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Sales and marketing professionals networking at a B2B conference — rows of attendees at a large industry event
B2B SalesNews & Updates

26 Best Sales & Marketing Conferences in 2026

The 26 best sales and marketing conferences in 2026 ranked by role: Dreamforce, SaaStr, INBOUND, plus dates, ticket costs, and pre-conference ROI tactics.

Jay Evans
CIENCE UpCity Excellence Award badge recognizing top 1% of B2B service providers — now a graph8 company
News & Updates

CIENCE UpCity Excellence Award: National and Local Recognition

CIENCE earned UpCity's National and Local Excellence Awards for the 2nd consecutive year with a 4.7 rating — then rebuilt from execution to AI-powered GTM.

David Dulany
CIENCE Clutch 100 Award — sustained growth recognition, now a graph8 company
News & Updates

CIENCE Clutch 100 Award: #9 Sustained Growth, #40 Fastest

CIENCE ranked #9 in sustained growth and #40 fastest growth out of 500,000+ firms on the Clutch 100 — then rebuilt the model to cut cost-per-meeting by 40-60%.

David Dulany
CIENCE and Steer Campaign logos side by side marking the acquisition that launched GO Engage marketing automation
News & UpdatesAccount Based Marketing

CIENCE Acquires Steer Campaign for GO Engage

CIENCE acquired Steer Campaign to launch GO Engage — adding email and SMS automation for 2,500+ B2B clients in one platform. No extra vendors required.

David Dulany
Brian Perks, General Manager of Data at CIENCE — 20-year data industry veteran from ZoomInfo and Bombora
News & Updates

CIENCE Appoints Brian Perks as GM of Data

CIENCE named Brian Perks, ex-ZoomInfo and Bombora executive, as General Manager of Data — overseeing 300M+ records and launching persona-based ABM products.

David Dulany
CIENCE ranks #106 on Financial Times Americas Fastest-Growing Companies 2023 with 668% revenue growth
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Ranks #106 on FT Americas Fastest-Growing 2023

CIENCE placed #106 on the Financial Times Americas' Fastest-Growing Companies with 668% growth. Back-to-back FT recognition, then a complete reinvention.

David Dulany
CIENCE Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials — now a graph8 company
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CIENCE Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials: #14

CIENCE hit #14 on Fortune's Best Workplaces for Millennials — 97% employee satisfaction — then rebuilt its entire GTM model with AI and forward-deployed engineers.

David Dulany
CIENCE ranked #6 on Fortune Best Workplaces for Women 2022 — 97% employee satisfaction, now powering graph8's Forward Deployed Engineer GTM model
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CIENCE Fortune Best Workplaces for Women: Ranked #6

CIENCE ranked #6 on Fortune's Best Workplaces for Women with 97% employee satisfaction — a model so strong it became the foundation for graph8's GTM platform.

David Dulany
CIENCE Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology — now a graph8 company
News & Updates

CIENCE Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology: #24

CIENCE ranked #24 on Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology — 97% employee satisfaction from a services company already building what became graph8's AI GTM platform.

David Dulany
CIENCE #1 lead generation company on Clutch — now a graph8 company
News & Updates

CIENCE #1 Lead Generation Company on Clutch, 3 Years Running

CIENCE earned the #1 spot on Clutch's B2B lead generation list 3 years running, with 100+ verified reviews from 2,500+ clients — then rebuilt the entire model.

David Dulany
Comparably award badges recognizing CIENCE as #43 Best Companies for Diversity and #85 Best Companies for Women among large businesses in 2022
News & Updates

CIENCE Wins 2 Comparably Awards for Diversity (2022)

Discover how CIENCE earned Comparably's Best Companies for Diversity (#43) and Best Companies for Women (#85) awards based on anonymous employee ratings.

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GO Campaign AI interface generating personalized email, LinkedIn, and SMS messages for B2B outreach
News & UpdatesGO Platform

GO Campaign AI: Personalized Outreach at Scale

GO Campaign AI personalizes every outreach message — emails, LinkedIn, SMS, call scripts — using live prospect data. Outperforms templates by 2-3x in appointment generation.

David Dulany
GO Chat dashboard showing an active AI-to-human handoff conversation with a qualified B2B prospect on a SaaS company website
News & UpdatesSales Data

GO Chat: AI + Human Chat for B2B Sales Teams

GO Chat combines AI chatbots with live SDRs to convert B2B visitors into booked meetings 24/7 — with 30+ integrations, configurable flows, and 2,500+ clients.

David Dulany
GO Digital dashboard showing ICP-based audience creation and programmatic ad buying in a single B2B platform
News & UpdatesSales Data

GO Digital: Programmatic Ad Targeting for B2B

GO Digital pairs ICP-based audience creation with a built-in DSP to deliver 3x industry CTRs at 75% lower cost — B2B programmatic ads that reach only your ICP.

David Dulany
Diagram showing CIENCE GO Flow streaming B2B prospect data between CRM, data warehouse, and marketing automation tools in real time
News & UpdatesSales Data

GO Flow: Real-Time B2B Data Streaming Engine

GO Flow streams B2B prospect and event data across 140+ services in real time. Connect your CRM, data warehouse, and marketing tools with automatic enrichment.

David Dulany
GO Intent dashboard showing in-market B2B accounts ranked by buyer intent signals across 34 million web pages
News & UpdatesSales Data

GO Intent: Buyer Intent Data for B2B Sales

CIENCE GO Intent analyzes billions of signals across 34M web pages to identify in-market B2B buyers. Intent data refreshes every 4 hours — so your team contacts the right accounts first.

David Dulany
CIENCE GO Schedule dashboard showing round-robin routing, calendar sync, and SMS reminder workflows for B2B sales teams
News & UpdatesSales Data

GO Schedule: Sales Meeting Booking Software

GO Schedule automates B2B meeting booking with round-robin routing, SMS/email reminders, and calendar sync. Trusted by 2,500+ clients to boost hold rates.

David Dulany
CIENCE Adweek Fastest Growing Agency — now a graph8 company
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CIENCE Adweek #18 Fastest Growing Agency, 245% Growth

CIENCE earned #18 on Adweek's Fastest Growing Agencies with 245% growth in 3 years, then rebuilt as a graph8 AI platform that cuts pipeline costs 40-60%.

David Dulany
Five-star rating graphic representing CIENCE's 100+ verified Clutch reviews that earned The Manifest Most-Reviewed award
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Wins Manifest Most-Reviewed Award: 100+ Client Reviews

CIENCE earned The Manifest's Most Reviewed award with 100+ verified Clutch reviews. Here's what the most-reviewed B2B SDR firm built after earning that trust.

David Dulany
B2B pipeline growth model showing 3 lead prioritization buckets — inbound-led, intent-led, list-led — and the 5-phase CIENCE GO platform workflow for qualifying and converting prospects
Lead GenerationNews & Updates

CIENCE Pipeline Growth: 3 Lead Buckets + 5 Phases

How CIENCE's 3-bucket lead prioritization — inbound-led, intent-led, and list-led — powers a 5-phase pipeline model used by 2,500+ B2B clients across 250+ industries.

David Dulany
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CIENCE Financial Times #95 Fastest Growing Companies

CIENCE placed #95 on the FT Americas Fastest-Growing list with 816% growth, then rebuilt GTM around AI — cutting cost-per-meeting 40-60% for 2,500+ clients.

David Dulany
CIENCE Clutch 1000 global service provider — now a graph8 company
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CIENCE Clutch 1000: #32 Global Service Provider

CIENCE earned #32 on the Clutch 1000, top 1% of B2B service providers globally. Now graph8 uses AI and Forward Deployed Engineers to cut cost-per-meeting 40-60%.

David Dulany
CIENCE 4x Inc. 5000 honoree with 668% growth — now graph8 AI-powered GTM platform
News & Updates

CIENCE 4x Inc. 5000: 668% Growth to graph8 GTM

CIENCE made the Inc. 5000 4 years running with 668% revenue growth. Now part of graph8, Forward Deployed Engineers replaced SDRs — cutting cost-per-meeting 40-60%.

David Dulany
CIENCE ranked #4 global call center by The Manifest — now transformed to graph8 AI-powered GTM platform
Lead GenerationNews & Updates

CIENCE Ranked #4 Global Call Center by The Manifest

The Manifest ranked CIENCE #4 on its global Top 100 Call Center list with 100+ Clutch reviews. From top call center to no call center — the platform ate the phone.

David Dulany
CIENCE wins 4 Comparably Best Places to Work awards with 97% employee satisfaction
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Wins 4 Comparably Best Places to Work Awards

CIENCE won 4 Comparably Best Places to Work awards — #30 Diversity, #32 Culture, #67 Women, #42 CEO — from 10,393 ratings. How culture drives transformation.

David Dulany
CIENCE Wins Gartner Digital Markets UpCity Excellence Award with 4.6 out of 5 rating
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Wins Gartner Digital Markets Award: 4.6 Rating

CIENCE earned the Gartner UpCity 2024 Excellence Award with a 4.6/5 rating across 50,000+ providers—and then rebuilt the entire company that earned it.

David Dulany
CIENCE wins SourceForge Spring 2023 Leader Award for GO Data, GO Digital, and GO Show
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Wins SourceForge Spring 2023 Leader Award: Top 5%

CIENCE GO Data, GO Digital & GO Show earned SourceForge Spring 2023 Leader status — top 5% of 60K+ products. See how graph8 transformed these tools into a GTM system.

David Dulany
Three SourceForge Winter 2023 award badges — Leader for GO Data and GO Digital (top 5% of 60,000+ products), Top Performer for GO Show — displayed against a dark background marking the last major award season before CIENCE became graph8
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Wins SourceForge Winter 2023 Awards: 3 Products

CIENCE won 3 SourceForge Winter 2023 awards — top 5% of 60,000+ products. What those wins revealed about the limits of standalone GTM tools.

David Dulany
CIENCE UpCity Best of California Award trophy — graph8 company recognized as top 50 B2B service provider
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CIENCE UpCity Best of California Award: Top 50 Providers

CIENCE earned UpCity's Best of California Award, ranking top 50 B2B providers statewide. Now a graph8 company delivering AI-powered GTM for 250+ industries.

David Dulany
CIENCE GO Platform September update showing new features across GO Show, GO Data, and GO Campaign AI
News & UpdatesGO Platform

GO Platform September Update: Key New Features

CIENCE GO Platform's September release adds 140M+ US contacts, dynamic visitor lists, AI campaign templates, and voice call analysis across four product areas.

David Dulany
graph8 GTM platform dashboard showing GO Data tech stack search, GO Intent Save as List, and GO Campaign AI progress tracking from Q4 2023 upgrades
News & UpdatesTools

GO Platform Q4 2023: Major Feature Upgrades

CIENCE GO Platform's Q4 2023 upgrades add tech stack search, mobile enrichment, and AI campaign automation across 3 modules — used by 2,500+ B2B sales teams.

David Dulany
B2B MarTech landscape diagram showing AI-native stack consolidation trend and projected $1.7 trillion market growth by 2032
EconomyNews & Updates

MarTech Pulse: 3 Trends Reshaping B2B (2026)

Three B2B MarTech trends reshaping 2026: AI-native stacks replacing SaaS dashboards, accelerating vendor consolidation, and a $1.7T market forecast. Here's what to do about it.

Jay Evans
CIENCE tops Clutch 1000 for 6 consecutive years — top 1% of 280,000 B2B service providers
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Tops Clutch 1000 for 6 Consecutive Years

CIENCE earned the Clutch 1000 for 6 consecutive years — top 1% of 280,000+ B2B service providers. Here's why we rebuilt everything in year seven.

David Dulany
CIENCE wins SourceForge Fall 2022 Leader Award for GO Data and GO Digital platforms
News & UpdatesAwards

CIENCE Wins SourceForge Fall 2022 Leader: Top 5% of Reviews

CIENCE GO Data (300M+ records) and GO Digital won the SourceForge Fall 2022 Leader award — top 5% of all reviewed products, now powering graph8's full GTM engineering model.

David Dulany
News & UpdatesSales Data

GO Data Platform: 4 B2B Sales Intelligence Products

300M+ validated B2B records: CIENCE GO combines prospecting data, visitor tracking, buyer intent signals, and programmatic ad targeting in one GTM platform.

David Dulany
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