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Shouvik leads the Digital, Analytics and Content (DAC) team at Golin Singapore, spearheading its integrated communications efforts to help brands create greater relevance with their target audience and deliver business impact.

He has led multiple award-winning campaigns for brands including Twitter, LinkedIn, Porsche, Volvo Trucks, Heineken, Guinness, Nespresso, McDonald’s, Samsung, Panasonic and several Unilever brands.

With fifteen years of experience working across public relations and creative agencies, Shouvik’s current focus is to explore how brands can take a progressive earned-first approach in communication by combining data, analytics and creative thinking.

Shouvik holds a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, India and a Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication and Public Relations from GTTI, India.

He has been on the PR Jury at Cannes Lions 2019, and PR and Glass jury at Spikes Asia 2019. He is a travel enthusiast with a passion for photography. Taking long walks in the nature parks with his dog Tara help fuel his creative spirit.

Brendan O’Grady joined GMG as Group Communications Director in 2017 from FTSE 100 publisher and Financial Times owner Pearson, where he held a series of senior communications roles. Earlier in his career, he held communications roles at the British Embassy in Washington DC, and in the Downing Street Press Office in London under Prime Ministers Blair and Brown.

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Candice is the National Communications Manager at the United Nations Association of Australia and a Doctor of Behavioural Science. Passionate about the celerity and dynamics of social marketing, Candice has a strong interest in humanitarian, health and non-profit industries, the United Nations and international affairs. Her research focuses on spokesperson effects, the psychology of decision-making, and the impact this may have on behavioural intentions. Candice has previously completed her Bachelor, Masters (with Distinction), and Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle and comes with a professional background in health, marketing & communications, and research.

Getting his career start at creative agency, Clemenger Melbourne. He moved to the United States in 2009 to BBDO NY, then Droga5 New York, working under David Droga on Newcastle Brown Ale ‘No Bollocks’ and the Titanium Lion winning work for Prudential. After a stint at Co: Collective New York, Ant returned to Australia to start CHE Proximity in Sydney.

Since joining the agency Ant has ignited CHE Proximity’s creative reputation, leading the agency to over 200 international creative awards including 23 Cannes Lions and Best in Show at Caples, A Grand Clio, A Grand Spikes, as well as multiple awards at D&AD, LIA, The One Show, The Andys and The Webby awards. The agency has also been crowned Australian agency of the year at ADC, The Australian Financial Review, AdNews, B&T, The Effies and creative agency of the year at Mumbrella.

Ant’s ability to connect different people across disciplines from media, tech, data and design to traditional art and copy has seen him ranked in the top 20 Global Chief Creative Officers in the world by the WARC report.

Georgia Wright joined CHE Proximity in 2018 and heads up their PR offering in her role as Director, PR. Before relocating to Australia, she held global PR roles at both Proximity and Saatchi & Saatchi advertising networks. Passionate about the role PR can play in creative communications, over the last 14 years she has helped develop award-winning, highly effective campaigns for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Nike, Pepsi Max, American Express and Lynx.

I’m an award-winning brand strategist with a background in consumer trends.

I have won the following strategy awards for my thinking: 3x Australian Effies (1x Gold & 2x Bronze), Cannes Creative Effectiveness Lion (Gold), 2x Euro Effies (Grand Prix & Gold), 4x North American Effies (incl. 1x Gold, 2x Silver), IPA Effectiveness Award (Sliver) & 3x APG Creative Strategy Awards (Gold, 2x Silvers).

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Specialties: Brand positioning, cultural research, naming, creative development, consumer trends, brand strategy, qualitative research, writing (published in Campaign UK & US, Admap & New Statesman), youth culture.

As General Manager of Eleven, Fiona has led some of the agency’s bravest and most awarded work including ANZ GAYTMs, Krispy Kreme American Classics, M.J. Bale Unsuitable Journey and Gatorade Bolt Rate.

Fiona has an innate understanding of how to create culture and craft hero campaigns that cut through locally and globally.

With nearly 15 years’ experience in the industry, Fiona has held senior positions in London and Sydney working on brands such as British Airways, P&G, Campari Group and Tourism New Zealand.

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Sarah Trombetta is Chief Executive Officer of Red Havas Australia, responsible for leading PR, social and experiential teams across the company’s offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

With almost 20 years PR & Advertising industry experience in Asia, Europe and Australia, Sarah leverages award-winning credentials and diverse communication experience building global brands – including P&G, HSBC, Hong Kong Tourism Board, Facebook, Ford and GSK – to continually innovate and integrate Red Havas’ specialist services at scale, including its Social and BLVD divisions with content and technology offerings.

Before joining Red Havas, Sarah was CEO at WPP’s advertising agency Grey Group Hong Kong. It was awarded Creative Agency of the Year under her leadership and innovated its end-to-end marketing services solutions for Greater China’s largest clients. Bringing social commerce, advertising, PR, retail and activation specialists together with data at its core, the agency earned industry recognition for winning an unfair share of cultural conversation and conversion to grow brands and white space launches.

Prior to that, Sarah held leadership roles at global public relations and integrated communications agency, H+K Strategies. She served as Marketing Communications Practice Director for Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong, elevating creative ambition and executional excellence for the region’s Top 20 clients and integrating the network’s crisis, corporate and social services to simplify solutions. Before that, Sarah was Board Director at H+K Strategies London leading the company’s fastest growing division with holistic award-winning campaigns, including P&G’s ‘Thank you Mom’ London 2012 Olympics Cannes Gold Integrated Lion winner.

With a firm eye on innovating for the future, Sarah is active within the local and international business community. Her relentless commitment to developing the next generation of leaders and creative ambition to collaborate with clients that push culture forward have shaped her contributions as Executive Committee Member of The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s Hong Kong), Executive Committee Member at Hong Kong Baptist University (Graduate Career Board) and member of The Marketing Society APAC.

Grant is Business Director for Red Havas APAC based in Sydney. He is part of the Executive Leadership Team tasked with the management and growth of the Australian business, in addition to leading the delivery of networked new business opportunities and agency relationships across the APAC Havas PR network.

Grant has over 12 years’ experience working with category leading clients and disruptors across the world, most recently with Red Havas in Australia which he joined in 2015.

His career started Agency side in the UK working with global blue-chip companies Jaguar Land Rover, HSBC and Sony Europe across national and pan-European campaigns. In 2011 he moved to the Middle East living in Doha and Dubai respectively. In house roles included Qatar Foundation and Saudi Telecom’s digital arm Intigral, in addition to two years at Ketchum TBWA\RAAD leading Google MENA, Philips Lighting, and Maserati accounts, before moving to Australia.

Grant has a passion for creative born out of solid strategic thinking that is channel agonistic, and most importantly delivers tangible business results for clients. In 2017, thanks to his contribution to the business, he was recognized as a future leader of the global Havas network when chosen as the only Australian representative to attend the global leadership development program Havas NextGen for that intake.

Annabel has over 10 years’ experience in social marketing, holding roles across various industries including FMCG, telecommunications, technology and aviation both client-side and agency-side. She has been at Coca-Cola South Pacific for the past 6 years where she built their social media function from the ground up including the development and management of the Coca-Cola Social Centre, an end to end social media capability from strategy through to content production and community management. Annabel is responsible for building social media capability and performance across Coca-Cola’s portfolio of brands and corporation.

Simon loves words, ideas and nachos. After working as a copywriter for some of Sydney’s leading ad agencies, he has now carved out a niche as a social creative specialist.

Since starting as the lead social creative at Coca-Cola, their reactive content has been picked up by the likes AdNews and Mumbrella and Fanta was nominated for Best Social Media Campaign at the 2019 CommsCon awards.

Darren Woolley is considered a thought leader on all aspects of marketing management. A Problem Solver, Negotiator, Founder & Global CEO of TrinityP3 – Marketing Management Consultants, founding member of the Marketing FIRST Forum, Industry Commentator and Author. He is also a Past-Chair of the Australian Marketing Institute, Past President of the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club, Ex-Medical Scientist and Ex-Creative Director.

Nathan Hodges has consulted to over 150 of the world’s most successful marketing organisations.

He has solved problems, led change and re-engineered structures and processes for clients as diverse as Coca-Cola, the Ministry of Sound, Australia Post, ANZ Bank, Bankwest, Sony, The Iconic, NAB, Lendlease, the UK Labour Party, Optus, the Federal Government, Telstra and Qantas.

As TrinityP3’s Managing Director, for the last ten years Nathan has led the specialist consultant team in the alignment of marketing culture, strategy, structure and process, in roster management and agency remuneration, and in marketing team capability and behavioural change.