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Latest Marketing Trends for B2B Enterprise Tech Companies

As technology trends advance each year, so do marketing trends for B2B technology companies. On top, industries and markets are rapidly changing as companies and people have to adjust to a new norm and reality. This SmartGroup™ of experts is dedicated to exploring and understanding the latest trends, solutions, winning strategies, and recommendations for how to reach buyers and prepare for the future. SmartGroup™ members nominate and vote on future topics to explore as the platform curates monthly reports that develop the reputation of its contributors and enable other professionals to stay relevant on the topic.

Welcome to the SmartGroup™ application page. This is an exclusive knowledge networking experience that connects you to equal caliber peers to share and learn on industry forming topics while earning recognition and cash for your thought leadership.

In this SmartGroup™, you will be exploring a new industry topic each month. Each month the co-created insights manifest into a report where key contributors are recognized for their thought leadership. (e.g. https://currnt.com/ss/93138b841af011eab19f42010af00006). By sharing the reports on social, panelists leverage the aggregate reach of the team to maximize the influence and recognition.

In addition to the learnings and reputation development, panelists earn points from one another by making insightful contributions; these points can be converted to cash, or even donated to a cause. Beyond all that, the relationships you make are bound by a common passion for the topic and a mutual desire for continued learning, and authentic recognition. While we promote healthy debate, there is no self-promotion, grandstanding, or bullying permitted.

Your participation is at convenience, a couple of times a month, day or night, and you can opt-out at any time. If selected as a panelist, you will have the opportunity to invite other professionals and nominate future topics for the group to work on.

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Looking to engage experts who are experienced in enterprise tech including:
- Heads of Marketing
- Marketing Strategists
- Brand Managers

Applicants
Ron Koren
Product Manager at Micro Focus
I began my career long time ago in R&D as a software engineer, and later 5 years as a team manager. For the past years I'm part of the marketing organization, that changed a bit during the time We start as product marketing where we created live demo systems for the HP Software monitoring and CMS products. Acted as senior architect, driving solutions and use cases to exemplify our product portfolio’s power. Played important roles in large customer events. Invented a new demo concept: “pitch the product”. Drove solutions and use case which highlighted the power and capabilities of the products portfolio. Later we focus more on Enablement. Delivered the necessary training and services necessary for pre-sales teams to work with products in a cloud and fast-paced environment. we mentored PreSales on customer demos, education and POC with ADM and ITOM tools. I was leading pre-sales and partner enablement. Drove the boot camp and F2F training. I also act as a Product Manager and leads the core company demo application. Initiates Roadmap, Business cases, Goals, Scope Definition and more. Supports product development by researching current and future demands in a fast-paced environment. Manages Platform Services Team - an Agile (Scrum) and fully DevOps R&D team that builds the infrastructure used by Pre-Sale engineers to install our tools. Experienced with on-premises, SaaS, Docker and Cloud enterprise products, as well as the Mobile stories. Successfully minimized the number of different proprietary demo apps from 15 to 1 major demo AUT. I holds a B.S. in Computer Science.
Jennifer Mitche
CVS Health
This group appears to be very relevant to my industry and my profession in digital and marketing. I look forward to learning new insights and potentially being able to contribute and share with the group.I find networking groups like this very beneficial.
Edwin Moindi
Principal and Managing Director, Moindi Consulting Company
I like the thought of sharing insights with a group of people from diverse backgrounds. I run a management consultancy firm. In the past i have worked for two of the Big 4 accounting firms specifically in Technology Advisory, I do believe as professions consolidate, and new ones emerge, there is need for more of us to expand our experience across different industries and functional areas. I am looking forward to interacting with this group.
Roberto Ricoss
Regional Vice President - Latin America at F5 Networks
I've ran multi national Marketing organizations for Fortune 500 companies and am constantly involved on B2B Marketing initiatives and tactics. I've been in tech sector for more than 25 years and I bring a unique blend of Marketing and Sales experiences that can help others know how to successfully bring them together.
Luis Mariano Arangu
Co-Founder & Executive Director, SupraBT
Given my experience in the market for enterprise technologies with multiple industries I would love to contribute with some of my experiences and definitely learn from other panel members as well. For the past 15 years have been focused in LATAM B2B sales and marketing alongside vendors such as Oracle, Cisco, Aruba Networks, HPE, VMWare and more.
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“I like that I can do this when I have time,
and there is no set schedule.”


Eric Allen, Senior Manager, Supply Chain at EY

“I find the topics engaging and I love the
flexibility of checking in and providing insights
at my convenience.”

Kimberly Underwood, Consultant at Underwood Consulting

“Great platform, great questions and topics.
The potential to earn a little more money for
participating is nice as well.”

Oren Birks, Sr. Director of IT at PBI-Gordon

“I really enjoy being on the panels, sharing
information and reading the perspective of the
other panelists. It is quite intriguing and most
all of the panelists are quite bright.”

Patty Soltis, CX Strategist at Kinetic Edge Consultants

“Very interactive, informative and without
any inherent bias. This is as good a collaborative
platform as you can get.”

Pinaki Banerjee, Program Director at ITC InfoTech

“It is a perfect platform not just to share
but to learn and stay updated.”


Armando Leyva, HR Director at 360º HC

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  • add remove What is Currnt?
    Currnt is a “Knowledge Networking” platform where companies and professionals come to stay relevant on the latest advances in their industries in the face of the increasing pace of change. Companies sponsor panels to learn about where markets are headed or how to leverage new capabilities. Professionals join to demonstrate and develop their passions with equal caliber peers in expert-only facilitated online engagements. On Currnt, we take our passions seriously and ourselves lightly. See our Community Guidelines, to learn more of the rules of the road, here are some highlights

    • Be yourself. The authenticity of Currnt begins with the passion of people.
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    • Foster meaningful and genuine connections. This is what Currnt is all about.
    • Do not plagiarize or fail to cite other’s ideas.
    • Don’t game the points by trying to coordinate intentional recognition.
  • add remove How do Panels work?
    The panel is like a facilitated forum of hand selected experts on a topic sponsored by a company that wants to learn fast. Panels are organized in chapters called Themes that focus on one subtopic at a time. In some panels Themes are only 24 hours in duration, in others they are a week long, and in some they are two weeks long. When one Theme closes, a new one begins. You come in when you feel like it, but try to come in twice per Theme. You earn points from your peers and the facilitator when they react to your ideas. Likewise, others earn points when you interact on their posts. The more we discuss and debate, the better the insights, the more points earned by all.

  • add remove Why should I apply? Do I get paid?
    Professionals join Currnt because they want to remain relevant on subjects they’re passionate about and subjects that are shaping the future of their industry. They also:

    • Engage and connect with equal caliber peers in their industry
    • Learn and enhance their knowledge
    • Get recognized and rewarded for providing their inputs and thought-leadership
    • When specified above in the project description, you can earn honorarium payments and/or recognition points redeemable for cash. Learn more here.
  • add remove Are there specific times I need to participate?
    There are no set times for calls or meetings. Participation is 100% online on the Currnt platform and engagement between the all expert panelists is asynchronous in written form. Just come in twice per Theme, at your convenience.

  • add remove How do KnowledgeStreams and DesignSprints work?
    Streams are ongoing online engagements for exploration or working iteratively with a panel, and Sprints are on-demand engagement to get to actionable insights quickly. Both are facilitated and are always-on for participants to engage at-convenience. The conversations are segmented into Themes which are subtopics which are like chapters in a book. In a 4 Day Sprint, Themes are 24 hours, whereas a Theme in a Stream is every two week. Throughout the discussion, the facilitator highlights and categorizes the “key takeaways” to be voted and distilled into a summary report. It’s also common that other pieces of content (whitepapers, blogs, podcasts) are also prepared from the distilled insights.

  • add remove I’ve applied. Now what?
    Your application will be internally reviewed in the following 24-48hrs and screened for any conflict of interest, and general fit. Next your application will be shortlisted for the sponsor to accept, bookmark or reject. You will receive a notification each step of the way, but expect this may take a couple of days, or even weeks if the panel is new. Nevertheless, in addition to the notifications, you can always go back to the Apply page to view the status of your application.

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    Once you receive your Welcome Email, please RSVP by clicking the link in the notification. You can also gain access to the panel through your ‘My Currnt’ at the top of the page. Finally, once you have RSVP’d by logging into the panel, there is often a Welcome Tab where you can introduce yourself to the other panelists. If it’s a new panel, the first Theme will launch in a few days, if it’s an ongoing panel just jump right in by reacting to the question or to what the other panelists had to say.

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Latest Marketing Trends for B2B Enterprise Tech Companies