25 Feb Assam Khalid
Working as both a Creative Director & the Strategic Planning Director at BBDO Pakistan, Assam is one of the most prolific advertising award winners in the region, having won close to 300 international industry accolades – including 2 Gold Cannes Lions. He is the #1 Strategic Planning Director in Pakistan & MENA and is one of the top 3 in the world as ranked by the Big Won Report in 2015. Armed with a Masters degree in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin and over a decade of experience in creative communication, Assam has a real passion for creating disruptive ideas.
He has served on Juries for a number of international advertising awards and has been a speaker at Dubai Lynx and Spikes Asia. He has also been a speaker at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and has also given 2 TEDx talks.