ACADEMY DEAN Bob Isherwood spent 12 years at Saatchi & Saatchi as Worldwide Creative Director where he helped to reinvent the agency. It was under his leadership that the network won almost 8,000 significant awards. He has served as President of the Film and Press and Poster juries at Cannes Lions and is co-author of World Changing Ideas and an adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville where he lives. BOB ISHERWOOD Former Worldwide Creative Director Saatchi & Saatchi ASSISTANT TUTOR Having practised advertising as an Art Director at CreAds Advertising and Batey Ads (where he also interned in his school days), Noor went on to set-up Just Media (now JM Asia), an integrated brand communications agency heading its creative department. He has worked with brands at many levels, but he finds working with local and inspiring brands seeking to find that brand voice in the cluttered market most challenging and fulfilling. His job as a creative person has brought him to service accounts from New York to the Maldives. Now a lecturer at the Singapore Polytechnic Design School’s Diploma in Visual Communication and Media Design course, Noor lectures Advertising Communication, Marketing for Designers, Portfolio Development and Presentation, and also the Integrated Design Studio for its final year students. At the Singapore Polytechnic, Azhar has spun a couple of firsts for his diploma course in his first two NOOR AZHAR years of lecturing career. He set up Hive Studios which organises after-class networking and sharing sessions with the industry’s top designers and creative directors for its design students, and founded Senior Lecturer The Student Agency, an in-house communication design agency in the polytechnic that puts students Diploma in Visual through live projects and actually living the agency life. He also started the Birth The Gradshow brand Communication for the School’s graduate design show, which has had five successful features at public places in and Media Design Singapore over the last five years. Singapore Polytechnic Noor has served as Academy Tutor at the Cheil Worldwide’s Spikes Academy at Spikes Asia in 2009, Design School 2010 and 2011. He will also feature at this year’s Cannes Lion’s Young Lions Creative Academy supporting its Academy Dean, Bob Isherwood. 1 SPEAKER 15:00 - 16:00 SUNDAY 16 JUNE Exclusive presentation of Swim workshop Janet Kestin is Co-founder of Swim along with Nancy Vonk, a creative leadership lab designed to create fearless leaders in industries from advertising to architecture. They were the Co-chief Creative Officers of Ogilvy Toronto from 1998 to 2011. They led their office to two Cannes Lions Grands Prix, a Grand Clio Award and Best of Show at the Creativity Awards for work that included Dove ‘Evolution’ and ‘Diamond Shreddies’. JANET KESTIN Janet has judged Cannes Lions, The Clio Awards, CA, The One Show and D&AD. She and Nancy Co-founder were included in Creativity magazine’s Top 50 Creative People of 2008, and named advertising Swim Women of the Year at the WIN Awards and the AWNY Awards in 2007. In 2011 they were inducted into Canada’s Marketing Hall of Legends. A year later they were included in Advertising Age’s 100 Most Influential Women in Advertising. Nancy and Janet write an industry advice column ‘Ask Jancy’ on ad site ihaveanidea.org, and penned Adweek book Pick Me, now a staple in advertising schools from Texas to Turkey. They are currently writing a HarperCollins career guide for women. SPEAKER 10:00 - 10:45 MONDAY 17 JUNE Meditation session Lama Jigme Rinpoche is the representative of the Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje in Europe and travels throughout various countries. To enquire about his activities, you can contact the reception of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, which is a centre placed under his spiritual authority. LAMA JIGME RINPOCHE The 16th Karmapa’s spiritual representative in Europe 2 SPEAKER 15.30 - 16.30 TUESDAY 18 JUNE Q&A and guest Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. Her father was an officer in the Air Force and her childhood was spent on a succession of military bases. She began her career as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970, while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her pictures have appeared regularly on magazine covers ever since. Annie’s large and distinguished body of work encompasses some of the most well-known portraits of our time. ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Annie’s first major assignment was for a cover story on John Lennon. She becameRolling Stone’s Chief Photographer in 1973, and by the time she left the magazine, 10 years later, she had shot 142 Photographer covers and published photo essays on scores of stories, including her memorable accounts of the resignation of Richard Nixon and of the 1975 Rolling Stones tour. In 1983, when she joined the staff of the revived Vanity Fair, she was established as the foremost rock music photographer and an astute documentarian of the social landscape. At Vanity Fair, and later at Vogue, she developed a large body of work – portraits of actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and political and business figures, as well as fashion photographs – that expanded her collective portrait of contemporary life. In addition to her editorial work, she has created several influential advertising campaigns, including her award-winning portraits for American Express and the Gap. She has also collaborated with many arts organisations. Annie has a special interest in dance, and in 1990 she documented the creation of the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris. Several collections of her work have been published. They include Annie Leibovitz: Photographs (1983); Annie Leibovitz: Photographs 1970–1990 (1991); Olympic Portraits (1996); Women (1999), in collaboration with Susan Sontag; American Music (2003); A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005 (2006); Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008), a first-person commentary on her career; and Pilgrimage (2011). Exhibitions of her work have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world. Leibovitz is the recipient of many honors. In 2006 she was decorated a Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. The previous year, in a compilation of the 40 top magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), she held the top two spots. In 2009, she received the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award, ASME’s first Creative Excellence Award, and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in London. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts and the Wexner Prize. She has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. 3 SPEAKER 16.30 - 17.30 TUESDAY 18 JUNE Tim Mellors, Worldwide Creative of Grey Group, presents his acclaimed ‘So You Think You’re Creative’ seminar, which he has led at many American and European universities. Using pictures and music he challenges you to discover your own creative potential. Tim Mellors is the Vice-Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Grey Group. In addition, he serves as the Worldwide Chief Creative Director of Grey, the global advertising agency. He has been a magazine journalist, a commercial film director and the host of three seasons of a BBC TV series. He has also been the Creative Director of Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, GGT and his own TIM MELLORS Agency Mellors Reay. Vice-Chairman and Over 25 years Tim has served on every major awards jury in Europe, America, and the Far East Chief Creative Officer and Australia. Grey Group He has been President of the jury at Cannes, President of the Designer and Art Association and the European Creative Circle. Tim’s awards haul includes 15 Lions (three of them Gold), five D&AD pencils and the Grand Prix at Eurobest. SPEAKER 10:00 - 12:00 WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE Workshop This workshop presents the thinking patterns behind some of the most creative interactive and integrated campaigns, and supplies structured thinking tools for creating original and innovative new ideas and campaigns. Yonathan Dominitz is the Founder of Mindscapes. A trainer and leader of creativity enhancement projects in advertising, media, marketing and communications, Yonathan has personally YONATHAN conducted projects in numerous companies and leading global ad agencies. DOMINITZ More than 20 Cannes Lions, including three Grands Prix, have been awarded to work made by Founder, Trainer Mindscapes’ trained agencies, using its creative tools and methods. Mindscapes 4 SPEAKER 16:30 - 17:30 WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE Q&A with academy students Sir Alan Parker is a director, writer and producer. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter and graduated to writing and directing commercials, where in the late 1960s he was one of a small group of British directors who revolutionised world advertising. In 1980 he received the D&AD Gold President’s Award. He went on to direct feature films, including Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita, Fame, Birdy, Angel SIR ALAN PARKER Heart and Angela’s Ashes. His films have won 19 BAFTA awards, 10 Golden Globes and 10 Oscars. He was Founding Chairman of the UK Film Council, a position he held for five years, and prior to Director, writer that was Chairman of the BFI. Sir Alan received the CBE in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. He is an and producer Officier des Arts et des Lettres (France) and was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013. SPEAKER 11:30 - 12:30 THURSDAY 20 JUNE Q&A As President and CEO of Cirque du Soleil, Daniel Lamarre is in charge of developing strategies related to both business development and operations.