AWARD's Festival of Creativity to be held in August 

AWARD's This Way Up: Australia’s Advertising Festival of Creativity will be hrlf at The Ovolo in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo August 16-18.

Cam Blackley, AWARD chair: “The response to This Way Up in Melbourne earlier this year was fantastic and it’s now Sydney’s turn to come together in person for three days of discussion, debate and immersion in the power of creativity."

Accenture Song’s global chief creative officer and jury president for the 43rd AWARD Awards Neil Haymann will take to the stage to cover The Evolving Art of Persuasion: How to build teams and sell work in an ever-changing creative industry,.

And Clemenger Group creative director-at-large James McGrath will appear in conversation with marketing leadership specialist Lea Walker to spotlight the power of ‘good worry’ in developing outstanding creative work. 

They will be joined by a line-up of speakers including The Aunties founders Phoebe Sloane and Sarah McGregor, cultural capability specialist and BlackCard founderMundanara Bayles, Meta’s global creative product lead of emerging technology Karen Maurice-O’Leary, Museum of Old And New Art (Mona) head of creative Jardin Anderson and director of marketing and communications Robbie Brammall. 

The event will also see43rd AWARD Awards’ Grand and Special winners announced as well as AWARD School’s national top student for 2022.