Speaking

In addition to frequent presentations at the ad:tech Conferences, iMedia Summits and other co-produced events, I've given a wide range of invited talks at Anheuser-Busch, Google, Yahoo, Paramount Pictures, the IPG Media Lab, USC's Annenberg School and College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, the Boston Ad Club, Digital Hollywood, the e-Voter Institute, the National Communications Association, U.C. Berkeley and other companies and institutions.

If you'd like to see one of my Power Point decks to get sense of how I present information onstage, or for a complete list of where I've spoken, please contact me.

Topics I speak about

I give talks on subjects as wide-ranging as changes in the media landscape, how audiences and consumers are changing their behavior, how companies can best embrace interactive media, how marketing budgets aren't changing as fast as as the media habits of consumers, politics and the internet, best practices in online and offline writing, Shakespeare and stage history, early modern literature and comic books (really, comic books).

Recently...

At iMedia's recent Brand Summit, Tim Murphy, Anheuser-Busch's Senior Director, Digital Marketing, said of a talk I gave at the brewer's St. Louis HQ to help sell interactive media internally:

"We had our own Summit, and, in fact, Brad Berens came in... and we had 10 or 11 speakers. That's what triggered it for us. Brad was presenting, and the CMO turned around [to ask], "Murph, can we do that? Can we do that?" If you can bring in some outside speakers to validate what you're doing, it will help tremendously, because that's what set us off... It was enlightening for our management. We're talking with them for months, and then within two hours after Brad's presentation, it was over. It was great."

I was very pleased to give the keynote address at the High Tech Marketing Alliance's "Infuse 2006 Marketing Innovation Summit on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 in San Diego, California.

HTMA President Shlomi Ron had this to say about my talk:

"Brad definitely knows media, his ability to convey his message using fun games transformed our audience from a passive listener to active participant that could experience and even 'touch' some of the ideas delivered."

And Executive Director Gary Young said this about a talk I gave to the Independent Writers of Southern California in Los Angeles on January 20, 2007:

I want to thank you for a dynamic, fun, clear, and generous presentation to the Independent Writers of Southern California. Not only did you give lots of information, but you made it understandable to everyone attending.