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TamekaKee

I work at the nexus of advertising, technology, and culture — helping companies find the through line between what they've built and why it matters.

Tameka Kee on stage at Advertising Week New York
Narrative
Positioning
Content
Facilitation
Strategy
TK

She started as a journalist.
It shows.

Tameka Kee has spent fifteen years at the intersection of media, advertising technology, and the written word. She started as a journalist — covering the business of digital media for paidContent and MediaPost — which is probably why she ended up doing what she does now.

Most companies in the ad tech and media space are genuinely good at building things. What they struggle with is articulating why those things matter — to their clients, to the market, to their own teams. That's where Tameka comes in. She works with companies on narrative, positioning, and content strategy, finding the through line between complex technology and the people on the other end who actually use it or are impacted by it.

The other thing she does is host and facilitate. She's led sessions for Beet.TV, Black Public Media, TWIPN, and others — curating conversations between seriously smart people and getting them to think differently. That work tends to land in rooms because someone watched it happen somewhere else.

She's been at the frontier of emerging technology and media for fifteen years — when it was mobile, it was mobile. When it was programmatic, it was programmatic. When it was AR and VR, and now AI. The technology changes. The questions it raises don't.

She has always been the person translating what's complicated into what's actionable. The industry just keeps giving her new material to work with.

Tameka Kee onstage at Admonsters Pubforum

The technology changes. The questions it raises don't. AI just happens to be raising all of them at once.

— Tameka Kee

15+ Years in Digital
Media & Adtech
50+ Conferences &
Events Moderated
3 Active Editorial
Platforms
1 Live Series
in Development

How the
work works.

01

Speaking & Moderation

On Stage

Keynotes, firesides, and working sessions — from Cannes Lions to Advertising Week to invite-only retreats. Not performative neutrality. Expert moderation: framing the question, surfacing the tension, getting the room to think differently. That work tends to land in new rooms because someone watched it happen in the last one.

02

Strategy & Narrative

In the Room

Most companies in this space are good at building things. What they struggle with is articulating why those things matter. Positioning, messaging, go-to-market narrative — finding the through line between complex technology and the people who actually use it or are impacted by it.

03

Curation & Programming

Behind the Agenda

Designing conference sessions and editorial programs that don't just cover the conversation — they move it. The filter is differentiation: if five other sessions are already doing it, find the angle no one else is working. Audiences don't need the sixth panel on the same topic.

04

Writing & Analysis

On the Record

The structural read on what's changing, who benefits, and what practitioners need to understand. Not hype, not hot takes. The journalism training shows — the instinct is always to follow the money, name the incentive, and say the thing the room is thinking but hasn't said yet.

Stages,
sessions,
and rooms
that matter.

Not a keynote speaker who parachutes in. A practitioner who designs sessions, shapes agendas, and stays for the conversations that happen after the panel ends.

Upcoming

Cannes Lions — Beet.TV Stage

Cannes, France

Confirmed
Recent

Beet Retreat: AI Agents & Agentic Commerce

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Emcee

Advertising Week New York

New York, NY

Speaker

Cannes Lions — Beet.TV / CMX Fireside

Cannes, France

Moderator

AdMonsters Publisher Forum

Various Locations

Moderator
Tameka Kee leading a working group session
Working session
Tameka Kee leading a fireside chat at Cannes
On stage
Past Appearances Include
Cannes Lions
France
·
Advertising Week
New York
·
Beet Retreat
San Juan
·
Publisher Forum
Various
·
TWIPN
New York

The writing.
The talking.
The thinking.

Different formats. Same instinct — to find the signal in the noise and say something worth saying.

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Technology moves fast.
The questions it raises
move faster.

Every week there's a new product, a new headline, a new capability that reshapes how we communicate, create, and do business. The legal implications are murky. The technical reality is misunderstood. The creative and commercial possibilities are underexplored. And the people who could answer these questions — the lawyers, the engineers, the marketers and makers — rarely end up in the same room.

Ethics from the Edge puts them there.

Each session takes a single technology story, product, or ethical question and examines it through three distinct lenses: legal, technical, and creative. Not a panel where everyone agrees. Not a lecture. A structured conversation designed to produce genuine insight — because the friction between perspectives is where the real thinking happens.

Hosted and curated by Tameka Kee.

The Format

One topic. Three perspectives. One room.
A lawyer unpacks the regulatory and licensing implications.
A technologist explains how it actually works — and what's coming next.
A creative or marketer explores what it means for how we build, sell, and communicate.
Then the conversation opens up.

Who It's For

Media and advertising professionals who want to think seriously about the technology reshaping their industry. Brand partners and sponsors who want to be associated with the conversation that's actually moving the needle. Institutions and foundations who fund the kind of cultural and intellectual work that doesn't fit neatly anywhere else.

Get Involved

Ethics from the Edge is currently seeking founding partners and underwriters for its inaugural series.

ethics@tjkmedia.co

Let's talk
about what
you're building

Whether you need a strategic thought partner, someone to lead a room, or a writer who actually understands the space — the conversation starts the same way.