*What: The biggest annual event of the advertising industry, Goafest is organised by AAAI and Ad Club Bombay . The theme for Goafest 2012 is ?Magic of Ideas?.

* Where: Zuri White Sands in South Goa

* When: April 19-21. The festival opens on April 19 with the Advertising Conclave.

What?s new:

* Delegates from countries across South Asia- Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal will be present at Goafest. And entries from these countries will vie for awards too.

*Creative Abby and Media Abby at Goafest have launched Grand Prix in all verticals.

* A new programme ? Marketing Wizards ? has been launched for the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) member companies. Each ISA member can nominate up to two rising stars from their marketing teams under the age of 30 years to visit Goafest 2012 for a discounted fee of R6000.

* Speakers: Big names from the advertising, media and marketing industry including Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer, DDB Worldwide; Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, VivaKi; Prof. John Philip Jones, Emeritus Professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communi-cations, Syracuse University, New York; E rik Vervroegen, International Creative Director, Publicis Worldwide; Lucas Watson, VP, Global Sales and Industry Marketing, YouTube; Jonathan Mildenhall, Global Advertising Strategy and Content Excellence VP, The Coca-Cola Company; Jean Yves Naouri, COO and Member of Management Board, Publicis Groupe SA; Tim Love, Vice Chairman of Omnicom Group and Jayant Murty, Director of Strategy, Media & Integrated Marketing, Asia Pacific, Intel Corporation will address the Goafest 2012 Knowledge Seminars.

* Jury: Jury members for Creative Abbys include Agnello Dias, Chairman and Co-Founder, TapRoot India; Ravi Deshpande, National Creative Director, Contract Advertising; KV Sridhar, NCD, Leo Burnett;Sonal Dabral, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, DDB Mudra; Abhjit Avasthi, NCD, Ogilvy & Mather;KS Chakravarthy, NCD, Draft FCB Ulka; Senthil Kumar, Executive Creative Director, JWT India and Chairman, JWT India Creative Council; Alok Nanda, Director, Alok Nanda Communications and Ashish Khazanchi, NCD, Publicis Worldwide.

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