Brian Smith

Brian Smith

Director of eCommerce Matheson

Priorities Under Pressure: Backing the Right Enterprise Initiatives

12:40 PM PANEL REMIX: Change Management Playbooks: How Leaders Build and Maintain Digital Buy-In

Leadership support for digital initiatives in B2B is hard to build and even harder to keep. Join senior B2B leaders as they share what it actually took to earn initial commitment, frame progress when timelines slipped, and keep digital on the agenda through the hard middle.

Explore how executive confidence in digital is earned, strengthened, and sustained. Through real decision moments, speakers share how they aligned finance and business leadership, positioned digital as core infrastructure, and moved organizations from cautious approval to long-term commitment.

Gain strategies on how to frame your progress:

  • Clarifying what leadership needs to see before committing beyond pilots
  • Positioning digital as core business infrastructure rather than discretionary spend
  • Sustaining confidence when timelines extend and priorities compete

5:25 PM INNOVATION WORKSHOP: From Sales-Driven to Digital-First: How Matheson Rebuilt the Commercial Operating Model

Digital transformation in B2B has largely been built around existing sales models, and that organizational starting point has become the ceiling on how far most modernization efforts can reach. Matheson decided to change that, rebuilding their full commercial stack from the ground up and embedding digital at the center of how the company competes.

 
Hear how Matheson restructured into a digital-first organization and the operating principles that guided each major modernization decision. As modernization pressure accelerates and the cost of incremental digital investment compounds, designing the operating model first and letting the stack serve it is becoming the defining difference between organizations that scale and those that stall.
 
Overhaul your digital transformation strategy by: 
  • Diagnosing whether your organization has a technology gap or an operating model gap 
  • Sequencing modernization to protect revenue while accelerating structural change 
  • Redefining ownership and decision rights in a sales-led enterprise 
  • Building a partner ecosystem aligned around long-term growth rather than short-term implementation 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Brian.

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