Brad Berens has enjoyed a wide-ranging career with powerful storytelling as an organizing theme. As Editor in Chief of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Berens oversees all thought leadership, research, and event programming. He is also a Strategic Advisor and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, where he was formerly Chief Strategy Officer. Berens is a trusted advisor to a variety of companies, from a venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence to a startup trying to eradicate media bias, among others. A futurist, he works with companies all over the world and also gives regular domestic and global keynote addresses. Earlier in his career, he had a long tenure as the Global Chief Content Officer at dmg events, having started as the Editor in Chief at iMedia Communications before dmg acquired iMedia. Still earlier, he was Managing Editor at EarthLink the ISP, worked in startups at the dawn of the digital age, and was a Hollywood story analyst for companies like DreamWorks, Mirage, New Regency, and Scott Free. Berens began his career as an award-winning teacher of Shakespeare and writing at U.C. Berkeley. Keeping his hand in, he is presently writing The Shakespeare Strategy, a book about Shakespeare as a business genius. Follow him on Twitter as @bradberens, learn more about him at www.bradberens.com, and read his novel, Redcrosse, a near-future dystopia.

Nada Stirratt is VP, Americas at Facebook where she leads marketing partnerships with the largest brands and agencies across the Americas & LATAM. Her team supports all of Facebook’s offerings including Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Marketplace.

Prior to Facebook, Nada was CEO of Verve Mobile, a venture-backed global, location-based mobile technology platform. Nada joined Verve from Acxiom, where she served as the company’s first CRO leading a global team responsible for the company’s revenue, operations and analytics practices.

Nada has also held executive positions at News Corp, Viacom, and AOL.

Nada currently serves as a director on the boards of BlueStar Families, a 501C3 that supports US military families during the difficult time of deployment, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. She has been named to CableWorld’s Most Powerful Women, Business Insider’s Most Powerful Women in Mobile, and was awarded the Ad:Tech Industry Achievement Award.