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Who Matthew Bertram Is

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Matthew Bertram (also known as Matt Bertram) is an AI keynote speaker and the creator of Digital Information Governance® (DIG®) - USPTO Reg. 99559923. He is President of ModalPoint (“Decision Intelligence for Energy”) and CEO of EWR Digital, based in Houston, Texas.

His work centers on a single thesis: AI systems are already making decisions about companies - what they’re recommended for, screened out of, and priced on - and the boards that can see and govern those decisions will out-decide the ones that can’t. DIG® is the discipline for keeping an organization accurately and consistently represented across the AI systems, search engines, and data environments that now mediate trust and revenue.

He is a 2026 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) panelist, co-host of the Oil & Gas Sales & Marketing podcast on OGGN, a NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium member, a Certified AI Auditor (CAIA), a member of the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses (2026) graduate, and the author of eight books.

Matthew Bertram speaking at OTC 2026

At a glance

  • Name: Matthew Bertram (a.k.a. Matt Bertram)
  • Roles: President, ModalPoint · CEO, EWR Digital
  • Known for: Digital Information Governance® (DIG®)
  • Based: Houston, Texas
  • Trademark: DIG® - USPTO Reg. 99559923
Bodies of work

Digital Information Governance®

The registered framework (USPTO 99559923) behind the keynotes and the work - keeping companies accurately represented to AI and search.

8 books

On AI visibility, SEO, and enterprise growth - incl. LLM Visibility, the Enterprise SEO Operating System, and Oil & Gas Sales & Marketing (with Mark LaCour).

Two podcasts

Host of The Best SEO Podcast (since 2009, 680+ episodes, 6M+ downloads) and co-host of Oil & Gas Sales & Marketing on OGGN.

Verified profiles

The authoritative links that anchor the identity (the sameAs chain AI systems follow):

Amazon Author

Author store

Search Engine Journal

SEJ author

Crunchbase

Crunchbase

The Best SEO Podcast

bestseopodcast.com

ModalPoint

modalpoint.com

EWR Digital

ewrdigital.com

Still to anchor: Goodreads, Apple Podcasts series page, and a Wikidata item (in progress).

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