Limited tickets.
Unlimited insights.
Day 1 Speaker Session: Including Damon Stapleton and Chaka Sobhani | Tuesday August 13
Four interactive sessions, including two international keynotes, leading creative speakers and panellists:
- Keynote: Damon Stapleton, CCO and Founder, The Monkeys Aotearoa and MD, Accenture Song
- Panel: Back to the Future (Returning to Adland)
Tara McKenty, Dave Bowman, Matty Burton, Steve Coll and moderator, Lea Walker (Mrs Walker) - Delegate networking lunch
- Panel: AWARD Presents: The Work Behind the Work
- ‘Play It Safe’ – Sydney Opera House with Barb Humphries and Michael Ritchie. ‘The Plastic Forecast’ – Minderoo Foundation with Russel Fox and Daniel Borghesi. Moderator, Toby Hemming (LBB)
- Chaka Sobhani, President and Global Chief Creative Officer, DDB
Check out our speakers and the full festival schedule.
Day 1
Members: $350 + GST
Non-Members: $395 + GST
2-Day Speaker Pass
Members: $650 + GST
Non-Members: $740 + GST
Speaker session tickets are transferrable. If you intend to share tickets amongst your team, please register the name of the person who will be attending in the morning to collect the wristband.
Day 2 Interactive Workshop with Nilesh Ashra, presented by Nine | Wednesday August 14
Workshop: Live Experimentation with AI: Going Deep, Getting Weird, Pushing the Limits. Presented by Nine.
- Hosted by: Nilesh Ashra, Founder & CEO, OK Tomorrow
- Panel: Liana Dubois, Julian Schreiber and Brian Cronk
- BYO: Laptop to join immersive live demos and experiments
Check out our speakers and the full festival schedule.
Members: $50 + GST
Non-Members: $75 + GST
Limited seats available so sign up ASAP.
Please note: This is a separate ticketed event from Day 2 Speaker Sessions.
Day 2 Speaker Session: Including Liz Taylor and Nilesh Ashra | Wednesday August 14
Four interactive sessions, including two international keynotes, leading creative speakers and panellists:
- Keynote: Nilesh Ashra, Founder and CEO, OK Tomorrow
- Panel: We’re Together …. But not Together Together – the Beautiful Balance of Creative Client Relationships – Presented by Nine.
- Micah Walker, Brent Smart, Andy Fergusson, Mim Haysom, Tom Martin and Lucinda Barlow. Host/moderator Liana Dubois (Nine)
- Delegate networking lunch
- Presentation & Panel: Cannes Lions Deconstructed by Contagious, presented by Wade Kingsley with Rose Herceg, Mike Rebelo and Tara Ford.
- Keynote: Liz Taylor, Global Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy.
Check out our speakers and the full festival schedule.
Day 2
Members: $350 + GST
Non-Members: $395 + GST
2-Day Speaker Pass
Members: $650 + GST
Non-Members: $740 + GST
Speaker session tickets are transferrable. If you intend to share tickets amongst your team, please register the name of the person who will be attending in the morning to collect the wristband.
AWARD Hall of Fame Black-Tie Dinner | Tuesday August 13
Scott Nowell and Justin Drape, Co-Founders of The Monkeys, and Anna Fawcett, Executive Producer at Filmgraphics, will be inducted into the prestigious AWARD Hall of Fame gala dinner. We will also celebrate the role AWARD’s Creative Leadership Course has played in nurturing 100+ current creative leaders over the past eight years.
Join us for one unmissable annual event when we unite to celebrate our industry legends, AWARD education and our current and emerging creative leaders.
Members: $4,400 + GST – Table of 10
Members: $440 + GST – Individual ticket
Non-Members: $5,500 + GST – Table of 10
Non-Members: $550 + GST – Individual ticket
SOLD OUT
AWARD Uni | Tuesday August 13 and Wednesday August 14
After its sellout inaugural year in 2023, AWARD Uni returns with a refreshed course curated and facilitated by creative leaders Mandie van der Merwe (CCO, Saatchi & Saatchi), Julian Schreiber (Partner & CCO, Special Australia), Sarah McGregor (ECD, Dentsu Creative) and Jonathan Kneebone (Co-Founder, The Glue Society).
Designed for mid-weight creatives, these are the first two modules of a six-workshop program equipping you with practical hands-on experience, critical thinking and the confidence to maximise your day-to-day and long-term career potential.
Members
Individual $1,000 + GST
Two delegates/team $1,750 + GST
Non-members
Individual $1,250 + GST
Two delegates/team $2,200 + GST
AWARD Awards Bronze Awards and Silver/Gold Showcase | Tuesday August 13 and Wednesday August 14
Tune in and turn up to the 45th AWARD Awards Virtual Bronze Winners and Silver/Gold Showcase – the only way to find out if you’re in the running to win Gold. Across two days, AWARD will announce Bronze Winners and showcase the campaigns awarded at least a Silver with the potential to win Gold.
The prized Golds and Special Award winners will then be announced at The Gold Pencil Award Party, to be held on the evening of Thursday August 15.
FREE VIRTUAL EVENT
The Growth Agenda (invitation only) | Wednesday August 14
Co-presented by Advertising Council Australia and The Australian on Day Two of This Way Up, The Growth Agenda is an invitation-only event for Australia’s advertising agency leaders, creatives, and marketers.
Hosted by Danielle Long, Editor of The Growth Agenda, this intimate evening will feature This Way Up’s international keynote speakers, Liz Taylor, Nilesh Ashra and Chaka Sobhani, in a lively panel discussion focused on creativity’s pivotal role in drivinig business growth.
AWARD Gold Pencil Award Party | Thursday August 15
Join AWARD for one helluva festival wrap party on the evening of Thursday, August 15. The MCA’s Foundation Hall provides an incredible backdrop for the industry’s most prestigious creative accolades of the year; the 45th AWARD Awards’ Gold and Special winners and AWARD School 2024 National Top Student.
Expect live entertainment, food and drinks, and knockout views of Sydney Harbour. The Gold Pencil Award Party is the hottest creative ticket in town in August and you’ll get the chance to rub shoulders with some of the biggest names and brains in creativity.
Members: $450 + GST
Non-Members: $550 + GST
For assistance with group bookings please contact AWARD@adcouncil.org.au
