Get Ready for IAA’s Double Event

The India Chapter of International Advertising Association has two high decibel events on the same day - Friday, September 16^th at ITC Maratha, Sahar road, Mumbai.

The evening begins with IAA Knowledge Series on ‘Reshaping Markets Through Disruption’ which will have Raghav Bahl, Founder of Quintillion Media Pvt. Ltd and Ronnie Screwvala,  Founder UTV Group, Unilazer Ventures and Swades Foundation in discussion at 5 pm on 16th September. The session will be moderated by Mini Menon, Co-Founder & Editor at Indy Network Pvt. Ltd who will seek responses to whether they can recreate their success earlier in their new ventures. This Knowledge Series will be powered by The Free Press Journal.

Later on from 6.30 pm onwards the IndIAA Awards ceremony will be held when awards for creative advertising backed by real budgets from top 20 advertising categories will be honored. Mathrubhumi, the national daily in Malayalam, has come forward as the title partner of IndIAA Awards, 

Srinivasan Swamy, President, IAA India Chapter and SVP, IAA Global said, “The IAA Knowledge series offers an excellent opportunity for a discussion on issues of critical importance for advertising, marketing and media professionals. We have decided to have the IAA Knowledge series and the IndIAA Awards on the same day, so that the people attending will have the opportunity to engage on two very different matters.” 

Abhishek Karnani, Director, Free Press journal said, “The monthly event will be the first of the series 'Reshaping Markets through Disruption'. We will bring in real mavericks who have changed the business landscape. We are very excited to have Ronnie and Raghav as our first panelists, which will be moderated by Mini Menon. The event will be informal, fun and interactive one and will be telecasted live on Quint. We are inviting only 50 high profile people from Financial World & Corporate sectors, Media, Agencies & Advertisers.”

Mini Menon, Co-Founder & Editor at Indy Network Pvt. Ltd said, “Indy Network is excited to bring the first of the Disruptor series. This program is conceptualised by us to create a forum to bring together people who have been true disruptors and engage with them with pertinent questions that few have posed. We are introducing the concept of a candid  'bar side' conversations where top CEO's will be fielding some tough questions. We look forward to this first of its kind series that we believe will generate incredible insights and learnings”

M V Shreyams Kumar, Director, Marketing at Mathrubhumi said, “We are indeed proud to be partnering with IAA for the IndIAA Awards. It is a great opportunity to be supporting real advertising of the top advertised categories which is backed by major budgets. All the co-creators of the winning campaign from advertiser, creative, media and digital agencies will jointly come on to the stage and receive the award. Mathrubhumi always encourages honesty and truthfulness in its reporting and IndIAA Awards is having similar objectives which we share”.