Executive Creative Summit - Amsterdam Speaker
Philippe Meunier
Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer
Sid Lee
After earning a Bachelor’s degree in design from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Philippe Meunier and his high school buddy, Jean-François Bouchard—fresh out of school and without a portfolio, clients or even any money—decided to start their own agency, Sid Lee. What Philippe and Jean-François lacked in experience, they made up for in vision; they set out to create a firm that went beyond the traditional and often limiting advertising agency model, by developing a multidisciplinary approach they came to define as Commercial Creativity™.
Today, more than 20 years later, Sid Lee is synonymous around the world with creativity and innovation. The Montréal-based agency now has offices in Paris, Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, with a multidisciplinary creative team from various backgrounds and cultures.
As co-founder and Creative Chief of Sid Lee, Philippe oversees all the creative output for major international clients including absolut, adidas and Cirque du Soleil. His diverse role also involves recruiting fresh talent from schools around the world. These experiences inspired Philippe to set up The Atelier—a multidisciplinary, commercial creativity school where students spend 10 days immersed in all things creative.
As an active member of the creative community, Philippe has been invited to chair and serve on the jury panel at various national and international competitions, like the Cannes Lions International Festival, the D&AD Awards, the Canadian Marketing Awards and Communication Arts. And he recently received an honorary award from the Université du Québec à Montréal for his contribution to creative arts in his home province of Québec.
Philippe also partnered with Ex Machina’s Robert Lepage in 2008 to create The Image Mill, the largest architectural movie projection ever made, to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of Québec City. Philippe acted as scenarist on the project, which tells the story of the city’s history and development through a series of images and videos projected onto the grain silos of Québec Harbour.
Collaboration is an essential part of Philippe’s approach to creativity, and is especially evident in the culture and ideology of Sid Lee. The agency’s core values are based on collectivism and the belief that the group is far stronger than the individual, so every idea and opinion is given equal value. The result is an agency where everyone works (and plays!) hard as a team, sharing both the workload and the rewards.
Executive Creative Summit - Amsterdam
Life seemed so much simpler when you were "just" a creative, when your main concerns were keeping the higher-ups happy and maybe, just maybe picking up a few Gold Pencils and Cubes along the way. But now you are one of the higher-ups, and while winning awards is still important, you now have the pressure of making vital decisions that can affect employees, clients, and of especially the agency's bottom line.
The One Club for Creativity's Executive Creative Summit was designed to address these concerns, bringing together C-suite creatives, agency founders and partners to discuss the issues that affect their businesses, far beyond the scope of creativity. The two-day Summit allows for a rare and genuine opportunity to foster open dialogue and exchange ideas that extend far beyond the creative department. This is not a conference, but rather a closed-door conversation between peers, including some of the most successful creative professionals in the industry.
No live streaming, No recordings, No press, No pitches, No tweets, snaps, grams or posts. Just intimate and honest closed door conversation with some of the most successful creative professionals in the industry.
In order to keep the event intimate enough for engaging conversations to unfold, spaces for the Summit are limited, and reserved for the top creative executives within an agency, as well as agency partners and founders.
The Executive Creative Summit registration fee is $1200.00 USD, which includes all sessions, breakfasts, lunches, a networking dinner and happy hour.
Summit includes:
- Exclusive access to the one and a half day, Executive Creative Summit at The NewWerktheater, Thursday November 29 and half day Friday, 30th.
- Day 1 Breakfast, lunch, Group Sessions, Networking Dinner and Happy Hour.
- Day 2 Breakfast, Group Sessions, Closing Lunch.
Prospective attendees must register and be pre-screened before being allowed to purchase tickets.
2018 Speakers
Femke Bartels
Global Managing Director,
THNK, School of Creative Leadership
Carlo Cavallone
Executive Creative Director / Partner
72andSunny
Susan Credle
Global Chief Creative Officer
FCB Global
Victor Knaap
Main Monk & CEO,
MediaMonks
Philippe Meunier
Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer
Sid Lee
Anna Qvennerstedt
SWEDEN
Creative Senior Partner / Chairman of the Board
Forsman & Bodenfors
Niki Schilling
Director Innovations & Sustainability,
Rituals
Dinesh Sonak
Managing Director
ADCN
Sir Martin Sorrell
Executive Chairman,
S4 Capital
Iain Tait
Executive Creative Director
FOOD,
London
Mark van Iterson
Global Design Director
Heineken
John van Tuyll
Senior Director, Global Brand Marketing Operations & Creative Shoot Production
Adidas
Ynzo van Zanten
Chief Evangelist
Tony's Chocolonely
Stéphane Xiberras
Président / CCO
BETC
2018 SCHEDULE
Day 1
9:15 - 10:00am
10:00 - 10:10am
Dinesh Sonak, Managing Director, ADCN
10:10 am - 10:55 am
What is the role of brands in society? How do you create purpose for mainstream brands that did not have purpose from the start? When is communicating about purpose effective for brands?
Niki Schilling, Rituals
Ynzo van Zanten, Tony's Chocolonely
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Susan Credle, FCB
As leaders we need to recognize the incredible difference diversity can make in our agencies. This difference can be positive or negative depending on how people are treated. Are you asking people to assimilate? Or are you encouraging them to bring their authentic selves to work. And then let’s talk about you as a leader. How diverse are you when it comes to leadership skills? And are you aware of how your greatest leadership strengths can turn against you?
11:50 am - 12:35 pm
Anna Qvennerstedt, Forsman & Bodenfors
How do you create and foster a culture of creativity and collaboration?.
12:40 - 1:25 pm
1:30 - 2:25 pm
Philippe Meunier, Sid Lee
What do we actually mean when we say that we are always trying to create “work that matters”? More than just an aspirational goal, this creative credo can provide us with the keys to make creative work that is inspiring, resonant and, most importantly, work that adds real value to our clients’ businesses.
2:30 - 3:15 pm
Sir Martin Sorrell, S4Capital
Victor Knaap, MediaMonks
3:20 - 4:05 pm
Olaf Hussein, Olaf Hussein
Willem van Roosmalen, Homerun.co
A fresh take on creativity from a new generation of creative makers.
4:10 - 5:00 pm
Femke Bartels, THNK, School of Creative Leadership
5:00 - 6:00pm
6:00pm
Day 2
9:15 - 10:00am
10:00 - 10:30am
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Mark van Iterson, Heineken John van Tuyll, Adidas
11:20 am - 12:05 pm
Stéphane Xiberras, BETC
Carlo Cavallone, 72andsunny
12:10 pm - 12:55 pm
Iain Tait, Wieden + Kennedy London
We all talk about wanting to make work that impacts culture. But it's becoming harder and harder to do this for clients. Hyper-fragmented media and infinite competition from creators who don't play by the same rules have stacked the chips against us. Iain's going to tell some stories and drop some hints that might help, a bit.
12:55 pm - 1:45 pm
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club for Creativity
Dinesh Sonak, Managing Director, ADCN
Accommodations: Hotel Zoku
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