Wednesday, 17th June, 2026 | 8am - 6pm
DEMOFEST East Coast
The first ever buyer enablement conference is heading to a city near you. Bringing you the same top thought leadership, practical training, and fresh research but this time - in person! Join us and your local presales community in New York City.
What to Expect
3 Reasons to Attend DEMOFEST
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Unlock GTM Alignment Secrets
Learn how top companies break down silos and turn presales into a strategic force that drives every department—marketing, sales, and customer success—toward the same goal: more wins, faster.
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Hands-On, Actionable Insights
Get ready for more than just big ideas—DEMOFESTx delivers practical frameworks and tools that you can start using right away to shorten sales cycles and boost revenue.
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Meet Your Next Big Opportunity
This isn’t your average networking event. Join an exclusive community of presales pros, GTM leaders, and decision-makers ready to connect, collaborate, and spark new opportunities in your local market.
Hear From Last Year's Attendees
“These events are so incredible impressive. Action packed with good content, and good presenters, nicely set up for networking, and overall super valuable.”
“Great mix of content, good locations, good speakers, and an excellent chance to exchange ideas with peers.”
“Amazing, amazing conference. It was the most engaging, informative, and applicable conference I have ever attended!”
Sessions
DEMOFEST East Coast 2026
Headshots, Check In & Breakfast in the Partner Marketplace
Gallery
The Buyer Now Runs the Sale: How GTM Teams Take Back Control in a Buyer-Led World
Forum
- Keynote
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Doug Johnson
CEO | Consensus
Panel | The Future of Agentic Work
Gallery
- Keynote
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Rex Galbraith - Moderator
CRO | Consensus
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Becky Payne
VP GTM Effectiveness | Sage
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Zach Tullis
VP of Presales | Oracle Netsuite
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Scott Ernenwein
Director - Global Strategy | Visa
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Eugenio Bayo
Head of Customer Engineering - GWS NA | Google
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Lindsay Browning
Regional VP, Enterprise Sales | Monday.com
Win the Room and The Demo With Storytelling
Forum
Sales teams LOVE talking about their product, which is why they sound like every other competitor. In this session, Rew Dickinson will give you a 3-step Alpha Storytelling Formula to help you use storytelling to shift your focus from your product to your prospect so win the room and the deal.
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Rew Dickinson
Founder & CEO | Alpha GTM
The First 90 Days of Demo Automation: Where Teams Stall and How to Win Anyway
Hub 1
In this session, you will get a practical look at how Cyncly rolled out Consensus to support a high-volume, always-on sales motion. You'll learn how they built scalable, on-demand demo experiences, how they aligned sales and presales around a faster buying journey, and what it takes to reduce friction across the funnel.
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Michael Gile
Principal Solutions Engineer | Cyncly
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Rahul Karadi
VP of Strategic Solutions | Cyncly
The New PreSales Scorecard: How AI Fluency Is Changing Hiring, Performance, and Promotion
Forum
AI fluency is quickly becoming a new scorecard across PreSales hiring loops, interview rubrics, and performance reviews.But most teams haven’t defined what that actually means or how to scale it. In this session, we’ll break down what we’re seeing across hundreds of PreSales interview cycles, hiring conversations, and team environments.
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Mattie Stremic
Co-Founder | Better Career
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Sidney Gomez
Director, Solutions Consulting | Rippling
Sold on Proof: Why Enterprise Deals are Won On the Live Demo
Hub 1
Enterprise software used to sell on promise. Now it sells on proof. AI-armed buyers see through every canned demo and refuse to take a deal on faith. This session explores how enterprise buying has been rewired, why the live demo is still the moment that decides the deal, and how to deliver the proof buyers want.
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Justin McDonald
CEO & Cofounder | Saleo
Lunch & Dedicated Partner Marketplace Hour
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Lunch & Learn: We AI-Pilled Our Team and You Can Too
Hub 1
In this hands-on session, CEO Ben Hills and Head of Community Chris Mabry break down how they actually operationalize AI across a real business—shipping product every morning, and running Rev Ops, Marketing, and even board meetings differently because of it. You’ll leave with specific workflows you can hand your team the same week. Bring a laptop. This is the practice, not the theory—and no judgment on where you’re starting from.
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Ben Hills
CEO | Iris
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Chris Mabry
Head of Community | Iris
Trust, AI, and the Sales Engineer
Forum
This workshop explores how Sales Engineers can build and maintain trust while leveraging AI to augment discovery, demos, and solution design. It examines where AI adds real value versus where human judgment must remain in control, and offers practical guardrails for transparency, accuracy, and ethics when using AI with customers.
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John Care
Managing Director | Mastering Technical Sales
Demos as a Demand Gen Engine: How Marketing & Solutions Consultants Built a Consensus-Sourced MQL Machine
Hub 1
Content is king — but only if it’s working for your pipeline. Prospects want instant access to your product demos. In this session, Follett Software’s Director of Growth Marketing, and Demo Champion/Solutions Consultant take you through their full playbook: detailing how they partnered to eliminate buyer friction and turned on-demand Consensus demos into a repeatable, data-driven MQL engine.
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Alyssa Laessig
Marketing Operations | Follet
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Katie Rush
Solutions Consultant | Follet
When SEs and AEs Don’t Sync: The Silent Deal Killer (and Burnout Machine) You Can’t Ignore
Forum
In this session, Art Fromm, best-selling author and 25+ year sales enablement professional, explores ways presales and sales can work together to quickly fix broken SE-AM collaboration, which quietly erodes presales morale and brand, turning SEs into reactive order takers instead of strategic partners.
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Art Fromm
Author, Speaker, Podcaster & Facilitator | Team Sales Development
Why Presales Matters in the age of AI
Hub 1
Discuss the critical evolution of technical sales roles as artificial intelligence becomes prevalent in all facets of presales. While automation handles an increasing share of routine tasks, the specialized human expertise of presales professionals is more vital than ever for navigating complex, high stakes enterprise deals.
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Steve Davis
CEO | Provarity
The Repeatable Deal Engine: Stop Getting Outplayed & Losing Deals
Forum
Ever lose a deal and feel like something happened behind the scenes you never saw? You’re probably right, and you were likely outplayed. In this session, we’ll go behind the curtain on how top presales teams actually win: how they create urgency, shape the decision, and control momentum during the evaluation. You’ll learn how to build your own Repeatable Deal Engine so your SE/SC/SAs are not reacting to deals, they’re driving them.
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Brian Lewis
Co-Founder & CRO | Homerun Presales
What Buyers Do When No One Is in the Room (& How to Capitalize on It)
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Most GTM teams are still optimized around guided interactions...demos, calls, and scheduled touchpoints. But the most revealing part of the buying journey happens when none of that is happening. Buyers are inside your product, clicking, skipping, revisiting, and self-navigating their way to a decision long before they ever raise a hand. Those behaviors aren’t noise, they’re intent signals. This session unpacks how to interpret that unsupervised activity and turn it into something actionable: clearer prioritization, sharper follow-ups, and faster deal progression.
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Ben Henson
Co-Founder & CRO | Peel, a Consensus Company
The New Rules of Revenue: How Consensus is Revolutionizing the GTM Playbook
Forum
- Keynote
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Anand Subbiah
SVP, Product | Consensus
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Todd Janzen
SVP, Buyer Enablement & Customer Success | Consensus
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Ben Henson
Co-Founder & CRO | Peel, a Consensus Company
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Justin McDonald
CEO & Co-Founder | Saleo
Networking Happy Hour in the Partner Marketplace
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DEMOFEST After Party
Hosted by Iris and SENY. RSVP here: https://luma.com/i5399rgo
Venue
Convene
Convene 117 West 46th Street
117 W 46th St
New York, New York 10036
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Presales Platform
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Sales Automation
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Sales and Presales Training
Soft skills training and detailed sales methodologies that help teams scale and improve.
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Presales Workspace
AI-enabled presales platform built to supercharge productivity, drive revenue, and boost visibility. -
AI RFP Software
The first deal desk that automatically drafts high quality content for RFPs, security questionnaires, and more with AI.
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LOCATION
Convene
Convene 117 West 46th Street
117 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036
FAQs
Is there a coat check or a place to store luggage?
What is the dress code?
Business casual.
Are meals provided, or just light refreshments?
Will the sessions be recorded or available on-demand later?
Where can I download the speaker presentations/slides?
Is there WiFi available? If so, is there a password to use it?
- Yes, there is WiFi available.
- Network Name: Convene Guest
- Password: No Password (Guests will enter their name and email to gain access)
