Meet our Cannes contest winners at the Lions

The Palais des Festivals in Cannes where everything happens!

Welcome aperitif on Sunday. Duy, behind the camera, meet Gen and Kanokrat for the first time

Kanokrat and Duy at the Palais

After registering, everyone was ready for a week full of discovery, learning, and listening to amazing speakers!

Kanokrat having a great moment in Cannes Lions 2012 at IPG Mediabrands villa

IPG Cocktail Party on Monday

Amazing scenery at the IPG Cocktail Party

Duy and Kanokrat pose with our branded tuk tuks!

Technology at the IPG Mediabrands villa

Guests tweeting their way across Cannes.

Initiative Twilight: Activating the Digital Universe for ChangeArianna Huffington, Jeremy Hymans and David Shing were our

fabulous speakers for the evening!

Guests share a drink at Initiative Twilight: Activating the Digital Universe for Change

Guests gathering for a photo at Initiative Twilight: Activating the Digital Universe for Change

Duy’s favorite seminar of the week was The Coca-Cola Company: New Rules of Marketing and Consumer Engagement featuring Joseph Tripodi,

Executive Vice-President, Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer

It is not every day that IPG chairman Michael Roth takes to the stage only to introduce the speakers. Here he is to introduce Shekhar Kapur, the noted Indian film director and Balki (R Balakrishnan), chairman and

creative head of Roth's own agency, Lowe Lintas India.

India was in focus at Cannes, for the first time in 58 years since the festival began in 1954.

Roth noted that the session at Cannes was an indication of the importance of India in the global economy.

He added that his own group, IPG, was committed to India in a big way through Lowe Lintas, which was launched in 1939. Today they handle

about 250 clients – more than what the agency's New York office handles

Yahoo! Party

Guests gather at the Yahoo! Party

IPG Mediabrands & Yahoo! Party. Gossip Girl and Glee actors joined Mat Seiler and Yahoo! CEO

Time Warner featured Peter Roth, President Warner Bros Television, Michael Patrick King, executive producer Sex and the

City and Jeff Bewkes, Chairman Time Warner.

O&M master class on Social Media skills

Duy exploring the YouTube booth

Duy having fun and featuring in his very own YouTube ad!

Duy took a break for some digital water skiing!

The Cannes Lions Connect Bar, a cool way to meet people

Kanokrat and Panwadee , Marketing Press from Thailand hang out at Cannes Connection Bar

Good music all week with DJ partner Spotify

Evening in Cannes

Day 5 of the festival: A great talk by the acclaimed philosopher and writer Alain de Botton, who was brought to Cannes by Ogilvy & Mather. He drew parallels between advertising and art, which he describes as "the sensory

presentation of an idea."

Alain suggested that much of advertising works at the bottom of Maslow's pyramid and that we need to find a way to work at the top by appealing

more to real needs than to desires. Those needs could address one or more of Epicurus' three key ingredients for happiness - friends, freedom and

thoughtfulness/reflection.

He also talked a lot about the fear of failure, which impedes our creativity, but reassured us that no creativity can occur without that fear and that

nobody can be successful at everything.

Our very own Jacki Kelly travelling up and down the croisette with our branded tuk-tuks

Jacki Kelly and friends meet with Glee star Mathew Morrison

UM TWILIGHT with Facebook, speakers Jack Myers, Dr. Gino Yu and Paul Adams.

UM TWILIGHT, Introduction by Carolyn Everson from Facebook

Jacki Kelly introduces UM TWILIGHT with Facebook, speakers Jack Myers, Dr. Gino Yu and Paul Adams

UM TWILIGHT with Jack Myers

Dr. Gino Yu share his thoughts at UM TWILIGHT

BBH seminar at the Young lions featuring Sir John Hegarty!

BBH seminar at the Young lions

The Longest queue to attend Bill Clinton speech

Gen and Duy at the one of highlight in Cannes Lions 2012

with Bill Clinton

There has been much talk in recent times about how the advertising industry could (and should) use its considerable wealth of creativity (and wealth) to help change people’s behavior for the benefit of the world. That message was amplified when

former President Bill Clinton addressed the ad world in Cannes. Invited to the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity by Brazilian media group Grupo ABC, Clinton called on the assembled to channel their creative energy toward coming up with

world-changing ideas.

While Clinton’s message was simple - that those whose with the power to persuade could have great impact when those energies are focused on the greater good - his

impressive insight and global context helped make his point.

Duy and Kanokrat dine out over a typical French breakfast

Duy and Kanokrat had an unforgettably rich week full of learning.

They hope to be back at the festival again!!!

Yes !! It’s the big experience in my life

at Cannes Lions 2012