Caxton Seminar set for NSW Hunter Valley with David Nobay and Ant Keogh in speaker line-up
The Hunter Valley in NSW has been confirmed as the venue for this year’s Caxton Seminar and Awards, to be held from Thursday October 27 to Saturday October 29.
Delegates will convene at the stunning Chateau Elan, a new luxury 5-star resort located on The Vintage golf course.
In announcing the 2011 venue today, the Caxton Committee also confirmed the initial line-up of speakers who will share their wisdom and insights with delegates at this year’s event: David Nobay, (above left) creative chairman, Droga5, Australia; director of Ipsos Mackay, social researcher Dr Rebecca Huntley; Mat Baxter, CEO of UM Australia and Ant Keogh (above right), executive creative director at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne.
Says Rob Belgiovane, Caxton committee chairman: “This year’s Caxtons is already shaping up as an unmissable event not only for the advertising and marketing community but for anyone in the field of creative thinking.
The Caxtons always provides delegates with access to the brightest, most talented people in our industry, and this year will be no exception. We’re very excited to be announcing our first four guest speakers, with further announcements coming soon.”
After an international career spanning London, Hong Kong and San Francisco, David Nobay (or “Nobby”, as he’s better known) launched his own agency, Wells Nobay McDowall in Melbourne at just 27, and led it to become one of the most awarded integrated agencies of the 90’s in Australia.
He moved to New York in 2000 to join an all-new new Bozell team as Deputy ECD, alongside Tony Granger. He was also ranked in Archive Magazine’s Top Ten most published copywriters of the last millennium.
In 2003, he returned to Australia as executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney. Under Nobby’s creative stewardship, the office was ranked Agency of the Year for an unprecedented three years in a row. In 2007, Nobby was invited by David Droga to launch Droga5, Sydney. The office opened its doors officially in 2008, and was named “Agency of the Year” by B&T Magazine in 2009. In 2010, he was included in Ad Age’s Top 50 Creative individuals worldwide.
Dr Rebecca Huntley is arguably Australia’s leading social researcher, with a background in publishing, academia and politics.
Huntley is the author of the Ipsos Mackay Report, and is a regular contributor to essay collections, magazines, newspapers and online publications as well as being a feature writer for Australian Vogue.
She is a sought after commentator on social trends on radio, in print and on television, and has written two books, The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation and Eating Between the Lines: food and equality in Australia.
Mat Baxter became CEO of UM Australia in December last year. He is formerly chief strategy officer of MediaCom Australia and a former founding partner and CEO Asia Pacific of Naked Communications.
He is one of the industry’s most highly regarded strategists and is a sought-after commentator on media communications and consumer issues. His role at UM is across the agency’s four offices which oversee accounts such as Coles, L’Oreal, Microsoft, The Federal Government, Stockland, Panasonic and Sony Pictures.
Ant Keogh was recently named #9 Creative Director in the world by the One Report, and amongst the top 10 “Creatives You Should Know” in 2010 by Ad Age, U.S.A. He is currently No.1 creative director in the Campaign Brief rankings and has won over 150 creative awards internationally.
As a copywriter, his most famous work is the on-going Carlton Draught “Made from Beer” campaign featuring “Big Ad”. Recently included in the Sydney Powerhouse Museum’s “Top 10 Greatest Australian Ads”, it won gold awards at Cannes, One Show, AWARD, M2C, Adfest, Mobius, and New York Festivals. Follow up ads such as “Flashbeer” and “Skytroop” and promotions such as “Drop The Bomb” also won awards around the world.
The 2011 Caxton Seminar and Awards will be held from Thursday – Saturday, October 27 – 29.
Booking forms for the event are available from: https://secure.twodeforce.com.au/caxton/
For general information about this year’s Caxtons, please visit: www.facebook.com/CaxtonSeminarAndAwards
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A seminar at the Vintage in Hunter Valley wine country with Nobby. Are you sure they didn’t mean a semillon?
Oh well, seminar, semillon, what’s the difference when you’re among friends.
The Caxtons, an ad industry piss up by any other name, and out of town too . . .
Chateau Elan indeed.