Sarah is a writer and ad creative currently at Creature London. She grew up in Los Angeles, spent half a decade in New York, and now lives in London having done stints at VCCP and FCB Inferno. She's passionate about craft, innovation, and inclusivity on both sides of the camera. As a consequence, she's been honoured to be given a number of industry accolades, including a place on the One Club's Next Creative Leaders, Campaign Magazine's 30 Future Creative Leaders, the BIMA Hot 100, plus a few Lions, Pencils, and other awards (including the inaugural One Club Fusion Pencil).

Saj Nazir has worked for a range of UK media owners and agencies to deliver award-winning creative solutions across a diverse range of platforms. He believes creativity and innovation in media allows brands the ability to make memorable connections with people. Collaborating with specialist teams, clients, and partners to imagine new and engaging ways for brands to connect and grow is the focus of his current role at Mediahub’s Radical + Disruptive Lab.

Mexican Group Creative Director at Media.Monks, storyteller, writer, documentary photographer and human rights activist. 15+ years leading and creating brand and strategic ideas for advertising, interactive, design and documentary projects for local, regional and global accounts at award-winning agencies. Co-founder of Colectivo Constelación and Member of DEI Cannes Lions Global Council.

I am a creative director who has huge passion in sports and entertainment. I have 12 years experience in creative agencies such as BBH, Wunderman Thompson and FCB. I currently work as Associate Creative Director at Octagon Asia Pacific. My role is to build creative team and create worldclass works in sports and entertainment space. I won couple of awards throughout the years but the most important thing to me is to make the world a little better with my works.

Ann Wixley is a Creative Lead with several years of experience in the media and advertising industry. Ann has been responsible for creating industry leading work which has unlocked growth opportunities for clients across multiple sectors. Ann creates and directs innovative ideas for our clients working with multi-discipline teams; and inspire an appetite for creativity, growing talent and connecting the dots. With a passion for work that inspires positive change, Ann offers a unique lens on award-worthy work, recognizing creative content campaigns for their purpose and challenges, not just outcomes. Ann was a juror on the 2022 UK Young Lions.

Matt has over 14+ years of industry experience working in numerous design studios, in-house marketing and design teams for a range of clients and projects, and has worked for both B2B & B2C sectors for clients such as Avanade, Sitecore and PepsiCo. He is a creative, highly motivated, and ambitious Designer with a passion for considered, simple yet powerful, refined creative ideas: "I couple this with an eye for design. My design ethos is prevalent in everything I produce: I deliver clear communication, form, functionality and great usability without compromising on elegant and effective design solutions." Matt thrives on helping those around him to progress. Taking genuine pride in mentoring, nurturing and passing on his experience and skills to his colleagues and team members.

Currently ECD at Leo Burnett.

I'm the Managing Director at Curious, an award winning strategic creative branding agency based in Soho, London. I oversee all strategic elements for the agency, working with our clients to show them how their brand and culture can help them through their toughest challenges, and give them something meaningful to build on (and hopefully helping them to sleep at night).

Mia Patrevito is a Senior Designer in ATX. She started her career as a designer at Wondersauce where she built her portfolio with projects for Equinox, SoulCycle, Olaplex, and Subway. After five years, she joined the the team at BASIC/DEPT® and has since been crafting digital experiences for world class brands such as Capti, Altice, Google and Taco Bell.

His work has been recognized in the best creative festivals like Cannes Lions, One Show, New York Festivals, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, Effies, and more.

Miriam is a powerhouse who has produced all over the world, in every category, and across every medium. Over the course of her career, she has worked on award winning campaigns for clients including Reebok, State Farm, and Apple Music. At Deutsch NY, in addition to overseeing and unifying production across all clients, Miriam manages Great Machine, the agency’s production arm that offers end-to-end production and post through a suite of directors, editors, animators, and motion graphic designers. Prior to Deutsch, Miriam freelanced at top creative shops such as Wieden + Kennedy and headed production at Translation.

Neale is the Executive Creative Director at ELVIS, responsible for the agency's creative output across ambitious brands including Cadbury, Odeon, Merlin Entertainments and not to mention multi-award-winning campaigns for Creme Egg and LADbible. Neale was responsible for creating the agency positioning of 'Unexpected & Unforgettable', which is his definition of creativity. This is the guiding light that ELVIS strives to live up to with every single brief and it's a proven philosophy, as ELVIS was named the as the eighth most awarded creative agency in the UK for 2021 by The Drum, with accolades from Cannes Lions, D&AD, CLIO, The One Show and The Marketing Society, amongst others.

Currently Managing Director at Cowshed Collective and previous commercial brain behind UNILAD and 4 Studio at Channel 4.

On paper, Pat heads OLIVER Asia Pacific's creative and strategy pillars. His primary responsibility revolves around keeping the network's product fresh, effective, and data informed. But as soon as he clicks the "shutdown" button at around five in the afternoon, out comes his real persona -- Hawaiian Pizza Connoisseur x Cat Meme Curator X Power Nap Instructor.

Grace is Group Creative Director, Global Marketing at GroupM where she collaborates with marketing leadership and cross-functional teams to strategize, develop and execute creative solutions for internal and external initiatives. She has worked for over 20+ years in NYC as an art director, graphic designer and experiential creative director creating and producing award-winning work across the entire media ecosystem including, television, print, digital, OOH, and more.

Sneaking around in the intersection of creativity and technology – I'm passionate about creating positive and meaningful experiences, getting brands talked about in ways that engage, connect and inspire action. My career has seen me working with the boldest UK agencies, including M&C Saatchi, Uncommon Creative Studio and now I am currently innovating next level CX with Digitas.

From Building Agencies to Making Stuff Go Viral… VJ Is Your Guy. Former Senior Vice President of Creative of Gojek – Indonesia’s first decacorn tech giant, and then the Regional Head of Creative and Managing Partner of Vaynermedia APAC - VJ is your go-to guy if you want your brand to be the Talk of The Town. At Gojek, VJ helped grow an internal Creative team from 10 people to a 120-strong team. He headed up the Creative, Social, In-app Content, and Activation for the Indonesian decacorn. He helped rebrand them in his last months at Gojek and created sonic branding sounds for the Indonesian giant. His last piece of work which was a music video with Rich Brian for Gojek went viral, leading to a hire by Gary Vaynerchuk to help build Vaynermedia APAC. Here, VJ came into an agency of four people and helped grow it to an agency of 221. Here, VJ has run numerous global and regional campaigns for SK-II, Google, Disney+, Subway and several other brands; his most recent global work involved conceptualising and shooting a music video with John Legend for the SK-II brand. VJ was recently nominated for the South East Asian Creative Person of the Year Award. Recently just moved to become the ECD for Vaynermedia EMEA and Global.

Lisa has 20 years of experience successfully helping brands grow by building effective and engaging brand stories that are globally consistent and regionally relevant. Originally from the UK, where she started her career, curiosity and new challenges moved her to Asia in 2004. Lisa spent her first three years in Bangkok before moving to Singapore, where she has been working ever since. As a strategic problem solver with a passion for craft and an eye for detail, she drives creative excellence by harnessing the power of insight and design to create meaningful and inspiring creative solutions. Lisa has worked in multiple sectors and markets across SEA, India, China, UK & US. Her multi-disciplinary experience means she has worked with Corporate and FMCG clients such as Citibank, Diageo, Treasury Wine Estates, LVMH, Nestlé and PepsiCo.

RAOUL PANES is a Business Management graduate whose fascination with marketing and literature in college found its sweet spot in advertising. He built his career with stints at J. Walter Thompson, Publicis JimenezBasic and BBDO Guerrero Ortega. His work has been awarded in shows including Cannes Lions, D&AD, and Clio. When he’s not pounding away at the keyboard, he’s pounding the pavement on long runs.

Gabriel is the Global Executive Creative Director at R/GA. He has more than 14 years of experience overseeing global brands such as Hilton, Nike, Jordan, Converse, Uniqlo, McDonalds, and American Express. His focus is to help clients approach their brands holistically through both what he calls stories and systems to ensure brands are showing up authentically and are innovating in new digital mediums and spaces.

With more than 10 years in the industry, Tom has enjoyed stints at leading agencies in both New Zealand and Australia working on clients big and small from pitch through to production. Currently working as an Associate Creative Director at Special Group in New Zealand.

Bang is an award-winning creative director and VP at RPA Advertising in Los Angeles. Current clients include Honda, Southern California Edison, TXU Energy and new business.

With a steadfast desire to prove big ideas can’t be bound by geography or holding a company, Jamie has been an integral part of shaping Marcus Thomas into an agency that turns ideas into integrated experiences that provide value for brands and customers alike. His work has aired on the Super Bowl, brought a CEO to tears, and been so innovative that he was awarded a patent. Asking his team “what if” has led to them winning One Show Pencils, National ADDYs, the prestigious 4A’s O’Toole Award and numerous others. As much as he loves doing work worthy of recognition, the growth Marcus Thomas clients have enjoyed is his true measure of success. In honor of those who helped him find his path, Jamie always finds time to give to students and is one of the founders of the Marcus Thomas Legacy Education Fund.

I've been in advertising for the past 25 years. My career started in Kyiv, Ukraine in the creative networks of JWT and Y&R. For the past 15 years I've been running a global business in advertising production, particularly in content localisation and adaptation until Locaria acquired the business in 2022, where I now sit as Executive Vice President of Creative Content and continue bringing the service to the next level.

Naresh is a award winning creative hailing from the sunny side of the globe to the psychologically sunny London, UK. He has had over 14 years working in advertising spanning across Singapore, Laos, Stuttgart and the UK , propelled by a passion to champion an authentic and diverse voice in cutting edge and emotionally driven work that stands out and proud.