Event Signals· 14 min read· October 13-15, 2026 · Cleveland

    What Companies Are Attending MAICON 2026?

    MAICON 2026 takes place October 13-15, 2026 at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio. The seventh annual Marketing AI Conference brings together marketing and business leaders, AI platforms, martech companies, agencies, consultants, and practitioners focused on putting artificial intelligence into practical business use.

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    MAICON 2026 at a glance

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    EventMAICON 2026
    Full nameMarketing AI Conference
    DatesOctober 13-15, 2026
    LocationCleveland, Ohio
    VenueHuntington Convention Center of Cleveland
    OrganizerMarketing AI Institute / SmarterX
    Edition7th annual
    Attendees2,500 marketing and business leaders and practitioners
    Speakers50+ AI and business leaders
    ProgrammingApplied AI, Strategic AI, AI Transformation Stage, Build Sessions, workshops, keynotes and Expo Hall
    Main areasAI strategy, agents, governance, search, content, automation, personalization, analytics and transformation

    MAICON is designed around practical AI adoption. Its 2026 agenda combines hands-on Applied AI sessions with Strategic AI programming for leaders, along with workshops and Build Sessions where attendees create AI applications, agents, workflows, and automations.

    MAICON 2026 companies list

    CompanyAreaMAICON 2026 connection
    CallRailConversation intelligenceDiamond sponsor
    Google CloudCloud & enterprise AIPremier sponsor
    AcquiaDigital experience & contentPlatinum sponsor
    DemandbaseAccount-based marketingPlatinum sponsor
    Seer InteractiveAI search & digital marketingPlatinum sponsor / speaker
    WRITEREnterprise AI agentsPlatinum sponsor
    AcrolinxContent governance & AIPresenting sponsor
    AirtableAI workflows & applicationsPresenting sponsor
    ActiveCampaignMarketing automation & AIGold sponsor
    HightouchCustomer data & personalizationGold sponsor
    LeanDataRevenue orchestrationGold sponsor
    ConductorSEO, AEO & AI searchGold sponsor
    AlgomarketingAI marketing transformationGold sponsor
    Level AgencyAI-powered marketing servicesGold sponsor
    OptimizelyDigital experience & experimentationGold sponsor
    Progress SoftwareDigital experience softwareGold sponsor
    Soarion DigitalAI search marketingGold sponsor
    WebflowWebsite experience & CMSGold sponsor
    Fibr.aiAI website personalizationSilver sponsor
    SiteimproveDigital experience optimizationSilver sponsor
    Evergreen MediaSEO, GEO & digital marketingSilver sponsor
    SOCiMulti-location marketing AISilver sponsor
    NinjaCatMarketing analytics & AI agentsSilver sponsor
    EMMIE CollectiveMarketing & revenue operationsSpecialty sponsor
    InterceptB2B technology marketingSpecialty sponsor
    MementoPhoto.AIAI event photographySpecialty sponsor
    FjorgeDigital developmentStartup sponsor
    GEO VibeGEO & AI visibilityStartup sponsor
    KEN-EAutonomous marketing agentsStartup sponsor
    N.RichABM & intent intelligenceStartup sponsor
    NavuConversational website AIStartup sponsor
    PantheonWebOps & website infrastructureStartup sponsor
    REHATCH / ENSORAI marketing operationsStartup sponsor
    Demand SpringB2B marketing consultingSponsor / exhibitor / speaker
    Evergreen PodcastsPodcast production & mediaOfficial podcast partner
    ZapierAutomation & AI workflowsSpeaker organization
    Veeam SoftwareEnterprise technologyWorkshop / speaker organization
    Trust InsightsAI consulting & analyticsWorkshop / speaker organization
    The New York TimesMedia & journalismKeynote speaker organization
    Good Karma SportsSports media & marketingSpeaker organization
    Heinz MarketingB2B marketing consultingSpeaker organization
    SolventumHealthcare technologySpeaker organization
    FractlDigital PR & content marketingSpeaker organization
    VerootLogistics compliance technologySpeaker organization
    Next Era InstituteStrategic intelligenceSpeaker organization
    Marketing + Media AllianceMarketing industry associationSpeaker organization
    AIreFlow SolutionsAI consulting & trainingSpeaker organization
    Bridge Marketing AdvisorsB2B marketing consultingSpeaker organization
    MarketScaleB2B media & contentEvent participant
    StacksDigital asset managementEvent participant
    Orbit Media StudiosWeb strategy & contentSpeaker organization
    GrowthPath PartnersHuman + AI transformationSpeaker organization
    ServiceTitanVertical SaaS & AISpeaker organization
    DynatraceObservability & enterprise AISpeaker organization
    Fire&SparkSEO & AI searchSpeaker organization
    6senseB2B revenue intelligenceAI for CMOs Summit participant

    Company profiles

    CallRail

    Conversation intelligence · Diamond sponsor

    provides conversation intelligence that connects phone calls, texts, chats, and forms with the marketing campaigns that generated them. Its AI analyzes customer conversations to help marketers identify lead quality, understand buyer intent, and measure which campaigns produce meaningful outcomes.

    Google Cloud

    Cloud & enterprise AI · Premier sponsor

    provides cloud infrastructure, data platforms, AI models, analytics, and enterprise applications. Its AI ecosystem includes Gemini and tools for building agents, giving marketing teams infrastructure for research, automation, personalization, content workflows, data analysis, and AI-powered business applications.

    Acquia

    Digital experience & content · Platinum sponsor

    provides a digital experience platform spanning content management, digital asset management, web governance, personalization, and AI. Large organizations use its technology to manage complex content operations and build connected digital experiences on an open platform centered around Drupal.

    Demandbase

    Account-based marketing · Platinum sponsor

    provides B2B account-based marketing and revenue intelligence technology. Its platform combines account, intent, engagement, and buying-group signals to help marketing and sales teams identify target accounts, prioritize opportunities, personalize experiences, and coordinate go-to-market activity.

    Seer Interactive

    AI search & digital marketing · Platinum sponsor / speaker

    is a digital marketing agency working across SEO, paid media, analytics, and AI strategy. Its work increasingly focuses on helping companies understand how brands appear across traditional search and AI-generated answers as buyer discovery behavior changes.

    WRITER

    Enterprise AI agents · Platinum sponsor

    provides an enterprise generative AI platform for building and deploying AI agents. Companies use it to connect models with organizational knowledge, data, permissions, brand standards, and business rules so agents can execute multi-step workflows across enterprise teams.

    Acrolinx

    Content governance & AI · Presenting sponsor

    provides enterprise content governance technology and is now part of Markup AI. Its platform helps organizations apply brand, style, terminology, quality, and compliance rules to both human and AI-generated content across large content operations.

    Airtable

    AI workflows & applications · Presenting sponsor

    provides a platform for building collaborative business applications and workflows around structured data. Teams use Airtable to connect data, automate processes, build interfaces, and increasingly introduce AI into marketing operations, campaign management, research, and other business workflows.

    ActiveCampaign

    Marketing automation & AI · Gold sponsor

    provides marketing automation, CRM, email, and customer experience technology. Its AI capabilities help marketers build campaigns, create audiences, personalize customer journeys, analyze performance, recommend actions, and automate work across acquisition, engagement, conversion, and retention.

    Hightouch

    Customer data & personalization · Gold sponsor

    connects customer data stored in enterprise data platforms with marketing and business applications. Its technology helps teams activate first-party data for segmentation, personalization, lifecycle marketing, advertising, experimentation, and real-time customer experiences.

    LeanData

    Revenue orchestration · Gold sponsor

    provides revenue orchestration technology for B2B teams. Its platform routes leads, accounts, buying signals, and opportunities according to business rules, helping sales and marketing organizations automate handoffs while maintaining context, governance, and visibility into revenue workflows.

    Conductor

    SEO, AEO & AI search · Gold sponsor

    provides enterprise search and content optimization technology spanning SEO, website health, content intelligence, and AI search visibility. Marketing teams use it to understand how brands appear across search engines and AI-generated answers and identify opportunities to improve discoverability.

    Algomarketing

    AI marketing transformation · Gold sponsor

    helps organizations redesign marketing teams and workflows around AI. Its practitioners work inside client organizations to identify high-value use cases, develop AI-enabled processes, build internal capabilities, and move teams beyond isolated AI-tool experimentation.

    Level Agency

    AI-powered marketing services · Gold sponsor

    provides digital marketing strategy, media, SEO, content, CRM, marketing automation, and data science. The agency combines these capabilities with AI orchestration to help companies connect strategy, execution, audience insights, and performance across complex customer journeys.

    Optimizely

    Digital experience & experimentation · Gold sponsor

    provides technology for content management, experimentation, personalization, commerce, analytics, and digital experience optimization. Marketing teams use the platform to create experiences, test changes, understand performance, personalize customer journeys, and introduce AI into content and optimization workflows.

    Progress Software

    Digital experience software · Gold sponsor

    develops enterprise software spanning digital experiences, application development, infrastructure, data, and AI. Its Sitefinity platform helps marketing teams manage content, personalization, analytics, and websites while introducing AI-assisted content creation and digital experience workflows.

    Soarion Digital

    AI search marketing · Gold sponsor

    is a digital marketing agency focused on visibility across traditional search and AI-generated answers. Its work combines technical search foundations, citation-oriented content, authority signals, and measurement to help brands improve discoverability as search behavior changes.

    Webflow

    Website experience & CMS · Gold sponsor

    provides a visual website development and content management platform for marketing, design, and development teams. Its AI capabilities support website creation, content production, SEO and AEO workflows, optimization, and faster development of digital experiences.

    Fibr.ai

    AI website personalization · Silver sponsor

    provides AI-powered website personalization and experimentation. Its platform adapts website experiences based on visitor intent and context, allowing marketing teams to test and optimize pages dynamically instead of relying only on manually created static variations.

    Siteimprove

    Digital experience optimization · Silver sponsor

    helps organizations improve website accessibility, content quality, SEO, analytics, and digital performance. Its platform uses automated monitoring and AI to help marketing teams make large digital estates easier to discover, govern, optimize, and maintain.

    Evergreen Media

    SEO, GEO & digital marketing · Silver sponsor

    is a digital marketing agency focused on SEO, generative engine optimization, content marketing, digital PR, and organic growth. Its work helps brands build visibility across both traditional search engines and emerging AI-driven discovery experiences.

    SOCi

    Multi-location marketing AI · Silver sponsor

    provides marketing technology for multi-location businesses and franchises. Its platform combines local search, listings, reviews, social media, and AI agents that can monitor performance and execute recurring marketing work across large networks of locations.

    NinjaCat

    Marketing analytics & AI agents · Silver sponsor

    provides reporting, analytics, and AI-agent technology for agencies and multi-location marketing teams. Its platform helps marketers combine performance data, identify issues, generate insights, automate reporting, and coordinate actions across large portfolios of accounts.

    EMMIE Collective

    Marketing & revenue operations · Specialty sponsor

    provides fractional Marketing Operations and Revenue Operations specialists who embed within client teams. Its practitioners support systems such as Marketo, HubSpot, Salesforce, and Tableau while helping organizations improve automation, reporting, data management, and operational processes.

    Intercept

    B2B technology marketing · Specialty sponsor

    is a B2B marketing agency focused on technology companies and complex buying journeys. Its services span strategy, content, media, sales enablement, and channel marketing, with AI-supported workflows used to accelerate research, personalization, production, execution, and measurement.

    MementoPhoto.AI

    AI event photography · Specialty sponsor

    uses facial recognition to connect event attendees with photographs in which they appear. Attendees can opt in to receive personalized galleries, while organizers gain a more streamlined event photography experience alongside engagement and sharing insights.

    Fjorge

    Digital development · Startup sponsor

    is a digital development partner that builds websites, web applications, mobile experiences, and ecommerce products. The company works with marketing, design, and creative teams to provide the technical development required to turn digital concepts into functioning customer experiences.

    GEO Vibe

    GEO & AI visibility · Startup sponsor

    is an OmniReach platform focused on generative engine optimization. It helps marketers understand where brands are mentioned, recommended, and cited in AI-generated answers and identify opportunities to improve visibility across emerging AI discovery channels.

    KEN-E

    Autonomous marketing agents · Startup sponsor

    is building an autonomous marketing platform composed of specialized AI agents. The system is designed to operate across advertising, analytics, CRM, lifecycle marketing, and other tools while retaining organizational context, workflows, and marketing playbooks.

    N.Rich

    ABM & intent intelligence · Startup sponsor

    provides B2B account-based marketing and intent intelligence technology. Its platform helps companies identify accounts showing buying signals, create target segments, activate advertising and outreach, and understand how account-level marketing activity contributes to pipeline.

    Navu

    Conversational website AI · Startup sponsor

    provides conversational AI for company websites. Its technology answers visitor questions, recommends relevant information, captures buyer intent, and guides prospects toward useful actions, helping websites function more like interactive sales and marketing experiences.

    Pantheon

    WebOps & website infrastructure · Startup sponsor

    provides WebOps infrastructure and workflows for teams managing WordPress, Drupal, and modern websites. Its platform supports development, hosting, governance, and large-scale website operations while helping digital teams manage fleets of sites more efficiently.

    REHATCH / ENSOR

    AI marketing operations · Startup sponsor

    is an AI marketing operating system developed by REHATCH. It combines creative production, landing-page workflows, marketing data, brand knowledge, and performance analysis to help smaller teams automate and coordinate more of the marketing process.

    Demand Spring

    B2B marketing consulting · Sponsor / exhibitor / speaker

    is a B2B revenue marketing consultancy working across strategy, demand generation, marketing technology, ABM, customer journeys, SEO, AEO, and AI transformation. It helps marketing organizations move AI from isolated experiments into repeatable workflows and operating practices.

    Evergreen Podcasts

    Podcast production & media · Official podcast partner

    is a podcast network and production company providing recording, video, branded podcast, distribution, advertising, and audience-growth services. Its MAICON partnership brings an on-site podcast studio to the conference for interviews and conversations with attendees and speakers.

    Zapier

    Automation & AI workflows · Speaker organization

    provides automation software connecting thousands of business applications and increasingly supports AI agents and AI-assisted workflows. Its MAICON programming explores how marketing teams can move from individually using AI tools toward building repeatable systems and workflows around them.

    Veeam Software

    Enterprise technology · Workshop / speaker organization

    provides data resilience, backup, recovery, and protection technology for enterprise workloads. At MAICON, the company is represented through marketing AI leadership and a hands-on Microsoft Copilot workshop focused on applying AI to everyday business work.

    Trust Insights

    AI consulting & analytics · Workshop / speaker organization

    provides consulting and education across analytics, marketing AI, data, and strategy. Its MAICON programming includes practical instruction on using AI for research, planning, content development, analysis, decision-making, and the design of repeatable business workflows.

    The New York Times

    Media & journalism · Keynote speaker organization

    is a global news and media organization. Technology columnist Kevin Roose is part of MAICON 2026 programming, bringing a broader perspective on technological change, artificial intelligence, and what increasingly capable AI systems mean for businesses and society.

    Good Karma Sports

    Sports media & marketing · Speaker organization

    operates sports media, marketing, audio, video, digital, event, and partnership businesses. Its work connects brands with sports audiences through media properties, live programming, sponsorships, content, and fan experiences.

    Heinz Marketing

    B2B marketing consulting · Speaker organization

    provides B2B marketing strategy and consulting across demand generation, revenue operations, sales alignment, and go-to-market execution. Its MAICON participation brings a B2B leadership perspective to questions around AI investment, adoption, and marketing transformation.

    Solventum

    Healthcare technology · Speaker organization

    develops healthcare technology and solutions across medical and surgical care, dental products, health information systems, and purification technologies. Its participation brings the perspective of a large healthcare organization applying AI and transformation practices within complex enterprise environments.

    Fractl

    Digital PR & content marketing · Speaker organization

    is a digital PR and content marketing agency that uses research, data, creative campaigns, and media outreach to earn coverage and organic visibility. Its work increasingly intersects with how authority and third-party mentions influence both search and AI discovery.

    Veroot

    Logistics compliance technology · Speaker organization

    provides compliance and onboarding technology for logistics and transportation businesses. Its platform helps companies manage carrier credentials, insurance documentation, compliance requirements, onboarding, and related operational workflows that would otherwise require significant manual administration.

    Next Era Institute

    Strategic intelligence · Speaker organization

    helps leaders understand major shifts across technology, business, culture, and society. Its work focuses on translating emerging trends into strategic insights that executives can use to make decisions as AI and other technologies reshape markets.

    Marketing + Media Alliance

    Marketing industry association · Speaker organization

    brings together marketers, media companies, technology providers, and agencies around research, measurement, data, customer experience, AI, and marketing leadership. Its MAICON participation contributes an industry-wide view of how AI is changing marketing performance.

    AIreFlow Solutions

    AI consulting & training · Speaker organization

    helps organizations introduce AI into marketing, content, and business workflows through consulting, education, and implementation. Its work focuses on identifying practical use cases and helping teams turn AI experimentation into repeatable processes.

    Bridge Marketing Advisors

    B2B marketing consulting · Speaker organization

    is a B2B marketing consultancy providing fractional marketing leadership, strategy, demand generation, and AI enablement. Its work helps growth-stage companies build more disciplined marketing operations while developing AI literacy and practical adoption across teams.

    MarketScale

    B2B media & content · Event participant

    provides B2B media, video, podcast, and content technology and services. Its platform helps companies produce and distribute expert-led content while turning internal knowledge, executives, customers, and industry conversations into scalable media programs.

    Stacks

    Digital asset management · Event participant

    provides consulting and implementation services around digital asset management and content operations. Its MAICON participation focuses on the growing role of AI in organizing, finding, governing, and activating digital assets across marketing teams.

    Orbit Media Studios

    Web strategy & content · Speaker organization

    is a web design and digital marketing company focused on websites, content, SEO, analytics, and conversion. Its MAICON programming explores how marketers can turn repeatable processes into prompts, automations, and reusable AI-powered tools.

    GrowthPath Partners

    Human + AI transformation · Speaker organization

    helps go-to-market teams design Human \+ AI operating models. Its work combines workshops, advisory services, workflow redesign, and organizational change to help companies use AI to create new capabilities rather than simply accelerate existing tasks.

    ServiceTitan

    Vertical SaaS & AI · Speaker organization

    provides software for trades and home-service businesses, including CRM, scheduling, dispatch, payments, marketing, and operations. Its MAICON participation brings a practical perspective on how non-technical marketers can use AI-assisted building approaches inside operating teams.

    Dynatrace

    Observability & enterprise AI · Speaker organization

    provides observability and application-performance technology for complex digital environments. Its MAICON participation focuses on AI transformation, organizational enablement, governance, executive alignment, and the operational changes required to scale AI adoption across an enterprise.

    Fire&Spark

    SEO & AI search · Speaker organization

    is an SEO agency focused on connecting organic visibility with measurable business outcomes. Its MAICON programming covers AI-driven performance monitoring, automated reporting, smart alerts, and how search teams can build more proactive measurement and optimization systems.

    6sense

    B2B revenue intelligence · AI for CMOs Summit participant

    provides B2B revenue intelligence and account-based marketing technology. Its platform combines intent signals, account intelligence, predictive analytics, and orchestration to help revenue teams identify buying activity and prioritize accounts that are moving toward an active buying cycle.

    What types of companies are at MAICON 2026?

    CategoryRepresentative companies
    Enterprise AI & workflow automationGoogle Cloud, WRITER, Airtable, Zapier, KEN-E, REHATCH
    Marketing automation & lifecycleActiveCampaign, LeanData, CallRail, SOCi
    SEO, AEO & GEOConductor, Seer Interactive, Soarion Digital, GEO Vibe, Siteimprove, Fire&Spark
    ABM & revenue intelligenceDemandbase, N.Rich, 6sense, LeanData
    Content & digital experienceAcquia, Optimizely, Webflow, Progress Software, Pantheon, Acrolinx
    Data, personalization & analyticsHightouch, Fibr.ai, NinjaCat, Dynatrace
    Agencies & consultingAlgomarketing, Demand Spring, Level Agency, Intercept, EMMIE Collective, Bridge Marketing Advisors
    Media & contentThe New York Times, Evergreen Podcasts, Good Karma Sports, MarketScale
    Enterprise transformationVeeam, GrowthPath Partners, ServiceTitan, Solventum, Next Era Institute

    Why MAICON 2026 matters

    MAICON brings marketing practitioners, executives, agencies, software companies, and AI leaders together around the practical adoption of artificial intelligence across modern organizations.

    The 2026 company mix shows a shift from standalone AI tools toward agents, connected workflows, AI search, personalization, data activation, content governance, and broader organizational transformation.

    For teams selling into marketing, martech, agencies, and enterprise transformation functions, MAICON participation can help identify companies actively building, implementing, or scaling AI across real business workflows.

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    Agent Jesse identified the companies on this page by searching current web activity connected to MAICON 2026, including sponsorships, expo participation, speaker announcements, conference programming, event partnerships, and company event pages.

    The result is a current view of companies participating across marketing AI, martech, agencies, enterprise software, AI search, automation, content, data, and business transformation.

    Last reviewed: September 23, 2026

    Frequently asked questions

    What companies are attending MAICON 2026?

    Companies represented at MAICON 2026 include CallRail, Google Cloud, Acquia, Demandbase, Seer Interactive, WRITER, Airtable, ActiveCampaign, Hightouch, Conductor, Optimizely, Webflow, SOCi, Zapier, 6sense, Dynatrace, Trust Insights, and other marketing AI, martech, agency, and enterprise technology companies.

    When and where is MAICON 2026?

    MAICON 2026 takes place October 13-15, 2026 at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio.

    What is MAICON 2026?

    MAICON, the Marketing AI Conference, is an annual event focused on the practical use and scaling of artificial intelligence across marketing and business. The 2026 conference includes keynotes, Applied AI and Strategic AI sessions, workshops, Build Sessions, an AI Transformation Stage, and an Expo Hall.

    Who should attend MAICON 2026?

    MAICON is designed for CMOs, marketing executives, directors, managers, strategists, agency leaders, enterprise marketers, communications professionals, martech teams, SEO and content marketers, analysts, and other business leaders responsible for AI adoption. Attendees do not need a technical or data-science background.

    Which marketing AI and martech companies are at MAICON 2026?

    Marketing AI and martech companies represented include WRITER, Airtable, ActiveCampaign, CallRail, Demandbase, Conductor, Hightouch, LeanData, Acquia, Optimizely, Webflow, Fibr.ai, SOCi, NinjaCat, N.Rich, Navu, GEO Vibe, and KEN-E. Their products span AI agents, automation, ABM, personalization, AI search, content, analytics, and digital experience.

    What are the main topics and themes at MAICON 2026?

    MAICON 2026 focuses on AI agents, marketing automation, AI strategy and governance, human and AI workflows, AI search and GEO, content creation, personalization, customer data, analytics, organizational adoption, AI leadership, and measuring business impact. The program also includes an AI for CMOs Summit for senior marketing leaders.

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