Kerry O'Shea Gorgone delivering keynote "Making the Rules While the Game Is Being Invented" at AmCham Future Lab AI & Legal Conference, Montenegro 2026

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Kerry O'Shea Gorgone speaking to media at Nasdaq MarketSite, New York City — Adobe Insiders at AdWeek

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AI governance. Marketing law. Content strategy. If you need someone who can make policy interesting to a room of 300 people, you want Kerry.

dynamic Emcee

Kerry has hosted 300-plus live shows and moderated panels for MarketingProfs, Adobe, and more. She preps like a producer and keeps your show on schedule.

panel moderator

Kerry preps her panelists, asks the questions the audience wants answered, and (most importantly) doesn't let anyone hog the mic.

What does Kerry speak about?

AI governance and policy for marketing teams

1

What your legal and compliance teams actually need from your AI strategy — and how to build the internal case for it without putting everyone to sleep. Based on Kerry's work implementing ISO 42001 AI management systems at Appfire and her 2026 keynote at the AmCham Future Lab AI & Legal Conference.

Marketing law: what content creators
and brands need to know

2

FTC disclosures, copyright, privacy, influencer agreements, and the legal questions marketers ask lawyers (and the ones they really should). Kerry has a JD, an MBA, and a decade of explaining this stuff to people who'd rather not think about it.

Content strategy and showrunning:
building audience through episodic media

3

How to build a show, not just a content calendar. The difference between posting and programming, drawn from 300-plus live episodes across The Backpack Show and Punch Out with Katie and Kerry.

AI and copyright: what marketers
need to know right now

4

Who owns AI-generated content? What counts as infringement when you're using generative tools? These are live legal questions with real business consequences — and most marketing teams are making decisions without knowing the answers. Kerry brings both the legal background and the practitioner's perspective.

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Official bio

Kerry O'Shea Gorgone (JD/MBA) is a keynote speaker, showrunner, and AI strategist. She serves as Content Marketing Lead and AI Lead at Appfire — the largest global provider of Atlassian apps — where she participates in ISO 42001 AI management systems implementation and helps teams build AI governance frameworks that actually hold up.

Kerry co-hosts Punch Out with Katie and Kerry, an audio show now in its eighth season. For six years, she hosted 300-plus live episodes of The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan. She previously hosted Marketing Smarts, a MarketingProfs podcast with more than 200 episodes and 2,500 daily downloads.

A licensed attorney in Massachusetts who graduated first in her class from Suffolk University Law School, Kerry speaks at marketing conferences, legal and compliance summits, and B2B tech events. She delivered the keynote on AI governance at the AmCham Future Lab AI & Legal Conference in Montenegro in 2026.

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Testimonials

Kerry delivered an informative and entertaining presentation that covered the basics of mobile marketing law for small business owners. The feedback was resoundingly positive, and we’d be glad to have her as a presenter for future events.

Beth Gitlin

Women and International Business Advocate

Kerry conducted an expert round table session for our Type-A Parent Conference in Atlanta. She answered questions about law for bloggers with another area attorney, and the feedback was excellent! Conference attendees really appreciated Kerry’s knowledge and experience, and her knack for distilling complicated legal information into a few actionable takeaways that bloggers can use.

Melanie Nelson

Editor at Social Media Examiner

Kerry’s presentation was smart, practical, substantive and quite funny. I think she can add ‘Stand-Up Comic’ to the list of terms—including educator, trainer, marketer, writer, business woman, and attorney—describing her considerable abilities, as well as the way she delivers value to her employer, MarketingProfs.

If you’re in need of a great presenter that can speak on this subject or someone to help you to train your leaders in content marketing, I would highly endorse Kerry and her organization.

Robert Stammers, CFA

Director: Investor Education at CFA Institute

Kerry was a featured speaker at the Florida Blogger & Social Media Conference 2013. Not only did she make her presentation relevant, but she also made the difficult topic understandable by the majority of lay people in the audience of about 300 attendees.

As a presenter, she was prompt with speaker deadlines and helpful to the overall flow of the conference. She was also very well-received as her presentation was noted as a favorite or most beneficial on several blogger recaps. I look forward to working with Kerry again!

Bess Auer

CEO at GottaGetBlogging.com

Kerry moderated a panel for us on search and social at Vocus Demand Success 2013. But not only did she moderate it, she did so on short notice. Her work was fantastic and the crowd was engaged. Kerry is a very smart lady with chutzpah. I highly recommend her for your event!

Geoff Livingston

President and Founder at Tenacity5 Media

When I was looking for a panel moderator, Kerry Gorgone was one of the first names that came to mind. She is witty, smart and personable. But as a conference organizer, I also needed somebody who was absolutely reliable, who would help guide her team to great content to make my event exceptional without a lot of supervision. That is a special skill and Kerry was definitely the right leader for the job!

Mark Schaefer

Marketing consultant, college educator and author

Kerry O’Shea Gorgone was one of our keynotes at Social Brand Forum 2014. She’s a conference organizer’s dream as she actively takes the lead on learning about the event, the attendees, and how she can create a presentation designed to meet their needs.

As both a legal expert and a marketer, Kerry offers the perfect blend of high-level insight and actionable advice. She presents all of this in an engaging and interactive way so that the audience laughs while they learn. And the attendee survey results proved this — Kerry was one of their favorite speakers!

Nick Westergaard

Strategist, Speaker, Educator & Author;

Chief Brand Strategist of Brand Driven Digital

I felt intimidated going into this session. I know nothing about podcasting. Enter Kerry to save the day. Within minutes I felt completely at ease. She clearly loves what she does and equally enjoys sharing the process with others.

Her presentation was fun, interesting, and educational. She’s a very generous presenter. I left feeling like this was not only something I was more than capable of doing, but I absolutely should give it a go because…why not?

Mychele Boardman, Blogger, FLBlogCon 2015 attendee