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From AI momentum to measurable growth

PwC at Adobe Summit

April 19–22, 2026 | Las Vegas, NV

Adobe Summit sparked the conversation. What matters now is what comes next.

This year, one theme came through clearly: Organizations pulling ahead aren’t just experimenting with AI—they’re redefining how they engage, sell, and serve customers to drive real business outcomes.

PwC is helping clients move from experimentation to execution—connecting strategy, data, content, and operations into a more intelligent, orchestrated growth engine.

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Watch PwC's Phil Regnault and Adobe's Robin Ritenour discuss how leading organizations are moving beyond experimentation to build an intelligent customer edge—connecting strategy, data, AI and customer engagement to create smarter decisions, stronger relationships and sustainable growth.

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Five shifts shaping what comes next

  1. The emphasis on marketing work
        AI isn't replacing marketing. It's elevating it.
    As agentic AI takes on repeatable tasks, marketers can focus on higher-value work, improve campaign quality, and reinvest time and resources into growth.
  2. The rise of marketing tech ecosystems
        The future isn't one platform. It's an orchestrated ecosystem. Leading organizations are bringing together enterprise platforms, frontier AI models, and AI-native solutions to create connected marketing ecosystems that deliver more intelligent customer experiences.
  3. The thirst for marketing knowledge
        AI is only as powerful as the knowledge behind it. Data is abundant and content is growing rapidly, but trusted marketing knowledge remains fragmented. Organizations that build a unified marketing knowledge layer will be better positioned to deliver AI-powered personalization at scale.
  4. The reshaping of B2B marketing
        B2B marketing is entering a new era.
    Agentic AI is changing how organizations identify buying signals, engage buying groups, and orchestrate journeys. The result is stronger alignment between marketing and sales, along with more measurable business outcomes.
  5. The pivot to value realization
        The conversation is shifting from adoption to outcomes. As pricing models evolve, organizations need to measure success by business value, not platform utilization. That shift makes collaboration between the CMO, CIO, and CFO more important than ever.

The ideas behind the momentum

These perspectives shaped the conversations, sessions, and client discussions throughout the week:

PwC’s joint research with the ANA shows that AI industry leaders redesign decision architecture first and then apply AI to it, shifting from automation to transformation. By redesigning marketing processes holistically around decisions, collapsing insight and action into real time, and orchestrating AI agents alongside consumers, companies can unlock faster, more relevant, and measurable marketing outcomes.

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Personalization breaks down without a scalable content layer. A content knowledge graph (CKG) can organize, model, and connect your assets’ meaning, lineage, eligibility, and trust, enabling AI to deliver relevance, not just volume.. The CKG transforms content from overwhelming volume into a dynamic, personalized, and culturally relevant resource.

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Society for Human Resource Management, the world’s largest HR association, collaborated with PwC to transform fragmented systems into a unified, AI-enabled digital platform that delivers personalized member journeys, faster page load and checkout speeds, and significantly improved engagement metrics.

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From insight to execution

At Summit, we didn’t just talk about these ideas—we showed how they work in practice.

  • AI-enabled campaign execution
    Move from planning to activation instantly with AI-driven workflows and audience orchestration
  • Content knowledge graph
    Enable real-time, relevant personalization with structured, reusable content
  • Trust-enabled activation
    Activate customer data with confidence by embedding consent and governance into each interaction
  • Agentic commerce
    Reimagine customer journeys with AI-driven discovery, decisioning, and transactions
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