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AI MARKETING OPS WORKSHOP: EVENT AGENDA
Two days. Built to implement, not observe.
Every session moves you closer to a working AI workflow for your brand. Arrive with a problem. Leave with a solution.
AUGUST 21-22, 2026
SWEATER VENTURES · BOULDER, CO
1.5 DAYS · HANDS ON
MAX 25 TEAMS · CPG-EXCLUSIVE
PLATFORM-AGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK
AUGUST 21-22, 2026 SWEATER VENTURES · BOULDER, CO 1.5 DAYS · HANDS ON MAX 25 TEAMS · CPG-EXCLUSIVE PLATFORM-AGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK
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.
Summer DuBois
VP AI STRATEGY · KINECTIVE
An enterprise AI strategist who rose from Director of Operations to Head of AI at an 800+ person marketing holding company and now serves as VP of AI Strategy at Kinective, a PE-backed fintech serving 4,000+ financial institutions—building the capability, culture, and infrastructure that let organizations actually work differently with AI.
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.
EVENT AGENDA
Thursday, August 21
Full Day
8:30 — 9:00
REGISTRATION
Doors Open — Coffee, Team Check-In, Sponsor Tables
9:00 — 9:30
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.
9:30 — 10:15
KEYNOTE
The Marketing Team of the Future
Summer DuBios
How AI is restructuring marketing organization design, the CMO role, and team collaboration in the next 18 months.
10:15 — 10:25
BREAK
Morning Break · Refreshments · Sponsor Tables Open
10:25 — 11:30
WORKSHOP BLOCK 01
Speaking the Same Language — The 5 AI Roles Framework
Chuck Aikens + Jason Cormier
Beyond Surveys and Focus Groups: Turning Voice of Customer Into Decisions with AI Consumer Twins
11:30 — 12:00
Panel Discussion: What AI-Forward Actually Looks Like Inside a CPG Brand
Real workflows they automated, what failed before it worked, and what you can steal for your brand. Live Q&A.
12:00 — 1:00
LUNCH
Catered Lunch + Sponsor Solution Tables Open
1:00 — 2:00
WORKSHOP BLOCK 02
Process Mapping — Finding the AI Entry Point in Your Workflow
Jason Cormier, lead · TAs circulating
The clarity brief framework. Live exercise: map one current process end-to-end and identify where AI can cut friction.
BREAK
2:00 —2:15
BREAK
Afternoon Break · Refreshments · Sponsor Tables
Afternoon Break · Refreshments · Sponsor Tables
2:15 — 3:15
3:15 — 3:30
PARTNER SESSIONS
Integrated Solution Sessions — Relevant Tools for Your Team Stack
Two 50-min sessions from category-exclusive partners. Featuring BluePill (AI consumer insights) and Voltaro (AI Optimized Ad Spend)
3:30 — 4:30
WORKSHOP BLOCK 03
Getting Into Team Projects — Guided Build Sprint
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
Chuck Aikens + Jason Cormier + Ankit Dhawan (BluePill)
5:30 — 7:30
SPONSOR PRESENTATION
Ankit Dhawan - CEO & Founder, Bluepill
OPTIONAL
Evening Reception — Sponsor-Supported Networking Dinner
Informal dinner near Sweater Ventures. The best conversations happen here.
EVENT AGENDA
Friday, August 22
Half Day
8:45 — 9:00
WARM UP
Coffee + Team Reset
9:00 — 9:15
DAY 02 OPEN
Recap + Build Session Framing
Ted Ning · Chuck Aikens
Today’s goal: Every team leaves with one functional AI asset — a skill, a workflow, a brief template, or a prompt library.
9:15 — 10:45
PARALLEL TRACKS
Day 02 Build Sessions — Choose Your Track
TRACK A — TEAMS
Team Build Sprint
Jason Cormier, lead · TAs at tables
Finish your use-case build with expert support
Platform-clustered breakouts (Claude/Copilot/GPT)
BluePill TA for insight and research teams
TRACK B — INDIVIDUAL & FRACTIONAL
Solo Practitioner Deep-Dive
Chuck Aikens, lead
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
10:45 — 10:55
BREAK
All Tracks Reconvene
10:55 — 11:35
TEAM SHOWCASE
What We Built — 3 Minute Team Shares
All Attendees · Facilitated by Ted Ning
11:35 — 12:15
CLOSING KEYNOTE
AI at Scale in CPG — Leading Through Change at the Enterprise Level
Presenter TBD
12:15 — 12:30
LIVE OFFER
Mastermind Cohort Enrollment — First 20 Teams Only
Ted Ning
12:30 — 1:00
LUNCH + DEPARTURE
Catered Lunch — Teams Depart by 1pm
Same-day flight window. DEN is 45 minutes from Boulder.
OUR PARTNERS
Title Sponsor
Premiere Sponsor
Supporting Sponsors
AUGUST 21 - 22, 2026 · BOULDER, CO
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.