The virtual conference for strategic response management
October 19, 2023 10:00 a.m. ET
Connect, learn and share with your community
Join us for Responsive Summit 2023 — where the response community gathers virtually to connect, share and learn strategies to align teams, become more effective, successful and responsive.
This FREE event is open to Responsive users and non-users
Don’t miss the strategic response management event of the year
This fun, interactive and FREE event will feature presentations and breakout sessions from industry leaders and visionaries as well as Responsive customers like you. Key topics that will be covered are:
Response management business trends & best practices

Response management business trends & best practices

The Responsive 2023-24 product roadmap and beyond

The Responsive 2023-24 product roadmap and beyond

The transformative power of AI and how it applies to our industry

The transformative power of AI and how it applies to our industry

Managing multiple use cases with a single platform

Managing multiple use cases with a single platform

More speakers will be announced soon

Attending partners
Responsive Summit 2023
Who should attend?
  • Response professionals Generate more revenue in less time
  • Sales professionals Win more deals and streamline your proposal, content and onboarding processes
  • IT professionals Quickly and accurately respond to security questionnaires and risk assessments
  • Finance/legal professionals Confidently respond to DDQs and ESGs
  • Company leaders Maximize revenue and access data fo informed decision making
  • Anyone who responds to RFPs, RFls, RFQs, DDQs, security questionnaires and more
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Ganesh Shankar

Chief Executive Officer of Responsive

An accomplished product manager and subject matter expert, Ganesh has successfully leveraged best-in-class technologies to transform response business operations for enterprise, small and medium-sized organizations.

Responsive Summit23 Opening Keynote

As technology evolves, so does response management. Always responsive, RFPIO made it official with a new name and the immediate emergence as the Strategic Response Management category leader. While Responsive is still the industry-leading and best-in-class RFP response platform, SRM is about risk mitigation, better employee experiences, and far more.

Carrie Jordan

Director of Proposals for Microsoft's Center of Excellence - Microsoft Corporation

Carrie has over 15 years of experience in proposal management, coordination, writing, editing, content curation, and desktop publishing and was awarded APMP 40 Under 40 award in 2021.

Response Management at the scale of Microsoft

Microsoft uses Responsive to power its Content Library with over 18,000 Q&A pairs and more than 13,000 users. Join this discussion to learn about the business impact of scaling strategic response.

AJ Sunder

Chief Product Officer of Responsive

A highly experienced Information Security Analyst, Sunder oversees development of advanced SaaS technologies and AI to improve the response process and increase business close rates.

The Responsive Product Roadmap

Responsive has had a big year. Product advancements such as AI and an improved UX continue to smooth the path for faster, more impactful responses, higher revenue, better collaboration and informed decision making. Can we top this year’s advances? We think so. Join Sunder as he reveals the 2024 product roadmap.

Andrew Mersman

Senior Director, Solution Consulting of Netsmart

With nearly 15 years experience at Netsmart, Andrew is responsible for leading the Solution Consulting and RFP teams, where he’s deployed seven unique SaaS solutions.

Increasing Capacity by Facing Change: A Tale of Leaving the Past Behind

The Netsmart RFP team found themselves grappling with the same obstacles that plague many proposal teams. Systems were scattered and disjointed, rendering their information outdated and their processes painfully time-consuming. They knew they had to leverage automation to increase efficiency. Responsive helped them respond to 40 percent more proposals in 2023.

Alison Tanner

Program Manager II, Strategy & Operations of Akamai Technologies, Inc.

After several years in marketing & sales operation roles, Alison facilitates programs that use technology to strategically improve processes while driving global sales, productivity and growth.

Uncovering the Answers: Empowering Your Teams with Response Management

Providing accurate answers in a timely manner is often a herculean task. Akamai’s team struggled with this challenge and decided to re-think their process by utilizing Responsive’s capabilities. They now have over 2000 answers being used by over 20 teams. See how the organization has increased cross-team collaboration and responsiveness.

Joseph Ayala (APMP Foundation Certified)

Director, Proposal Development of Teradata

With 20 years of communication and leadership experience, Joseph joined Teradata to build a Proposal Development Center, focused on industry best practices for quality proposal responses.

Thinking of Strategic Response Management Outside the RFP Box

Learn how Teradata is creating a proposal development center to empower the organization to increase the speed and quality of their proposal responses. This discussion will explore the importance of collaboration across teams and how additional business units can unexpectedly achieve success with the processes and platforms that proposal teams rely on.

Ariana Amplo

Vice President, Professional Services of Responsive

A successful entrepreneur, Ariana has a background in financial services, consulting and investment management. She has helped countless corporations, nonprofits and municipalities complete successful RFPs and proposals.

Elevating Customer Success and Driving Growth

When you’re successful, we’re successful. Responsive’s Professional Services team is a trusted partner that’s committed to your ongoing success. Our experts are here to help ensure you’re maximizing the platform’s benefits and help you solve all of your response challenges. Ariana will introduce you to Professional Services and explore its benefits.

Nick DeMarco

Senior RFP Content Writer of Payscale

With nearly 20 years response management experience, Nick is an experienced Content Writer who manages large teams and is focused on generating proposals and RFPs.

Bringing Calm to the Chaos: Untangling the Complexities of Content Libraries

Payscale used Responsive for a few years, but not at full capacity. We had a bloated Content Library and no review cycle. Responsive helped Nick and team bring order and strategy to the chaos, revamped the entire library, decreased turnaround time, enhanced knowledge and expertise and solved many procedural challenges.

Sankar Lagudu

Chief Operating Officer of Responsive

Entrepreneur with 20+ years of cross-functional IT experience. Sankar is passionate about delivering organizational excellence and high value solutions with superior user experience for responders.

Elevating Customer Success and Driving Growth

When you’re successful, we’re successful. Responsive’s Professional Services team is a trusted partner that’s committed to your ongoing success. Our experts are here to help ensure you’re maximizing the platform’s benefits and help you solve all of your response challenges. Sankar will introduce you to Professional Services and explore its benefits.

Megan Cutter

Manger, Marketing - CAPTRUST

With nearly a decade serving multiple roles at CAPTRUST, Megan’s responsibilities include RFP technology and platform integration, knowledge management, team coordination, and content design.

Using Responsive across multiple use cases

CAPTRUST is a longtime customer utilizing Responsive to issue and respond to RFPs and other questionnaires. Hear how the institutional investment advisory firm powers their process with multiple use cases within the Responsive Platform.

Mike Turner

VP WW, Solutions Architecture - AppViewX

With over 20 years in the field, Michael is an accomplished leader and pre-sales professional across several disciplines, including cybersecurity and data protection.

Using AI to increase efficiency in responses

AppviewX is amplifying the capabilities of its content library with AI. Learn how the team is reducing response times and increasing accuracy in this discussion.

Nicole Stanford

Senior Customer Success Manager of Responsive

With more than a decade of customer success experience, Nicole is fanatical about ensuring that each customer has the tools they need to be successful.

Responsive Product Demonstration

As with any great assistant, artificial intelligence has the potential to help businesses become more efficient and achieve higher profits and altogether better outcomes. Nicole will help demonstrate Responsive’s AI Assistant and show how it can handle repetitive tasks while freeing response teams to do what they do best.

Michael Londgren

Chief Marketing Officer of Responsive

Strategic, passionate, high-impact leader with a strong record of helping companies scale rapidly. Michael drives marketing for SaaS businesses ranging from startups to enterprise organizations.

Beyond Just a Name — The Responsive transformation

Responsive is about helping you put your best foot forward. It’s about prioritizing your business needs. It’s about helping you improve collaboration and accomplish your goals through better, more efficient responses to RFXs, security questionnaires, DDQs and so much more. Join Michael as he explores the reasons behind RFPIO’s transformation.

Cindy Zu

Senior Director of Partner Revenue, Highspot

A global finance executive, Cindy Zu brings expertise and a focus on driving revenue from Highspot’s partner network and has helped scale the global partner strategy.

The Evolution of Sales Engagement

Having consistent content across all channels: direct sales, channel sales and RFP responses has proven to be a competitive differentiation for our mutual customers. Highspot and Responsive have come together to deliver a best in class experience, pre-integrated to deliver value and ensure that multi-channel customer interactions are aligned for a curated customer experience throughout the buying journey with precise, informed messaging and a consistent brand experience.

Tiffany Guriel

Director, Customer Success - Responsive

Drawing from over a decade of customer success leadership, Tiffany is dedicated to forging meaningful connections and driving tangible business outcomes.

Using AI to increase efficiency in responses

AppviewX is amplifying the capabilities of its content library with AI. Learn how the team is reducing response times and increasing accuracy in this discussion.

Kristin Hagan

VP Global Partnerships - Seismic

Kristin has spent 20 years in software and financial services with roles across product, sales engineering, corporate development and partnerships across business segments.

Smarter enablement. Better outcomes.

Kristin will be sharing her thoughts on the evolution of sales engagement and the interaction with strategic response management. Content plays a critical role in how selling teams interact with customers throughout the buyer's journey. Seismic and Responsive deliver a pre-integrated experience that combines these best in class apps for a seamless content experience.

Jeff Santelices

CRO of Responsive

With more than two decades of experience in finance and tech, Jeff has successfully steered multiple leading enterprise organizations toward strategic accelerated and scaled growth.

Thinking of Strategic Response Management Outside the RFP Box

Learn how Teradata is creating a proposal development center to empower the organization to increase the speed and quality of their proposal responses. This discussion will explore the importance of collaboration across teams and how additional business units can unexpectedly achieve success with the processes and platforms that proposal teams rely on.

Mattie Scull

Professional Services Consultant of Responsive

With more than five years experience as a proposal manager, Mattie draws on her previous experiences leading Responsive implementations and strategies for various govtech companies.

Showcasing the Value of Requirements Analysis

Many RFPs contain dense paragraphs of requirements in a narrative format. Responsive’s Requirements Analysis is a powerful toolkit for textual analysis with many applications, saving response teams hours, days and even weeks worth of tedious work. Mattie will delve into Requirements Analysis and explore the value in Professional Services.

Susan Berger

Responsive Professional Services Consultant

As a security and compliance professional and experienced database administrator, Susan has more than 20 years experience helping organizations achieve maximum efficiency, profitability and customer trust.

Keeping Your Content Current, Complete and Compliant

An effective content management system will help keep response teams firing on all cylinders, save valuable subject matter expert time and provide assurance of security and responsible business practices. Learn how to build and maintain an effective and up-to-date content management system without overburdening response teams and subject matter experts.

C. Kelson Forsgren

VP, Program Development, Shipley & Associates

Kelson Forsgren is a senior executive with demonstrated success leading teams in proposal strategy and response development. He has expertise in a wide range of business development functions, including proposal management, process optimization, writing, and training.

Content Management with Shipley Associates

Shipley is a world-class services organization that has helped countless response professionals de-risk and maximize ROI from their investment in Responsive. By focusing on content quality and with proven proposal management expertise, Shipley supports Responsive clients in delivering winning proposals. Shpipley can augment your staff, provide burst capacity, or provide turnkey services in helping clients win business and maximize use of Responsive’s robust technology. Responsive and Shipley work together to fill functional gaps in your strategic response management.

Michael Forney

VP, Customer Success of Responsive

Michael, a seasoned Customer Success executive, excels in guiding teams through high-growth transformations. His strategic vision and curation of customer journeys drives best-in-class value and outcomes.

Elevating Customer Success and Driving Growth

When you’re successful, we’re successful. Responsive’s Professional Services team is a trusted partner that’s committed to your ongoing success. Our experts are here to help ensure you’re maximizing the platform’s benefits and help you solve all of your response challenges.

Sridevi Sathyanarayanan

Pre-sales Consultant - Responsive

With nearly a decade of sales expertise in B2B and B2C segments, Sridevi is a sales engineer who helps Responsive customers build effective Strategic Response Management solutions.

Keeping Your Content, Current, Complete and Compliant

An effective content management system will help keep response teams firing on all cylinders, save valuable subject matter expert time and provide assurance of security and responsible business practices. Learn how to build and maintain an effective and up-to-date content management system without overburdening response teams and subject matter experts.

Jonathan Gudger

Senior Enterprise Presales Engineer - Responsive

With a background versed in business consulting, IT infrastructure, and process improvement, Jonathan has led initiatives around eDiscovery, Data Governance, and enterprise integration since 2009.

Sharing product and security Information with Profile Center

Learn how organizations are reducing their volume of RFP and security questionnaire responses by proactively sharing information with Profile Center. Enable your front-line teams to share security and risk assessments (CAIQ, ISO 27001, SOC 2, VSA), product data, company policy (ESG, DEI), and other valuable information to close deals and build relationships.