Presents

The Execution Gap:
Why Digital Teams Ship Slower Than Their Platforms Allow

Networking Dinner at Crowne Plaza Dubai Marina

11th June 2026 • 18:00 – 20:30 GST

Presents

The Execution Gap:
Why Digital Teams Ship Slower Than Their Platforms Allow

Networking Dinner at
Crowne Plaza Dubai Marina

11th June 2026
18:00 – 20:30 GST

WHAT WE WILL DISCUSS

Enterprise marketing teams have access to more capable platforms than ever: content management, experimentation, personalization, analytics. The bottleneck is not capability. It is operational throughput.

Across industries, from financial services to retail to travel, the pattern is consistent: campaigns take weeks to launch, personalization remains manual, and experimentation is episodic. Organizations like Santander, eBay, and Mazda have addressed these constraints by restructuring content operations, embedding experimentation, and using composable architectures to unlock speed while maintaining governance.

This roundtable draws on those global experiences and explores where AI-assisted tooling is beginning to reduce friction in the content lifecycle, without replacing the strategic judgment that drives real differentiation.

Discussion themes:

  • Why platforms are underutilized and what top-performing teams do differently
  • Structured experimentation as a conversion driver, not just a validation tool
  • Content operations at scale: governance, multilingual workflows, and faster approvals
  • Composable architectures in practice: what works and when modularity accelerates execution
  • The practical role of AI in content and optimization: where it delivers and where it falls short

For CMOs, VPs of Digital, and senior marketing leaders looking to close the execution gap between platform potential and team output.

AGENDA

18:00 – 18:15

Welcome

18:15 – 19:00

Roundtable Discussion

19:00 – 20:00

Dinner

20:00 – 20:20

Networking

20:20 – 20:30

Closing

SOLUTION EXPERT

Omar Sheliby

Regional Director, ME at Optimizely

With over 12 years of sales and business development experience, Omar is a passionate and driven leader who helps enterprises and businesses across the ME region achieve their digital transformation and innovation goals. As a Regional Director with Optimizely, Omar leverages his strategic selling and account management skills to deliver customer-centric solutions that create value and impact.

VENUE

Crowne Plaza Dubai Marina

Al Yahoom St – Marsa Dubai – Dubai Marina – Dubai – United Arab Emirates

REGISTER TO ATTEND

This is an executive peer group meet for 10-12 senior leaders. We use a conversational, story-telling approach that works best when everyone participates.

Participation in this in-person networking session is at no cost to qualified attendees. Once you’ve completed the registration, we’ll confirm your invitation and send you a calendar invite with directions to the venue.

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