AI Marketing Forum — October 2025

Wednesday, 08 October 2025 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Expert-Led Group Discussions on AI in Marketing

Welcome to AMA Chicago’s AI Marketing Forum—a live, in-person conversation series designed for AMA Chicago marketers navigating the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence. Every other month, top AI thinkers and practitioners from Chicago gather to explore real-world applications, tackle ethical questions and reveal what’s coming next. This is your front-row seat to the ideas shaping the future of marketing. This is a members-only discussion series. If you’re not a member of AMA Chicago, join now to be part of this informative and transformative series.

Recordings are not allowed.

Agenda
4:30–6 p.m.: Open, expert-led discussion on AI in marketing


Our experts this evening

Kathryn Rowe | General Manager, Deloitte Digital

As general manager at Deloitte Digital, Kathryn uses her product management and digital-marketing experience to help clients adopt sophisticated digital solutions while insuring regulatory compliance, positioning her as a leader in Chicago’s marketing-technology scene.

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Jennifer Cain | Vice President & Global Lead for Growth, WPP Choreograph/Open Intelligence

Cain oversees adoption of “Open Intelligence” predictive-marketing tools an AI-powered data and technology platform. She leverages her Master’s in Artificial Intelligence for Business and her experience managing media-technology teams to grow AI-driven marketing solutions and nurture Chicago’s media talent.

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Joe Grigsby | Global Client & AI Lead, VML

Joe leads the development of AI-enabled workflows to streamline marketing, including creative evaluation, audience insights, project scoping, and performance reporting across global client teams and partners with internal, client, and partner stakeholders to embed agentic solutions into live operations, increasing speed-to-market and decision-making accuracy. He builds frameworks for AI agent ownership and deployment, ensuring cross-functional adoption and governance within VML and WPP Open.


Chicago AMA members only (free); registration required

In person at:
VML
333 N. Green St.
Chicago, IL 60607
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  • On-site parking; entrance is near the corner of N. Green & W. Wayman
  • Check in at the security desk to be admitted to the elevator bank

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