The man behind the Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic and October's MarTech East convention in Boston stops by the Marketing Garage to talk about the evolution of marketing technology, and how marketing departments have adapted to take full advantage of these disruptive tools.

Adobe's Drew Burns visits the Marketing Garage to talk about how artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to the marketing cloud, and what that will be like for marketers using them.

There's a smart home revolution coming. New appliances are firmly entrenched in the Internet of Things, and promise a thousand ways to make consumer's lives more convenient, safe and rewarding. In this episode, we talk about how smart homes, smart appliances and smart packaging could change the game for consumer packaged goods brands, and the ways some marketers are already taking advantage of it.

Using a tech stack that marries Adobe Experience Manager with Salesforce CRM, Kamran Shah, director of corporate marketing with Silicon Labs, is able to recognize the landmarks in their customers’ buying journey, nurture them at the appropriate steps and hand them off to the sales team only when the customer and salesperson are both ready to engage. Listen to this episode of Marketing Garage to understand the philosophy and strategies that went into creating this top marketing machine.

Augmented reality and image recognition have the potential to dramatically change how consumers interact with products and brands ... if they catch on. One area of marketing that seems poised to embrace these opportunities is packaging design. This week, Marketing Garage examines how the packaging industry is leveraging image recognition and AR to create immersive and informational customer experiences, and what that means for brands.

How does the make-up of your organization impact the marketing technologies you choose? How should it impact those decisions? David Skinner, SVP and head of strategic partnerships with Merkle, shares his insights on the state of the marketing cloud ecosystems today, why you should make data science a part of the marketing team, and the factors that lead to marketing technology success.

Jarvis Bowers, VP of digital marketing for Holland America Lines cruises, stops by the Marketing Garage to talk about what building a great digital customer experience means for his brand, and the marketing technology they use to create those experiences.

Todd Arata, SVP of brand marketing and communications for Comcast Cable and leader of the Xfinity brand, stops by the Marketing Garage to talk about how Xfinity's focus on customer experience helped it become one of America's largest and fastest growing cable brands.

How do you take advantage of the Big Game hype without a Big Game ad spot? Andrea Brimmer, Ally's chief marketing and public relations officer, stops by the Marketing Garage to talk about their Big Game app, where she sees AR and VR in Ally's future, why Ally combines its head marketing and PR roles, how they measure its impact and more!

Latane Conant, CMO of Appirio, visits the Marketing Garage to talk about how they've built Appirio's marketing capability to deliver the customer, brand and employee experiences needed for modern marketing. This episode is must-listen for any marketers challenged to get their teams to embrace new technologies, accountability and modern marketing.