Indiantelevision.com Team

(26 February 2009 9:30 pm)

MUMBAI: The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and The Advertising Club Bombay have announced the commencement of Goafest 2009. Currently in its fourth year, Goafest 2009 will kick off on 2 April and will go on till 4 April at the Cavelossim beach, Goa.

JWT India CEO Colvyn Harris will serve as the Goafest 2009 chairman. The committee is co-chaired by Lodestar Universal CEO Shashi Sinha and Euro RSCG CEO Suman Srivastava.

The other key members of the Goafest committee are Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) president and Mudra Group MD & CEO Madhukar Kamath, The Advertising Club Bombay president and Benett & Coleman executive president Bhaskar Das, Percept/H director Ajay Chandwani, , and BBH India managing partner Subhash Kamath.

Speaking on the occasion, Goafest 2009 chairman Colvyn Harris said, “This year the focus will be on the knowledge & learning seminars and we have some internationally famous legends from the global advertising world speaking at the three-day festival.”

The Industry Leadership Conclave will be held on 2 April and the theme for this year is “This is too good a recession to waste”.

The knowledge and learning seminars will be held on 3 and 4 April wherein the key speakers will include names such as Sir John Hegarty (BBH), Bob Scarpelli (DDB) and Jean-Marie Dru (TBWA).