This week, the value management community comes together in New York for Value Driven 2026. As Silver Sponsors, we at Mainstay could not be more excited!
A big thank-you to Tom Pisello and the Genius Drive team for creating this first-ever “Woodstock”-like event for business value. This gathering feels overdue: a moment for the value community to come together, take stock of how far the practice has come, and celebrate our impact.
After two decades in the field and the privilege of working with many of the world’s leading technology companies nearly one million business cases, billions in influenced revenue, thousands of sellers touched, we at Mainstay are still energized by what comes next.
Indeed, we are looking forward to reconnecting with our old friends, meeting new ones, and having the kinds of conversations that move our profession forward. Here are a few questions already on our minds (and perhaps on yours too):
What does it really take to scale value across an organization?
Is an ROI or TCO tool enough? Or does scale come from the right mix of tools, content, services, enablement, and adoption?
If per-seat pricing has made it harder to put value tools in the hands of every seller or partner, is there a better way?
Long before it became fashionable, Mainstay was built around Service as Software, not Software as a Service. Think about the denominator in the ROI of ROI programs.
How do you move from “we have value assets” to “we have a value motion”?
That is increasingly where our work with enterprise technology companies is headed — across marketing, sales, customer success, and executive engagement.
And of course: How can we use AI for value to make value work smarter, faster, and more scalable?
This is no longer an abstract hype cycle question for us. It is at the center of the work we are doing with enterprise technology companies today, and part of our broader vision to help build a true system of record for value that is powered by AI.
One fun note as we head into the event: about one-third of the participating companies use Mainstay’s Advisor value automation platform, directly or indirectly. We take that as a wonderful sign of how connected this community already is.
Come see us at Value Driven 2026!
