• Donald Gunn: Number One with a Bullet
    Segment:
    PANEL DISCUSSIONS
    Title:
    Donald Gunn: Number One with a Bullet
    Synopsis:
    The arbiter of excellence in the advertising industry and co-moderator of this year's Show - officially opens the festivities with his round-up of the best work from the past year.

    Sponsored by the Gunn Report

    Participants:
    Donald Gunn


  • Executive Jury Press Conference
    Segment:
    PANEL DISCUSSIONS
    Title:
    Executive Jury Press Conference
    Synopsis:
    Meet the 2012 Dream Team—24 of the most influential creatives in the world—and hear what they have to say about this year’s entries, our unique judging process, and see if they’ll let on whose work they’ve decided reigns supreme.

    Participants:
    Participating Executive Jury Members


  • Tom Burrell: One-on-One with the 2012 New York Festivals Hall of Fame Inductee
    Segment:
    PANEL DISCUSSIONS
    Title:
    Tom Burrell: One-on-One with the 2012 New York Festivals Hall of Fame Inductee
    Synopsis:
    Tom Burrell declared “Black people are not dark-skinned white people” and simultaneously revolutionized the image of African Americans in television and changed the face of American advertising. He also founded of one of the largest multi-cultural and niche marketing firms in the world, Burrell Communications, and started the Resolution Project, which promotes intra-racial dialogue and community-based new media. Get up close and personal with the marketing communications pioneer prior to his induction into the New York Festivals Hall of Fameas he’s interviewed by the author of his upcoming biography, Jason Chambers, PhD and associate professor in the Department of Advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    Participants:
    Tom Burrell, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Burrell Communications

    Jason Chambers, PhD and associate professor in the Department of Advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


  • Technology and Opportunity: A Brighter Outlook for Women in Advertising
    Segment:
    PANEL DISCUSSIONS
    Title:
    Technology and Opportunity: A Brighter Outlook for Women in Advertising
    Synopsis:
    Social media, tablets, geo location, augmented reality… traditional media has changed, and the Women CCOs from all over the globe discuss the traditional agency model has changed, too. Will this create new opportunities for women in advertising?

    Participants:
    Moderator: Carol Watson, President and Founder, Tangerine-Watson and Vice President, AWNY

    Karen Mallia, Associate Professor of Advertising, University of South Carolina

    Carol Lam, Managing Director & CCO, McCann Erickson China

    Diane Ruggie, SVP & Group CD formerly with DDB Chicago


 

 

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