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Samantha
Thompson
Director, Global Sales Enablement
Axonius
Samantha builds and scales enablement functions that improve sales performance and drive measurable business impact. Over the past decade, she has built, evolved, and led enablement teams at high-growth technology companies from Series A through IPO, helping organisations navigate critical stages of growth and change. Her work focuses on improving readiness, accelerating productivity, and enabling teams to perform at their best. Operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, and change management, Samantha aligns GTM teams around the behaviours, skills, and operating rhythms needed to achieve revenue goals. She is particularly passionate about moving enablement beyond vanity metrics, helping organisations better understand its impact on culture, productivity, and revenue.
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09 October 2025 16:30 - 17:00
What if you didn't need the vendor at all?
The instinct in enablement is to solve a new need by buying a new tool. Budgets get stretched thin, procurement cycles drag on, and small teams end up managing a stack of platforms that barely talk to each other. For a small team with the right AI tools, building your own solution is now genuinely on the table, not as a stopgap, but as a real alternative to another annual license. This session looks at what a lean team can realistically build in house, and when that decision actually makes sense. Key takeaways: What "build" realistically looks like for a small enablement team Where custom tools can outperform off the shelf platforms How to know when building in house is a false economy