Event Recaps
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Theme: Emerging Tech
# Format: Event Recaps
# Format: AMAs
# Role: Marketing/Growth
# Role: Product
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
From Reddit Conversations to Shared Context: Executive Insights with Jeremie Gluckman and Anna Yuan
A practitioner recap of how Reddit engagement supports GEO and helps teams turn external conversations into shared customer context.



Jeremie Gluckman, Anna Yuan & Joshua Zerkel · Feb 12th, 2026


Holly Firestone & Joshua Zerkel · Feb 5th, 2026
A candid Executive Insights conversation with Holly Firestone on how community teams build internal alignment by translating member value into shared context across the business.
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
# Format: Event Recaps

Joshua Zerkel · Jan 29th, 2026
A practitioner-led recap on B2B community leadership, executive buy-in, and how to translate community work into measurable business impact.
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives
# Format: Event Recaps
# Format: Thought Leadership
# Role: Community/DevRel
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment

Joshua Zerkel · Jan 23rd, 2026
A practitioner-led recap of Gradual’s January Community Roundtable, exploring how community signals and shared context are shaping GTM strategy decisions.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment

Joshua Zerkel · Jan 16th, 2026
A practical recap of how Splunk’s community team approached migration planning, communication, and member trust during a major platform change.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Challenge: Retention
# Role: Community/DevRel
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel

Kyle Sutton · Dec 10th, 2025
We just shipped a fresh set of product updates focused on community customization, learning experiences, events, integrations, and analytics—including a more powerful pre-login homepage builder, customizable welcome emails, native course quizzes and certificates, streamlined event duplication and event-type switching, plus expanded Marketo and Common Room integrations. You’ll also find notable improvements like upgraded club metrics, search history reporting, and a unified global chat experience, with more enhancements on the way.
# About Gradual
# Gradual: Product Updates

Joshua Zerkel · Nov 19th, 2025
Community leaders gathered in San Francisco to explore how engagement becomes intelligence, sharing real examples of human connection, member behavior, and community-led program design.
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Emerging Tech
# Format: Event Recaps
# Role: Community/DevRel
# Challenge: Advocacy
# Stage: Community Size 100–1K


Bill Johnston & Joshua Zerkel · Nov 13th, 2025
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Format: Event Recaps
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment


Brian Oblinger & Joshua Zerkel · Oct 31st, 2025
Brian Oblinger shared how executives can turn community into a true business asset by aligning teams, measuring outcomes, and preparing for the future of AI.
# Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Theme: Emerging Tech
# Format: Event Recaps
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment

Joshua Zerkel · Oct 30th, 2025
Discover how the Gradual Community brings marketing, sales, CX, product, and community leaders together to learn, share, and grow what drives results.
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends

Joshua Zerkel · Oct 24th, 2025
Gradual brought together senior leaders from across CX, Marketing, Product, Growth, Brand, and Community for an evening of open conversation on what it really takes to build customer trust in an AI-driven world. The group explored how transparency, cross-functional alignment, and authentic human connection shape lasting relationships with customers. From defining “trust as the new moat” to rethinking how teams collaborate and show personality, the discussion made one thing clear: trust grows through listening, honesty, and shared purpose.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Role: CX/Success/Support
# Role: Founder/CEO
# Role: Marketing/Growth
# Role: Sales/Business
# Role: Community/DevRel
# Role: Product
