8:30AM - 9:00AM REGISTRATION & ARRIVAL TEA & COFFEE

9:00AM - 9:15AM WELCOME
Esther Clerehan, AWARD Council Member, Founder/ CEO at Clerehan

9:15AM - 10:00AM OPENING ADDRESS
The secret to a sustainable career
Kim Pick, Group Executive Creative Director, VMLY&R New Zealand

The ad industry is obsessed with the new. And there’s enough research out there to prove that, in this business, we favour youth. Is experience a curse? Why do people drop out and how might the industry be missing out?

Join Kim Pick as she shares the secrets to a creative career that spans over 3 decades and 5 continents. She’s run some of the world’s biggest brands at leading agencies. And all the while she’s held onto her humanity.

10:00AM - 10:45AM MARQUEE SPEAKER
See the value others don’t and you’ll always be valuable
Ben Keenan, Consulting Creative Director, Strategists, Technologist - Thought Police / The Creative Class

Prompting AI won't be the most valuable creative skill in the future, it will be your ability to see the value in the endless options and places others have forgotten to look. One of Australia’s most awarded and prolific creative directors and technologists steps you through his work, his creative sprint process and what he sees as the skills needed to adapt and thrive in these times of uncertainty.

10:45AM - 11:15AM MORNING TEA

11:15AM - 12:00PM PANEL SESSION
The Work Behind The Work
Hansen Ding - Digital Media Lead, CHEP Network
Will Winter-Irving - Senior Art Director, CHEP Network
Joe Ranallo - Senior Copywriter, CHEP Network
Barbara Humphries, Executive Creative Director, The Monkeys
Beth O'Brien, Head of Innovation, The Monkeys
Hosted by Bridget Jung, ECD Ogilvy Sydney

AWARD’s Work Behind the Work will go behind the scenes to unpack the inspiration, creativity and process from renowned campaigns of the last year. Join Bridget Jung, Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy, as she asks all the questions you wanted to ask the 2023 Cannes Lions Grand Prix-winning creative teams behind “The First Digital Nation” and “Flipvertising”

12.00PM - 12:45PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Authenticity, what even is it?
Mirrah Foulkes, Australian actor, writer and director
Host: Jessica Montague, Executive Editor, Vogue Australia

In an industry that demands the marriage of commerce and creative expression, how do we stay connected to authenticity? Is there even such a thing as an authentic self?

And at a time when AI looms so large and everything seems to be a remake of a remake, will authentic creative voices become the last remaining currency?

12:45PM - 1:30PM MARQUEE SPEAKER
How to be interesting and useful when everything is changing
Nick Law, Creative Chairperson, Accenture Song
Host: Tara Ford, Chief Creative Officer, The Monkeys

Nick has spent 30 years on three continents, in design, advertising and digital media, using common sense and imagination to dignify technology. From helping reinvent sport with Nike+ and building an iconic brand with Beats by Dre at R/GA; to integrating classic narrative marketing with social - and physical retail with digital platforms as a VP at Apple; Nick has applied consistent principles to dynamic practices. Come and find out what these principles are and how, as Creative Chairperson at Accenture Song, he’s applying them to the mind-boggling changes AI is ushering in.

2:00PM - 5:00PM AWARD Uni
Workshop 1: Judging work & creating momentum

3:00PM AWARD Awards
Bronze & Silver award announcement 2 (virtual)

THE GROWTH AGENDA
Invitation only. Hosted by The Australian. More info coming…