Cannes Lions Innovation juries announced
Data specialists, creative technologists and innovation experts make up juries, new overall deadline for Awards.
Lions Innovation, the two-day specialist event that explores data and tech as creative catalysts and is part of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has announced the 2016 jurors.
Two Awards are associated with Lions Innovation - the Innovation Lions, which celebrate pioneering technological creativity, and the Creative Data Lions, which award creativity enabled by data. The two teams of global creative professionals who will preside over the work this year are as follows.
Creative Data Lions Jury:
Tash Whitmey, CEO, Havas helia (jury president)
Kieran Ots, digital creative director, Leo Burnett Australia
Carolina Coppoli, head of business intelligence & strategy, Geometry Global Argentina
Manjiry Tamhane, worldwide COO & CEO EMEA, Gain Theory
Petra Sammer, CCO, Ketchum Germany
Yuya Furukawa, CCO, Dentsu Japan
Edmund Choe, CCO, TBWA Singapore & SE Asia
Marc Maleh, VP, MD, data science and visualisation, R/GA
Jason Kodish, global chief data scientist, DigitasLBi
Arun Kumar, global president, Cadreon
Mark Zagorski, CEO, eXelate
Innovation Lions Jury:
Emad Tahtouh, director, applied technology, Finch (jury president)
Tuomas Peltoniemi, president, Asia & innovation drector, TBWA/Digital Arts Network APAC
Yaron Kniajer, MD, Rhodium Israel
Masaki Mikami, corporate officer, Hakuhodo and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
Fred Saldanha, Americas CCO, Isobar Brazil
Nicole Yershon, director of innovation solutions, Ogilvy Labs UK
Ray Velez, CTO, Razorfish USA
Susan Lyne, president and managing partner, BBG Ventures USA
Patrick Chaupham, executive VP, creative technology, Weber Shandwick
JC Oliver, global head of innovation, AOL
Commenting on the Innovation Lions jury, Rob Dembitz, head of Lions Innovation says: “Once again we welcome a diverse mix of backgrounds to the Festival; from Creative Technologists to Venture Capitalists. They will identify the innovative ideas that will make a dramatic difference to how creativity is being enhanced and enabled by new technologies now and in the future.”
Lions Innovation takes place on 21-22 June, within the eight-day Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Entries into the awards are currently being accepted online, where information on the available delegate packages can also be found.
Meanwhile, Cannes Lions has also announced a deadline extension for the 2016 awards with a new closing date of Thursday 21 April set for all submissions.
