Spikes Asia to offer 3 days of seminar and forums, invites registrations

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THE Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity, Asia-Pacific’s leading festival and awards for the creative communications and advertising industry, has opened for delegate registrations.

Taking place from Sept 15 to 17 in Singapore, Spikes Asia will offer three days of seminars and forums given by some of the best minds in the business.

Lions Festivals, which is organising it with Campaign Asia Pacific publisher Haymarket, says it will also showcase the “greatest work” coming out of the region.

Among the new additions to the festival this year are the Account Executive Academy and Media Academy.

The first is a tailored programme for young account executives designed to nurture the relationship between client and agencies in delivering ground-breaking creativity, while the other is tailored around the importance and effect of creativity in media.

There will also be a Student Award involving a competition that gives students the chance to compete to a set brief and be judged and recognised by the industry.

The newly-introduced Innovation Category is designed to reward technologies and innovations such as apps, tools, programmes, hardware and products which have allowed clients to communicate in a new way or which stand alone as an innovation in their own right.

A series of delegate packages are available. A full registration offering access to all festival events, the awards and after party, offers a special early bird rate of S$825 on packages purchased before July 31, after which the rate will revert to S$925.

Two packages are available to help young industry professionals at S$495 while the Spikes Student package, priced at S$245, is for students aged 23 years and under in full-time education.

Further information on the festival programme and events, along with details of how to register can be found at www.spikes.asia. Last year, 1,800 delegates from 23 countries attended Spikes Asia.

In another development, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which is being held from June 16 to 22, will introduce a two-stage judging process for the Media Lions category.

During the first round, a jury of 40 media specialists from around the world will create a shortlist. At the second voting stage, the shortlist will be judged by a jury made up of the eight media industry leaders and the jury president.

Spikes Asia to offer 3 days of seminar and forums, invites registrations