Tahirah is an alumna of the Cannes Lions See It Be It initiative and a multi-award-winning Senior Copywriter. She cares a lot about finding ways to use advertising for meaningful sh*t and wants to help create an industry culture that gives creative autonomy to marginalized and minority voices.  She also loves reminding people (including herself) to practice self-care. Outside of ad life, she produces an annual,  print-only publication named “Plantain Papers”.

Maddy is currently working as an ACD Art Director at Anomaly NY. Before joining Anomaly, she worked in Saatchi NY, where she was part of the team behind the “It’s a Tide Ad” campaign. This year, AdWeek named her one of "Trailblazers breaking down barriers and opening opportunities for others". She also won participant of the 3 Cheers Award. Maddy is the founder of inVisible Creatives, the largest female creative database worldwide, and of womancard.co, a deck of cards made of important women.

Kyra is a strong advertising professional who knows how to translate a broad strategical marketing communication vision into the digital sphere. Since Sept. 2013, she is the president of the International Advertising Association’s Dutch Chapter. In her role, she’s connected several different associations to work together. Now, she’s the founder of AD.BUSINESS Amsterdam, where she does business development for agencies within the creative industry. She also founded the Embassy of Dutch Creativity and is responsible for the Epica Awards in Amsterdam. Besides her entrepreneurial endeavors, Kyra serves as a guest lecturer in advertising and psychology at The New School in Amsterdam.

Jaki Jo, won a D&AD New Blood Yellow Pencil back in 2008 for illustration, an award which launched her into the industry. She started her career at AMV BBDO and after gaining close to a decade of experience, made the move to Cannes Lions “Agency of the Year 2018”, adam&eveDDB. Throughout her career, she has been recognized as “one to watch”; she's been featured in Design Week as a “Rising Star” and in Creative Review’s “Emerging Talent Portfolio”. She launched “Equal Lens”, an initiative to create new and equal opportunities for female photographers in advertising.

Ioana was recognized as “Copywriter of the Year” in Romania (her home country) by an impressive international jury. She quickly rose to seniorship and then to creative management, as a Group Creative Director of Mccann Romania. Now, she has taken a new challenge - that of being Creative Director of MRM//McCann Romania, the leading digital agency in her country. She has awards from Cannes Lions, D&AD, Clio Awards, LIA, Eurobest, Epica and Golden Drum. Ioana has been herself in the juries of Cannes Lions, Clio Awards, New York Festivals, Eurobest and Webby’s.

Diana has an experience of over 25 years in communication and advertising in Romania, Russia and Germany, in global and national roles. Since 2017, Diana is the Director of the IAA Global Conference “Creativity4Better”, the only conference in Central & Eastern Europe focused entirely on Creativity, as the driver for business growth, but also as a catalyst to change the world for the better. Diana is among other things a certified executive coach that loves to inspire excellence in the communication, personal and professional growth of others.

After spending more than 5 years in various digital marketing positions across Europe, David currently leads the digital marketing for Nike Digital Direct across the EMEA region. In the last 6 years, his role is to oversee a team of digital marketeers responsible for category marketing across Nike’s digital channels. He worked on multiple award-winning campaigns and on some of the biggest sporting events such as the 2014 & 2018 Football World Cup, 2016 European Championship and the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games.

Louise Benson is Director of Health and CLX at Cannes Lions, and Festival Director of eurobest. She oversees See It Be It, the talent scheme for high potential creative women that runs each year in Cannes and its associated activities throughout the year, that includes Cannes Lions leadership for the Unstereotype Alliance as well. Louise has worked in events for the creative industries for 15 years, most recently as Festival Director at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.  Her career started in commercial theatre and artist management, working at the Ambassadors Theatre Group, IMG Artists and Avalon Management Group.

Evgeny Primachenko grew up in Yekaterinburg city. He became a copywriter at the local agency “Voskhod” at 17. He helped the agency reach first position in the Russian rating of creativity. In 2012, Evgeny moved from snowy Ural to rainy Holland and joined Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. His work has been awarded internationally at Cannes Lions, D&AD, Eurobest, CLIO, One Show, Epica, ADCE, Golden Drum and on every post-Soviet Union territory festival. Some of the clients who trusted his creativity are: Nike, Heineken, Intel, Netflix, Tesco, and GE.