I've been to a lot of conferences for revenue leaders.
The kind with 4,000 attendees, eight concurrent tracks, and a vendor hall the size of an airport terminal. The kind where you collect a tote bag and seventeen business cards, fly home on a red-eye, and spend a week trying to remember what was actually worth the trip.
I understand why they exist. Scale is efficient. But after years of running growth strategy with mid-market and enterprise B2B companies, I've come to believe that the format is working against the outcome.
The conversations that actually change how leaders operate don't happen in ballrooms. They happen in smaller rooms, at dinner, on a walk. They happen when the right people are in the same place without an agenda to rush through and a thousand distractions pulling them away.
That's why we built Horizon.
A Room Built for Revenue Leaders Who Are Done with Generic
Horizon 2026 is an intimate, one-day executive retreat for less than 120 revenue leaders — CROs, CMOs, VPs of Revenue, and the operators who sit at the intersection of sales, marketing, and service.
We're hosting it on October 29 at Asilomar Conference Grounds on the Monterey Peninsula — a National Historic Landmark on the California coast that was built, in 1913, for exactly this: focused conversation in a setting that makes it feel different.
Not a conference. A catalyst.
The timing is intentional. October is when revenue leaders are doing the hardest work of the year simultaneously — closing the year strong while building the business case for what comes next. The 2027 plan doesn't write itself. The budget doesn't defend itself. The organizational alignment that determines whether next year looks like progress or repetition doesn't happen on its own.
Horizon is designed to be the one day where you step out of the noise and actually work on that.
One Day. Four Dimensions.
We structured Horizon around four things we believe revenue leaders most need in Q4:
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Strategic Clarity — AI-accelerated market insights to sharpen your competitive position heading into 2027. The market is moving faster than most annual planning cycles can track. We're bringing the frameworks and perspectives to help you catch up.
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GTM Alignment — Unified revenue strategy across sales, marketing, and service. One of the most expensive problems in mid-market B2B is the gap between what marketing builds, what sales says, and what service delivers. We're dedicating a full session to closing it.
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Peer Dialogue — Executive-level engagement with leaders navigating the same transformation challenges. The best ideas in any room come from the people in it. We've curated the 75 attendees at Horizon specifically for the quality of that conversation.
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Growth Design — Dedicated space for next-stage planning. You'll leave with a blueprint, not just inspiration. That distinction matters to us.
The Speaker Making It Happen
Our keynote and breakout sessions will be led by Nicolas Darveau-Garneau — bestselling author of Be a Sequoia, Not a Bonsai, board director, AI strategist, and former Chief Evangelist at Google, where he led a team of 65 helping Fortune 500 leaders accelerate digital transformation. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and guest lectures on AI strategy at Kellogg and Rotman.
NDG doesn't do generic keynotes. His focus at Horizon will be AI-accelerated growth and revenue modeling — what it actually looks like when companies build the systems to out-learn and out-execute their competition. It's the right conversation for the right moment.
The Setting Is Part of the Strategy
We chose Asilomar deliberately.
It's a National Historic Landmark — 107 acres of coastal pines, Pacific shoreline, and historic Arts and Crafts lodges designed by Julia Morgan, the architect behind Hearst Castle. It is not a convention center. It does not have the energy of a Marriott ballroom. It is, as we describe it on the event site, 'where the Pacific shapes your thinking.'
We believe the environment you do your thinking in changes the quality of the thinking. Asilomar was chosen because it demands presence — and focused presence is where strategy actually gets made.
120 Seats. Priority for Waitlist Members.
We kept the room small on purpose. Horizon is not designed to be the biggest event in B2B. It's designed to be the most useful one.
Registration details and pricing will be announced soon. If you're a CRO, CMO, VP of Revenue, or RevOps leader at a mid-market B2B company — and you want to walk out of October with your 2027 growth strategy already in motion — join the waitlist now. Waitlist members get first access when tickets go live.
We'll see you at Asilomar.
— Chris Nault
CEO, Growth Operations Firm
