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Known internationally for being a good viking, growing strong creative teams, providing creative solutions and leading impactful executions. Jens is an award-winning Executive Creative Director with a strong focus on ideation, branding, copywriting, cross-platform storytelling, execution and creative leadership. He’s highly motivated individual who loves creative teamwork, disruptive thinking and delivering engaging creative that works. He also loves his pets.

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Lisa is a Creative Director/Writer who has headed up teams both in the UK and Australia – where she led Promax ANZ’s ‘Creative Team of the Year 2019’ at Foxtel.  She has also worked at Discovery Channel, Comedy Channel and Channel 9. She was named Australia’s ‘Creative of the Year’ at the Astra awards, has picked up over 50 Promax awards, Clio awards, Kinsale Sharks and a Cannes Lion. She is currently taking time out to write her first novel. Slowly.

Session: World Gold  (Warning: contains traces of absolute genius)
LIVE on 20th October 2020, Tuesday at 2PM (AEST)/ 4PM (NZST)

Your 60-minute romp through the inspiring, sublime, sometimes bat-shit creative offerings from across the globe. Be wowed, be stirred, be spitting feathers that you didn’t think of that absolute game-changing idea.  

Who knows, after this little lot, maybe you will… 

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I’m Meriem Adib. I am a Commercials Director, Creative Director and Writer. I’ve won lots of awards for my work and am a free thinker. As well as leading teams and creating beautiful and relevant work, I am also a single parent and campaigning film-maker. I think that’s quite interesting. I am currently developing a television drama.

Contact: http://meriemadib.london
Represented by: https://mobfilm.com and https://nerd.productions

Webinar: Spending my life making men look beautiful AKA: directing sports stars, my way
LIVE on 14th October 2020, Wednesday at 2PM (AEST)/ 4PM (NZST)

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Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull came from a VFX background before being known as a Director for his breakout sci-fi indie feature film – THE BEYOND, which was released by Gravitas Ventures, and premiered at #2 on the iTunes charts before trending on Netflix and fully recouping its budget quickly and becoming a profitable feature film.  His second feature film 2036: ORIGIN UNKNOWN, which starred Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, Another Life) earned a limited theatrical release in the US before landing on Netflix.

Webinar: Taking the leap from VFX to Directing and Producing Feature Films and TV
LIVE on Wednesday, 30th September 2020, 4:00PM (AEST) / 7:00PM (NZST)

In this Keynote I take you all into a visual, raw, deep dive journey on how I took the leap from a VFX career to film / TV directing and producing, and how just when I thought I had made it, Covid-19 hit and how I had to think outside the box to get where I am today with directing and producing animated series and feature film.

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Andrew is an award-winning Creative Director and Producer with a career that combines promotions, branding, and original series production. He is the founder of Vámonos, a creative agency and content studio based in the UK. Andrew has won numerous awards throughout his career, including multiple Promax Awards, and two BAFTAs for Best Animated Series (Disney’s Brushhead) and viewers choice (Disney Channel Kids Award). 

Session: Look back to move forward: creative strategies from class ads from the eighties and nineties
LIVE on 16th September 2020, Wednesday at 3PM (AEST)/ 5PM (NZST)

Every week Creative Director Andrew Williams analyses classic ads from the eighties and nineties in his Throwback Thursday video posts. In this session, he collects some of the key insights, hacks, and creative strategies gleaned from the best of those classic commercials and campaigns. What is the WTF strategy? What connects a PlayStation ad with Eminem’s movie Eight Mile? Join us in this session to find out. 

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With a career spanning more than 30 years in media, 10 years as an audio engineer and 20 years as a full time voice over ,there’s not much Paul Pittioni hasn’t voiced, recorded, produced or mixed ! You may not recognise his face but you’ll definitely recognise his voice ! Paul is one of Australia’s most heard & versatile voices with a career that has seen him voice for some of Australia’s biggest clients including Channel Nine, The Foxtel Network, Channel Ten, Optus TV, The Australian Radio Network , ARN Network ( Dubai) , HEAT Radio ( UK), Nova Entertainment, Sth Cross Austereo, The Walt Disney Network, Cartoon Network, Ace Radio Networks, The Discovery Channels, SEN Radio Networks and the list goes on & on.

Webinar: How to get the best performance from your Voice Over Artist with Brent Allen Hagel
LIVE on September 2nd, Wednesday at 10AM (AEST)/ 12PM (NZST)

Award winning V/O guru Brent A. Hagel  will be covering  direction styles, trigger words, and working the microphone per genre of promo.

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Tiffany Richmond is one of Australia’s most in-demand voiceover artists who has also been performing internationally in theatre, television and music for over a decade. Past experience as a copywriter enables her to understand where a script is coming from, while her acting foundations help her ‘get inside’ the copy. From promo to retail, corporate narration to girl next door, Tiffany brings intelligence, creativity, efficiency and enthusiasm, instilling confidence in producers and clients alike.

Webinar: How to get the best performance from your Voice Over Artist with Brent Allen Hagel
LIVE on September 2nd, Wednesday at 10AM (AEST)/ 12PM (NZST)

Award winning V/O guru Brent A. Hagel  will be covering  direction styles, trigger words, and working the microphone per genre of promo.
Brent will be joined by two leading V/O Artists from your region for some live direction – Watch this space for updates.

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Brent Allen Hagel is a voice talent director & coach and is the founder and owner of Trailer Voice Artists (TVA). TVA is a marketing, casting, and talent development company for top-tier voice actors in the United States. The TVA team works with most major networks, advertising agencies to provide on-air voice talent to producers and editors.

Webinar: How to get the best performance from your Voice Over Artist with Brent Allen Hagel
LIVE on September 2nd, Wednesday at 10AM (AEST)/ 12PM (NZST)

Award winning V/O guru Brent A. Hagel  will be covering  direction styles, trigger words, and working the microphone per genre of promo.

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Four years on from a provocative call to the industry to change up their channel branding and marketing to reflect a modern media world, Charlie Mawer returns with a new rallying cry for TV branding – and TV brands – in an online TV universe.

Webinar: The Future of TV Branding
LIVE on August 5th, Wednesday at 10AM (AEST)/ 12PM (NZST)
Charlie has overall creative responsibility at Red Bee. He has over 20 years of experience leading complex network rebrands and creative campaigns for clients all across the world, including NBCUniversal, Dreamworks, France Télévisions, RTE, Hallmark, Netflix, and Discovery Networks.

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I work at 4creative, where I’m responsible for managing the creative department. 4creative is one of the best in-house agencies in the world, having won four D&AD black pencils, a BAFTA and stuff like that. We write and produce provocative and innovative work across all Channel 4 brands and services. It’s a pretty fun job.

Webinar: How to be Brave
LIVE on August 19th, Wednesday at 3PM (AEST)/ 5PM (NZST)

Will you risk coming to hear Eoin talk about taking creative risks? Sounds risky.

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Catherine Zaharias is head of marketing for Nickelodeon Australia and has more than 10 years’ experience crafting integrated strategies to grow some of the biggest entertainment brands in the world. Catherine has delivered award winning brand and content campaigns and her work has been rolled out across the globe.

Webinar: Staying Relevant in 2020
LIVE on June 22,Wednesday at 10AM (AEST) / 12PM (NZST)

At a time when innovation is brimming, ‘keeping up’ can seem impossible.
Join Nickelodeon Australia’s Cat Zaharias for a candid look at ‘new age’ brand building and discover why staying relevant isn’t as complicated as it seems. In this jargon-free session, learn the value of brands and how they drive long term business success and discover why creatives are so important when it comes to brand growth.

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Tim Hughes a global expert in creative brand strategy and founder of The Brief Doctor. His background is in TV promotions, branding and marketing. He is a lifetime achievement award–winner, and former chair of Promax UK.

Webinar: Marketing in the Age of Covid 

In this unprecedented time of global pandemic how do you sell without seeming insensitive? Join The Brief Doctor’s Tim Hughes for a short journey of empathetic communications. Learn how a softer approach to messaging can reap rewards, and how starting a conversation with your audience can build fans and advocates.