FINAL SPEAKER LIST CONFIRMED FOR CAXTON SEMINAR IN PORT DOUGLAS, OCT 24-26
UPDATE – There is only room for a few more delegates at the upcoming Caxton Awards and Seminar weekend, which will be held at the Sea Temple Resort, Port Douglas from 24 -26October, 2008. Places are filling fast so guarantee your spot at Caxton2008 by downloading and faxing back a delegate form from the Caxtonwebsite.
Droga5 founder David Droga (pictured) will be the keynote speaker at the 2008 Caxton creative seminar in October.
The final lineup includes:
Mark Buckman, Chief Marketing Officer, Commonwealth Bank
Jason Ross, Executive Creative Director, CHE, Melbourne
John Silvester, crime writer, The Age
Scott Nowell, Creative Director, Three Drunk Monkeys
Renee Nowytarger, photojournalist, The Australian
Shaun Branagan, Executive Creative Director, Love Communications
Amanda Johnston, Executive Director Brands & Marketing Communications, Telstra
James Hurman, Planning Director, Colenso BBDO Auckland
“David Droga has created one of the world’s most respected organisations in Droga5. He has rewritten the book for contemporary ideas development and he is possibly the most successful Australian creative export. David often speaks in Cannes and is a real coup for the Caxtons,” Caxton chairman Rob Belgiovane said.
“The speakers this year have been selected for breaking new ground in the industry over the last year: Droga…an entirely new model for ad agencies.
Buchman…having the balls to appoint an agency for it’s fit with Comm Bank, DESPITE the fact that it’s located in the US. Amanda Johnston… now appointed to the biggest Marketing role in Australia ….how to get great creative for Australia’s biggest Brand across multiple agencies. Shaun Brannigan…one of the few CD’s that has transcended the shift from trad to digi media. John Silvester… advertising is all about storytelling/narrative and engagement…(underbelly is one of Australia’s most engaging stories) what lessons can we learn? Scott Nowell, 3 Drunk Monkeys, an entirely new model specialising in Content development.
“This year, attending the Caxton’s has the potential to revitalise your career through learning what new thinking is working for brands, individuals and agency’s worldwide. The Caxtons is the only creative seminar in Australia that allows creatives to experience this calibre of talent in an intimate environment and also get to see the country’s best newspaper advertising in what has become a unique event in the industry.”
There are 74 finalists in this year’s Caxton Awards for excellence in newspaper advertising and entries were up by 10 per cent on last year.
The 2008 Caxton Weekend Seminar will be held at the Sea Temple Resort, Port Douglas from 24 -26 October, 2008. Places are filling fast so guarantee your spot at Caxton 2008 by downloading and faxing back a delegate form from the Caxtonwebsite.
42 Comments
Rob, surely you can think of at least one other woman whao might speak???
Doesn’t Droga have any sisters?
‘He is the single most awarded creative at the Cannes International Advertising Festival’
Not to take anything away from DD. But I would say Erik Vervroegen from TBWA Paris has to have won more lions than that.
Great guy. Pity about the D5 Fosters work……it won’t get ANYONE to Cannes!!!!!
Break it down Eric. Erik Vervroegen is married, and Droga is the single, most awarded creative.
Surprisingly, he’s won there every year for about 20 years. Wouldn’t surprise me. And he’s a lovely guy, the one and only time I met him, not arrogant, really nice. I wasn’t even a junior then.
One thing I do wonder, is given how progressive Dr05a’s stuff is, what the hell is he going to say about press :o)
The man is an absolute genius. We should all be so proud of the way he flies the flag of Australian creativity around the world. I won’t be at the Caxtons. But I will be certainly getting my hands on a transcript of his speech. It will surely illuminate the way forward for our industry.
brilliant news. One of the few people I would pay to hear speak.
7:22 maybe another opp for Jane Caro
Ok.
I have had enough of Droga.
This Blog is very good to him.
I have to say that no one in this industry is worth the hype. We get paid by other people to create commercial art for them.
Surely the point is to make them famous not ourselves. A bit like Siimon, I find the whole Droga thing such a PR confection. I am bored now. I want to see real work, done for real clients.
Please?
Mark Buckman at Caxtons?
Peter Ford at Caxtons years before.
Does every Marketing Director at the Commbank have to come and browbeat us?
Or is it a cartharsis?
Steve.
surely you must be kidding, insanely jealous or just a total prick.
Little wonder our industry isn’t taken seriously by clients when people like you go out of your way to shit on our best ambassadors.
And please do your research.
Droga has probably done 20 things I would kill to have done for some of the best brands in the world.
Basically if you are not a fan of him, then please get the fuck out of advertising.
Hopefully he can talk some sense into Comm Bank.
Ben you give other Ben’s on this blog a bad name.
My name is now Herbert Norbert. or Norbet Yebut.
Legend
I agree with 10.15 Steve. Droga is a legend. But you do make a good point about this blog being very good to him, yet he criticised it in the Australian Media pages recently. It’s a bit rich given the way CB seems to have totally protected D5 over VB. I also never believe anyone who starts off saying “I have only ever been into the CB blog twice”, yet can then make sweeping statements about its content.
Dear Michael and all the other Campaign Brief powers,
For us poor sods whose agencies won’t pay for us to spend a weekend in the sun and hear him, can you organize for him to come and do a talk in Sydney as part of his trip? Figure after flying 20 plus hours to come back to Australia he will drop by his Sydney office.
What the fuck, isn’t it your job to beat him??!
idol worshipping is not going to help u.
But u can worship me, i am the chairman now haha
on your knees…
ya good boy…good boy… haha
great guy.
Nice to see most of the speakers are ex-Saatchis.
Look, Droga is a great guy, a great talent and a great success. No-one argues with that. However if you promote yopur agency as ‘the future, new ways to do things, the old way is dead and so on AND then turn out work in Australia which is as old school as it gets and not very good to boot then some criticism is gonna come your way. I think its a coup by Belgo to get him.
Simon your seriously sucking a bit hard. They aren’t going to give you a job… you don’t have the talent, and the ‘F’ word thats so 1996.
Ben , I guess that’s the difference. NY has Droga in person.
Sydney speech would be good.
Droga5 is very good at PR, so why isn’t the V Australia work on the blog? Could it be that for a great assignment, it’s not up to par?
The V Australia work should be discussed…mostly because the line is ” a great idea takes off everyday”. Correct.
The idea sure took off from the ads….
What’s the point of wasting your PR budget on client stuff?
I think Droga’s cool and down with the kids (me, aka 30yr olds). I think they talk it up coz it’s advertising. Industry might not like it but then again, why should the best give a fuck? Clients love that shit. Isn’t it about enjoying where you work and being able to afford les Chatês du Pápé en salâde dressing? Non?
And to be honest. They are good. You can’t deny them that. Even the more average stuff.
I hope he goes into some deep insightful commentary on the french fry ad!
True. Droga5 is a hot shop. V Australia presents a hot creative opportunity. So why has there hardly been a word about it?
Every industry has its ‘stars.’
Whether they are the best (whatever that actually means) doesn’t really matter. They are obviously pretty good and excellent and generating publicity. Droga is our star. As a mature, self-confident person, you have two choices. Either use their success as a motivation tool. Or, run your own race, confident of your own place in the world. Using their success as the basis for bitching or self-denigration is ultimately physically, psychology and spiritually unhealthy.
Ben, I agree, but every agency promotes themselves as the way of the future etc.
These guys at least are closer than every other agency about town touting how they’re ‘turning things around’.
More effort on ads and less on PR is a good strategic insight. Pitches aren’t won on credential documents.
When the hadron collider finally gets it’s protons cranking, none of this will really matter anyway.
VB IS NOT THEIR BEST WORK SO WHY TALK ABOUT IT.
Why use one name like Richard, Jay, Peter or Andy??
Your mum may think you are special but there are too many out there. No fucking point.
Another Caxton’s tongue lashing from CommBank.
God, it’s like being mauled by a sheep.
Where’s the article about the Swedish art director going to Cummins Brisbane?
Just for the record, It was GRAHAM Ford. Not Peter, but I guess you had to be there
Droga’s cool. But i’m sure he’d hate the unwarranted buttlicking and unwarrented praise as much as the next guy.
Wanna be famous? Go kill someone or become an actor. That’s why Davy does ads.
Don’ wanna be famous bro.
No offense to the ad guys on the list, but who really wants to hear from an ad guy?
the only people on that list who sound interesting are the crime reporter and the photojournalist. I don’t know their work but at least they won’t be saying the same old stuff that every ad guy has been saying since the beginning of time.
v funny Todd – i agree
People who don’t like ads should clean out the dead weight in the industry and move on.
9.45
You’re an idiot
Huh, 2:26am? There is no 9:45. So, um, who’s an idiot then?
12.67
You are also an idiot.