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“I've asked Grant McCracken to give two keynote addresses. Very few speakers get a second chance at the podium at my events, but Grant brings a uniquely insightful, engaged and brilliant perspective to where culture, media, advertising and the internet all slam into each other. He is also hugely charming and funny onstage. The best historians are storytellers, and Grant's audiences return home with clear memories and new intellectual tools at their disposal.”

— BRAD BERENS
CMO Executive Summits Chief Content Officer & Editor at Large, iMed



Here's a second example of Grant speaking.


Select Speaking Engagements

  • Culture and New Technologies: Theory and Method from the Meaning Transfer Model, Industry Symposium, Marketing the Future: Bringing new Technologies to the Marketplace
  • Culture and Brand Bonding: Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives, with Andrew Mitchell, Competitive Paper, Brands & Consumer Psychology conference, San Francisco
  • How Culture Shapes the Future. International Interior Design Exposition, Toronto
  • Children of the Lesser God: Technology, the triumph of popular culture, and the coming crisis in the museum world. Culture Technologies Convergence Conference. Toronto, Ontario
  • The Ethnographic Interview. Global Teenager Project, Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Fragmenting the Culture. Session theme: Impact on Society & Lifestyles. Conference theme: Global Network Evolution. XVI World Tele-communications Congress. International Switching Symposium, Toronto.
  • Maybe it’s rocket science after all. American Gas Association Conference, Las Vegas.
  • The American Consumer Scene. The Marketing Forum, somewhere at sea, QE II.
  • What I learned at Harvard Business School. Canadian Wholesale Drug Association.
  • Bringing the brand up to speed: marketing in a dynamic marketplace. Trend Agenda. Minneapolis.
  • The New Diversity: what to do when consumers and markets splinter, Global Business Network Meeting.
  • Complexity. The Sterling-Rice-UBS conference.
  • The New Diversity: what to do when consumers and markets splinter, Global Business Network Meeting, New York City.
  • Flock and Flow. Keynote Speaker, Design Management Institute, Vancouver.
  • How to do Ethnographic Research. Microsoft. Redmond, Washington.
  • A walk in Connecticut: implications for product development & marketing in the grocery sector Canadian Council of Grocery Manufacturers and Distributers. Montreal, Quebec.
  • Flock and Flow: managing innovation on the Kauffman continuum. Innovent Seminar, Nokia Corporation, Portland, Oregon.
  • More is More. A debate with Barry Schwartz. PopTech. Camden, Maine.
  • Ethnography: what it’s for, how it works. New Frontiers for Growth Conference, Marketing Science Meetings, Boston.
  • Raymond Loewy and the 1954 Buick: a mystery in 3 parts. Fuse: Brand Indentity Package Design, New York City.
  • Culture. IDEO. Palo Alto, California. 
  • Being On Oprah. Interesting, London, England.
  • Financial Marketing: climbing the value hierarchy, iMedia Financial Summit, New York.
  • Pattern recognition. PSFK Conference. New York City.
  • 10 tools: marketing for new media & the new consumer. Convergence. Vancouver.
  • Connecting to culture. American culture and automotive marketing. iMedia Automative Summit.
  • Culture and creativity and advertising. FutureFlash Institute of Canadian Advertising.
  • Transformations, the new segmentation. European Society Of Marketing and Research, First International Conference, Montreal.
  • I am sorry to have to tell you this, but you have Asperger’s syndrome. Interesting, New York City.
  • Who owns the corporation? How about designers? American Institute of Graphic Designers. FUSE, New York City.
  • Executive Education, Harvard Business School, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009
  • Design Management Institute, New York City.
  • Banff Media Festival, Banff, Alberta.
  • TYPO London.
  • University of Delft.  
  • TEDxHarlem, New York City.