# Corporate Dark Arts: The Real Rules of Marketing Power

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**Date:** March 16, 2026 · 10:00 PM  
**Location:** Austin Marriott Downtown / Waterloo Ballroom 4-6  
**Format:** Panel  
**Track:** Brand & Marketing track  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Michelle Peterson** — Chief Marketing Officer
- **Melissa Grady Dias** — CMO
- **Dominic Leung** — Executive Director of Strategy and Transformation

This panel cracks open a vault of 60+ anonymous confessions from marketing leaders all over the world who've survived the C-suite by honing a new set of under-the-radar corporate superpowers. They evolved, not by fighting the forces of doubt, but by flipping them—using ambiguity as leverage, tension as traction, and absurdity as armor. What they faced first, every role faces now.

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