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Clean data beats clever algorithms in AI marketing. Katrina Wong, Chief Marketing Officer at New Relic, brings 20+ years of enterprise go-to-market experience to the data-versus-AI debate. She argues AI functions as an operating system, not a standalone tool, becoming the intelligence layer powering interconnected agent workflows. Wong stresses that AI output quality depends entirely on data hygiene, making clean data infrastructure a prerequisite for effective AI-driven decision-making.
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Marketing teams keep paying for tools they no longer need. Katrina Wong, Chief Marketing Officer at New Relic, explains why AI is replacing entire categories of MarTech software. Her team canceled a competitive intelligence subscription after building roughly 85 AI agents to gather and organize the same data. The output now feeds one-pagers and an interactive Gemini gem, giving sales real-time answers without waiting on a team or logging into a clunky dashboard.
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Rising AI costs are quietly eroding marketing's bottom line. Katrina Wong, Chief Marketing Officer at New Relic, has led seven successful exits and now factors AI spend directly into cost of goods sold. She breaks down the buy-versus-build decision for AI agents, explains why New Relic won't automate end-to-end campaigns yet, and shares how her team is orchestrating agents across marketing handoffs to control costs.
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AI adoption is upending marketing budgets. Katrina Wong, Chief Marketing Officer at New Relic, brings 20+ years leading marketing and go-to-market strategy across enterprise tech companies including Twilio Segment, Hired, Zuora, Salesforce, and SAP. She discusses experimenting with OpenAI's ChatGPT app program despite unproven ROI, treating emerging AI platforms as a budget hypothesis rather than a guaranteed channel, and rethinking SEM investment as LLMs become a default search interface.
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AI development costs won't outpace developer salaries by 2028. Katrina Wong, Chief Marketing Officer at New Relic, brings 20+ years of enterprise marketing leadership and AI-driven go-to-market expertise. She predicts market competition and open models will keep AI tooling affordable, while token costs won't scale to $250,000 per developer per year. Wong also points to one-to-one personalized marketing and selling as the next frontier AI will unlock.
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