Speaking + Media
Speaking on marketing, AI and change.
I speak with leadership teams, conference audiences, associations and podcast hosts about the marketing decisions organizations are facing now, especially as AI changes how people find things.
The perspective comes from nearly two decades building Darby Digital, advising organizations through changing markets and technology, and working today as a fractional CMO and marketing advisor.
Formats range from conference sessions and company meetings to panels, workshops, podcasts and media interviews.
Selected speaking appearances
How I take part
Conferences & Events
Conferences, business events, industry groups, association events and educational settings.
Company Meetings / Leadership Offsites
Conversations for company teams and leaders working through marketing priorities, technology decisions and digital change.
Podcast Guesting
Longer conversations about marketing, artificial intelligence, search, entrepreneurship, and running a digital business.
Media Interviews
Commentary and perspective for journalists, writers, producers, and researchers covering marketing and technology.
Panels + Roundtables
Conversations where people disagree and the audience gets to hear why.
Workshops
Practical sessions for leadership teams and organizations working through marketing, search, digital strategy, or AI.
What I speak about
These are subjects I work in, not a fixed list of talks. Sessions get shaped around your audience.
Marketing Leadership & Decisions
- Marketing as a connected system
The relationships between positioning, channels, sales, measurement and the decisions that keep them working together.
- Marketing strategy when channels keep changing
How to reassess investment and priorities without letting each new platform dictate the strategy.
- How leaders should evaluate new technology
AI, Search & Discovery
- How AI is changing search and discovery
How AI-generated answers change what people find, and what evidence makes an organization visible and credible.
- The changing relationship between websites, search engines and AI
- What businesses misunderstand about AI adoption
Building Through Change
- What nearly two decades of digital change teaches you
The patterns that endure across search, social, mobile and AI, and why judgment matters more than the latest tool.
- Building and evolving a digital business
- Entrepreneurship and running an independent company
Press + Media
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Speaking + media inquiries
Speaking engagements, podcast conversations and media interviews are shaped around the audience, the format and the subject at hand.
For event invitations, interviews or commentary, get in touch.