The jury for the 2017 edition of the exchange4media BW APPLAUSE Awards has been announced.
Jury members this year include Anita Nayyar, CEO (India & South Asia) of Havas Media Group; Arvind Bhandari, SVP, Nestle South Asia; Bidisha Nagaraj, VP (Marketing) Schneider Electric India; Blaise Fernandes, President & CEO of The Indian Music Industry; Manjit Singh Gill, Corporate Chef, ITC Hotels; Piyush Sharma, Former CEO (New Initiatives)India and APAC, Zee Entertainment; Siddharth Banerjee, EVP Marketing of Vodafone; Soumitra Pal, Head (Marketing Communications), Commercial Vehicles Intl Business for Tata Motors; Sunil Raina, CMO of Lava and Business Head of XOLO and Vikramjit Roy, Head of Film Facilitation Office of the Ministry of I&B and National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
The exchange4media BW APPLAUSE Awards 2017 is aimed at recognising and honouring the quality work experiential agencies are producing in the space of events and experiential marketing across all 35 encompassing categories.
Annurag Batra, Chairman, e4m and BW, said, “With experiential initiatives by brands and marketers growing, we want to be a catalyst in recognising such experiential initiatives.”
It is a platform for setting standards and benchmarking exemplary event marketing by recognising creativity and originality delivered by agency partners. Powerful knowledge sessions and though-provoking discussions relevant to the event ecosystem will make way for an evening of networking and celebrating event marketing successes.
A part of Businessworld group, BW APPLAUSE is a bi-monthly magazine that provides content for the experiential marketing and event category within India.
It serves the information needs of brand- side event marketers, experiential agencies, event professionals, and event service providers in the country.