AI-Powered Marketing Performance Masterclass

18 Nov To 19 Nov, 2026. Balalaika Hotel, Sandton Johannesburg

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About The Event

Masterclass Fees: 
R 11,999 Excl vat (per delegate) 
Register 3 Delegates and Get 4th Seat for Free
Credit Card Payment Option Available
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Venue: Protea Hotel Balalaika Sandton Johannesburg

Where

Protea Hotel Balalaika Sandton Johannesburg

When

Wednesday to Thursday
18 Nov To 19 Nov, 2026

Event Overview

Marketing teams are under pressure to deliver faster campaigns, better content, stronger customer insight, clearer reporting and measurable ROI, while also managing the risks that come with AI use.
AI-Powered Marketing Performance: Smarter Campaigns, Stronger Governance, Better ROI is a practical 2-day masterclass designed to help marketing teams move from scattered AI experimentation to a more structured, governed and performance-focused way of working.
This is not another AI tools demonstration. It is a practical masterclass for marketing teams that need smarter campaigns, safer AI use, better content workflows, stronger reporting and measurable ROI.
Delivered through the Zanetti AI Framework™, the masterclass shows delegates how to apply AI across everyday marketing work, governance, analytics, automation, content production and practical implementation.

Who Should Attend

•    Chief Marketing Officers, Marketing Directors and Heads of Marketing.
•    Brand, Campaign, Digital and Performance Marketing Managers.
•    Content Creators, Copywriters, Social Media Managers and Creative Teams.
•    Corporate Communication, PR and Reputation Management Professionals.
•    Customer Experience, CRM and Customer Journey Leaders.
•    Marketing Analytics, Data, Insights and Marketing Operations Teams.
•    Sales Enablement and Customer Relationship Leaders.
•    Advertising, Creative, Digital and Media Agencies.
•    Marketing Consultants, AI Consultants and Martech Solution Providers.
•    Returning AI Marketing Masterclass delegates ready for the next level.

Why Attend

Event Highlights
•    Smarter campaigns: Learn how AI can improve campaign thinking, planning, execution and performance.
•    Stronger governance: Understand how to use AI safely, consistently and responsibly in a corporate marketing environment.
•    Better everyday marketing workflows: Improve writing, planning, research, reporting, content development and communication tasks.
•    Reusable AI capability: Build practical AI assets that can be used repeatedly across marketing work.
•    AI agents and automation: Explore how AI can support larger, more complex marketing initiatives.
•    Stronger reporting and ROI conversations: Use AI to improve analysis, reporting and leadership-ready performance insights.
•    Practical roadmap: Leave with clearer next steps for applying AI inside a real marketing environment.

Benefits of Attending
Delegates will learn how to move from scattered AI experimentation to structured, measurable marketing improvement. The agenda has been designed to help each delegate connect AI to their specific role while understanding the enterprise logic that makes AI more reliable, governable and scalable.
•    Build a clearer enterprise view of how AI should be used in marketing.
•    Improve everyday marketing work through stronger prompting, structure and control.
•    Create practical AI injectors for campaigns, content, insight and reporting.
•    Understand how agents, AgentNitro™ and MissionChain™ support larger initiatives.
•    Use AI for stronger analytics, reporting, automation and implementation.
•    Develop responsible AI practices that protect brand trust and reduce risk.

For Past AI Marketing Masterclass Delegates
If you attended one of our previous AI Marketing Masterclasses, this is your next step.
The earlier masterclasses helped delegates explore AI tools, prompting, content generation, campaign planning and practical AI use. This upgraded masterclass now moves beyond tool exploration into a more structured enterprise marketing AI model.
You will learn how to use AI more safely, consistently and strategically across campaigns, content, insight, reporting, automation and governance, using the Zanetti AI Framework™.
This is not a repeat of the previous programme. It is the next-level masterclass for marketing professionals who are ready to move from AI experimentation to measurable marketing performance.
Past delegates will benefit by learning how to:
•    Move from basic AI tool use to structured AI marketing workflows.
•    Improve governance, control and brand safety when using AI.
•    Build reusable AI skills and assets for everyday marketing work.
•    Use AI for stronger reporting, analytics and performance conversations.
•    Apply AI more strategically across campaigns, content, automation and ROI.
•    Leave with a practical 30-day AI Marketing Performance Roadmap.
You have explored the tools. Now learn how to make AI perform.

Event Speakers

Here are some of our speakers

Simone Zanetti

Simone Zanetti

Founder & Chief AI Strategist
Simone Zanetti AI | AI 4 Business

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Simone Zanetti

Simone Zanetti

In a digital age defined by transformation, Simone Zanetti stands at the nexus of innovation. With over 30 years of navigating the intricate pathways of HR, AI and technology, Simone isn’t just a digital advocate; he's a visionary who has continuously shaped and anticipated technological waves.



As the powerhouse behind 'Stone in the Shoe' and the influential “BRAND UP with Simone Zanetti” series, he has relentlessly championed AI’s transformative potential since 2002, predicting its ascension and preparing businesses for its impactful embrace.



It's not just Simone's deep expertise in AI that makes him unique: recognised with accolades such as 'Innovation', 'Business Person of the Year', and 'Project of the Year', Simone is not just a tech enthusiast. His content creation pursuits since 1991 — spanning the realms of photography, filmmaking, animation, and music — underpin his belief in the potency of compelling narratives, which are crucial in internal communications.

 

Event Schedule

Here is our event schedule

AI-Powered Marketing Performance Masterclass

Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

This opening sets the tone for the upgraded masterclass. Delegates will be introduced to the shift from basic AI tool use to a more structured, governed and performance-focused way of working.
• Understand why this masterclass is the next evolution of previous AI Marketing Masterclasses.
• Reframe AI as a performance and governance enabler, not just a productivity tool.
• Establish the practical outcomes delegates will work towards during the programme.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

AI is moving quickly, but many marketing teams are still using it in random, fragmented and inconsistent ways. This session helps delegates understand the current AI reality, including limitations, global developments and the South African/African context, before connecting those realities to everyday marketing pressure. The session introduces the Zanetti AI Framework™ as a practical working model for moving from experimentation to enterprise marketing performance.
• Understand the current limitations of AI and what is realistically possible now.
• Place marketing AI in the context of global developments and the South African/African environment.
• See why corporate teams need a structured AI working model.
• Identify where marketing teams are still using AI in a random or fragmented way.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

AI can create speed, but without control it can also create brand, compliance and quality risks. This session shows how marketing teams can use AI more safely and reliably through better governance, validation and review. Delegates will be introduced to ComplianceGate™, Zero Drift and the Control Loop as practical ways to keep AI aligned with brand expectations, business objectives and responsible-use standards. The session then introduces PrimeFusion™ as a structured way to improve AI conversations across writing, planning, analysis, strategy and communication.
• Understand why governance and control must come before scaling AI use.
• Learn how to reduce risk in everyday AI-supported marketing work.
• Use structured AI reasoning to improve writing, planning and decision-making.
• Move from better prompts to better marketing performance.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

Many teams use AI from scratch every time, which wastes time and creates inconsistent results. This session shows delegates how to build reusable AI skills that can improve everyday marketing work. Using AI Injectors™, delegates will learn how to create portable AI capabilities for tasks such as campaign planning, content development, research, audience insight, reporting, communication support and review.
• Understand what reusable AI skills are and why they matter in corporate marketing.
• Build practical AI Injectors™ that can be used immediately after the masterclass.
• Improve consistency across campaigns, content, research and reporting.
• Create reusable capability instead of starting from zero every time.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

In this working session, delegates create a practical AI Injector™ linked to their own marketing role or challenge. This may support campaign planning, content creation, reporting, communication, audience insight, research or review.
• Apply the framework to a real marketing challenge.
• Build a practical AI asset for immediate use.
• Understand how to create additional injectors for future marketing needs.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

Once teams understand everyday AI use and reusable skills, the next step is building more capable AI-supported workflows. This session introduces simple agents as a foundation before moving into more advanced agent structures. Delegates will explore AgentNitro™ as a method for building more powerful multi-skill agents, and MissionChain™ as a way to coordinate multiple specialised agents across larger marketing initiatives.
• Understand how simple agents can support marketing work.
• See how multi-skill agents can improve larger workflows.
• Understand how coordinated agents can support more complex marketing initiatives.
• Match agent structures to real marketing performance challenges.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

Delegates review their own marketing environment and identify where AI Injectors™, simple agents, multi-skill agents or coordinated workflows could create the most value.
• Identify where agents can support campaigns, content, insight, reporting or operations.
• Connect AI capability to practical marketing workflows.
• Prepare for Day 2 applications in analytics, reporting, automation and production.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

The day closes by helping delegates reflect on the difference between using AI randomly and building structured AI capability.
• Review the most useful lessons from Day 1.
• Identify practical use cases for immediate application.
• Prepare for Day 2’s focus on analysis, automation, production and implementation.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

This short recap reinforces the core message of the masterclass: AI should not simply make teams faster. It should help them work with more structure, more control and better performance.
• Revisit the key principles from Day 1.
• Connect AI use to marketing performance and governance.
• Prepare for the final sessions on analytics, automation and production.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

Marketing teams often struggle to turn activity into insight and insight into action. This session shows how AI can help with marketing analysis, reporting summaries, insight extraction, performance interpretation and repeatable automation opportunities. Delegates will learn how to move from reporting what happened to understanding what it means and what should happen next.
• Use AI to interpret marketing information and extract useful insights.
• Build clearer reports that connect marketing activity to business outcomes.
• Identify practical automation opportunities that support better execution.
• Improve performance conversations with leadership and internal stakeholders.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

Generative AI is no longer limited to text. This session explores how AI can support voice, image, video and scaled content production in ways that are relevant for modern marketing teams. The focus is not novelty. The focus is how generative tools can be connected to workflow design, quality control, brand discipline and practical marketing use cases.
• Use AI to support voice, image, video and content production workflows.
• Understand where multimedia generation adds real commercial value.
• Strengthen production capability without losing governance or brand control.
• Connect production workflows to marketing performance and practical execution.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

One of the biggest risks in corporate AI adoption is fragmented usage across teams, tools and workflows. This session shows how leadership, practitioners, agencies, communication teams, content teams and analytics teams can align around a more coherent AI working model for marketing.
• Prevent fragmented and inconsistent AI use across marketing teams.
• Build shared workflows across leadership, content, campaign, data and agency roles.
• Create a more practical AI operating model that improves collaboration and reduces risk.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

AI can increase speed and creativity, but it also introduces risk. This session reinforces how brand safety, approval workflows, accuracy, copyright, privacy and control must remain part of the marketing AI operating model as capability scales.
• Identify the key risks linked to AI-generated marketing activity.
• Build practical review processes for brand safety, accuracy and compliance.
• Create responsible AI guidelines that support innovation without exposing the brand.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

This final working session brings the full masterclass together. Delegates create a practical next-step roadmap for applying AI within their team or organisation. The roadmap includes priority use cases, quick wins, workflow changes, reporting improvements, governance actions and practical implementation steps.
• Build a realistic AI marketing implementation plan.
• Prioritise quick wins across workflow, insight, content, agents and reporting.
• Create a practical roadmap that can be shared with managers, teams or clients.
Simone Zanetti

by Simone Zanetti

The masterclass closes with final questions, delegate commitments and certificate handover. Delegates leave with a more coherent view of how AI can be applied in marketing through a structured, practical and enterprise-ready approach.
• Clarify final implementation questions.
• Commit to immediate next steps after the event.
• Leave with a practical AI-powered performance roadmap.

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