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# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives
# Format: Event Recaps
# Format: Thought Leadership
# Role: Community/DevRel
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment

From Community Leadership to Business Impact: Executive Insights with Dani Weinstein

A practitioner-led recap on B2B community leadership, executive buy-in, and how to translate community work into measurable business impact.
Joshua Zerkel
Joshua Zerkel · Jan 29th, 2026
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Joshua Zerkel
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
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
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.
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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
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Format: Event Recaps
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
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
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
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
At our October Community Roundtable in San Francisco, community builders and cross-functional partners came together to explore how trust, transparency, and human connection shape customer relationships in the age of AI. The conversation touched on the power of authentic voices, the importance of company-owned community spaces, and how teams can see beyond personas to better understand the people they serve.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Role: Community/DevRel
# Theme: Emerging Tech
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
Klue’s Jenn Delconte shared how Peer Circles transformed customer engagement into collaboration across Product, CS, and Marketing—and how you can apply the same model.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Challenge: Advocacy
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