On stage

Speaking

Every talk comes in an intro or an advanced version, and I'll shape it around your audience. Here's what I'm asked for most.

Recent and upcoming stages

Mike Jacobs debating on the Marketing & Media Stage at Shoptalk Shoptalk Spring · Marketing & Media Stage

See me work

Watch first, read second

Shoptalk put a debate on the Marketing & Media Stage over whether your next brand ambassador will or will not be AI. I argued the case against. Shoptalk led with it.

"Opinions came on strong and strategic insights ran hot at our epic Shoptalk Spring debate."Shoptalk

More clips on the LinkedIn feed and in Previously below.

Output Is No Longer Scarce. Coordination Is.

AI gave every person 10x leverage. Give everyone 10x output and you don't get a 10x company, you get 10x more stuff. Why workflow, not agents or models, is the real question, and why the future belongs to architects.

The Math, the Magic, and the Machine

Data and measurement, creative and storytelling, systems and automation. Most teams are good at one, passable at a second, and losing money on the third. How to build an org that can actually hold all three.

From Assistant to Operator

AI is moving out of the assistant seat and into the decision. The control paradox: what you delegate, what you keep, and how to tell which is which before the platform decides for you.

When Content Gets Cheap, Clarity Gets Expensive

If AI can make almost anything, what becomes more valuable? The brands that win won't create more. They'll know who they are, what they stand for, and why anyone should care.

Will Your Next Brand Ambassador Be AI?

Synthetic creators, AI-generated influence, and the line between efficient and hollow. Where the economics genuinely work, and where an audience can always tell.

Tying Brand Investment to Enterprise Value

Brand budgets get cut first because nobody can defend them in the language finance speaks. Building the framework that connects brand spend to EBITDA and to what the business is worth.

2026

Sep 29 Upcoming

The Future of Marketing

Shoptalk Fall · Las Vegas, NV

Speaker page
Aug 19

CRO Panel: Moving at the Speed of AI

GROW NY · New York, NY

Agenda
Jun 11

Letting AI Decide: Who Wins When You Give Control?

Wipro Tech Exchange · Mountain View, CA

Recap
May 20

Rethinking the Marketing Funnel in the Age of AI

The Lead Summit · New York, NY

Speaker spotlight
May 12

Brand in the Age of AI

Consortium Brands Consumer Retail Conference · New York, NY

Conference
Mar 25

Debate: Your Next Brand Ambassador Will / Will Not Be AI

Shoptalk · Las Vegas, NV

Watch

Previously

Older talks keep their links, so the whole body of work stays visible and the section never reads empty between bookings.

Google + Tinuiti: Measurement That MattersOct 2025 · Google NYC MediaPost Performance Insider Summit2025 · Deer Valley ANA / AEF Future of Marketing LeadershipFeb 2024 · with NYU
Advertising Week NY: Unlocking the Power of AI2023 · with Meta and J.Crew Factory · speaker pageVideo
Advertising Week NY: Passion & Performance MarketingSep 2019 · Culture Builders Stage · with Google, Cardlytics and Tinuiti
TransUnion: Cracking the Measurement CodeBrave New Worlds panelVideo
Google Marketing LiveGoogle eTailWBR Product Marketing Alliance: PMM Leaders NYC

Also on stage at

  • Meta
  • Google
  • MMA Global
  • Association of National Advertisers
  • ANA Educational Foundation
  • Affiliate Summit
  • Linkshare Summit & Symposium
  • BeFree
  • Affiliate Solutions
  • NYU
  • Yale
  • CUNY
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For organizers

Short and long bios, signature topics, recent stages and organizer quotes, all in one PDF. Based in New York, available to travel, and happy to do remote sessions. Standard AV only. High-resolution headshots on request.

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What comes back

Lines that travel

The real test of a talk is what people say about it a week later, when nobody is asking. These all came back to me in writing, from people who were in the room.

It’s not AI that is going to steal your job. It’s someone using AI that will. Someone at Meta wrote to tell me they had already used it.
A career is not a sprint. It’s a forty-year marathon. Two people from the same panel wrote to me about this line the next day, separately.
Voices do not just need to be in the room. They need to be at equal volume. Carried out of a diversity panel by someone starting out in advertising, 2020.
Growth teams need to architect systems, not just manage channels. Quoted back to me a month later by someone who heard it at The Lead Summit, 2026.
Ugly creative for the win. A VP of performance marketing used it in his own talk that same week.

What organizers say

The room afterward

"We heard some stellar feedback on the fireside chat, and it couldn't have gone better. I can guarantee you, people are going to remember some Mikeisms for a reasonable amount of time."

Meta

"You were a highlight for the entire Google group. It was so energizing to meet you and hear your philosophies around growth marketing on Meta and beyond."

Google

"I actually have already used your great line: it's not AI that is going to steal your job, it's someone using AI that will."

Meta

"It was phenomenal having you speak at the show."

TransUnion

"You have a gift for making complex concepts understandable."

Etsy

"It was an amazing event, and I am receiving so much positive feedback about the quality of the content during the panel."

AdlyseAnna Stepura, Co-founder and CEO
Host, AI in Marketing and Advertising, NYC Tech Week

"I loved your content. Ugly creative for the win, and I provided an ‘onliest’ statement for my talk on Wednesday."

Consumer CellularBill Litfin, VP Performance Marketing and Media

"I was furiously taking notes on everything that was said."

An audience member

Booking

If you’re programming an event, reach out.

I’m always listening. Tell me who’s in the room and what you need the session to do, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right fit.

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