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Keynote speakers for your next market research, marketing, advertising, data or retail event

Seeking a speaker for your upcoming event? Our executive team has deep experience presenting on topics such as:

  • Consumer trends
  • Shopper insights and behavior
  • Market research
  • Shopper promiscuity
  • Brand narcissism 
  • Retail trends
  • Multimodal research studies
  • Augmented reality
  • Agile neuroscience
  • Women in business
  • And more! 
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Award-winning author and woman-owned business founder, Rebecca Brooks

Rebecca Brooks is CEO and co-founder of Alter Agents, an award-winning market research consultancy that works with brands such as Snapchat, YouTube, Audacy, Viking River Cruises, Pinterest, and others to help them gain powerful, actionable insights. Named to Inc.’s Female Founders List, Rebecca established her company on the belief that research could be done differently. This disruptive, innovative mindset delivers high-quality insights to clients that bridge knowledge gaps and reveal key drivers of consumer behavior. She is co-author of the book, Influencing Shopper Decisions: Unleash the Power of Your Brand to Win Customers, which explains the forces that drive consumer decision-making, plus unveils key insights and strategies that marketers can use to maintain relevancy and grow engagement with consumers. Rebecca regularly shares her knowledge and original research on consumer behavior, the promiscuous shopper and brand alignment by speaking at national conferences and authoring feature articles for global publications.

Some of Rebecca’s past engagements include:

  • “The Future is Promiscuous - How Shoppers are Evolving.” Insights Association Annual Conference, April 24 - April 26, 2023.
  • “Why Shoppers are Changing and how it Impacts Brands.” HappyMR podcast, June 27, 2022.
  • “Unleashing the power of your brand to influence customer decisions.” VoxPopMe podcast, June 2022. 
  • “Understanding (and Responding) to Shopper Promiscuity: Tips and Takeaways for Marketers and CX Leads.” RetailX Conference, May 2022.
  • “Through the Research Looking-Glass: Who in the World Are We? And Where Are We Going?” QRCA Annual conference, May 2022. 
  • “Reimagining the way we approach shopper research.” Now That’s Significant Podcast, February 2022. 
  • “Future Proofing the Industry.” SampleCon, July 13, 2021.
  • “From Automatic to Enriched: Navigating the New Purchase Funnels.” Insights Association NEXT Conference, Chicago, June 13-14, 2019.
  • “It's Not You, It's Me: New Metrics for Measuring Shopper Promiscuity.” Insights Association NEXT Conference, New York, April 30- May 1, 2018. 
  • “Dawn of the Promiscuous Consumer: Digital Natives are ‘Shopping Around.” IIeX North America, Atlanta, June 13-15, 2016.
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Experienced speaker on Shopper Marketing and Behavioral Sciences, Devora Rogers

Author, speaker and human behavior researcher Devora Rogers is committed to changing the way people think about consumer decision-making in today’s complex landscape. In her role at Alter Agents, she helps clients uncover what drives shoppers and consumers, designing thoughtful insights studies to solve some of the toughest brand challenges. She brings 15 years of digital media, shopper marketing, and analytics experience to her work.

Prior to joining Alter Agents, she co-developed the methodology deployed for Google's groundbreaking ZMOT research, has launched global offices, and worked with dozens of global brands including Snapchat, Activision, Nespresso, Bose, Schwab, and Fortune Brands, among others. She is the co-author of the retail and shopper insights book Fire in the Zoo, co-author of the book Influencing Shopper Decisions and a regular public speaker at industry events. Her TedX talk on the Future of Shopping and Retail has been viewed over 275,000 times. She was named to the 2024 Women We Admire Top 50 Chief Strategy Officers. 

  • "From The Apprentice to Insights Leader: How Devora Rogers Helps Brands Turn Data into Growth", Mission Matters podcast, Oct. 2025.
  • "Creative convergence: How brands and creators unlock cross-platform impact", Esomar Congress, Oct. 2025.
  • "Augmented reality (AR): the modern word of mouth", MRS Behavioural Science Conference, Sept 2025.
  • "Navigating Consumer Insights Research", The Brainy Business podcast, July 2025.
  • "How uplifting content transforms brand loyalty", IIEX North America, May 2025.
  • "Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT) with Devora Rogers", Eximo Marketing podcast, April 2025.
  • "Shopper Behavior Trends". Right About Now podcast, March 2025.
  • “Leveraging thought leadership to elevate strategic influence”, Chief Strategy Officer Summit, October 2024.
  • Pro-bono research with Gun Safety Alliance, National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms, November 2023.
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Media, Advertising, and Technology Thought Leader, Heather O'Shea

Heather O’Shea is a passionate digital ad insights leader with over 17 years of experience in market research and consumer insights. She has held positions at media agencies, publishers, tech platforms and research companies. She is currently the Chief Research Officer of Alter Agents, where she oversees the research functions within the company. Prior to this, she was the head of global ad research and insights at Snap. In this role, she produced thought leadership to educate the advertising industry and marketing community on mobile and Snapchat advertising through data-driven insights and empirical evidence. During her career, she has conducted market and media research for a wide variety of advertisers, including Twitter, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive, Sony, and Campbell’s. She serves as a mentor for Women in Research (WIRe) and has served on the board of the Advertising Research Foundation’s Women in Analytics program. She received her M.B.A. in marketing from Baruch College at the City University of New York.

Some of Heather’s past engagements include:

  • "Beyond trends: What really moves Gen Z", Esomar North America, Nov 2025.
  • "Do you know the REAL Gen Z?", AdvertisingWeek New York, Oct 2025.
  • "Smarter Marketing with Better Insights", Digital Marketing Institute, Sept 2025. 
  • "Rethinking Research for a Noisy World," OnBrand podcast, July 2025. 
  • “Augmented Reality: A Critical Part of Your Toolkit - Boosting engagement, influencing purchases, and creating goodwill among audiences” with Snapchat, ESOMAR Congress, September 2023. 
  • “Why I doubled down on market research.” Now That’s Significant Podcast, March 2023.
  • “How to Make Gen Z Fall in Love with Your Brand.” Advertising Week, 2022. (Snapchat)
  • “Gen Z demands a new media plan.”, Media & Insights Engagement Conference, 2022 (Snapchat)
  • “Best Practices in Thought Leadership.”, ARF Women in Analytics, June 2022 (Snapchat)
  • “Are you ready for what’s next?”, Association of National Advertisers Conference, June 2022 (Snapchat)
  • “Unlocking the New Currency of Attention”, ARF Audience x Science, 2021 (Snapchat)
  • “How Augmented Reality Influences Purchasing”, I-Com Summit, May 2021 (Snapchat)
  • “Full Funnel Ad Measurement”, ARF Attribution Accelerator, October 2019 (Kantar)