Explore the Outcome Era

Propel26 is one continuous argument told in six themes.
These follow the journey from understanding what is changing in professional services to redesigning delivery, evolving the team, proving value, and building growth around outcomes.

Follow them in order or start with the theme most relevant to you. Each one includes a quick summary and the full Propel26 session when you want to go deeper.

01

Enter the Era

Why buyers stopped paying for hours, and what experts say is the mandate now

01

Enter the Era

Why buyers stopped paying for hours, and what experts say is the mandate now

The Transformation Triangle: People, Process & Technology in the Age of AI & Data

Kate Brady

PMO & Consulting Program Leader, OneSource Virtual

Eric Olson

VP, Customer Operations,
OneSource Virtual

CFO expectations from PS in the AI-first world

Mahesh Baxi

Chief Success Officer,
Rocketlane

Aly Khan Musani

CFO, Detechtion

Chithra Rajagopalan 

Head of Finance, Obsidian Security

Intekhab Nazeer

CFO, Lineaje Inc

Influencing Organizational Change:
Leadership & Strategy Panel

Kristen Ware

Professional Services
Program Manager,
Submittable

Whitney Eskenazi

Manager, Implementation Services,
LogicGate

Happy Luther

Founder,
Zenkara Consulting

From Feature Factory to Solving Business Outcomes

Ali Meyer

Founder,
GlossaPro.ai

Reinventing Postman:
Fireside Chat with Co-Founder and CTO

Ankit Sobti

Co-Founder & CTO, Postman

02

Intelligence at Work

What AI is actually doing inside delivery teams: real agents, real workflows, real numbers

From Quote to Outcome: Reinventing Professional Services Scoping with AI

Joey Poarch

CEO, PSQuote

Panel Discussion:
AI for PS: Baby steps or Giant leaps?
Moderated by Randeep Jaidka

Ana Gole

VP Global Professional Services & Operations,
Verint–Calabrio

Justin Collins

VP Professional Services, Proofpoint

Josh Rutberg

VP Customer Outcomes,
Glean

Randeep Jaidka

VP, Professional Services,
Rocketlane

How SaasGenie Used Rocketlane + AI Tools to Transform Delivery

Raj Rajasekar

CEO,
Saasgenie

Rashmi Kiran

Co-Founder, Saasgenie

Practical Ways to Turn AI into Your Implementation Copilot

Shehryar Malik

VP Implementations & Customer Onboarding,
Tipalti

Design Before You Automate:
The Discipline AI Adoption is missing

Merlin Komenda

Director of Implementation & Onboarding,
Zappi

AI for leaders

Srikrishnan 
Ganesan

CEO & Founder, Rocketlane

03

Delivery, Redesigned

How the best teams rebuilt delivery around outcomes, not go-lives

Elevating Customer Excellence: Infusing AI into the Human Connection

Stacey Milgram Potzka

VP of Operations & Implementations,
Actabl

Amanda Stewart

Senior Director of Implementations, Actabl

From Implementations To Outcomes

Chris Pinaire

Director of Consulting/Implementation,
Global Shop Solutions

Own the Outcome: Moving Implementation from Process to Product

Emily Garza

Chief Customer Officer,
Unit21

Simplifying Complexity: Designing an Outcome-Driven Client Experience with Rocketlane

April Slinger

Director of Client Implementation & PMO, HealthEZ

Fix Your Customer Journey to Win the Outcome Era : Why Alignment, Not Siloed Process, is the Missing Link

Robert Haukenberry

PS Leader,
Apricity Group

Jeremy Taylor

PS Leader,
Apricity Group

04

The New PS Team

The roles this era created, who to hire for them, and when 

Implementation Leadership & Scaling at MaintainX

Kevin Stanley

Director of Implementation, MaintainX

The Most Human Thing in the Room

Jacqui Morgan

Head of Client Delivery Transformation & Global PMO,
Xceptor

Flavors of FDEs FDE is the hottest role in tech. But what's similar and what's different across companies today?
Moderated by Srikrishnan Ganesan, CEO, Rocketlane

Miku Jha

VP of Applied AI & Forward Deployed Engineering,
ServiceNow

Landon McCaig

Head of Global
Implementation Services,
Intercom

Alex Laverty

Customer Success,
Harvey

Rajkumar Irudayaraj

SVP, Global Technology & Innovation Partners,
Alteryx

Scaling Global Impact through the Design of an Operational Ecology

Hannah Kinder

Director of Operations & HR, Greener by Default

The AI-Augmented Delivery Team: Designing the PS Org of 2027

CJ Tully

Director of Professional Services,
Smartsheet

Leanne Snoeck

Director of Implementation Services,
Quickbase

Jeff Rosenbaugh

Sr. Director of
Professional Services,
Lucid

Omid Razavi

Founder, SuccessLab

Forward Deployed Engineering: What Is an FDE, When Do You Need One, and Where Do FDEs Fit

Kevin Bai

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer,
Rippling

Flight Deck Leading the Hybrid Delivery Crew

Brian Hodges

CEO & Co-Founder,
nCloud Integrators

05

Prove the Outcomes

How to make value visible, from health scores to handoffs and metrics your board reads 

The Most Important Metric in Implementation: NRR

Daniel Levine

Director of Implementation & Professional Services,
Clutch (CUSO)

Goal-Setting for Onboarding Teams

Kristen Hayer

Founder & CEO,
Success League

From Gut Feel to Signal

Grace VanderMolen

Program Manager, OneSource Virtual

Russell Pope

Technical Program Manager, OneSource Virtual

TJ Clark

PMO Director,
OneSource Virtual

From Go-Live to Outcome: Building a Maturity Model for AI-Era Professional Services Delivery

Anuj Arora

Chief Customer Officer &
AI GTM Advisor,
Ada.cx

Alignment Audit: How Leaders Align Teams to Measurable Outcomes in the AI Delivery Era

Mariah Bayne

Founder & Principal Coach, Authentically You Coaching

06

Price for Value

Pricing outcomes instead of hours, and knowing when you're ready to make the switch

Delivery Model Innovation:
Ongoing Services, Success Measures,
and the Holistic Post-Sales Motion
Interviewed By Brett Jarvis

Gwen Thorn

VP of Customer Success, Moveworks

Kristen Rosenberry

Sr. Professional Service Strategy & Ops Program Manager, Moveworks

Brett Jarvis

Vice President of Customer Success & Experience,
Rocketlane

Beyond the Bucket: Transitioning from Hours to Resident Architect Access SKU

Erin Vaughan

VP of Customer Services,
dbt Labs

Jess Williams

Director of Professional Services, dbt Labs

Land with Services, Expand with Services: How Graphite Uses Implementation as the Wedge Then Expands into Other Modules

Kasey Smith

Chief Operating Officer,
Graphite Connect

Panel Discussion: The Path to Maturity & Scale for Partner Delivery

Sabina Pons

Chief Executive Officer &
Chief Customer Officer,
Growth Molecules™

Justin Manduke

Vice President of
Professional Services,
Optro

Josh Simpson

SVP, Professional Services & Onboarding,
Gainsight

The Customer Trust Gap: Why Outcome Pricing Scares Buyers (and How to Fix It)

Sarah Hurd

VP, Services & Operations,
Faye