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  • IAA Mentorship with Maarten L Albarda

    IAA Mentorship with Maarten L Albarda

    MUMBAI: The International Advertising Association (IAA) India Chapter has organised its next webinar on ‘World Goes Digital’, which will be addressed by Maarten L Albarda, renowned marketing consultant, former Coca-Cola media and communication innovation global director.

     

    L Albarda has around 30 years of experience in advertising and marketing and started his career at JWT Amsterdam as a media planner.

     

    “We are delighted to have someone of the stature of Maatren L Albarda to address the IAA mentorship webinar. I am sure brand managers and digital media practitioners would use this opportunity to interact with him,” said IAA India Chapter and IAA development Asia/Pacific region vice president Srinivasan K Swamy.

     

    Free Press Journal director Abhishek Karnani and Mahindra Special Services Group marketing and public relations head Manish Advani are co-chairing the IAA webinar series.

     

    The webinar will be aired live on the IAA YouTube channel – www.youtube.com /iaaindiachapter on 16 October 4pm onwards.

     

    The International Advertising Association (IAA) India Chapter has earlier hosted speakers like Sajeev Kapoor, CMO, Citi (India); Ashish Hemrajani, Founder and CEO, Bookmyshow.com; Rajan Anandan, MD, Google (India); Nishant Rao MD, Linkedin (India); Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder, Rediff.com; Julie Roehm, Chief Story Teller, SAP and Neeraj Roy, MD and CEO of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd and Paul Berney, Co-Founder & Managing Partner EMEA of mCordis.

  • Srinivasan Swamy re-elected president of IAA in India

    Srinivasan Swamy re-elected president of IAA in India

    MUMBAI: At the Annual General Body Meeting of the India Chapter of International Advertising Association (IAA) held in Mumbai, RK Swamy Hansa Group chairman Srinivasan Swamy was unanimously elected its president for the third consecutive term.

     

    He already serves on the IAA Global Board as IAA Asia Pacific development vice president.

     

    Neeraj Roy of Hungama, Monica Tata of HBO and Jaideep Gandhi of Jaya Advertising were also re-elected vice president, honorary secretary and treasurer, respectively, for 2014-15.

     

    The other members elected into the managing committee were: Abhishek Karnani of The Free Press Journal, Vishakha Singh of Aurora Comms, Manish Advani of Mahindra SSG, Janak Sarda of Deshdoot, CVL Srinivas of Group M, Avinash Pandey of ABP News, MV Shreyams Kumar of Mathrubhumi, Partho Dasgupta of BARC, Bhaskar Das of Zee Media and Rajesh Kejriwal of Kyoorius.

     

    In addition, the following would serve in the committee as invited members for the year 2014-15: Pradeep Guha, Pheroza Bilimoria, Sam Balsara, Kaushik Roy, Raj Nayak, Ramesh Narayan, M G Parameswaran, Neville Taraporewalla, Gayatri Yadav, Anita Nayyar, Pradeep Dwivedi, Anand Sankeshwar, Sunil Lulla and Punitha Arumugam. “A few more have been invited and their names will be announced after they accept our invitation”, said Swamy.

     

    In his outgoing president’s address, Swamy said that the year that went by was an active one, where 32 events were organised by IAA India. Some of these included two IAA Debates, four IAA Conversations, five IAA Mentorship Webinars, six Knowledge Seminars, three IAA Young Turks Forum events and other marquee events like the IAA Olive Crown Awards and the IAA Leadership Awards. There were a few other special ones like the IAA Retrospect & Prospects events in Gurgaon and Mumbai and the IAA Mentorship Programme. The year was off to a terrific start on 30 September 2013 with the IAA Platinum Jubilee Global Marketing Summit where the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi delivering his valedictory address on his vision of Brand India.

     

    IAA India will be celebrating its Silver Jubilee year in 2014-15. “We have identified at least 20 different platforms to peg our events for the coming year. We have a very good committee and I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more than 52 events during the year”, said Swamy.

     

    IAA Asia Pacific area director Praddep Guha, “IAA India is already seen as the most active industry body in India as well as in the IAA world. With the plans that are made for 2014-15, I have no doubt that this will be the best year ever and would set a new benchmark”.

     

    Not wanting to elaborate as yet, Swamy said, “IAA will continue with some its past branded events and add a few special ones for the year that would make the IAA India Silver Jubilee a memorable one”.

     

     

  • IAA Young Turks Forum hosts mentorship programme

    IAA Young Turks Forum hosts mentorship programme

    MUMBAI: The International Advertising Association (IAA) India Chapter played host to 25 leaders from across Indian industry to mentor 720 students at the first ever mentorship programme conducted under the aegis of the IAA Young Turks Forum.

     

    JSW Foundation chairperson Sangita Jindal launched the initiative on 19 September at the Bombay Stock Exchange’s International Convention Hall. Hailing the initiative, Jindal scored the importance of mentorship for young professionals.

     

    Earlier, an interactive session with the theme ‘Engaging with the Audience – Lessons from the Entertainment Industry’ was held with film-maker and Lowe Lintas chairman R Balki and Hollywood director and entertainer Stefan Haves. Theatre personality and author Anish Trivedi moderated the discussion.

     

    “There is no need to panic in the race to achieve things,” advised Balki. He also added, “Chill, it’ll happen. Don’t panic.”

     

    Highlighting the difference between a great juggler and a not-so-great juggler, Haves said, “A great juggler has dropped the balls more and made more mistakes in public.” Underscoring the need to not fight shy and be scared of going in front of people, Stefan said, doing public discourse feeds your own soul and that of people around you.”

     

    HBO south Asia was the presenting partner and Mahindra Special Services Group and NASSCOM were the knowledge partners of the IAA Young Turks Forum.

     

    IAA India Chapter president and IAA development Asia/Pacific region VP Srinivasan K Swamy said, “It was heartening to see so many industry leaders spare their precious time to come and mentor youngsters. I am delighted that so many individuals came forward to avail this opportunity. I am also thankful to both Balki and Stefan Haves for talking about their craft and offering true words of wisdom to the 1000-plus audience.”

     

    “We at HBO encourage and value youth engagement opportunities. Our channels have a significant youth connect and we are delighted to have partnered with IAA for this event which had a particularly interesting mix of an interactive session and mentorship programme,” said HBO south Asia MD Monica Tata.

     

    Mahindra Special Services Group marketing and public relations head Manish Advani added, “This was the third edition of the IAA Young Turks Forum and the fact that we had over a thousand youngsters present speaks a lot for the need to have such events.”