Three-day event beginning on September 3 has impressive line-up of speakers
BY TEAM IMPACT
The International Advertising Association (India Chapter) is all set to celebrate its Silver Jubilee with a three-day summit in Kochi, Kerala from September 3 to 5, 2015. Under the overall theme of “What’s Coming Next” of IAA Global, the Summit will have a sub-theme of ‘Crossroads: Where Change is shaping the Future Today’.
“We are pulling out all stops,” says IAA India Chapter President Srinivasan Swamy. “Faris Abouahmad, Chairman and World President of IAA World Board, is flying down to be with us. There will be top international and national speakers and great entertainment. The content will appeal to senior and middle-management professionals across marketing, advertising and media. We are making special arrangements to accommodate academia as well because we want them to benefit from the great content on offer.”
To accommodate the illustrious speakers, IAA is now beginning the Summit on September 3 instead of September 4, as planned earlier. “We are overwhelmed by the response received from some great speakers. We are now set to have the most impressive event of its kind in several years,” Swamy adds.
Pradeep Guha, Area Director, IAA Asia Pacific and Chairman of the Summit adds, “The India Chapter has been performing quite remarkably and I am very pleased that the Silver Jubilee is being celebrated with a mix of knowledge and entertainment of the highest order. The scale of the summit compares very favourably with Ad Asia in Jaipur and New Delhi earlier.”
The speakers have been chosen based on what’s really important to marketing, advertising and media professionals. The diverse list of speakers includes Cindy Gallop, Founder and former Chair of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (she chaired the Glass Lions Jury at Cannes this year); Rob Sherlock, Worldwide Executive Creative Director, ADK; Simon Kemp, Regional Managing Director, We are Social, Singapore; Shailesh Rao, VP Asia Pacific, Latin America and Emerging Markets, of Twitter; Fernando Ortiz- Ehmann, Senior Strategist, Saffron Brand Consultants, Madrid; Sanjiv Puri, President, FMCG, ITC; and Rahul Welde, VP-Media, Unilever, for Asia, Africa, Middle East, Turkey and Russia. Besides, there is Michel de Rijk, CEO, Asia Pacific, Xaxis; Jeffery Cole, Founder, Center for the Digital Future USA; Abhay Pande, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital; Sam Balsara, Chairman and MD of Madison World; and Amitabh Kant, Principal Secretary Govt. of India, who leads the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
Prasoon Joshi of McCann WorldGroup will be in conversation with Sachin Tendulkar, and Ralph Simon, Chairman & CEO, Mobilium Global Group, London; bestselling author Paul X McCarthy; Arnab Goswami, President & Editor in Chief, Times Now and spiritual guru Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev round up the list of eclectic speakers.
