ASIA-PACIFIC – OCTOBER 2011: AdAsia 2011 presents its 27th edition in the Indian capital on October 31 to November 3, 2011 after a gap of eight years. The last Congress hosted by India in the pink city of Jaipur in 2003 was considered a landmark event.
The theme of AdAsia 2011 is "Uncertainty: The New Certainty." The enviable speaker lineup includes global creative and business leader. Dentsu’s Global Executive Creative Advisor Akira Kagami, Citi’s Head of Global Bob O’Leary, Droga5 Founder and Chairman David Droga, Unilever COO Harish Manwani, PepsiCo Chairman & CEO Indr Nooyi, The Coca-Cola Company’s EVP and Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer Joseph Tripodi, OMD Worldwide CEO Mainardo di Nardis, and Interpublic’s Chairman and CEO Michael Roth.
The gala evening opens with a Streets of Delhi presentation, where the sights, sounds and flavors of old Delhi will be recreated.The three-day congress packed with speaker sessions will be capped nightly by special gala presentations: the Dentsu Royal Durbar, a Vietnam Evening as a curtain-raiser to AdAsia 2013, and the Bollywood-themed Star TV Kingdom of Dreams. The organizers have also put together pre- and post-congress group tours for visitors to India.
AdAsia began as a three-day Asian Advertising Conference in 1958 sponsored by the Japan International Advertising Association (JIAA). The principal objective of the conference was to give Asian advertising a boost in the post war era. The conference was attended by delegates from six countries including Japan. The modest conference grew into a congress in the 1960s and was nicknamed AdAsia in 1984.
For more information and to register for AdAsia 2011, visit www.adasia2011.com.
The list of confirmed speakers include:
A. Salman Amin – Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, PepsiCo.
Adil Zainulbhai – Managing Director – India, McKinsey & Company Inc.
Akira Kagami – Executive Advisor & Global Executive Creative Advisor, Dentsu Inc.
Anna Bernasek, Writer and Journalist
Arvind Rajan, Managing Director and Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) at LinkedIn
Bob O’Leary – Managing Director, Head of Global Marketing, Consumer, Citi.
Bruce Haines – Chief Strategy Officer, Cheil Worldwide
Chris Thomas – Chairman and CEO of BBDO in Asia, Middle East and Africa & Chairman of Proximity Worldwide
David Droga – Founder, Creative Chairman, Droga5
Deepa Prahalad – Author, Business Strategist and Consultant
Duncan Goose – Founder & Managing Director, Global Ethics Limited
Earl Wilkinson – Executive Director and CEO, INMA
Harish Manwani, COO, Unilever
Indra Nooyi – Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo
Irfan Mustafa – Chief Leadership Development Officer, Yum! Brands Inc. & Managing Director, Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey, Yum! Restaurants International
Joseph V. Tripodi – Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
Kate Day, Communities Editor, Daily Telegraph Online
Kelly Clark – Worldwide CEO, Maxus
Kitty Lun – Chairman & CEO, Lowe China
Koichi Yamamoto – General Manager, Global Solutions Center, Dentsu Inc.
Lakshmi Pratury , Host, The INK Conference
Laxman Narasimhan – Director – New Delhi, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Luis DeAnda, Chief Operating Officer, TBWA\HAKUHODO, Japan
Mainardo De Nardis – CEO, OMD Worldwide
Michael Boneham – President & Managing Director, Ford India
Michael I. Roth – Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Interpublic
Nitin Paranjpe, CEO & MD, Hindustan Unilever Limited & EVP South Asia, Unilever
Pankaj Ghemawat – Global Strategist, Professor, Author and Speaker
Piyush Pandey – Executive Chairman and Creative Director, South Asia, Ogilvy & Mather India
Ram Charan – Business Consultant, Speaker and Author
Rishad Tobaccowala – Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, VivaKi
Robert Senior – CEO Saatchi & Saatchi EMEA and Saatchi & Saatchi Fallon Group, Chairman,
Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Creative Board
Robin Wight – President, Engine and WCRS
Ronda Carnegie, Head of Global Partnerships at TED.
Sanjay Kapoor – Chief Executive Officer, Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Santosh Desai – Managing Director & CEO, Future Brands Ltd.
Simon Bond – Chief Marketing Officer, BBDO/Proximity Worldwide
Swami Sukhabodhananda – Founder & Chairman, Prasanna Trust
Thirasak Tanapatanakul – Worldwide Chairman, Creative Juice
Tom Doctoroff – JWT, North Asia Area Director, Greater China CEO
Vikram Sakhuja, Chief Executive Officer – South Asia, Group M
Will Sansom – Writer and Consultant, Contagious Communications
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