THE PALAIS

PROGRAMMING

TUESDAY 17 JUNE

11:00 - 11:45

CREATIVES IN ACTION

ABOUT THE SESSION

How can you solve problems like a creative genius? What’s the secret sauce that fuels the success of the top creative leaders? What ignites their passion right now, and what makes them tick? How do they tackle challenges, and what lessons have they learnt along the way?

Three creatives come together on stage to exchange ideas, dissect creative processes and storytelling techniques and debate emerging trends, tools and skill sets.

Join them to unlock the transformational power of creativity on brands, consumers and society. Get your creative juices flowing and inject new thinking into your work to achieve new levels of success.

SPEAKERS

Alice Chou Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Creative Taiwan

Shaheed Peera

Global Executive Creative Director, IPG Health Maisie McCabe

UK Editor, Haymarket Media Group

15:30 - 16:00

LUXURY FOR EVERYONE: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY

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What will ‘luxury’ mean in the future? Will tomorrow's luxury brands offer prosperity to everyone, not just an exclusive few?

HERALBONY, one of Japan’s most talked-about brands, in partnership with Dentsu Inc., is positively reshaping the narrative around disabilities.

Join this session to explore how a brand, an agency and the disabled artists they work with can transform negative perceptions and contribute to the growth and prosperity of consumers, businesses and society – through creativity.

Discover how luxury brands can change from symbols of indulgent consumption to a beacon of hope for the greater good. Get inspired by practical strategies to help you make an impact.

This session includes a live element: a HERALBONY artist will be performing a live drawing onstage.

SPEAKERS

Takaya Matsuda Co-CEO HERALBONY Co., Ltd.

Kinami Hasegawa Creative Director Dentsu Inc. Satoru Kobayashi Artist Lumbini Museum of Art, Iwate Shota Matsuda

WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE

16:45 - 17:15

UNLOCKING INNOVATION IN INDIA

THROUGH CURIOSITY AND CREATIVE TECH

ABOUT THE SESSION

How do you build a culture of innovation from the ground up by employing curiosity and creative tech, especially in an environment where it’s never been done before?

Uncovering the key principles, mindset shifts, troubleshooting and unconventional approaches that turned an old table tennis table in a scrappy basement into the largest in-house creative tech lab in an advertising agency set up in India. This is a classic Indian underdog story.

Discover how to harness curiosity to unlock innovation and drive meaningful change in the creative industry.

It’s not just a story of what we did – it’s a playbook for what you can do next.

SPEAKER

Gurbaksh Singh Chief Creative Officer and Chief Innovation Officer

Dentsu Creative India

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