Kinsale Festival Reveals Full Speaker Line-Up
Mark Denton, Ben Jones and Rosie Arnold feature among a slew of creative names speaking at this year's event in Ireland.
The Kinsale Shark Awards and Festival has announced the final line-up for the festival's speaker programme.
Joining Uncommon founder Nils Leonard and AMV creative partner – who is also this year’s jury president - Rosie Arnold is one of Adland’s creative supremos, Coy Communications’ Mark Denton [below], and Merman comedy director Juliet May.
Also at the festival, top Editors from award-winning edit houses Cut+Run, The Quarry and Final Cut will jointly host panel, called 'Cut Out the Bad Bits - What Makes a Great Edit?', which is illustrated using examples of commercials, films and music videos.
The 2018 festival programme embraces emerging technology and its undeniably fast impact on the industry and how brands are utilising it. In his talk, 'Bitcoin to Sh*tCoin and Ethereum to Complete Delirium. WTF is blockchain?', Bull in a China Shop founder, former AKQA chief technology officer , Ben Jones [below], will discuss the talking point of the moment, Blockchain. He’ll explain what it is, and how the advertising industry can utilise it, from artist rights to transparency in creativity.
Interactive production company makemepulse will also talk about applying emerging tech to creative ideas, and how creating a joined-up tech/digital strategy can elevate your creative idea.
Creative director Neil Dawson and children’s book author Kes Gray also join the programme.
This year’s festival - which is held in the picturesque town of Kinsale, Ireland from the September 26 to 29 - sees a few changes. The traditional award ceremonies have been merged into a bigger, less formal evening event, with award-winners able to collect their iconic Shark award separately. There is just one festival pass on sale which allows entry to all talks and evening events over the entire festival.
The award deadline is Friday September 7, enter here.
