In 10 days time the communications world will gather in Miami for the Holmes Report's third Global PR Summit. The event, which takes place on 27-30 October, will feature a top-tier lineup of leading authors, thinkers, marketers and communicators from more than 25 countries across the globe.
Join us at the St Regis Bal Harbour to explore the game-changing companies, people and ideas that are transforming the world of communications.
The #PRSummit's geographic scope is reflected by a genuinely international lineup of speakers from the US, UK, China, India, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Brazil, France, Sweden, Canada, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and more.
Neither is this diversity limited to the speaker lineup alone. The content programme features a thought-provoking range of sessions that will explore the critical challenges facing senior communicators today.
Headline speakers include game designer and bestselling author Jane McGonigal, focusing on how lessons from the 'happiness engineers' in the gaming world can help PR pros solve the biggest challenges facing our world today and tomorrow.
Elsewhere, a group of leading humorists will come together to explore how companies can win with wit. Led by What's Trending CEO Damon Berger and Cultivated Wit creative director Brian Janosch, the session will also feature Quinn Kilbury, brand director for provocative marketer Newcastle Brown Ale.
Meanwhile, the Summit will also investigate how mass movements are started, with contributions from UN Women's Elizabeth Nyamayaro, Loving Day's Ken Tanabe and Dove mastermind Stephane Orhan.
And political heavyweights such as Koch Industries Steve Lombardo and pollster Frank Luntz will also be in attendance, to help delegates navigate the fault lines between business and regulators.
More thoughtful content will come from design legend Yves Behar on brands, columnist Michael Wolff on creativity, business strategist David Meerman Scott on realtime marketing, Walmart's Deisha Barnett on authenticity and Booz Allen Hamilton VP Chris Foster on evaluation.
Specific sessions, meanwhile, will cover such topics as millennial perspectives; a
World Cup of creativity; music and brands; Olympic PR issues (including a Russian Olympic champion); SABRE winner secrets; the future of earned media and much, much more. You can view the full agenda here.
As usual, furthermore, the Summit will feature some of the marketing and communications world's top executives from across the globe, including:
Daniel Duty, Global Affairs VP, Target
Christina Smedley, Chief Officer of Global Brand & Comms, PayPal
Michael McCaffrey, Senior Corporate Comms Director, Johnson & Johnson
Osama Saeed, Head of Media/PR, Al Jazeera
Claudia Cortes, Corporate Affairs Head, SAP Asia-Pacific & Japan
Elliot Lum, Strategic Marketing VP, Columbia Records
Brian Flaherty, VP Public Policy & External Affairs, Nestle Water
Kate Johns, Africa Media Relations, Standard Bank
Rob Flaherty, Global CEO, Ketchum
Kasper Ibsen Beck, Comms Director, Arla Foods
Gail Heimann, President, Weber Shandwick
Christopher Samuel, Corporate Engagement Director, Monsanto Asia-Pacific
Margery Kraus, Founder/CEO, APCO Worldwide
Oliver Roll, Global Corporate Comms VP, VMware
Richard Poston, Global Public Affairs Director, Telefonica
Alana Burns, SVP, American Lung Association
Chris Lewis, CEO/Founder, Lewis PR
Marie T. Van Luling, Chief Govt Relations Officer, H&R Block
Steven Ertel, Head of Media, WWF
Jeff Pyatt, Head of Global PR, Outbrain
Miles Nadal, Founder, MDC Partners
Mike Coates, President/CEO, H+K Strategies Americas
Ciro Dias Reis, Founder/CEO, Imagem Corporativa
- and many, many more.
The Summit will also feature the Global SABRE Awards on the evening of the 29th, celebrating the world's 50 best PR programs as selected by SABRE Awards judges, from the more than 5,000 entries that the competition attracts from 60 countries across the globe. Also honoured will be the Holmes Report's 2014 Global Agencies of the Year.
The Awards come after the two main conference days on the 28th and 29th October. The Summit again gets underway on the 27th October with the half-day Independent PR Firm Forum, which will bring together leaders from the global independent agency world to discuss some of the most critical issues for growth and competitiveness.
On the 30th October, meanwhile, the Summit will feature a special Crisis Simulation in partnership with UK firm Polpeo. The half-day session sees the firm's proprietary software used to create an immersive real-world simulation, pitting participants against each other in a realistic crisis scenario.
Backed by 29 of the world's leading PR firms, the third Global PR Summit promises to be another fascinating exploration of the critical issues addressing the growth of the public relations industry, at a time of unprecedented change.
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