Who she is
Nancy A Shenker was in the room when digital media was invented. She helped build it, market it, and monetize it. She called out the hype at every turn. She launched home banking and rebranded 600+ branches for Citibank. She helped roll out MasterCard’s “Priceless” campaign, the longest-running brand campaign in history. She ran marketing for the company that turned ComicCon into a cultural institution. In 2003, she walked away from corporate life to build her own consultancy, back when being a founder wasn’t considered smart. She brings something almost no one else on the conference circuit can: genuine, lived perspective on how technology actually changes business.
Her childhood lemonade stand wasn’t just lemonade. She also sold potholders she made herself, which was Etsy before Etsy existed, and used comic books, which was upcycling and the graphic novel boom, both decades early. She set up shop on Union Turnpike, a busy thoroughfare, not a quiet side street. Her brothers were her sales team. She understood retail location planning before she understood long division.
She has owned every useful gadget, and some frivolous and obsolete ones. An IBM Selectric, a mini TV, an iPod, a bag phone, a flip phone, a Palm Pilot, a BlackBerry, nearly every iPhone and Galaxy, and now Meta glasses, a Plaud, and a Mini with Alexa built in, all while she vibe-codes at 70.
AI Strategist · Publisher, Bodies & Bots (Substack)
When AI arrived, she didn’t watch from the sidelines. She dove in as a strategist, humanist, and world-class BS-detector. She publishes Bodies & Bots on Substack, advises organizations on practical AI adoption, and built the AI methodology that valued her LinkedIn community at nearly $700M in disposable income.
Called it, on repeat, for decades
Twitter, Pinterest, and Snapchat at launch. A book on AI in 2017, years before ChatGPT made it dinner-table conversation. Substack in 2022, ahead of the newsletter boom. Now she's writing an AI-assisted, serialized comic memoir, too outrageous for her main platforms. She's disrupting the magazine industry by producing digital publications in 90 minutes, human-written. She's biohacking her body and brain, building a new AI-savvy women's community from the ground up, mapping her next brand relaunch for October, and booking speaking and stand-up comedy gigs.
Her work spans FinTech, SaaS, PropTech, AgeTech, and HumanTech, the intersection of people and the technologies built to serve them. She does all of this as a 70-year-old grandmother who outpaces most people 50 years younger. Not as a gimmick. As proof of concept.
“I was there at the beginning of every digital revolution. I am still here. The question is whether your business will be.”
