This is Native: Building the Skydance Brewing Brand Story w/ Brian Winkeler

An in-depth look at how branding firm Robot House helped reveal the passion and promise behind Oklahoma’s first Native-owned craft brewery. "This is Native: Building the Skydance Brewing Brand Story" with Brian Winkeler Join us for our 4th speaker event of our 2026-27 season, "This is Native: Building the Skydance Brewing Brand Story" with Brian Winkeler, Founder and Verbal Creative Director of Robot House. Presentation Overview: Native American entrepreneur Jacob “Jake” Keyes launched his craft brewery Skydance Brewing Co. with much fanfare and strong sales but knew his vision to rewrite the Native American narrative and inspire the next generation of Native entrepreneurs was not yet present in his brand. Brian Winkeler will walk through the comprehensive brand development process he and his team utilized to establish a proudly confident verbal platform that articulates the Skydance brand story and a refreshed visual approach that doubled retail sales within its first quarter of release. Attendees will leave with deeper insight into a proven brand process that taps into a brand’s emotional core and produces creative with a uniqueness and authenticity impossible to ignore. Speaker Bio: Brian Winkeler is founder and verbal creative director (his fancy version of “copywriter”) of Robot House, a boutique brand creative firm in downtown Oklahoma City, a community way, way cooler than the one he began his career in 35 years ago. He takes partial credit. Befitting a business named after an obscure reference from the animated series ‘Futurama,’ Robot House has earned its reputation as the ragtag team of local creative misfits, specializing in thoughtfully unexpected brands and campaigns that inspire laughter, tears, and the occasional grammatically incorrect one-star Google review. Brian is the only three-, four-, five-, six-, seven-, eight-, nine-, ten-, eleven-, and twelve-time winner of the coveted Fontana Award for Advertising Humor bestowed by AAF Oklahoma. But who’s counting? Location: Second floor of the NDSU Memorial Union in the Prairie Rose Room.