Rory Sutherland stands at the center of an advertising revolution in brand identities, designing cutting-edge, interactive campaigns that blur the line between ad and entertainment.

Previously, he worked for McCann Worldgroup as the Worldwide Director and regional Director, and also for Interpublic and BBDO EMEA.

Saatchi & Saatchi NDS have become for their 21st year one of the most attended event during Cannes Lions week. Saatchi & Saatchi invites submissions from directors across the globe and uses its Network to chose only a few directors: 17 this year for the concept “Hello Future“. The previous editions have featured acclaimed directors as Michel Gondry, Tarsem, Spike Jonze, Ivan Zacharias…

Kate Stanners, worldwide spokesperson for the NDS, was appointed Executive Creative Director in the UK in 2005. She previously founded Boymeetsgirl, worked for St Luke’s, Bates Dorland, GGT. She has worked for clients like Channel 4, Clarks Shoes, Eurostar, COI, Sky… She She is a member of WACL and the RSA, and sits on the IPA Council

Tom Eslinger is also a member of Saatchi & Saatchi worldwide Creative Board. He joined the agency in 1998 and is now responsible for all digital capabilities. Tom is a multiple Cannes Lion winner across outdoor, cyber, media, direct and promo for web and mobile work, and has judged, run Juries and been awarded internationally.In 2007, he was the President of the Cyber Lions jury at the Cannes International Advertising Awards. This was Tom’s third Cannes jury appearance, serving on the 2002 Cyber and 2006 Titanium juries.

Thom Gruhler was appointed President of McCann New York in August 2009 after serving eight years as global leader of Verizon. In November 2008, the AAF (American Advertising Foundation) inducted Thom into its Advertising Hall of Achievement. The AAF Hall of Achievement is the highest industry award for excellence and accomplishment in advertising professionals 40 and under.

John Wright is Head of Strategic Business Development, EMEA at McCann Erickson. John works alongside Daley, the executive vice-president chief strategist McCann Worldgroup EMEA and worldwide director of strategic solutions, and report to Brett Gosper, the chief executive and regional director.

Matt Donovan joined McCann Erickson’s flagship New York office in 2010 as EVP, Managing Partner, with responsibility for leading the operations of the agency on a daily basis. He also is involved with recruiting talent of every stripe, identifying and developing thought leaders within the agency, and pursuing partnerships in entertainment, technology, product development and other related fields.

Marita Scarfi worked her way up from a junior-finance position and is the agency’s third CEO since inception. Coming from a background in business consulting and public accounting, she helped architect Organic’s initial public offering and sale to Omnicom in 2003.

Steve Kehro is currently the SVP of Analytics, Media and Marketing Optimization for Organic, across all of their offices and accounts. Steve’s 20 year career in Marketing includes extensive experience in online and offline media, web development, promotions, product development, marketing strategy, creative, CRM and marketing analytics.

Conor Brady deeply passionates about design and has been an Experience Designer/Creative Director for over 15 years. He joined Organic from Razorfish.
He came to Organic as a Group Creative Director in 2006 and was promoted to Chief Creative Officer in 2009.

Shane Ginsberg is executive director, global business development, for Organic. After beginning his career at Organic in 1994, Ginsberg returned in 2004 as executive director. Based in San Francisco, Ginsberg leads Organic’s new business efforts across the network. Under his direction. Prior to returning to Organic, Ginsberg was managing director of AKQA’s San Francisco headquarters.

Freddie Laker is the VP Digital Strategy, Global Brands of Sapient Nitro. He participated to the creation of well over 1.500 interactive projects for client like Unilever, Coca-Cola, Toyota…

Indeed, both his production and the presentation film are really interesting.

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The idea was simple, to permite guys go drinking beer wih their friends in bars, they created a big box with different sound ambiances (hospital, traffic jam,, walking dog…). The aim of this action  was to reassure their wife or girlfriend calling them in the box and with the ambiance they chose to lie about what they are really doing.

Thanks to his talent Maxi has brought his agency, Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi to the top 5 in Gunn Report.

David’s career has been characterized by tremendous accomplishments at a very young age. He was recently named Global CEO of Havas Worldwide, running Euro RSCG Worldwide, Arnold Worldwide and all creative, marketing services and design companies throughout the global Havas network of 12,000 people and more than 250 offices. In addition to his role with Havas, David serves as the Global Chief Executive Officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide where he manages one of the world’s leading global agency networks. And over the past four years, David has led Euro RSCG through a period of impressive growth.
Prior to this, David was CEO of the New York office of Euro RSCG, where he managed an unprecedented new business and creative renaissance. In under a year, the agency became one of New York’s hottest shops, winning more than $500 million in new business, including the global Jaguar car business and the North American Charles Schwab account. David was previously Euro RSCG’s President of Global Business, leading the agency’s 42 multinational clients. He served as Chief Executive of Euro RSCG Australia (1998-2002) during which time the agency was named “Australia’s Agency of the Year” and Australia’s “Interactive Agency of the Year” no fewer than four times.

While his accomplishments speak for themselves, the industry has recognized David for his noteworthy leadership. In 2005, he was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Achievement” and was named to the “40 Under 40” lists of both Crain’s New York Business and Advertising Age, the following year. In 2006, the Financial Times and Aviva named him one of the Top 5 European Pioneering Thought Leaders. More recently, David was selected by The World Economic Forum as one of the 2008 Young Global Leaders, joining 245 leading executives, public figures and intellectuals – all age 40 or younger – chosen from around the world.
During his career, David has become a passionate advocate for a host of social and political causes, most recently leading the industry on his call for creative minds to come together to help address various issues facing our world. He is the co-founder of One Young World, an organization that aims to be the voice of twenty-somethings worldwide on critical international issues such as environmentalism, health and education. Kofi Annan has selected David and his team to lead the global advertising for the Campaign for Climate Justice, which aims to raise awareness of the impact of the changing environment on poor communities throughout the globe.

Bill is not only Wiredrive’s president, but the visionary behind the technology itself. He started developing web applications in 1995, just after Al Gore invented the Internet. He has the distinction of building the first communications extranet in the entertainment business for CBS, and his team of interactive wizards have designed the most well known websites in the business. His restless commitment for linking good technology to improving business practices has revolutionized how the creative industry works and collaborates today.

David’s career has been characterized by tremendous accomplishments at a very young age. He was recently named Global CEO of Havas Worldwide, running Euro RSCG Worldwide, Arnold Worldwide and all creative, marketing services and design companies throughout the global Havas network of 12,000 people and more than 250 offices. In addition to his role with Havas, David serves as the Global Chief Executive Officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide where he manages one of the world’s leading global agency networks. And over the past four years, David has led Euro RSCG through a period of impressive growth.

Prior to this, David was CEO of the New York office of Euro RSCG, where he managed an unprecedented new business and creative renaissance. In under a year, the agency became one of New York’s hottest shops, winning more than $500 million in new business, including the global Jaguar car business and the North American Charles Schwab account. David was previously Euro RSCG’s President of Global Business, leading the agency’s 42 multinational clients. He served as Chief Executive of Euro RSCG Australia (1998-2002) during which time the agency was named “Australia’s Agency of the Year” and Australia’s “Interactive Agency of the Year” no fewer than four times.

While his accomplishments speak for themselves, the industry has recognized David for his noteworthy leadership. In 2005, he was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Achievement” and was named to the “40 Under 40” lists of both Crain’s New York Business and Advertising Age, the following year. In 2006, the Financial Times and Aviva named him one of the Top 5 European Pioneering Thought Leaders. More recently, David was selected by The World Economic Forum as one of the 2008 Young Global Leaders, joining 245 leading executives, public figures and intellectuals – all age 40 or younger – chosen from around the world.

During his career, David has become a passionate advocate for a host of social and political causes, most recently leading the industry on his call for creative minds to come together to help address various issues facing our world. He is the co-founder of One Young World, an organization that aims to be the voice of twenty-somethings worldwide on critical international issues such as environmentalism, health and education. Kofi Annan has selected David and his team to lead the global advertising for the Campaign for Climate Justice, which aims to raise awareness of the impact of the changing environment on poor communities throughout the globe.

Hervé is the founder and chairman of AdForum. He has led it to be the world’s most visited advertising website with over half a million unique visitors per month. Hervé is also the initiator of ACT Responsible, a non-profit initiative whose aim is to show the positive role of advertising in today’s world social and environmental issues.

He is Vice President  CSR, IAA- International Advertising Association, New York. He created the IAA Responsibility Awards, sat on several juries of creative awards and is a regular speaker on Creativity and Social Responsibility.

Hervé is an experienced  marketing and advertising practicioner: Int’l Director of Havas Intermediation.  COO of Lesieur,  CEO of Benton & Bowles, France. (During his tenure, it has been the first ever french agency to win the Grand Prix in Cannes) and MD of Synapse, a consumer research company. He started his career at Colgate-Palmolive.

Hervé, French, graduated from ISC in Paris and Harvard Business School, Boston.