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Digital Marketing & Communications Council

Digital Marketing & Communications Practitioner Summit

May 25-26, 2027 | National Harbor, MD (D.C.)

Agenda

Tuesday, May 25

9:30 AM

Registration, Networking, and Refreshments

10:15 AM

Welcome and Introduction

10:30 AM

Peer Exchanges

Industry connections & functional interests

Make meaningful connections with fellow practitioners who share your interests and challenges. In these informal, small-group conversations, choose a table based on your industry, a topic you’d like to explore, or a vendor you’d like to discuss. Compare experiences, trade ideas, and learn from peers facing similar challenges.

With two rounds of discussions, you’ll have the opportunity to explore different topics and meet new people. No presentations, no preparation — just candid conversations and valuable connections.

Topic options

Industry tables:

  • Healthcare & Health Systems
  • Financial Services & Insurance
  • Technology / SaaS
  • Retail & CPG
  • Manufacturing, Industrial, & Transportation
  • Pharma, Biotech, & Life Sciences
  • Travel, Hospitality, & Entertainment
  • Energy & Utilities

Functional tables:

  • Content Strategy & Creative Operations
  • Video & Emerging Formats
  • Employee Advocacy & Executive Social
  • Influencer & Creator Partnerships
  • Community Management & Social Care
  • Social Listening & Reputation
  • Social Media Measurement & ROI
  • Paid Media
  • PR / Earned Media
  • Social Governance & Operations
  • B2B Social Media Strategy
  • Social Media in Regulated Industries
  • Reddit & Community Platforms
  • AI Search & Brand Discoverability
  • AEO Performance Measurement
  • Technical SEO / AEO
  • Agentic workflows

Solution provider tables:

  • Sprinklr
  • Khoros
  • Sprout Social
  • Hootsuite
  • Brandwatch
  • Meltwater
  • Emplifi
  • Profound
  • SEMrush
  • Adobe Brand Visibility
  • Conductor
  • seoClarity / ArcAI
  • ScrunchAI
  • BlueFish
  • AthenaHQ
  • BrightEdge
  • Ahrefs Brand Radar

11:10 AM

Break

11:20 AM

Peer Exchanges

Industry connections & functional interests

Make meaningful connections with fellow practitioners who share your interests and challenges. In these informal, small-group conversations, choose a table based on your industry, a topic you’d like to explore, or a vendor you’d like to discuss. Compare experiences, trade ideas, and learn from peers facing similar challenges.

With two rounds of discussions, you’ll have the opportunity to explore different topics and meet new people. No presentations, no preparation — just candid conversations and valuable connections.

Topic options

Industry tables:

  • Healthcare & Health Systems
  • Financial Services & Insurance
  • Technology / SaaS
  • Retail & CPG
  • Manufacturing, Industrial, & Transportation
  • Pharma, Biotech, & Life Sciences
  • Travel, Hospitality, & Entertainment
  • Energy & Utilities

Functional tables:

  • Content Strategy & Creative Operations
  • Video & Emerging Formats
  • Employee Advocacy & Executive Social
  • Influencer & Creator Partnerships
  • Community Management & Social Care
  • Social Listening & Reputation
  • Social Media Measurement & ROI
  • Paid Media
  • PR / Earned Media
  • Social Governance & Operations
  • B2B Social Media Strategy
  • Social Media in Regulated Industries
  • Reddit & Community Platforms
  • AI Search & Brand Discoverability
  • AEO Performance Measurement
  • Technical SEO / AEO
  • Agentic workflows

Solution provider tables:

  • Sprinklr
  • Khoros
  • Sprout Social
  • Hootsuite
  • Brandwatch
  • Meltwater
  • Emplifi
  • Profound
  • SEMrush
  • Adobe Brand Visibility
  • Conductor
  • seoClarity / ArcAI
  • ScrunchAI
  • BlueFish
  • AthenaHQ
  • BrightEdge
  • Ahrefs Brand Radar

12:00 PM

Networking Lunch

Meet up with a buddy or make a new friend during this open networking lunch hour.

1:00 PM

Break

1:10 PM

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Building an AI-Powered Social Content Engine


Coming soon!

Session Details

Explore a company’s approach to weaving AI into content planning, editing, creative production, and approvals. The practitioner will walk through the use cases selected, how the workflow changed, where time was saved, and where quality or brand considerations still called for human judgment. Expect concrete examples of implementation decisions, rollout challenges, and lessons for teams considering a similar approach.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Transforming YouTube From a Video Library to a Strategic Social Channel


Coming soon!

Session Details

Hear how one company reconsidered YouTube as a channel rather than a storage shelf for video assets. Go inside decisions about channel structure, Shorts versus long-form formats, original programming, publishing cadence, and discoverability. The practitioner will share what the team changed, how it monitored audience behavior, and the lessons behind making YouTube a more purposeful part of social strategy.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Inside a Real-Time Social Newsroom


Coming soon!

Session Details

How do large brands participate in timely moments without bypassing sound judgment? Examine a company’s newsroom-style model for spotting relevant conversations, deciding when to engage, mobilizing creative resources, and moving content through approvals. The practitioner will explain responsibilities across social and communications, what made rapid work possible, and the moments the team intentionally passed on. Take away lessons on speed, governance, and measurement.

AEO Board

Case Study

Making AI Search Performance Measurable


Coming soon!

Session Details

Traditional SEO reports do not fully explain how a brand appears in AI-generated answers. Go inside an enterprise team’s effort to establish credible benchmarks for AI visibility, citations, brand representation, and business impact. The practitioner will discuss which measures were chosen, what tools were evaluated, how results were reported to leaders, and where the framework still has limits. Explore practical lessons from turning an emerging field into a measurable program.

SocialMedia.org Health

Case Study

Beyond the White Coat: Turning Physicians into Compelling Social Media Storytellers


Coming soon!

Session Details

Clinicians are trusted voices, but participating in social content can be difficult alongside patient care responsibilities. Explore how a hospital developed physician-led storytelling through recruitment, briefing, production support, approvals, and measurement. The presenting practitioner will share the operational obstacles and lessons from making clinical expertise engaging without compromising accuracy or the clinician’s voice.

1:40 PM

Break

1:50 PM

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Moving From Employee Advocacy to Employee Creators


Coming soon!

Session Details

Discover how an organization moved beyond asking employees to reshare corporate posts and began supporting their own original storytelling. The presenter will cover how participants were recruited and trained, how approvals and resources were organized, and what kept employees involved beyond launch. Hear how the team evaluated participation and content performance while protecting employee authenticity.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Cracking Reddit: A Brand’s Journey From Listening to Participation


Coming soon!

Session Details

Explore how a company researched relevant subreddits, learned community norms, and evaluated when a brand should participate rather than simply monitor. The case study will examine organic engagement, any paid testing, internal guardrails, and the actual response of Reddit communities. Hear which assumptions held up, which did not, and how the experience shaped the brand’s next decisions.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Beyond Engagement: Improving Social Media Measurement


Coming soon!

Session Details

Discover how an enterprise team revisited dashboards and KPIs to connect social activity to outcomes that stakeholders value. Hear how it combined engagement data with broader marketing, communications, or business indicators, handled attribution limits, and redesigned executive reporting. The speaker will address which metrics were retired or reframed, what changed in decision-making, and where proof remains difficult.

AEO Board

Case Study

Rebuilding Enterprise Content for AI-Driven Discovery


Coming soon!

Session Details

Enterprise content ecosystems were not necessarily created for AI-powered discovery. Explore how a company assessed existing pages and assets, prioritized structural improvements, strengthened topical coverage, and adapted content workflows. The presenter will examine collaboration between search, web, and editorial teams, implementation hurdles at scale, and what the organization learned from its early optimization efforts.

SocialMedia.org Health

Case Study

From One Hospital to an Entire Health System: Bringing Order to a Complex Social Media Ecosystem


Coming soon!

Session Details

Large health systems juggle local accounts, system-level priorities, and many decision-makers. Hear how one organization approached clarifying ownership, reviewing its account footprint, coordinating publishing, and balancing brand standards with local relevance. The practitioner will cover decisions about governance, workflows, and stakeholder buy-in, including what proved difficult when the new structure met day-to-day reality.

2:20 PM

Networking Break

2:40 PM

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Rethinking Influencer Partnerships: From Campaigns to Communities


Coming soon!

Session Details

Go behind the scenes of a brand’s move from isolated influencer activations toward longer-term creator relationships. Learn how it assessed and selected partners, handled contracts and content rights, involved creators in planning, and decided what success should look like over time. The discussion will examine tradeoffs between creative freedom, brand safeguards, operational workload, and sustained value.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Unlocking LinkedIn: Expanding Beyond the Corporate Page


Coming soon!

Session Details

See how a brand connected its company page with the voices of executives, employees, and subject-matter experts. The presenter will describe its content coordination, participation guidelines, enablement resources, and approach to measuring impact across different accounts. Explore where personal voices added value, what it took to sustain involvement, and how the team avoided making individual profiles sound corporate.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Turning Social Listening Insights into Business Action


Coming soon!

Session Details

Follow a specific example of social intelligence leading to a campaign, customer experience change, or other organizational decision. The practitioner will walk through how the signal was spotted, validated, and communicated to stakeholders beyond social media. Learn how the company moved from observation to action, what barriers it encountered, and how the team evaluated the value of the insight.

AEO Board

Case Study

When AI Gets Your Brand Wrong


Coming soon!

Session Details

What happens when an AI answer gives customers outdated, incomplete, or incorrect information about your brand? This case study explores a company’s process for monitoring outputs, investigating potential sources, assessing reputational impact, and coordinating responses. Hear how digital, communications, and other teams decided when to intervene, what corrective options were available, and how they evaluated whether action helped.

SocialMedia.org Health

Case Study

The Patient Story Playbook: Creating Content That’s Human, Compelling, and Compliant


Coming soon!

Session Details

Patient stories can build trust, but developing them demands care and coordination. Explore how a hospital identified stories, worked with clinical partners, secured informed consent, managed privacy concerns, and selected respectful social formats. The presenting practitioner will discuss the decisions and safeguards behind the process, along with what the team learned about audience engagement and protecting patient dignity.

3:10 PM

Break

3:20 PM

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

The Social Video Content Factory: Creating More With Less


Coming soon!

Session Details

Follow a company’s effort to make social video production more consistent without continually increasing budget or headcount. The presenter will unpack batch filming, employee contributions, repurposing, editing, and approval processes, including where the new model improved output and where it created tradeoffs. See how the team determined which formats warranted original investment and what performance taught them.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Reinventing Social Care With AI and Smarter Workflows


Coming soon!

Session Details

Go inside an enterprise social care operation as a company revisits routing, response processes, automated assistance, and human oversight. Hear how it identified bottlenecks, aligned with customer service colleagues, evaluated appropriate AI uses, and tracked results. The practitioner will address the hard questions: which work could safely be streamlined, which still needed judgment, and what changed for employees and customers.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Making AI-Powered Social Governance Work in Practice


Coming soon!

Session Details

Explore how a company introduced AI-assisted capabilities into approvals, content review, compliance checks, or social risk workflows. Hear how the team defined suitable uses, involved legal and operational partners, trained reviewers, and made room for human escalation. The case study will cover actual implementation decisions, efficiency gains or shortcomings where available, and the safeguards needed to maintain trust.

AEO Board

Case Study

One Brand, Many Markets: Scaling AEO Globally


Coming soon!

Session Details

AI search can behave differently across countries, languages, and market contexts. Hear how one multinational company approached governance, localized content, website architecture, monitoring, and regional responsibilities as its AEO efforts expanded. The presenter will describe which standards could be shared globally, where local adaptation was needed, and lessons about measurement and coordination across markets.

SocialMedia.org Health

Case Study

From Views to Value: Connecting Hospital Social Media to Organizational Priorities


Coming soon!

Session Details

Hospital social teams contribute to patient education, reputation, service lines, recruitment, and community engagement, yet standard engagement reports rarely capture all of that value. Discover how a health system rethought KPIs and reporting to align with organizational goals. Hear how stakeholders helped define success, where attribution remained difficult, and what changed in the team’s discussions with leadership.

3:50 PM

Break

4:00 PM

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Hi-Fi or Lo-Fi: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Authenticity and Polish


Coming soon!

Session Details

Explore how a brand tested polished versus less-produced content, different voices, and creative formats to learn what resonated with its audience. Hear how it designed comparisons, assessed performance, and adjusted content planning or production standards. The practitioner will discuss how the organization balanced genuine storytelling with quality expectations, brand guidelines, and the realities of enterprise approval.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Social Search in Action: Making Brand Content More Discoverable


Coming soon!

Session Details

Explore how one company adapted content to help audiences find its social posts and videos across platforms such as YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn. The speaker will cover how audience search behavior influenced captions, metadata, structure, and platform-specific publishing choices. Hear what the team tested, which signals it watched, and how it kept discoverability efforts grounded in useful, engaging social content rather than enterprise-wide AEO.

SocialMedia.org

Case Study

Better Together: Integrating Paid and Organic Social Strategy


Coming soon!

Session Details

Go behind the scenes of a brand bringing paid and organic social into closer alignment. Learn how teams coordinated planning, used organic results to guide paid creative tests, shared audience insights, and rethought reporting. The presenter will describe practical changes to collaboration, ownership, and workflows, including budget or measurement tensions and the impact of a more unified approach.

AEO Board

Case Study

Preparing for Agentic Discovery


Coming soon!

Session Details

As AI assistants increasingly help people research, compare, and potentially act, how should enterprise digital teams prepare? Explore a company’s assessment of product and service information, content structure, website accessibility, and technical readiness for agent-driven experiences. The practitioner will share current experiments and prioritization decisions, working relationships across business and technology functions, and what remains unproven in this emerging area.

SocialMedia.org Health

Case Study

When Your Hospital Becomes the Headline: Lessons from a High-Stakes Reputation Challenge


Coming soon!

Session Details

When a hospital becomes the subject of intense public attention, social channels may turn into a critical part of the response. This confidential case study explores how a hospital monitored emerging narratives, coordinated across leadership and communications, handled sensitive approvals, and made difficult response decisions. The presenter will discuss what unfolded, what tested the process, and what the organization changed afterward.

4:30 PM

Adjourn

5:00 PM

Drinks Reception and Member Dinner

Following our afternoon of conversations and case studies, we’ll all go out for a fantastic dinner together. It’s a perfect opportunity to connect with your fellow members before a big day of brainstorming, discussion, and collaboration.

Wednesday, May 26

8:00 AM

Networking Breakfast

8:50 AM

Break

9:00 AM

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

What’s Next for YouTube?


Coming soon!

Session Details

Compare how brands balance Shorts and long-form video, original programming and repurposed content, and YouTube’s roles in engagement and discovery. We’ll discuss channel organization, investment decisions, audience behaviors, and which metrics matter beyond views. Bring examples of what you’re testing and questions about where YouTube belongs in your broader social strategy.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Proving Social Media ROI


Coming soon!

Session Details

What does leadership actually need to see to believe in social media’s value? Compare KPIs, attribution methods, brand and business outcomes, and executive reporting strategies. We’ll explore how practitioners communicate credible results without overstating causality, where data is still missing, and which familiar measures deserve less attention.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Employee Creators vs. Traditional Advocacy


Coming soon!

Session Details

Employee creators can offer more authentic voices but demand different support than traditional post-sharing programs. Compare recruitment, training, incentives, content ownership, compliance, and ongoing participation. We’ll discuss when advocacy is sufficient, what original employee content makes possible, and how to evaluate the additional operational investment.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

AI Workflows for Social Teams


Coming soon!

Session Details

Compare actual AI-assisted workflows in content, scheduling, community management, listening, and reporting. Which applications have saved time and which created more reviews or rework? We’ll discuss practical guardrails, human oversight, team adoption, and how to evaluate whether new tools make operations measurably better.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Building Community Beyond the Feed


Coming soon!

Session Details

What turns followers into relationships that last beyond a campaign or algorithm change? Compare owned and third-party communities, direct engagement, community participation, and models for sustaining meaningful interactions. We’ll discuss resource requirements, moderation, and ways to assess the health of audience relationships rather than their size alone.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Social Media’s Role in AI Discovery


Coming soon!

Session Details

Reddit conversations, YouTube content, creators, and other social material can influence how brands appear in AI-powered answers. What should social teams own in this changing ecosystem? Compare practical actions, coordination with search and communications, and approaches to measuring influence. This discussion stays focused on social’s contribution rather than technical AEO tactics.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

AEO Measurement That Leadership Can Trust


Coming soon!

Session Details

AI answer visibility fluctuates across queries, models, and time. Compare the indicators enterprise teams use to track citations, representation, and potential business outcomes. We’ll discuss monitoring platforms, benchmark refresh rates, attribution limits, and dashboards that communicate progress without creating false precision. Bring the questions your executives are asking and the evidence you currently trust.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

Who Owns AEO? Building a Strategy Across Teams That Don’t Report to You


Coming soon!

Session Details

Search, content, web, communications, IT, analytics, and legal can all contribute to AEO without sharing a manager. Compare governance councils, task forces, distributed mandates, decision rights, and resource models. We’ll explore ways to move from fragmented pilots toward coordinated execution when priorities and budgets sit across the organization.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Building a Stronger Bench of Physician and Employee Advocates


Coming soon!

Session Details

How are hospitals involving busy physicians and employees in authentic social storytelling? Compare recruitment, training, content support, approvals, and ways to keep participation sustainable across clinical workloads. We’ll discuss which roles make strong advocates and how teams judge whether the effort is working.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Smarter Paid Social for Hospital Service Lines


Coming soon!

Session Details

With limited resources and many service lines seeking promotion, how should hospitals allocate paid social? Compare audience goals, priority setting, platform selection, budgeting, local versus system-wide needs, and ways to evaluate outcomes. We’ll discuss how to explain tradeoffs and performance to service-line stakeholders.

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Reddit: Organic, Paid, or Both?


Coming soon!

Session Details

Compare how brands approach listening, official account participation, employee engagement, paid advertising, and subreddit-specific community expectations. We’ll discuss the choices behind entering a community, governance concerns, and what success realistically looks like. Bring early experiments and lessons from tactics that did not land as expected.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Paid Social’s Next Big Bets


Coming soon!

Session Details

Where are enterprise brands placing new paid social bets, and which tactics are getting less budget? Compare channels, formats, creative testing, automation, and performance expectations. We’ll discuss what evidence is required to shift investment and how teams make decisions when measurement signals remain incomplete.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

The Future of Influencer Partnerships


Coming soon!

Session Details

How are creator relationships changing beyond one-off sponsored posts? Compare long-term partnerships, micro-creators, content rights, compensation, paid amplification, and performance measurement. We’ll discuss creative freedom, brand safety, and how teams decide which partnerships are worth sustaining.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Governance That Enables Speed


Coming soon!

Session Details

When does governance protect the brand, and when does it slow teams down unnecessarily? Compare publishing authority, legal review, account access, AI content safeguards, escalation, and regional decision rights. We’ll explore models that help practitioners respond confidently while retaining appropriate accountability.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Executive Social That Actually Engages


Coming soon!

Session Details

Executive social often starts with polished thought leadership but needs genuine participation to build trust. Compare how teams discover leaders’ voices, encourage engagement, provide content support, manage approvals, and measure influence. We’ll examine how programs scale without losing authenticity or relying on a few enthusiastic executives.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Winning on LinkedIn in 2027


Coming soon!

Session Details

Compare how brands coordinate corporate pages, executive accounts, employees, subject experts, and paid amplification on LinkedIn. We’ll discuss what generates meaningful audience engagement, how responsibilities are shared, and how to measure impact beyond corporate page activity. Bring tactics and tensions from your organization’s current program.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

What Makes Content Worth Citing?


Coming soon!

Session Details

How are teams deciding which content investments could strengthen AI-driven discovery? Compare original research, subject expertise, topical authority, accessibility, content quality, and technical signals. We’ll discuss prioritizing updates versus new resources, interpreting citation data cautiously, and distinguishing testable improvements from unproven assumptions.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

Getting Your Website Ready for AI Agents


Coming soon!

Session Details

What does technical readiness for increasingly capable AI assistants actually involve? Compare structured information, APIs, access policies, agent-friendly workflows, security concerns, and emerging standards. We’ll explore which near-term changes have practical value, which are still speculative, and where marketing depends on close partnership with engineering and IT.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Creating Healthcare Video That Patients Want to Watch


Coming soon!

Session Details

Healthcare experts have information worth sharing, but audiences won’t engage with every format. Compare short-form video, physician participation, patient education, authenticity, production constraints, and performance measures. We’ll discuss how to simplify without losing clinical accuracy and how to learn from what people actually watch.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Reddit, Local Groups, and the Conversations Hospitals Don’t Control


Coming soon!

Session Details

Important conversations about hospitals happen in neighborhood groups, Reddit threads, and other spaces outside their owned channels. Compare approaches to monitoring, evaluating when to respond or stay out, coordinating escalation, and respecting privacy. We’ll discuss how to learn from communities without attempting to control them.

10:45 AM

Networking Break

11:05 AM

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Turning Social Listening Into Action


Coming soon!

Session Details

How are practitioners moving from mention-monitoring toward insights that other teams actually use? Compare listening taxonomies, AI-assisted analysis, validation, stakeholder reporting, and examples that influenced decisions. We’ll discuss how to distinguish strong signals from noise and earn the confidence of decision-makers.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Help a B2B Brand Figure Out How to Start on Reddit


Coming soon!

Session Details

A B2B company wants to explore Reddit but is unsure whether to listen first, launch an official account, engage through employees, or test paid media. Help the member evaluate community fit, staffing, risk, and success measures, and shape a practical 60-day test plan. Illustrative challenge; member owner to be confirmed.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Short-Form Video Across Platforms


Coming soon!

Session Details

Explore how teams produce and adapt short-form video across YouTube Shorts, Reels, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other channels. Compare creative conventions, platform-specific editing, reuse, production models, and performance signals. We’ll discuss when original production pays off and how to maintain quality at a sustainable pace.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Help a Member Scale an Employee Creator Program


Coming soon!

Session Details

A member’s employee creator pilot shows promise, but growing participation could overwhelm the social team or undermine authenticity. Peers will ask clarifying questions and work through recruitment, training, governance, support resources, and measurement. The intended outcome is a prioritized plan for expanding the program responsibly. Illustrative challenge; member owner to be confirmed.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Community Management and Social Care


Coming soon!

Session Details

Compare how brands manage comments, messages, public questions, and customer care across growing social channels. We’ll discuss moderation, response priorities, AI-assisted triage, handoffs, escalation, and collaboration with customer service. Where should social retain ownership, and what does successful care look like beyond response speed?

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Help a Member Protect Executives Against AI Deepfakes


Coming soon!

Session Details

A member worries that executives’ public audio and video may be misused for impersonation or misinformation. Peers will pressure-test prevention, monitoring, internal verification, escalation, and communications response approaches. The group will develop a prioritized checklist of safeguards and owners. Illustrative challenge; member owner to be confirmed.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

Problem-Solving Workshop: Breaking Through an AEO Roadblock


Coming soon!

Session Details

A member has moved beyond isolated AEO pilots but cannot yet establish consistent ownership, resources, or organization-wide priorities. Participants will clarify the specific obstacle and offer perspectives on mandates, coordination, governance, and sequencing. The group will identify achievable next steps for the member’s program. Illustrative challenge; final member and issue to be confirmed.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

The Future of Search, Paid Media, and AI Discovery


Coming soon!

Session Details

Organizations must balance SEO and paid search with new generative discovery and advertising experiences. Compare emerging experiments, investment choices, measurement questions, and the relationship between visibility, traffic, and conversion. We’ll discuss what evidence would justify shifting budgets without assuming that legacy channels will simply disappear.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Managing the System vs. Local Social Media Balancing Act


Coming soon!

Session Details

How much decision-making should sit with central health system teams versus individual hospitals? Compare account structures, publishing rights, guardrails, workflows, and regional responsibilities. We’ll discuss where consistency is essential and where local autonomy makes health system social content more relevant.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Too Many Requests, Not Enough Resources: Prioritizing Hospital Social Media Demands


Coming soon!

Session Details

A member’s social team is overwhelmed by service-line, leadership, regional, and departmental requests, all competing for limited capacity. Peers will help clarify the stakeholder landscape, compare prioritization frameworks, and identify practical expectations and escalation rules. The intended outcome is an approach the member can use to protect high-value work and explain tradeoffs. Illustrative challenge; member owner to be confirmed.

11:50 AM

Networking Lunch

Meet up with a buddy or make a new friend during this open networking lunch hour.

12:40 PM

Break

12:50 PM

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Social Search and Discoverability


Coming soon!

Session Details

Compare how teams adapt social content for search behavior on YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. We’ll examine captions, keywords, metadata, evergreen content, and collaboration with SEO teams. Focus on actionable changes within social platforms rather than enterprise AEO strategy.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Measuring Creator and Employee Impact


Coming soon!

Session Details

Compare how organizations evaluate influencer programs, employee creators, and traditional advocacy beyond raw reach. We’ll discuss engagement quality, brand lift, content contribution, business outcomes, attribution, and reporting limits. Which measures help decide where to invest next, and what is still hard to prove?

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Authentic Content in an AI World


Coming soon!

Session Details

As AI increases content volume, how do brands maintain distinctive human voices? Compare informal video, employee storytelling, original creative, brand standards, and audience response to polished versus spontaneous content. We’ll discuss when AI helps production and when it risks flattening a brand’s personality.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Global vs. Local Social Strategy


Coming soon!

Session Details

Explore how global social teams balance brand consistency with regional relevance. Compare account structures, localization, approval models, centralized expertise, and resource sharing. We’ll focus on where autonomy helps, where governance prevents fragmentation, and what coordination models actually work across markets.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Taking Social Engagement Beyond the Corporate Account


Coming soon!

Session Details

How are companies extending engagement through employees, executives, subject experts, and community participants? Compare guidelines, training, internal ownership, content support, and ways to sustain involvement. We’ll explore how individual voices complement corporate strategy without becoming another layer of scripted brand messaging.

SocialMedia.org

Interactive Strategy Session

Building the Future Social Media Team


Coming soon!

Session Details

Social responsibilities keep growing while staffing remains tight. Compare team design, generalists versus specialists, agency partnerships, centralized and distributed operations, AI-supported work, and emerging skills. We’ll explore what to build internally, what to outsource, and how to stop lower-value work without undermining core programs.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

Building Brand Authority Beyond Your Website


Coming soon!

Session Details

AI systems may draw from earned media, independent sources, reviews, community conversations, and social platforms. Compare how AEO, communications, PR, and social teams are approaching that wider information environment. We’ll discuss source credibility, stakeholder coordination, ethical guardrails, and how to judge whether authority-building efforts are worth pursuing.

AEO Board

Interactive Strategy Session

Scaling AEO Without Scaling Headcount


Coming soon!

Session Details

AEO demands more work, but few teams can build an entirely new department. Compare ways to incorporate AEO into existing search, editorial, web, and communications processes, alongside automation and shared training. We’ll discuss prioritization, specialist versus distributed responsibilities, and quality controls that keep expansion sustainable.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Making Health Education Content People Want to Engage With


Coming soon!

Session Details

How can hospitals make accurate clinical information useful and engaging on social media? Compare topic selection, physician collaboration, plain-language storytelling, emerging trends, misinformation responses, and evaluation beyond clicks. We’ll focus on practical approaches that preserve trust while reaching audiences where they already spend time.

SocialMedia.org Health

Interactive Strategy Session

Turning Social Listening into Reputation Intelligence


Coming soon!

Session Details

Hospital social teams may spot changing sentiment, misinformation, or patient concerns before other departments. Compare monitoring approaches, issue validation, escalation, reporting, and collaboration with patient experience and communications. We’ll discuss how to turn patterns in conversation into intelligence leaders can use.

1:35 PM

Break

1:45 PM

Panel

What Would You Do Differently? The Decisions Reshaping Digital Marketing & Communications


Coming Soon!

Sometimes the most valuable lessons come from the decisions we’d make differently. As social media, search, and communications continue to evolve, teams are rethinking how they organize and invest resources, engage audiences, protect brand trust, and demonstrate business impact. In this candid closing panel, practitioners from SocialMedia.org, SocialMedia.org Health, and the AEO Board will reflect on the decisions that have shaped their strategies, what they’ve learned, and what they’re changing as they look ahead. We’ll explore the approaches worth doubling down on, the assumptions they’re challenging, and lessons that could help others navigate what’s next.

2:30 PM

Adjourn

Please note: This agenda is subject to change based on speaker availability and scheduling.