ADFEST 2019 is fast approaching and we’re counting down the days until it officially starts. The program is out, the speakers and sessions have been shared, and the jury names have been announced. In the next few days leading up to ADFEST’s official opening, we’ll be sharing everything you need to know about the biggest advertising conference in Southeast Asia, happening in Pattaya, Thailand.
Jury President: Mitsuyuki Nakamura
Global President, Dentsu X, London
Under Nakamura’s tenure, dentsu X Thailand accelerated its service diversity to deliver integrated solutions alongside transforming from a traditional media agency into a full-service agency. He oversaw a threefold growth in business size, climbed the agency rankings, built a reputation for great work, and was recipient of unprecedented awards and recognition – chief of which was the ‘quad crown’: Media Agency of the Year, Digital Agency of the Year, Creative Agency of the Year, and Integrated Agency of the Year.
Anthony James
Executive Director, Trinity Consulting Services, Sydney
Anthony J James (better known as AJ) is an innovative and creative business solutions leader, with a strong focus on idea generation, commercialisation and growth. His experience in the digital innovation field spans over a quarter of a century for both marketing agencies, technology companies, start-ups and management consulting firms.
Anthony received industry recognition from LinkedIn, as the Highest Profile Marketing & Advertising Executive in Australia in 2018 as well as the Most Influential Thought Leader Amongst Media Agencies in the Asia-Pacific region for his work in innovation, digital transformation, consumer engagement and disruptive growth strategies.
Christine Wang
General Manager, E-Commerce, Publicis China, Shanghai
Sponsor
Before joining Publicis, Christine Wang held multiple leadership roles. She was COO and GM of a leading eCommerce & Digital agency at which she was also a partner. In those roles, she was in charge of operations and finance management for over 10 years while also acting as an Account Director and Head Strategist for the agency’s major multinational clients.
Over her 15 years of experience, Christine has developed a core set of skills in Digital and eCommerce and relationships with major Chinese marketplaces & eTailers, she has used her expertise to launch and run eCommerce activities for 20 brands in the last five years alone.
Emir Shafri
Executive Creative Director, Kuala Lumpur
Named one of Asia’s top up-and-coming creative technologists by Little Black Book, Emir served as Y&R Malaysia’s Executive Creative Director. Over the past two years, he helped build the mainstream agency’s full-fledged digital creative capabilities from the ground up, transforming it into one of the network’s most profitable offices in the region. Prior to that, he was in Singapore, where as Head of Digital, he led Y&R Singapore to its first “Agency of the Year” (Campaign AOY) and APAC’s top agency in mobile (Spikes Asia 2014) ever, as well as its highest ranking on Campaign Brief Asia’s Creative Ranking in over a decade.
Joy Castillo
Data & Analytics Director, OMNICOM MEDIA GROUP PHILIPPINES, Manila
Key Clients in existing role: Nissan, McDonald’s, BDF, HSBC, P&G, Oppo, SCJ, Hormel, Sony Pictures, Columbia, Levi’s, Ferrero, HP, Resort’s World, JBL, EDI, Del Monte
Her expertise range from syndicated audience measurements, market research as well as analytics. Providing support to all of the Philippine media brands and business units, her exposure to multiple categories and working with local and multinational clients has given her a wealth of experiences in maximizing data, tools and knowledge assets. This has been helped by her strong background in research and business development.
Sherri Maxwell
Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup, Bangkok
A disciple of big ideas and design thinking rather than an adherence to a single discipline or media, she was compelled by the challenge of linking diverse local cultures, delivering marketing solutions that were truly global in scope earning amongst other plaudits, a gold Effie in 2003 for her work on Pfizer’s Detrol and 2015/2016 for her MasterCard NYE campaign awards as well as being on the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2013.
Sora Kaitkanarat
Chief Strategy Officer of IPG Mediabrands & Chief Executive Officer of IPG Consulting, Bangkok
Sora began his career as strategic planner with Dentsu Young and Rubicam in 1997 prior joining Lowe in 2000 to co-found Thailand first brand & research Consultancy Company under Lowe network. After nearly 11 years of driving strategy and business development at Lowe, Sora joined EURO RSCG (HAVAS GROUP) in 2011 as Managing Director to lead Thailand operation where he led the company to be one of the most awarded agency in Thailand.
