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Rick Bauer

United States

MVP 2026

Strategy

United States
MVP 2025

Honorary

United States
MVP 2022

Strategy

United States
MVP 2021

Strategy

United States
MVP 2020

Strategy

United States
MVP 2019

Strategy

United States
MVP 2018

Strategy

United States
MVP 2017

Strategy

United States

I'm a Mentor

I have 30 years of marketing, 20 of digital marketing, 15 of Sitecore and worked at Sitecore recently. Am a 7-time MVP here to help you go for your Strategy MVP.

Timeline

2025

10/Nov

Post Symposium Blog

Reimagining the Monolith: Sitecore’s Custom SaaS Era and What It Means for Marketers - a post that covers a good deal of the major announcements from SYM for Marketers and admins. Blog link is available in LinkedIn Post

2025

27/Oct

My approach for Sitecore Symposium 2025 - A Marketer’s Guide from the Inside

Yes...yes...I wrote one of those posts talking about what to do/expect at Symposium. I had a perspective and darn it if I didn't want to share it. I have no regrets!

2025

23/Oct

Chicago SUG Panelist

Sat on a panel for a Sitecore User Group (Chicago) at United Airlines Corporate HQ hosted by Maggie Burke. Focus was on the upcoming Symposium. (Photos and details in LinkedIn Post)

2025

9/Oct

BWG Connect - Boston

The the third in the trifecta of leading a table as primary speaker on the topic of AI along with Kyle Bouchard (Sitecore). We talked AI, we talked Sitecore and modern solutions. I'll tell you what, we influenced the heck out of a room full of business leaders. (Photo and details from LinkedIn)

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

29/Sep

Unlocking AI with Sitecore and Velir: From readiness to real results

Co-delivered an on-demand webinar with Ru where attendees will learn how to: Assess their AI readiness and uncover gaps holding them back. Navigate common pain points like lack of strategy, data silos, unclear ROI, and organizational hesitancy. Leverage proven accelerator frameworks to kickstart AI adoption with Sitecore. Walk away with a clear set of next steps to apply AI responsibly, effectively, and with measurable results. (Gated webinar on sitecore.com link in social post)

Sitecore Stream

2025

29/Aug

Andrea Rosero Vela (Mentoring)

Not sure if you want this in here but capturing anyway because I want to. (Call me crazy) Rob Huffstedtler referred Andrea to me as a mentee and I provided advice over time. It all started on LinkedIn the end of August. Ask Rob, he will tell you because he is that kind of stand up guy!

2025

15/Aug

What Comes After the Pivot: Why Sitecore XM Cloud Signals a Deeper Strategic Shift

Blog post and social (Post link in social post) with a business and strategic perspective on site modernization with XMC

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

6/Aug

BWG Connect - Chicago

Primary speaker along with Dave Michela (representing Sitecore obvs) hosting a thought leadership table on "future-proofing" websites and personalization at scale. And you know what? We talked about AI too.... I KNOW! Weird. Event photo and recap in LinkedIn

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

21/Jul

How Sitecore and Gradial are Transforming AI-Driven Digital Experiences

A short perspective post after the SKO announcement of the Gradial partnership. (Post link in social post)

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

14/Jul

SKO XMC <> Snowflake POC

I led a tiger team to create a demo/POC that focused on surfacing Snowflake data and AI intelligence within XM Cloud that allows marketers to query rich data for information around LTV, Churn, etc directly in Pages, and then drive content ideation and placement of that content into components. This was developed in a single sprint and demoed to multiple leaders at Sitecore SKO 2025 and I have the photos to prove it. :) This was also the first active use case on the new Sitecore Marketplace. Plea...

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

15/May

Digital Maturity Model for Travel & Hospitality - White paper

I wrote a 20+ page white paper on the state of Travel & Hospitality that is still available (gated) on Sitecore.com today. It was released in May and I drove social around it as well. It was focused on overall digital maturity but leaned toward XM Cloud and Personalize in subtext.

Sitecore Personalize

2025

17/Apr

BWG Connect - Seattle

A lead speaker at a BWG Connect event in Seattle along with Mo Cherif and Alyssa lutz. Part of an ongoing speaking series where I act as table captain, thought starter and moderator. The topic was on modern digital marketing solutions and like most events this year, focused on AI. As BWG Connect does not provide archive links I have provided a LinkedIn post that captures the event (from a Sitecore employee's perspective).

Sitecore Stream