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Ralf
Gehrke
Senior Director Global Sales & Technical Enablement
Akamai Technologies
Ralf leads global sales and technical enablement at Akamai Technologies, running a worldwide team that supports sales and technical teams across CDN, security, and cloud computing. A 13-year Akamai veteran, he sponsored and supported This Generation Leaders (TGL), the company’s leadership program for senior sales leaders, which won a Brandon Hall Group Gold Award for Best Sales Performance Leadership Development Program. Before Akamai, Ralf spent 18 years in telecommunications at British Telecom, with roles in Germany, New York, and London. He is an ICF PCC-certified coach, Gallup CliftonStrengths coach, and Tony Robbins Results Coach.
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21 October 2026 16:00 - 16:45
Panel: Operationalizing change - How revenue teams actually adopt new ways of working
Everyone has a change management playbook. Almost no one has a team that follows it. New processes get announced, tools get rolled out, and then... the old habits creep back. Reps find workarounds. Managers revert. The initiative that looked great in the QBR deck quietly dies in the CRM. This session is for enablement leaders who are done with rollouts that don't stick. We'll get into the real work of adoption: what separates the 20% of orgs where change actually lands from the 80% where it doesn't, how to build reinforcement loops that outlast the launch moment, and what your frontline managers need to do differently to make new behaviors the default, not the exception. Expect candid conversation, practical frameworks, and the kind of hard-won lessons you won't find in a vendor case study. You'll leave with: • A diagnostic tool to identify where adoption fails within an organisation. • Strategies to persuade doubters who can influence the success of any initiative. • A method for measuring behaviour change, rather than just tool usage. If you've ever watched a perfectly good enablement program fail in execution, this one's for you.
21 October 2026 11:15 - 12:00
Roundtable discussion: The enablement problem-solving room
The old adage that “a problem shared is a problem halved” truly applies in sales enablement. This interactive roundtable offers a unique opportunity to share insights, strategies, and collective wisdom on equipping sellers for peak performance in today’s fast-paced, sales environment. How it works: Choose your table: Multiple expert facilitators will lead focused deep-dive discussions on a range of topics, giving you the opportunity to choose the table that best aligns with your interests and challenges. Engage and collaborate: Participate in focused discussions, share real-world experiences, and tackle common challenges. Takeaways you can use: Leave with actionable strategies to immediately boost seller performance. Topics: - Everboarding: Embedding continuous learning in the flow of work - Rafhael Dalto - Beyond Features: Enabling Sellers to Communicate Business Value - Bettina Meurer - Where AI belongs in a frontline sales manager's week - Sonia Pupaza - The future of sales enablement in the age of AI - Doomed or Opportunity? - Ralf Gehrke