The 2025 Tech Growth and Innovation Conference is scheduled to take place on 10-11 March 2025 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. This episode of the Time to Value Podcast gives a preview of the themes, keynotes and conference tracks, as well as helpful tips to get the most out of the event.

Host Todd Berkowitz is the practice vice president for the Tech Marketing practice. Mr. Berkowitz manages a team of analysts that advise B2B technology marketing leaders across a wide range of topics, including marketing org design/leadership, budgets and metrics, demand generation and ABM, product marketing, marketing ops, sales enablement, and customer experience. Previously, Todd initiated and built Gartner's coverage around ABM and ABM platforms.

About The Guests

Guest Adrian Lee has more than 22 years of technology marketing experience spanning mobile apps, smartphones, SaaS and ecommerce providers. Prior to joining Gartner, Adrian was vice president and head of brand partnerships at Lazada Group, an Alibaba Group-owned e-commerce marketplace in Southeast Asia. He started his international career with global and regional marketing and business operations roles in Nokia and Samsung Electronics. He exerts a pragmatic approach to product management and marketing, with a focus on startup and SME technology vendors. He has personally led new market entry and expansion projects, fulfilling a blend of product marketing, general management, content management and evangelist roles. His role-based research dials into product management and marketing leaders to deploy best-in-class customer experience and product launches that achieve profitable revenue growth. He also supports product teams on how to navigate disruptive innovation and natural language technologies.

Guest Katie Gove is a vice president analyst in Gartner's Technology and Service Provider research group, where she is on the General Managers team. Ms. Gove covers the IT and business services market. She advises service providers on growth and market opportunities, and go-to-market and differentiation strategies. Her coverage includes digital business services, technology consulting services, business consulting services, digital product engineering services, the use of assets and IP in IT services, the talent crunch, country options for talent and location decision-making, including nearshoring/offshoring and service buyer behavior.

Time to Value: The Gartner Marketing and Product Management Podcast host Craig Lowery and guest analyst Fernando Pereiro dive into the complexities of partnering with hyperscalers like Alibaba, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. They explore the challenges of standing out in a crowded ecosystem and managing expectations for long-term success. They also share insights on ensuring a return on investment, addressing concerns, and highlighting the importance of aligning with the provider’s strategic goals.

Listen to learn how product managers can partner with hyperscalers for growth.

About the Guest

Fernando Pereiro is a senior director analyst in Gartner’s Technology and Services Provider (T&SP) organization, specializing in cloud and cloud IT services. He leads Gartner’s research into hyperscalers’ partner ecosystems. His strong background in business development and cloud go-to-market strategies helps him to deeply understand market trends, needs and which opportunities technology and service providers can address.

Third-party events, such as tradeshows and hosted events, have been a mainstay for tech marketing leaders to drive awareness, generate leads and retain, upsell and cross-sell accounts. But tech companies have doubled their tradeshow spend since 2019, and this trend impacts the ability of demand gen leaders to properly fund and leverage other channels. This podcast episode tackles this issue by providing guidance for 2025 and 2026 in terms of prioritizing event choices and driving the highest ROI from the remaining events.

Host Todd Berkowitz is the practice vice president for Gartner’s technology marketing practice. Todd manages a team of analysts that advise B2B technology marketing leaders across a wide range of topics, including marketing org design/leadership, budgets and metrics, demand generation and account-based marketing (ABM), product marketing, marketing ops, sales enablement and customer experience. Previously, Todd initiated and built Gartner’s coverage around ABM and ABM platforms.

Christy Uher Ferguson is a vice president, distinguished analyst on the Technology and Service Provider Tech Marketing team at Gartner, where she advises tech marketing leaders on managing and improving team performance.

Amy Jenkins is a senior director, analyst on the Technology and Service Provider Tech Marketing team at Gartner, where she advises clients on improving their demand generation and marketing operations efforts. Her areas of focus include martech, segmentation, lead management, campaign management and budgets.