Disruption Marketing: You Don’t Have the Budget to Be Boring

Craft Brewers Conference 2026
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Speakers: Rob Day, Michelle Robertson, Anna Sokratov

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Discover how disruptive marketing can drive growth and set your brewery apart in a crowded marketplace. In this session, marketing leaders from across the beverage alcohol industry share real-world examples, proven strategies, and lessons learned from building and executing disruptive campaigns. Walk away with concrete tools to challenge convention, identify opportunities, and translate bold ideas into measurable business results.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain why disruptive marketing creates competitive advantage and how it applies directly to brewery businesses
  • Identify and evaluate opportunities to disrupt—from challenging category norms to reimagining customer engagement
  • Apply practical techniques to gain internal buy-in for disruptive ideas and align teams around bold strategies
  • Draw inspiration from case studies of disruptive marketing within and beyond the craft beer industry, and adapt them for their own business success

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