt library, or a brand skill. TAs assigned to 3–4 teams each.
4:30 — 5:00
DAY 01 CLOSE
What to Buy, Skip & Build — The CPG AI Stack
5:30 — 7:30
BREAK
SPONSOR PRESENTATION
SPONSOR BREAKOUT SESSION INTROS
RECEPTION
Sponsored by Social Nature
Walk to Wild Provisions Brewery for some drinks, food and conversation.
EVENT AGENDA
Friday, August 21
Half Day
8:45 — 9:00
WARM UP
Coffee + Team Reset
9:00 — 9:15
DAY 02 OPEN
Recap + Build Session Framing
9:15 — 10:15
BRAND PANEL DISCUSSION
Panel Discussion: What AI-Forward Actually Looks Like Inside a CPG Brand
Sam Hunskicker - CEO, Wishgarden Herbs
Kerry Fitzmaurice - CMO, Humble Brands
Josh Tabin - CEO, Flatiron Food Factory
Leah Swalling - Director of Brand Management, Kettle & Fire
TRACK A — TEAMS
Team Build Sprint
Finish your use-case build with expert support
Platform-clustered breakouts
BluePill TA for insight and research teams
TRACK B — INDIVIDUAL & FRACTIONAL
Solo Practitioner Deep-Dive
How to serve as all 5 AI roles for a client
AI for deal flow, proposals, and client management
Position yourself as AI-forward to prospects
10:15 — 10:30
BREAK
10:30 — 11:30
TEAM SHOWCASE
What We Built — 3 Minute Team Shares
11:30 — 12:00
How Forum for Naturals Shares How It Is Using Claude Code
12:00 — 12:30
WHAT’S NEXT
12:30 — 1:00
Chautauqua Park Hike
PARALLEL TRACKS
LUNCH + DEPARTURE
Same-day flight window. DEN is 45 minutes from Boulder.
OUR PARTNERS
Title Sponsor
Premiere Sponsor
Supporting Sponsors
AUGUST 20 - 21, 2026 · FOUNDER CENTRAL
2000 Central Ave #100, Boulder, CO 80301
This is the AI event CPG marketers cannot miss in 2026.
If you want to be known as an AI-forward marketer in this industry, you have to be in this room. Every month you wait is a month your competitors are building workflows you haven't started yet.