The Agentic Evolution according to Salesforce’s CMO
The Agentic Evolution according to Salesforce’s CMO  
Podcast: MarTech Podcast ™ // Marketing + Technology = Business Growth
Published On: Mon Feb 16 2026
Description: AI agents fail because companies lack proper data context and change management. Ariel Kelman is President and Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce, leading their global marketing organization and AgentForce platform development. He discusses Salesforce's trust-first approach using their Data360 customer data platform to provide AI agents with complete customer context, implementing two-way email campaigns that allow interactive customer engagement, and deploying lead qualification agents that generated $27 million in incremental pipeline by processing 200,000 previously unworked leads.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.