David Abbott, the legendary co-founder of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO London is to be awarded the lifetime achievement award at this year's Clios.
Organisers of the Clio Awards Festival have also announced the keynote speakers at this year's Miami conference, which runs from May 19 to May 22.
Sebastian Turner, chairman and chief creative officer of Scholz & Friends, Berlin, will talk on the need to come up with new agency models and partnerships in order to improve the creative product and deliver more effective work for clients.
Graphic design veteran and former president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Ivan Chermayeff, from Chermayeff & Geismar New York, talks about how design can expand the power of a brand, and what limits there are in promoting brands.
J Mays, Fords' vice president of design and the man behind the new Beetle at VW and the Thunderbird at Ford, talks about how car design is changing and how designers must become still more clever in finding ways to inspire and ultimately, attract customers.
M. T. Rainey, chairman of Rainey Roalfe Campbell Y&R, London, talks about the need for a new, purer methodology for coming up with enduring ideas that will drive major brands.
Marcello Serpa, chairman and chief creative officer at Almap BBDO, Sao Paulo and chairman of the Clio executive jury argues that you don't need big budgets or total freedom to do great work. Serpa talks about his own method for drawing the best out of himself and his colleagues.
Creative analyst Donald Gunn will talk about the power of print, sharing lessons he's learned studying award-winning print and poster work around the world. Gunn asks whether there are techniques which transcend culture, language and borders, whether print will come back as an advertising format and whether art will destroy copy? This session is meant to give creatives new measures by which to judge their own work.
Singapore-based former adman and author of Cutting Edge Advertising Jim Atchison, reveals how he thinks new creative leaders will pioneer the new bleeding edge of advertising.
