For a stretch of my career I spent a lot of time on stages, mostly talking about two things: how advertising formats and standards actually work, and why company culture is a product problem rather than an HR one. London, Cologne and Los Angeles, at roughly ten events a year.

Talks and panels

  • Jun 2016

    Culture Campfire

    Talent Rocket · London · guest speaker

    Talent Rocket put a hundred HR leaders in a room to argue about whether company culture is worth building deliberately. I was there to say that it is, and that you can measure it.

  • Dec 2015

    AOL Now

    AOL global sales conference · Los Angeles · speaker

    Speaking to the global sales organisation, in the year we launched the unified ONE by AOL stack.

  • Oct 2012

    IAB icon

    Internet Advertising Bureau · London · speaker and panellist

    On implementing the advertising icon and the EU privacy directive, which at the time meant explaining to a room full of advertisers exactly how much revenue their opt-out was about to cost them.

  • Sep 2012

    DMEXCO

    Cologne · speaker and panellist

    Rich media formats and where the money in display advertising was actually going.

I also sat on the IAB UK Behavioural Targeting Council from 2011 to 2016, shaping industry standards through the period when behavioural advertising went from unregulated to very much regulated.

The employer branding films sit on the culture page, and film of the ad formats I used to talk about sits with the products themselves. Two of the links above survive only because someone archived them.