CS Mini Cannes

Back for our annual round up of everything Cannes Lions, #CSminicannes hits the London stage with an inspiring selection of talks and reviews along with analysis and future forecasting to give you the low down on what everyone was buzzing about at this year’s festival of creativity. So if you or your team didnt get that golden ticket, get yourself down to CS Mini Cannes, you can't miss out twice!
The session has been divided up into 3 strategic content areas.
The Stage
Bringing back talks from the Cannes stage to London
The Awards
Hear which work truly inspired our Creative Leaders and why it made them think F**k that was good. Come away armed with tips on how to win your very own Gold Lions next year.
The Future
Hear about key trends, creative highlights and future forecasting to help you understand ‘what and where next?’
Our speakers


The Stage
Can You Be Faster, Fresher, Better, More Fun?
Mark Earls, Herdmeister, @herdmeister, The Herd & Laura Jordan Bambach, @laurajaybee, Creative Partner, Mr President & Co-Founder SheSays
How we can make work better, faster and have more fun doing it? The machines say "agile"; procurement says "cheaper"; we say "more human”. In the age of booming adtech, with the drive for innovation and hyper efficiency, the role for great creativity can seem less important. But in fact brilliant, human ideas have never been more central to the success of a brand.
Misfits & Madmen
Sam Ball, @samuelball, Creative Director, M&C Saatchi
We are going to inject the creative department with a bunch off misfits. A cage fighter, a poet, an international rugby player, a philosopher... We will set them the same brief and then in this talk, share the results, examining how diversity of thought can transform a creative idea.
An Overview
David Davies, @Cannes_Lions, MD, Content, Cannes Lions
David will be gathering inspiration from the main themes at the festival to bring you a fresh and forward thinking review of talks from the stage.

The Awards
Wesley Ter Haar, @mediamonks, Co-Founder, Media Monks / Jury President – Digital Craft Lions
Wesley, who is heading up the brand new Digital Craft category, will give us an insight into what this new category means to the industry along with what made the grade, why they got there and what you can do to win big!
Naomi Troni, @naomi_troni, Global Chief Growth Officer, MullenLowe Group / Juror, Creative Effectiveness Lions
Naomi will discuss what the Creative Effectiveness Cannes Lions Jury process has taught her and she will summarize with some handy take way tips that will help individuals and agencies create more effective work.
Candace Kuss, @candacekuss, Director of Social Media, H&K Strategies
Candace is the lady in the know about everything PR Cannes Lions, she will be giving us a festival wrap up of all the best bits (and worst) along with who won and why.
Nick Turner, @bandwidthpirate, Chief Creative Officer, EMEA, SapientNitro and Razorfish
Nicks talk to be announced...

The Future
Victoria Buchanan, @VicsBuchanan, Executive Creative Director, Tribal Worldwide / Juror, Cyber Lions
Helen Fuchs, @DigitasLBi_UK, Executive Creative Director, DigitasLBi / Juror, Digital Craft
Jon Wilkins, @karmajon, Chairman, Karmarama
David Wilding, @drwilding, Director of Planning, Twitter UK

Our panel, who will be gauging the barometer of creativity at Cannes, will give thought to what they think the future holds for our industry and how you can stay one step ahead of the game.

On the night you can get into the true Cannes spirit with a few glasses of rose and some pizza. Yum.

Who should attend?
Creatives, Strategists, Planners, Innovators, Producers, Designers, Technologists and anyone with a curious mind.