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Jessica
Shields
Director of Product Marketing
Mastercard
Director of Product Marketing with +15 years of experience including 5 years managing global, high performing teams up to 7 members. Expertise in B2B SaaS, Cybersecurity, Networking, Data/AI, and Human Capital Management for portfolios from $40M to $1B in revenue. Jessica aligns product and market needs to deliver growth and drive business impact and has experience in crafting strategic positioning to differentiate products.
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12 November 2026 13:30 - 14:15
Panel | Standing out in a saturated market
Every category feels crowded now. More competitors, more content, more noise, and a buyer who has seen the same pitch, the same "AI-powered" claim, and the same LinkedIn carousel a hundred times over. For product marketers, the old playbook of differentiation through features or price is losing its grip, and the pressure to find a genuinely distinct position has never been higher, whether you're the market leader or the challenger nobody's heard of yet. This panel brings together product marketing leaders from both ends of the spectrum, from established players defending category leadership to smaller companies fighting for attention against bigger budgets. They'll share how differentiation looks different depending on where you sit: how an enterprise brand avoids sounding like everyone else once it has scaled past its original point of difference, and how a smaller player punches above its weight without the marketing spend to match. They'll also get into what stays true no matter your size, and where the playbooks genuinely diverge. Expect a grounded, tactical discussion covering how to audit your market for real whitespace, how company size shapes what differentiation actually looks like, and how to keep a distinct position sharp as competitors inevitably copy what works.