About Cannes Lions: Happening from June 20 to 26, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is the world’s only truly global meeting place for professionals in the communications industry. The South of France sets the venue of seven days of award ceremonies, seminars, workshops, master classes, exhibitions, screenings and networking.
More than 50 seminars are planned for 2010, delivered by the most innovative thinkers in the global communications industry. The full seminar programme includes talks by clients such as Yahoo!, Microsoft Advertising, Facebook, MasterCard, Kraft Foods, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewlett-Packard and Coca-Cola.
The Festival presents a stellar line-up of speakers to learn from, challenge and meet. Top creative innovators David Droga, Jeff Goodby, Akira Kagami, Marcello Serpa, Mark Tutssel, Erik Vervroegen and Fernando Vega Olmos, as well as industry leaders Sir Martin Sorrell and Maurice Lévy are top-billed at Cannes Lions.
This year, film directors Ridley Scott, Wim Wenders and Spike Jonze, as well as Yoko Ono, are a number of cross-media speakers joining the event.
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