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When Events Become a GTM Motion, Not Just Marketing
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Summary
Most event teams are organized under marketing. But what if that's the whole problem? Aleksandra Panyukhina has been building events as a go-to-market motion for twelve years — and the difference between how she operates and how most companies run events is not a small gap. This is the Aftershow — where the strategy goes deeper and the guardrails come off. We get into the architecture behind it all: how she thinks about event portfolio strategy, why she removed the word "events" from her job title, how the FLOW initiative at Pixelz works as a full GTM motion, and what event teams need to look like in five years if they want a seat at the table. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: • Why she removed the word "events" from her job title — and what that reveals about where event marketing's identity problem actually lives • The zone of genius framework for event and field marketers: why trying to own logistics AND strategy is the fastest path to being replaced at both • How the FLOW event portfolio actually works — and why the single non-negotiable rule is that every event has to be one the sales team asked for first • How to measure event attribution when deals have a 12-month sales cycle, why "pipeline in the room" is the metric that earns executive respect, and when the math on a trade show simply doesn't add up • What event teams that survive the next five years look like — and the patterns they've already stopped following ABOUT ALEKSANDRA: Aleksandra Panyukhina is the Experience Marketing Director at Pixelz, where she leads FLOW — an event-led growth portfolio combining owned flagship events, local meetups, community, a podcast, ABX strategy, and partner marketing under one umbrella. With twelve years building event programs across five continents, she h…