TBWA’s Edmund Choe + Dentsu’s Yuya Furukawa to join Creative Data Cannes Lions jury

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Yuya Furukawa- 300 dpi.jpgEdmund Choe - 300dpi.jpgLions Innovation, the two day specialist event that explores data and tech as creative catalysts and is part of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has announced the 2016 jurors.

Sitting on this year’s Creative Data Lions jury, which award creativity enabled by data, are Yuya Furukawa, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu, Japan and Edmund Choe, Chief Creative Officer, Singapore & Southeast Asia, TBWA, Singapore & SE Asia.

Commenting on the make-up of the jury, Terry Savage, Chairman, Lions Festivals, said, “As we enter into the second year of the Creative Data Lions, we have focused on creating a jury that brings together even more data specialists to ensure that the understanding of the application of data is there. We will watch with interest as the jury look to set the precedent in this fast developing industries.”

The Creative Data Lions Jury members are:

Tash Whitmey, Chief Executive Officer, Havas helia, Global – Jury President

Yuya Furukawa, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu, Japan (pictured left)

Edmund Choe, Chief Creative Officer, Singapore & Southeast Asia, TBWA, Singapore & SE Asia (pictured right)

Kieran Ots, Digital Creative Director, Leo Burnett, Australia Carolina Coppoli, Head Business Intelligence & Strategy Latam, Geometry Global, Argentina

Manjiry Tamhane, Worldwide COO and CEO EMEA, Gain Theory, Global

Petra Sammer, Chief Creative Officer, Ketchum, Germany

Marc Maleh, VP, Managing Director, Data Science and Visualization, R/GA, USA

Jason Kodish, Global Chief Data Scientist, DigitasLBi, Global Arun Kumar, Global President, Cadreon, Global

Mark Zagorski, CEO, eXelate, a Nielsen Company, Global

Lions Innovation takes place on 21-22 June, within the eight day Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Entries into the awards are currently being accepted and can be made here, where information on the available delegate packages can also be found.