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Kourtney
Barnes
VP, Marketing
Bettermode
Kourtney Barnes is the VP of Marketing at Bettermode. She is a B2B SaaS marketing leader passionate about community marketing and helping companies turn meaningful customer connections and strong brands into durable growth. Throughout her career, Kourtney has built integrated marketing programs that create affinity, amplify customer voices, and connect great storytelling to measurable business impact.
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09 September 2026 11:00 - 11:30
Community, everywhere: the intelligence layer that brings community to your customers, wherever they already are
For twenty years, community meant a place customers had to go. Most never do. The questions, the expertise, and the advocacy that grow a brand are already happening everywhere else, in social feeds, group chats, support threads, and sales calls, far outside the community you built. This keynote introduces a different model: community everywhere, an intelligence layer that reads those conversations across every channel, connects the people who should know each other, and lifts your quietest experts and advocates into view. It is community that comes to your customers instead of waiting for them. What this session will cover: - Why the community destination model leaves most of your customers, and most of your advocacy, invisible - How an intelligence layer captures conversations inside and outside your community and connects the right people to each other - A way to surface and lift quiet experts and advocates, instead of waiting for them to raise a hand - What changes for customer marketing teams when community becomes a layer across every channel, not a place on a website Key takeaway: Community is no longer a place you send customers. It is an intelligence layer that reaches them wherever they already are, connects them to each other, and turns those conversations into measurable advocacy and revenue, with the human relationship still at the center.