Lisa Maxwell is vice president, B2B Marketing at Mastercard. In her role, Lisa leads marketing engagements and oversight with digital players like Apple, Uber and Microsoft to drive joint consumer acquisition and retention goals. Previously, she was at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare where she led the reinvention and turnaround of brands like Nicorette, NicoDerm CQ and Abreva from negative to double digit growth. She serves on the board of directors of GrassROOTS Community Foundation. Lisa received a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College and an MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business.

Billy has spent over 25 years creating innovative digital strategies and customer experiences for leading brands around the world. As the Global Chief Design Officer of IBM iX, he leads a team of over 7,000 experience consultants, multi-disciplinary designers, and developers to deliver data-driven insights, human-centric ideas, and measurable business impact for clients. Prior to joining IBM, he held executive creative leadership roles at Digitas, eBay, and Citi where he managed the growth and change of the organizations and the day-to-day activities of global creative teams. Billy strives to discover the unique intersections between art, science, commerce, and storytelling and has won numerous awards for his distinctive work.

Frances Draskau is Group Creative Director at The&Partnership London. She’s a true hybrid with a background in film and photography, starting out as a camera assistant for the likes of Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie before establishing herself as a photographer shooting for a wide range fashion clients and travel publications from Vogue to National Geographic.

Her previous client list includes Samsung, Adidas, Dove, Facebook, Hyundai, T-Mobile, Reckitt Benckiser, Chiquita and Opel. She currently leads creative for Lexus, Pets at Home, projects with Mars Confectionery and the T&P Amplified Innovation lane.

James is a Global Client Partner and EMEA B2B Lead at Wunderman Thompson. He is responsible for supporting B2B growth with Wunderman Thompson and overseas the client development and growth strategies for key clients across EMEA.

Maria is a highly awarded member of the creative industries, with 18 years' experience across global brand and culture marketing. Maria started her career working in marketing and communications for T in the Park, Ibiza Rocks, Red Bull Culture Clash, Notting Hill Carnival, MOBO Awards and Asian Music Awards. From here, Maria stepped into one of the world's most prestigious advertising agencies, M&C Saatchi, leading marketing strategy and sponsorship amplification for the world's biggest brands in music and entertainment, including: Spotify, Red Bull, EE for Glastonbury and BAFTA, and Ballantine's x Boiler Room. A move to Sony Music saw her head up the labels' partnerships division.

Maria now finds herself at the heart of an organization helping change the shape of the music industry and artist engagement, having joined TikTok in 2020. In her role she leads music marketing and strategic partnerships across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Hello, I’m Ryan De Joya and I have 15+ years of experience in media strategy & planning. I've held both local and regional roles across Asia-Pacific.

I am currently the APAC Media Lead for Colgate, delivering greater marketing impact for the brand found in more homes than any other, by driving the media effectiveness agenda across Asia-Pacific.

To achieve this, I act as the strategic lynchpin across internal stakeholders, external media/creative agency partners, and publishers, effectively orchestrating synergies across brand POE media, digital performance, creatives, and analytics.

Sunita Rajan is Bloomberg Media’s Managing Director, APAC Media Sales and Marketing. Based in Singapore, Sunita oversees Bloomberg Media’s regional sales and marketing organizations driving cross-platform initiatives as well as leading the expansion of Bloomberg Media’s strategic marketing services offerings.

Yasuharu Sasaki, known as Yasu, began working at dentsu as a copywriter in 1995. Drawing on his skills as a Computer Science graduate he was an early pioneer of interactive advertising. His passion for creativity and technology has been a marked characteristic throughout his career, notably when he founded cutting edge R&D offering, Dentsu Lab Tokyo in 2014. His time at dentsu, which has included working in New York as an Executive Creative Director and Managing Director at dentsu Tokyo, has seen Yasu deliver work for global clients including Uniqlo, Honda and Coca-Cola.

As well as receiving the highest recognition at all major international award shows, Yasu has sat on numerous juries, including Cannes Lions Brand Experience & Activation Jury President in 2022 and Head of Jury at the 2023 APAC Effies.

In October 2023 Yasu was named dentsu’s Global Chief Creative Officer, responsible for leading dentsu’s global Creative Practice, including Dentsu Creative. He sets the standard for creative excellence and is key to building a culture of creativity and innovation across the whole of dentsu.

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.

Rich began his career in 1996 as an Art Director at Y&R, picking up a Gold Lion for his St Mungo’s interactive cinema commercial in his first year. From there he moved to Saatchi & Saatchi creating notable work for Visa and the NSPCC, including the multi-award-winning Carlsberg ‘Old Lions’ campaign. After this, he moved to DDB as Creative Director and created award-winning work for Volkswagen, Budweiser, Harvey Nichols, The Economist, Kwik-Fit, Tropicana and Virgin Media. In 2011 he joined MullenLowe London as joint ECD and quickly turned the agency around creating campaigns for Halfords, Morrisons, Unilever and MicroLoan. In 2016 MullenLowe London was named ‘Most Effective Agency of the Year’ at the inaugural UK Effie awards for work on MicroLoan and the Electoral Commission and followed it up by retaining the title in 2017 with work for RedrawTheBalance, which also won EuroEffie gold.

In August Rich 2017 moved to St Luke’s London as Executive Creative Director and works across the agency’s accounts including KP Snacks, South Western Railway, Heathrow and Which? In 2020 at the height of the pandemic he created the UK’s biggest behavior change initiative #stayhomenow and has most recently worked on the multi-award-winning #GoGrabTheButterkist campaign. Rich has been named among Campaign Magazine’s top twenty Creative Directors.

Patrice began her advertising career in the fast lane taking home Canada’s first gold in the Cannes Young Lions competition. She moved to New York City and worked under industry legends where she honed her craft before moving back to Toronto. For over a decade, Patrice has impacted some of the most influential brands in the world. Her ability to relentlessly pursue creative that is breakthrough, provocative and effective, while also understanding business impact has led her to win a slew of some of the most prestigious industry awards. Patrice is passionate about building a culture with a creative mindset and a collaborative spirit. She continues to lead with the belief that an agency’s business and culture thrive when the people come first.

Toru Fujii, a Tokyoite and Executive Creative Director at ADK Tokyo, is widely recognized for his exceptional contributions to the advertising industry. With a passion for sharing fresh perspectives, he has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Top Work Showcase at One Show Asia. In addition to his professional achievements, he has also served as a respected juror for renowned international advertising awards such as Cannes Lions and New York Festivals.

Karen has twenty years’ experience working across B2B, B2C with a focus on technology and ecom brands. She is an experienced Managing Director who joins 303 MullenLowe from a global integrated comms agency, Archetype. Over the past five years, Karen has led the transition of Archetype from a pureplay PR consultancy to an award-winning strategic and integrated marketing operation working with major brands including Shopify, Deel, OpenTable, AirBnB, Smartsheet, Oracle among others.

She brings proven experience in leading teams and building agency businesses and has won many awards across the marketing comms sector. Most notably Karen was named on Campaign Asia-Pacific’s '40 Under 40 2021’ list as well as being featured in ‘Campaign Women to Watch 2022’.

Creative and strategic digital marketeer with 15 years’ experience at global companies and tech start-ups. After developing my early career within agencies, I moved client side and have worked with leading global brands including Topshop, New Look, Bacardi, and Britvic.

In 2018 I moved into supporting tech start-ups build their marketing departments and ready for scaling up. This introduced me to working across several industries and with companies at different stages of growth.

I have a fierce passion for creating unique, disruptive, and engaging content to drive brand stand-out in an ever-crowded media landscape and have won over 20 industry awards for standing by this principal.

Stacy Tarver Patterson is a highly accomplished modern brand leader who brings over 15 years of experience in leading global marketing teams and working across borders. She is a former client-side marketing executive-turned-entrepreneur, who co-founded COR, a "lifestyle science" digital health tech company backed by Khosla Ventures & Founders Fund. Stacy's career began at Bear Stearns' Financial Analytics & Structured Transactions Group where she built automated tracking and analytics tools. However, she felt called to make a more grassroots impact, leading her to nonprofit fundraising & marketing for the YMCA. Later, she spent over a decade at Nike in a myriad of roles in brand strategy, planning, & marketing, including leading the marketing teams for Nike Beijing & Greater China Digital Commerce, two of Nike's largest growth areas.

Outside of work, Stacy's leadership traits come from her early life as an athlete, where she holds the NYU Track & Field school record in the Long Jump. She enjoys running (slowly), advising paradigm-shifting entrepreneurs, and researching the science of DEI with Columbia's Lab for Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind.

FCB London's CEO Katy Wright has worked both client and agency side, with over 19 years’ experience in creative advertising. Katy is a regular commentator in industry press and is also a trained pilot.

As the CEO of Stagwell EMEA, James leads the charge in driving strategic growth across the region, overseeing a dynamic portfolio of agencies and a dedicated team of talented professionals. In addition to his role at Stagwell EMEA, James serves as the CEO of the Brand Performance Network, a global initiative providing interconnected solutions spanning creative, media, and commerce. ​

Prior to this, James was the Global CEO of Assembly for 5 years, managing operations across 30 offices and a team of 1500 colleagues worldwide, while also steering the agency's impressive client roster. ​

Before joining the Stagwell network, James served as European CEO for 360i, where he led key accounts such as Converse, Lidl, and Enterprise. His extensive agency experience also includes a leadership role at Fallon, where he served as Managing Director for seven years, overseeing global accounts for major brands like Cadbury, Nokia, and Skoda. James brings over two decades of industry expertise and a passion for crafting modern marketing solutions that align with the dynamic needs of clients. He strongly advocates for the integration of social and environmental impact as essential drivers for success in today's brand landscape.

André is the Chief Creative Officer of DAVID New York, working for brands like CLIF Bar, Supercell, Powerade, Coca-Cola, Burger King, among others. Listed in Adweek’s Creative 100 and ranked #4 Creative Director worldwide by Cannes Lions in 2020/2021 and #9 in 2022.

Before leading the New York office of DAVID, he was the Executive Creative Director of DAVID Madrid, working for brands like Burger King, Netflix, Twitter, Activision, and Mondelez. In 2021, DAVID became the most awarded Spanish agency in the history of Cannes Lions, and the following year, they were named the AdAge International Agency of the Year.

Previously, André worked as Global Creative Director at LOLA MullenLowe, overseeing all communication for brands like Magnum, Cornetto and Mattel. He helped LOLA become the most creative agency in Iberoamerica for three years, the best agency in Europe according to WARC, and one of the Top 10 European Agencies of the Decade, according to Cannes Lions. Before moving to Madrid, André worked in Y&R Lima and Pragma DDB.

Mike is a Partner and Chief Creative Officer at Rethink Toronto. Rethink is a global creative agency with offices in Toronto, New York, Montreal, and Vancouver. In 2023, Mike helped lead Rethink to the #2 Independent Agency of the Year at Cannes Lions, and Ad Age’s Creative Agency of the Year two of the last three years. In 2024, he helped Rethink land the #1 independent agency spot in both the WARC World Creative Rankings and The Drum Global Creative rankings.

Mike’s work has been recognized over 100 times at Cannes Lions - most recently for campaigns like Penguin’s Unburnable Book, Decathlon’s Ability Signs and multiple campaigns for Heinz, including Draw Ketchup, Pour Perfectly, Heinz Puzzle, Hot Dog Pact, and Ketchup Fraud. In 2020, Ad Age named Mike Creative Director of the Year - the first Canadian ever to earn the accolade. He holds two Guinness World Records and has had work featured in Time Magazine, CNN, The Tonight Show, and twice on Jimmy Kimmel on the same night.

Outside of Rethink, Mike is a passionate advocate for the next generation of creative talent - and sits as Creative Chair at Miami Ad School.

Ad Age Leading Woman in Advertising; Cannes, Effies, and WARC winner; 20years of experience in FMCG. Based in London, Tati Lindenberg is currently leading Dirt Is Good – €4.2bn business, largest laundry brand in the world, 3rd biggest brand at Unilever, present in 50 markets and 0.5bn households.

She heads the 'Dirt Is Good' global masterbrand, equity, design, and innovation program, and has pioneered a marketing approach that combines a purpose-led brand idea and best-in-class products to unlock superior performance and value.

Tati worked internationally in a wide range of Marketing and Consumer Insights roles, for both Home and Personal Care. In Brazil, she led the Home Care value brands business, making laundry products accessible to millions of low-income consumers across Latin America. In India and the Netherlands, Tati headed the Consumer Insights dept., where she designed and implemented a Strategic Insight Plan for the Unilever Sustainability Plan.

When working in Personal Care, Tati looked after the Nexxus New York Salon Care business –one of the most sophisticated hair salons in Tribeca, New York; and a range of prestige hair care products. She also led the Naturals Strategy for the Hair Category, which was the starting line for new sustainable brands and variants, including ‘Love, Beauty and Planet’. And just before moving back to Home Care, Tati led the extension of Dove into the fast-growing therapeutic segment, with Dove Derma Series, and launched one of the most purposeful-led Dove campaigns – Make peace with your skin.