Simon Mainwaring

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Last week I shared Part 1 of my breakdown of seminars that I’m excited about at the Cannes Advertising Festival this year. Here is Part 2hat includes a short synopsis of what each talk is about and what I’ll be speaking about as well with Alec Ross in our seminar sponsored by InterCulture. Adobe: Shantanu Narayen […]

Last week I shared Part 1 of my breakdown of seminars that I’m excited about at the Cannes Advertising Festival this year. Here is Part 2hat includes a short synopsis of what each talk is about and what I’ll be speaking about as well with Alec Ross in our seminar sponsored by InterCulture. Adobe: Shantanu Narayen …

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_HHvnecO4 Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel regarding the role of cultural diplomacy in bridging U.S./Muslim relations. The theme for the evening was “In The Age of Global Civilization There Is No Us or Them” and the special guest was Farah Pandith, President Obama’s Special Envoy to Muslim Communities under …

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I’m really excited to be speaking at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this year and wanted to share some of the seminars that I’m looking forward to. I’ll give a snapshot of what each is about so that you get a sense of what issues the industry is addressing. Plus, if you’re going, this should be …

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ANVCDHYA4 If only these walls could talk, the saying goes. In the case of the N building near Tachikawa station in Japan they do. In fact the whole building facade has been transformed into a real time dialogue between smart phones and what’s going on inside the store. All you do is hold your phone up …

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The internet has been ablaze this week with discussion around the impact of Facebook’s announcements at the f8 conference last week. Effectively Facebook has dismantled the walls between it and the entire web inviting conjecture that the entire web will become social and that Facebook is making a bid for control. From a user’s point …

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