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Field Day by Certain: Field Events, Handled

Field Day by Certain brings Express, Greet, and Signal Connect together on one plan for the events teams run most, so intent signals from every registration and check-in reaches your CRM and marketing tools while the event is still happening.

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Sep 16, 2026

Events Won the Budget. Orchestration Is How You Prove the Return.

Events grew faster than any other marketing line this year, which makes them the next line finance will question. Proving their return is an orchestration problem, not a measurement problem: when event signals reach every team and system in real time, the evidence a budget review wants builds itself while the event is still live.

Aug 6, 2026

You Don't Have to Wait to Be AI-Ready. Your Events Already Produce the Signal.

You don't have to be fully AI-ready to get value from AI this quarter. Readiness is a ladder, not a gate, and the cleanest input an agentic system can act on is already being produced at the events you run: first-party, declared answers from verified buyers who chose to give you their time.

Jul 30, 2026

Start With the Revenue, Then Pick the Date: How to Plan an Event for Pipeline

Most event programs decide the date first, then build sessions, the floor plan, and registration around it, and only ask what the event should do for revenue once the structure is already set. The teams getting real pipeline from events invert that order: they start with the revenue objective, model how an attendee becomes a buyer, and design the program to reveal where each buyer stands.

Jul 29, 2026

AI & Data posts

The Event Is the New Sales Floor: How AI Turns Physical Presence Into Pipeline

Buyers reveal far more in person than they do online, where anonymous research hides intent. On a show floor, time is finite, questions get asked out loud, and buying committees show themselves. Real-time event intelligence puts that context in front of the seller while the buyer is still in the room.

Jul 28, 2026

The Highest-Intent Moment Your Agentic GTM Stack Can’t See

Revenue teams have built agentic stacks that score, route, and respond in seconds, yet the most concentrated buyer-intent moment they own stays invisible to those agents: the moment a prospect walks up to your event check-in table.

Jul 21, 2026

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Orchestrate At Scale: Events Become Your #1 Growth Channel With Seamless Data Execution

January 12, 2026

The Third Pillar of Event Intelligence By Peter Micciche, CEO Certain Your sales rep just got a Slack notification. It says: “Sarah Chen, Director of IT Security from Acme Corp,

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Introducing Event Advisor: How AI Is Transforming Event Personalization

January 7, 2026

Personalization has become a critical success factor for modern events, yet most event teams still struggle to deliver relevant experiences at scale. In our recent webinar, we officially introduced Event Advisor, our new AI-powered

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Real-Time Signal Delivery: When Speed Meets Context, Revenue Teams Win

December 17, 2025

By Peter Micciche, CEO of Certain Your highest-intent prospect joined a product session in the morning where they shared their number one business priority, their most important AI project, and

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Deep Dive Into Event Intelligence: Capturing Event Buying Signals

December 9, 2025

By Peter Micciche, CEO of Certain Your best prospect just left your booth. She asked sharp questions about enterprise deployment, downloaded your security documentation, and attended back-to-back sessions on compliance

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The Three-Pillar Framework For Turning Event Data Into Revenue Intelligence

November 20, 2025

By Peter Micciche, CEO of Certain (First in a 4-part series. For Part 2 visit Deep Dive into Event Intelligence: Capturing Event Buying Signals) The go-to-market teams behind orchestrating company events often breathe

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Dreamforce 2025 Decoded: Turn Your Next Event Into A Revenue Engine

November 11, 2025

Every Fall, Dreamforce transforms San Francisco into the Super Bowl of corporate events. Beyond the product announcements and celebrity interviews lies something more valuable: a blueprint for orchestrating experience, engagement,

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Architecting Events For ROI: The Fastest Path To Buyers

September 17, 2025

The biggest advantage of running your own events is owning the cycle and the data. You design the experience to deliver value for attendees, and you build the marketing cycle

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Beyond Badge Scans: How Smart Sales Teams Extract Real Value From Events

September 4, 2025

Is your event playbook broken? Marketing teams often focus on attendance numbers and produce generic lead lists for sales. The real opportunity is visible just below the surface: behavioral intelligence

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Events Create Moments. Signals Turn Them Into Revenue.

August 20, 2025

Most event teams stop measuring when the smiles start. That's the signal to begin the real work. Walk into any post-event debrief and you'll hear the same metrics: attendance rates,

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What To Look For In AI-Powered Event Technology

July 16, 2025

As the event industry transforms, choosing the right AI-powered event platform can make or break your marketing success. Here’s what discerning event marketers—like you—should prioritize: 1. Transparent, “Glass-Box” AI Opaque,

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