Speaking Engagements
SIMA Super Summit
The New Retail Playbook: How to Win When the Rules Have Changed
The SIMA Super Summit is a dynamic gathering of surf industry leaders and innovators across business, culture and sport. In a time of disruption, digital acceleration, and shifting global landscapes, this summit is designed to spark collaboration, elevate sustainability and drive forward-thinking strategies for long-term growth.
Join Kevin Kelley for his keynote speech on unveiling the new playbook for retailers: one built on human connection, cultural meaning, and social experiences that no screen can replace.
Learn more and join here!
NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show
Revitalizing Customer Experience with Community-Centric Strategies
Retail success stories are written by companies that are simultaneously crushing it in the now and primed for what's next. NRF 2026 calls it The Next Now.
Join Kevin Kelley and Shannon DeVito, senior director of book strategy and customer experience with Barnes & Noble, for a fireside chat exploring the impact of retail on community and creating store environments that tap into discover, delight, escape, and social bliss.
Learn more and join us here!
Past Speaking Engagements
Retail Connect Events: Collaborate 2022
Why Physical Retail's Human Touch Remains Strong and Desirable in the Post-Pandemic World
Kevin E Kelley—a self-described Attention Architect and LinkedIn top commentator—is coming to Collaborate to address the needs of the human body and mind and where retail and society appear to be heading as we enter a new chapter in the reconnecting world.
Kevin Will be speaking on:
Why physical retail's human touch remains strong and desirable in the post-pandemic world
As the co-founder of the 30-year-old strategic design firm SHOOK KELLEY, Kevin has been at the center of retail on a global scale. His firm's clients have included Kroger, Kraft, Smucker, Harley Davidson, NFL teams, Whole Foods, and many other notable names.
Kevin will help us gain perspective on what the past two and a half years have given us to learn from and apply as we move forward into the future. He'll challenge the audience to consider what the app revolution's relentless obsession with ruthless efficiency and frictionless convenience has wrought on society and retail businesses. He'll help us realize how vital to human development meeting at the intersection of commerce and community is to civilization. And he'll help us see what gets lost in translation in our shift from physical to digital life and from experiential to algorithmic market models.
Kevin is an insightful, entertaining, and provocative speaker, and we think you'll enjoy hearing why his strategic design approach to brand building is key to connecting to the consumer of today and tomorrow.
Go to https://www.retaildesignevent.com/index.html to Register!
2025 Technology & Entrepreneurship Summit
Entrepreneurship Keynote
The Technology & Entrepreneurship Summit brings together entrepreneurs, industry professionals, students, and community members to explore the evolving landscape of technology and business. The summit is hosted by the Northern Innovation and Startup Center, in collaboration with the Aberdeen Development Corporation.
Join Kevin Kelley (Wednesday, September 24 at 9:00AM) for his keynote speech on entrepreneurship and his insights on how to design spaces that encourage innovation, relevance, and long-term success.
Learn more and join here!
PCBC 2025
Main Stage Keynote
A convention hallmark, PCBC's keynote sessions feature legendary thinkers and doers in the fields of business, strategy, performance, entertainment, leadership, and motivation.
Join Kevin Kelley (Wednesday, June 11 at 3:00PM) for his keynote speech on behavioral design with insights on how physical environments affect the minds of consumers. He will join a panel discussion with economy expert Christopher Thornberg (Founder, Beacon Economics) and consumer sentiment expert J. Walker Smith (Chief Knowledge Officer, Kantar Consulting) for an illuminating interrelated discussion.
Learn more and join here!