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Expert on Media Culture

Brad Berens is an editor, writer, critic, public speaker and thinker focused on media, culture, marketing how the things that audiences do with what they watch have a huge impact on who they are. Brad is the head of programming for three events companies focused on the intersection of interactive media with marketing and advertising—ad:tech, the iMedia Summits and the CMO Executive Summits. Brad also serves as Chief Content Officer for dmg world media’s Digital Marketing Sector. In addition to his work with dmg world media, he also writes at the Mediavorous Blog.

“Brad is a brilliant & insightful Speaker”

[expand title=”In detail”] Brad joined the company in 2004 as the Editor in Chief of its daily media property, iMedia Connection, and was later promoted to his current role. Before iMedia, he spent four years as the editor of all things digital at EarthLink, the ISP. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Brad holds a Ph.D. in English from U.C. Berkeley. He spent years as an award-winning teacher and scholar, giving talks about Shakespeare all over the world.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Brad provides audiences with his thoughts, observations and insights about where our real and digital worlds collide. Brad’s knowledge of the space and of where we are headed is insightful and valuable[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Brad is a dynamic, fun and clear speaker whose generous presentations are filled with startling facts and insightful anecdotes, provoking thoughtful discussions.[/expand]
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Author of Managing Creative People

Gordon Torr is the author of “Managing Creative People”, his famously controversial critique of brainstorming, corporate groupthink, and the way conventional management practice inadvertently suffocates creativity and innovation. Always provocative, inevitably polarising, his views are described by American advertising guru Dennis Ryan as “…like power-chugging a gallon of emotional caffeine”.

“I don’t think there’s a single industry that wouldn’t gain immediate advantage from Gordon’s scrupulous and enlightening detective work”
Jeremy Bullmore, WPP

[expand title=”In detail”] Born in South Africa, he switched from TV journalism to copywriting, lived and worked in Mexico for three years, with his advertising career culminating as Global Creative Director of JWT in London. He has spoken at creativity conferences from Lagos to Lisbon and from Glasgow to Reykjavik; he has lectured at the London Business School, Brunel and Henley, and is currently consulting with Bilbao’s Creativity Centre. He worked extensively in Europe, the US and Latin America with multinationals such as Unilever, Kellogg’s, Nestle, Ford, De Beers, Vodafone and Diageo, and with pharmaceuticals giants like Pfizer, Bayer and Abbott.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]For companies and organisations who know their continuing success depends on a fresh stream of creative ideas, Gordon will identify the bottlenecks, demolish the unproductive assumptions, and share radical new approaches to creative productivity.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Passionate, provocative and iconoclastic, be prepared to have your views on creativity and innovation challenged, questioned and tested to the limit.[/expand]
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