AI will erase this Martech category?

About this episode

Chris O'Neill discusses the impact of AI on customer data platforms and marketing automation.

AI threatens traditional customer data platforms with automated marketing cycles. Chris O'Neill, CEO of GrowthLoop, brings experience scaling Google Canada to $2B and launching Glean to a $7.2B valuation. He discusses how agentic AI learns from data patterns to activate campaigns across channels automatically. The conversation covers building composable CDPs that iterate based on real-time performance insights and circumventing traditional proof-of-concept timelines to deploy marketing automation within 24 hours. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Guest: Chris O'Neill

Topics covered

• AI
• customer data platforms
• marketing automation
• real-time performance
• composable CDPs

Keywords

• AI
• customer data platforms
• marketing cycles
• automated campaigns
• real-time insights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GrowthLoop, Google Canada, Glean

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