Jury finds Samsung owes Apple $539M in patent case stretching back to 2011

A patent case that began back in 2011 has reached a conclusion, with Samsung ordered to pay about $539 million to Apple over infringements of the latter’s patents in devices that are now long gone. The case has dragged on for years as both sides argued about the finer points of how much was owed per device, what could be deducted and so on. It’s been eye-wateringly boring, but at least it’s over now. Maybe.

The patents in question are some things we take for granted now, UI cues like “rubber-banding” at the bottom of a list or using two fingers to zoom in and out. But they were all part of the “boy have we patented it” multi-touch gestures of which Steve Jobs was so proud. In addition there were the defining characteristics of the first iPhone, now familiar (black round rectangle with a big screen, etc.). At any rate, Apple sued the dickens out of Samsung over them.

The case was actually decided long ago — in 2012, when the court found that Samsung had clearly and willfully infringed on the patents in question and initial damages were set at a staggering $1 billion. We wrote it up then, when it was of course big news:

Apple Awarded $1.049 Billion In Damages As Jury Finds Samsung Infringed On Design And Software Patents

Since then it’s all been about the damages, and Samsung won a big victory in the Supreme court that said it only had to pay out based on the profit from the infringing component.

Unfortunately for Samsung, the “infringing component” for the design patents seems to have been considered by the jury as being the entire phone. The result is that a great deal of Samsung’s profits from selling the infringing devices ended up composing the damages. It sets a major precedent in the patent litigation world, although not necessarily a logical one. People started arguing about the validity and value of design patents a long time ago and they haven’t stopped yet.

CNET has a good rundown for anyone curious about the specifics. Notably, Samsung said in a statement that “We will consider all options to obtain an outcome that does not hinder creativity and fair competition for all companies and consumers.” Does that mean they’re going to take it as high as the Supreme Court (again) and drag the case out for another couple of years? Or will they cut their losses and just be happy to stop paying the legal fees that probably rivaled the damages assigned? Hopefully the latter.

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Conoce a todos los miembros del jurado de Cannes Lions 2018

El Festival Internacional de la Creatividad Cannes Lions, acaba de anunciar el total de 413 miembros del jurado escogido para galardonar los mejores trabajos de agencias y creativos a nivel mundial en su edición de este año.

En esta ocasión los jurados pertenecen a 50 países, incluyendo por primera vez representantes de   Georgia, Nigeria, Kenya y Sri Lanka. Así mismo, para tener un cuerpo más diverso, un 46 por ciento de los jurados son mujeres y se ha buscado incluir a una mayor mezcla de agencias creativas, marcas y empresas de medios y producción.

Tal como señala Jose Papa, Managing Director de Cannes Lions: “El trabajo del jurado de Cannes Lions es actuar como custodios de la creatividad y celebrar el trabajo que demuestra el valor de la creatividad en todas sus formas. Estamos comprometidos en asegurarnos de que nuestros jurados incluyen una gran diversidad de personas provenientes del ecosistema reconocido de comunicaciones” 

Durante el pasado año, Cannes Lions anunció la introducción de una nueva arquitectura de los premios, con el objetivo de reflejar y apoyar de forma más eficiente la rápida evolución de las industrias creativas. Por ello, se han incluido los galardones Creative eCommerce Lions, Brand Experience & Activation Lions, Social & influencer Lions, Sustainable Development Goals Lions e Industry Craft Lions.

Los miembros del jurado de Cannes Lions 2018 son:

Brand Experience & Activation Lions

Rob Reilly, Global Creative Chairman, McCann Worldgroup, Global – Presidente del jurado

Guillermo Tragant, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Furia, Argentina

Geert Verdonck , Creative Director, TBWA\Belgium, Belgium

Fernando Guntovitch, Founder/CEO, The Group, Brazil

Nuala Byles, EVP, Executive Creative Director, Geometry, Canada

Martin Vinacur, President and Executive Creative Director, AldeA Santiago, Chile

Vivian Yong, Executive Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy, China

Radouane Hadj Moussa, Chief Creative Officer, DDB Prague, Czech Republic

Juan Manuel Koenig, Chief Creative Officer, Koenig Communications, Ecuador

Souen Le Van, Creative Director, Buzzman, France

Giorgi Avaliani, Creative Director, Leavingstone, Georgia

Sandra Loibl, Executive Creative Director, Serviceplan, Germany

Josh Mullens, Global EP & Head of Projects, Will O’Rourke Experiential, Global

Beatrice Remy, Managing Director, LORE, Hong Kong

Levente Kovacs, Chief Creative Officer, White Rabbit Budapest, Hungary

Brijesh Jacob, Chief Creative Technologist, DDBMudra Group, India

Shani Gershi, VP Creative, Freelance, Israel

Francesco Bozza, Chief Creative Officer, FCB, Italy

Satoshi Otsuka, Communication Architect/Digital Creative, ADK, Japan

Marialejandra Urbina, Director of Planning and Strategy, MullenLowe Group, LATAM

Yasmina Baz, Regional Creative Director, Leo Burnett, Lebanon

Alexis Ospina, Chief Creative Officer, Y&R, Mexico

Emily Beautrais, Creative Director, Clemenger BBDO, New Zealand

Lanre Adisa, Managing Director & Chief Creative Officer, Noah’s Ark, Nigeria

Ester Hjellum, Senior Art Director and Partner, Try, Norway

Juan Pablo Peschiera, Creative Director, Publicis, Peru

Agnieszka Klimczak, Creative Director, J. Walter Thompson, Poland

Pedro Pires, Founder Partner, Solid Dogma, Portugal

Johanna Santiago, Creative Director, J. Walter Thompson, Puerto Rico

Irina Pencea, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Jazz, Romania

Daniele Pancetti, Executive Creative Director, FCB Moscow, Russia

Primus Nair, Executive Creative Director, BBDO Singapore, Singapore

Matt Ross, Executive Creative Director, King James, South Africa

Victoria Sunmie Lhie, Director of Experience Strategy, Cheil Worldwide, South Korea

Gil Blancafort, CEO and Founder, Yslandia, Spain

Linnea Lofjord, Head of Brand Design, NordDDB, Sweden

Dennis Lueck, Chief Creative Officer, Jung von Matt/Limmat, Switzerland

Satit Jantawiwat, Chief Creative Officer, Cheil, Thailand

Darre Van Dijk, Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\Neboko, The Netherlands

Lize Karaboga, Managing Partner, Ultra, Turkey

Juliana Paracencio, Regional Creative Director, Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai, UAE

Vicki Maguire, Joint Chief Creative Officer, Grey Global, UK

Shirin Majid, Executive Creative Director, Cake, UK

Tiffany Rolfe, Chief Creative Officer and Partner, Co:collective, USA

Menno Kluin, Chief Creative Officer, 360i, USA

Creative Data Lions

Marc Maleh, Global Director, Havas, Global – Presidente del jurado

Kim Bartkowski, Creative Director, Associate Partner, IBM iX, Australia

Alex Cheng, Vice President, Baidu and Chief Technology Officer, Baidu Search, China

Paola Aldaz, VP Marketing, Mastercard, Colombia

Chloe Hawking, Chief Digital Director, OMG, EMEA

Kim O’Brien, Director, Data Science & Analytics, Publicis.Sapient, Global

Ryota Mochizuki, Managing Director, Accenture Interactive, Japan

Bas Korsten, Creative Partner, J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sebastian Tomich, SVP, Global Head of Advertising & Marketing Solutions, The New York Times, USA

Amy Avery, Chief Intelligence Officer, Droga5, USA

Creative eCommerce Lions

Nick Law, Global Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe and President of Publicis Communications, Global – Presidente del jurado

Cheelip Ong, Group Chief Creative Officer, 180.ai, Asia

Andrea Siqueira, Executive Creative Director, Isobar, Brazil

Dan Burdett, Senior Director of Marketing Innovation and Head of EMEA Marketing Lab, eBay, EMEA

Minah Kim, Director of User Experience, Cheil Worldwide, Global

Daniel Bonner, Global Chief Creative Officer, Wunderman, Global

Gemma Spence, Head of eCommerce, PHD Media Global Business, Global

Eric Jannon, VP Executive Creative Director, R/GA New York, USA

Creative Effectiveness Lions

Fernando Machado, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Burger King, Global – Presidente del jurado

Paula Lindenberg, Vice President Marketing, AB-Inbev, Brazil

Harjot Singh, Chief Strategy Officer, McCann Worldgroup, EMEA

Jonny Bauer, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Droga5, Global

Michael Houston, Worldwide CEO, Grey Group, Global

Anuraag Trikha, Global Director, Marketing Communications, Heineken, Global

Kristina Duncan, VP Global Marketing Communications Barbie, Mattel, Global

Brent Nelsen, Chief Strategy Officer, Leo Burnett, North America

Jeeyoung Park, SVP, Corporate Communications & Head of Brand Marketing, Hanwha Group, South Korea

Crystal Rix, Chief Strategy Officer, BBDO New York, USA

Design Lions

Johnny Tan, Executive Creative Director, 72andSunny, APAC – Presidente del jurado

Dominic Hofstede, Executive Creative Director, Maud Melbourne, Australia

Giovanni Vannucchi, Partner, Oz Estratégia+Design, Brazil

Vanessa Eckstein, Creative Director/Founder, Blok Design, Canada

Julia Deshayes, Art Director, TBWA\Paris, France

Katrin Oeding, CEO & Creative Director, Studio Oeding, Germany

Thomas Holst Sørensen, Creative Director, Global Design Innovation, LEGO, Global

Greg Quinton, Chief Creative Officer, Superunion, Global

Connie Birdsall, Sr. Partner and Global Creative Director, Lippincott, Global

Lulu Raghavan, Managing Director, Landor, India

Yuri Uenishi, Art Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan
Leonid Feigin, Creative Director, DDVB, Russia

Carola Gerlach, Former Creative Director, FutureBrand, Singapore

Vumile Mavumengwana, Designer, Creative Director, VM DSGN, South Africa

Ali Rez, Regional Creative Director – Middle East and Pakistan, BBDO, UAE

Digital Craft Lions

Jean Lin, Global CEO, Isobar, Global – Presidente del jurado

Saulo Rodrigues, Executive Creative Director, Visual Design, R/GA, Brazil

Sanne Drogtrop, Head of Integrated Production, Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai, China

Madison Wharton, Global Chief Production Officer, Kirshenbaum Bond Senegal & Partners, Global

Cathrine Movold, Service Designer and Digital Product Strategist, Catalyst Business Design, Norway

Jeroen van der Meer, Executive Creative Director, MediaMonks, The Netherlands

Karen Boswell, Head of Innovations, adamandeveDDB, UK

Steve Jelley, Managing Director, Hammerhead VR, UK

Jennifer McBride, Director of Digital & Innovation, J. Walter Thompson, USA

Resh Sidhu, Creative Director, AKQA, USA

Direct Lions

Susan Credle, Global Chief Creative Officer, FCB, Global – Presidente del jurado

Sergio Pollaccia, Chief Creative Officer/CEO, AMEN, Argentina

Jim Ingram, Founder & Chief Creative Tinker, Thinkerbell, Australia

Sophie De Plecker, Creative Director, Leo Burnett, Belgium

Paulo Coelho, Co-President & Chief Creative Officer, DM9DDB, Brazil

Barbara Williams, Executive Creative Director, Track DDB & Tribal Worldwide, Canada

Francisco Cavada, Executive Creative Director, Y&R Santiago, Chile

Daniel Bermudez, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, FANTÁSTICA / BOMBAI, Colombia

Klara Palmer, Group Creative Director, McCann Prague, Czech Republic

Michael Robert, Chief Creative Officer/Co-Founder, ROBERT/BOISEN & Like-minded, Denmark

Luis Campoverde, General Creative Director, Véritas DDB & Tribal Worldwide, Ecuador

Gaëtan du Peloux, Creative Director, Marcel Paris, France

Felix Fenz, Executive Creative Director, Grabarz & Partner, Germany

Gerrit Zinke, Managing Director and Partner, thjnk Hamburg, Germany

Carol Lam, President & Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett, Greater China

Prateek Bhardwaj, National Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup, India

Gina Ridenti, Group Executive Creative Director, TBWA, Italy

Shota Hatanaka, Integrated Campaign Director, Hakuhodo Kettle, Japan

Paola Mounla, Creative Director, J. Walter Thompson, Lebanon

Rocío Cuadra, Vice President Creative, Only If, Mexico

Lisa Fedyszyn, Group Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, New Zealand

Alexander Gjersøe, Creative Director & Partner, SMFB Oslo, Norway

Juan Carlos Gomez De La Torre, President, Chief Creative Officer, Circus Grey, Peru

Tomás Froes, Founder & Owner, MSTF Partners, Portugal

Sebastian Olar, Co-Creative Director, MAINSTAGE THE AGENCY, Romania

Polina Maguire, Creative Director, Havas, Russia

Lizi Hamer, Regional Creative Director, Octagon, Singapore

Neo Segola, Creative Director, FCB, South Africa

Kiyoung Kim, Executive Creative Director, Innocean Worldwide, South Korea

Anthony Chelvanathan, Group Creative Director, Leo Burnett, Sri Lanka

Karin Frisell, Senior Creative, Forsman & Bodenfors, Sweden

Sandra Genge, Managing Partner, Creative Strategy, FOUR Werbeagentur AG, Switzerland

Subun Khow, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu One (Bangkok), Thailand

Kalle Hellzen, Executive Creative Director, 180 Kingsday, The Netherlands

Can Faga, Executive Creative Director, Publicis Istanbul, Turkey

Kapil Bhimekar, Associate Creative Director, Y&R Dubai, UAE

Victoria Fox, CEO, LIDA, UK

Katrina Encanto, Creative Director, MullenLowe London, UK

Corinna Falusi, Chief Creative Officer & Partner, Mother NY, USA

Alfonso Marian, Co-Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather, USA

Chacho Puebla, Chief Creative Officer & Friend, MullenLowe, Western Europe & LATAM

Entertainment Lions

Debbi Vandeven, Global Chief Creative Officer, VML, Global –Presidente del jurado

Claudia Cristovao, Head of Brand Studio, Google, APAC

Lisa Buchan, Director, Lisa Buchan Consultancy, EMEA

Alexandre Tan, VP Advertising & Brand Partnerships, Gameloft, France

Nils Rottsahl, Head of Edelman.ergo STUDIOS & Executive Producer, Edelman.ergo, Germany

Alexandra Ouzilleau, Global Head of Entertainment Partnerships, Havas Group, Global

Andre Llewellyn, Global Brand Strategy, Instagram, Global

Rafael Lazarini, Senior Vice President, Head of Business Development, Live Nation Entertainment, LATAM

Walid Kanaan, Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\RAAD, MENA

Reed Collins, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather, North Asia

Miguel Bemfica, Chief Creative Officer, MRM McCann, Spain

Alice Chou, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Inc., Taiwan

Bas Verhart, Founder, THNK School of Creative Leadership and DFFRNT Media, The Netherlands

Luke Southern, Managing Director, DRUM, UK

Jez Nelson, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Somethin’ Else, UK

Kristin Greene, Co-Founder/Principal, Flashpoint PR, USA

Elizabeth Lindsey, Managing Partner, Wasserman, USA

Ari Halper, Chief Creative Officer, FCB New York, USA

Rebecca Skinner, Managing Director / Executive Producer, Superprime Films, USA

Amy Emmerich, Chief Content Officer, Refinery29, USA

Film Lions

Luiz Sanches, Chief Creative Officer, Almap/BBDO, Brazil – Presidente del jurado

Laura Visco, Creative Director, 72andSunny Amsterdam, Argentina

Jen Speirs, Deputy Executive Creative Director, BMF, Australia

Laura Esteves, Creative Director, Y&R, Brazil

Helen Pak, Chief Creative Officer, Grey Group Canada and President, Grey Toronto, Canada

Thomas Hoffmann, Creative Director and Owner, & Co., Denmark

Steffen Bärenfänger, Executive Creative Director, Mackevision, Germany

Fred Levron, Worldwide Creative Partner, FCB, Global

Senthil Kumar, Chief Creative Officer, J. Walter Thompson, India

Stefania Siani, Executive Creative Director, DLV BBDO, Italy

Takayuki Niizawa, Senior Creative Director, TBWA\Hakuhodo, Japan

Ariel Soto, VP & Chief Creative Officer, BBDO, Mexico

Koh Hwee Peng, Creative Partner, Blak Labs, Singapore

George Low, Creative Director, TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris JHB , South Africa

Isahac Oliver, Executive Creative Director, &Rosàs, Spain

Gustav Egerstedt, Executive Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sweden

Asawin Phanichwatana, Executive Creative Director, GREYnJ UNITED, Thailand

Jessica Kersten, Co-Founder & Creative Director, Cloudfactory, The Netherlands

Valentine Freeman, Creative Director and Filmmaker, Other Animals, Inc., USA

Sally-Ann Dale, Chief Creation Officer, Droga5, USA

Film Craft Lions

Diane McArter, Founder & President, Furlined, Global – Jury President

Colin Renshaw, VFX Supervisor, Company Director, Alt.vfx, Australia

Alberto Lopes, Partner & Executive Producer, Vetor Zero, Brazil

Vibeke Nannerup, Founder & CEO, Liquidminds, Denmark

Dushan Drakalski, Chief Creative Officer, Y&R Productions, Europe

Masato Kosukegawa, Creative Director, Shiseido, Japan

Nick Bailey, Chairman, Independent, The Netherlands

James Bland, Partner, Blink, UK
Diane Jackson, Chief Production Officer, DDB Chicago, USA

Oliver Fuselier, Managing Partner, Tool of North America, USA

Gayle McCormick, Executive Producer, Ogilvy & Mather, USA

Glass: The Lion for Change

Madonna Badger, Founder/Chief Creative Officer, Badger & Winters, USA – Presidente del jurado

Tea Uglow, Creative Director, Google, APAC

Rupen Desai, Vice Chairman for Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Edelman, APACMEA

Judy John, CEO, Canada & Chief Creative Officer, North America, Leo Burnett

Jean Batthany, VP, Creative, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, Global

Deidre Smalls-Landau, EVP, Global Chief Cross-Cultural Officer, UM and EVP, Managing Director of IDENTITY, Global

Charlotte Beers, Speaker, Author, Former CEO, Ogilvy & Mather, Global

Toyin Ojora Saraki, Philanthropist, Founder-President, Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Nigeria

David Guerrero, Creative Chairman, BBDO Guerrero, The Philippines

Rafael Rizuto, Chief Creative Officer – Founder, TBD, USA

Health & Wellness Lions

R.John Fidelino, Executive Creative Director, InterbrandHealth, Global – Jury President

Carol Ong, President, Bebebalm, Asia

Cherie Davies, Creative Director, Sudler & Hennessey, Australia

Bruno Abner Rebelo, Creative Director, McCann Health, Brazil

Andre Hansen, Creative Director, Anthill Agency, Denmark

Orla Burke, Partner, EMEA Healthcare co-Lead, FleishmanHillard, EMEA

Tom Richards, Chief Creative Office, Havas Lynx, Europe

Alok Gadkar, General Manager & Executive Creative Director, The Classic Partnership, UAE

Melissa de Lusignan, Group Creative Director, The Hive Group, UK

Stephanie Berman, Former Partner & Chief Creative Officer, The Bloc, USA

Collette Douaihy, EVP, Executive Creative Director, Digitas Health, USA

Industry Craft Lions

Yang Yeo, Creative Kaiju , Hakuhodo Inc., APAC – Presidente del jurado

Alessandra Sadock, Creative Director, Artplan, Brazil

Kaz Tsuburaku, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Shanghai, China

Tereza Sverakova, Chief Creative Officer, Y&R Prague, Czech Republic

Abbie Walsh, Group Director, Fjord, EALA
Cristiana Boccassini, Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Italy, Italy

Osborne Macharia, Owner & Photographer, K63 Studio, Kenya

Oskar Lübeck, Founder & Executive Creative Director, Bold, Sweden

Susan Young, EVP, Executive Creative Director, McCann New York, USA

Alvar Suñol, Co-President & Chief Creative Officer, ALMA DDB, USA

Innovation Lions

Tor Myhren, VP Marketing Communications, Apple, Global – Jury President

Eco Moliterno, Chief Creative Officer, Accenture Interactive, Brazil

Bessie Lee, Founder & CEO, Withinlink, China

Frederic Josue, Director of 18 (Havas X) and Global Executive Advisor, Havas, Global

Tessa Conrad, Global Director of Operations, TBWA & DAN Worldwide, Global

Perry Nightingale, Executive Creative Technologist, Grey Global, Global

Eran Gefen, Founder, Gefen Team – Innovation Agency, Israel

Johan Pihl, Creative Director, Great Works, Sweden

Thecla Schaeffer, Chief Marketing Officer, G-Star, The Netherlands

Tracey Follows, Head of Strategy, Wired Consulting, WIRED, UK

Media Lions

Tim Castree, Global CEO, Wavemaker, Global – Presidente del jurado

Martin Guirado, President, IPG Mediabrands, Argentina

Fiona Johnston, CEO, UM, Australia
Sophie Van Laer, Strategy Director, Initiative, Belgium

Cesar Toledo, Media VP, Tribal Worldwide, Brazil

Alain Desormiers, CEO, PHD and Touché!, Canada

Amrita Randhawa, CEO Asia Pacific & Executive Chair, Mindshare, China

Javier Urbaneja, Chief Creative Officer, Havas Tribu, Costa Rica

Stine Halberg, CEO, Publicis Media, Denmark

Hernando Eslava, Chief Executive Media Agencies, Peña Defilló Group, Dominican Republic

Neil Hurman, Chief Advisory Officer, OMD, EMEA

Chris Skinner, President, UM, EMEA
Andreas Bahr, Founder and Member of the Board, Fluent AG, Europe
Severine Six, CEO, All Response Media, France
Tino Krause, CEO, Mediacom, Germany
Greg James, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Havas Media Group, Global

Izzy Hedges, EVP, International Media, Vizeum, Global

Nigel Conway, Head of Global Media, Nestle, Global

Rajni Menon, CEO, Carat, India
Ran Bar- On, CEO & Partner, Mediacom, Israel

Chiara Tescari, Managing Partner, OMD, Italy

Sanshiro Shimada, General Manager, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Japan

Lina Rivero, Strategy & Innovation Director, Havas, LATAM
Ravi Rao, CEO, Mindshare, MENA

Marta Ruiz-Cuevas, CEO, Publicis Media, Mexico

Nigel Douglas, CEO, OMD, New Zealand

Marie-Louise Alvær, Managing Director, PHD, Norway

Patrick Van Ginhoven, CEO, OMG, Peru
Dana Bulat, General Manager, United Media Services, Romania

Natalia Kiryanova, CEO, Wavemaker, Russia

Wayne Bishop, Managing Director, PHD, South Africa

Ester Garcia Cosin, General Manager, Havas Media Group, Spain

Niclas Fröberg, Chairman & Founder, Tre Kronor Media, Sweden

Nannette Passberg, Account Director, Carat, Switzerland

Pathamawan Sathaporn, Managing Director, Mindshare, Thailand

Danielle Pak, Head of Comms & Digital Strategy, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tolga Uner, CEO, Mediacom, Turkey
Amy Armstrong, CEO, Initiative, USA

Diana Bojaj, EVP, Managing Partner, Global Connections Planning, UM/J3 , USA

Kendra Hatcher King, VP, Strategy and Consulting, South Region Lead, SapientRazorfish, USA

Mobile Lions

Jay Morgan, Innovations Director, The Monkeys, Australia – Presidente del jurado

Fabio Simoes, Executive Creative Director & Digital Creative Director, FCB , Brazil

Fura Johannesdottir, VP Executive Creative Director, Publicis.Sapient, EMEA

Aurélie de Villeneuve, Executive Creative Director, 5emeGauche Herezie Group, France

Oliver Drost, Chief Creative Officer, deepblue networks, Germany

Andrew Keller, Global Creative Director, Facebook Creative Shop, Global

Flavio Fabbri, Digital Chief Creative Officer, Armando Testa Group, Italy

Kyoko Yonezawa, Creative Technologist, Dentsu Inc., Japan

Harsh Kapadia, Executive Creative Director, VML, UK

Ari Weiss, Chief Creative Officer NA, DDB Worldwide, USA

Entertainment Lions for Music

Lori Feldman, EVP Strategic Marketing, Warner Bros. Records, USA – Presidente del jurado

Kito Siqueira, Music & Sound Producer, Satellite Audio, Brazil

Jeannette Perez, President of Global Synch & Brand Partnerships, Kobalt | AWAL, Global

Jackie Jantos, Vice President, Brand & Creative, Spotify, Global

Leo Premutico, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Johannes Leonardo, Global

Sander van Maarschalkerweerd, Founding Partner & CEO, Sizzer Group, The Netherlands

Mike O’Keefe, VP 4th Floor Creative, Sony Music , UK

Jocelyn Brown, Executive Producer, Squeak E Clean Productions, USA

Joel Simon, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, JSM Music, USA

Outdoor Lions

Chris Garbutt, Chief Creative Officer, TBWA, Global – Presidente del jurado

Mariana Borga, Creative Director, J. Walter Thompson, Brazil

Stephan Vogel, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather, EMEA

Jean-François Sacco, Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder, Rosapark, France

Jayanta Jenkins, Global Group Creative Director, Twitter, Global

Pallavi Chakravarti, Executive Creative Director, Taproot Dentsu, India

Daniel Kee, Executive Creative Director, MullenLowe, Singapore

Damisa Ongsiriwattana, Co-Founder/ Executive Creative Director, SOUR Bangkok, Thailand

Erica Hoholick, President, phenomenom, USA

Pharma Lions

Rich Levy, Chief Creative Officer, FCB Health, Global – Presidente del jurado

Shefali Srinivas, VP, Health Lead, Asia Pacific, WE Communications, APAC

Patrick Ackmann, Executive Creative Director, WEFRA, Germany

Oliver Caporn, Worldwide Creative Director and Executive Director, CDM London, Global

Renata Florio, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy Health and Wellness, Global

Lyndon Louis, Senior Creative Director, Havas Live Sorento, India

Paola Figueroa, Creative VP, Made, Mexico
John Scott, Creative Director, Ward6, Singapore

Victoria McGee, Associate Creative Director, Langland, UK

Carolyn O’Neill, Chief Creative Officer, Centron NY, USA

PR Lions

Stuart Smith, Global CEO, Ogilvy PR, Global – Presidente del jurado

Cassandra Cheong, Founder, Accenzvision, APAC

Damian Martinez Lahitou, CEO, Feedback PR, Argentina

Aden Ridgeway, Partner, Cox Inall Ridgeway, Australia

Patricia Bartuira, Director, FleishmanHillard, Brazil

Mia Pearson, CEO, MSL, Canada
Darren Burns, President, China, and Chair, Creativity & Innovation, Asia Pacific, Weber Shandwick

Andres Ortiz, Senior Partner, Dattis, Colombia

Anders Sigsgaard-Rasmussen, Head of Insight, Radius Kommunication, Denmark

Arnaud Pochebonne, General Manager, Weber Shandwick, France

Mirko Kaminski, CEO, achtung!, Germany

Lesley Sillaman, Senior Vice President, Havas PR, Global

Cecile Nathan-Tilloy, Managing Director – Global Client Relationship, Edelman Intelligence, Global

Alan VanderMolen, President International, WE Communications, Global
Valerie Pinto, CEO, Weber Shandwick, India

Ishteyaque Amjad, Public Affairs & Communications, Coca-Cola, India & South West Asia

Elisabeth Leriche, Advertising, Digital & CRM Manager, Renault, Italy

Tetsuji Hirose, Executive Officer, Dentsu Inc., Japan

Adriana Valladares, CEO, Burson Marsteller, Mexico

Gina McKinnon, General Manager, Fuse, New Zealand

Sindre Beyer, Head of PR and Content Marketing, Try, Norway

Agnieszka Bacińska, CEO, Walk PR, Poland

José Franco, Founder & CEO, Corpcom, Portugal

Andreea Grigorean, PR Officer, Publicis, Romania

Alexander Chernov, Board Member, SVP, Skolkovo Foundation, Russia

Ee Rong Chong, Group Managing Director, Ogilvy, Singapore

Michelle Tham, Managing Director, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Singapore and Malaysia

Higinio Martínez, CEO, Omnicom PR Group, Spain and Portugal

Mattias Ronge, Chairman, Creative Strategist, Edelman Deportivo, Sweden

David Schärer, Partner, Rod Kommunikation, Switzerland

Sorada Sonprasit, CEO, Brilliant & Million, Thailand

Wendeline Sassen, Strategy Director, Havas Lemz, The Netherlands

Ann Maes, Head of Influence, Ogilvy Amsterdam and Managing Director, Ogilvy Public Relations, The Netherlands and Belgium

Gizem Kececi, Director of Corporate Communications, Siemens, Turkey

Alex Malouf, Corporate Communications Manager, Arabian Peninsula, Procter & Gamble, UAE

Candace Kuss, Director of Social Media, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, UK

Ruth Yearley, Partner, Director of Insight and Strategy, Ketchum PR, UK

Denise Kaufmann, Partner, Director Client Development, North America, Ketchum, USA

Jaclyn Ruelle, SVP, Group Account Director, MullenLowe PR, USA

Tonya Veasey, President & CEO, OCGPR, USA

Print & Publishing Lions

Kate Stanners, Chairwoman & Global Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi, Global – Presidente del jurado

Rodolfo Sampaio, Creative Partner, Moma Propaganda, Brazil

Jaime Mandelbaum, Chief Creative Officer, Y&R, Europe

Diego Medvedocky, Chief Creative Officer, Grey Group, LATAM

Marta Lluciá, Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup, Spain

Livio Dainese, Chief Creative Officer & Co-CEO, Wirz BBDO, Switzerland

Leigh Reyes, President & Chief Creative Officer, MullenLowe, The Philippines

Rosie Arnold, Creative Partner & Head of Art, AMV BBDO, UK

Justine Armour, Executive Creative Director, 72andSunny NYC, USA

Product Design Lions

Asif Khan, Architect, Asif Khan Ltd, Global – Presidente del jurado

Christiane Bausback, Managing Director + Head of Design, N+P Industrial Design, Germany

Jeremy Lindley, Global Design Director, Diageo, Global

Darshan Gandhi , Head of Design, Godrej Consumer Products, India

Raffaella Citterio, Head of Experience, Interbrand, Italy

Naoki Ono, Copywriter/Product Designer, Hakuhodo, Japan

Per Ivar Selvaag, Principal, Montaag, Norway

Alex Hulme, Director, Map Project Office, UK

Victoria Slaker, VP, Industrial Design, Ammunition, USA

Rei Inamoto, Founding Partner, Inamoto & Co, USA

Radio & Audio Lions

Jo McCrostie, Creative Director, Global, UK – Presidente del jurado

Alvaro Rodrigues, Chief Creative Officer & CEO, Fullpack, Brazil

Jenny Smith, President / Creative Director, Ray, Canada

Matthias Storath, MD, Executive Creative Director, Heimat, Germany

Kerry Keenan, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Never The Less, Global

Toby Talbot, Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand

Hugo Delgado, General Director, Grupo RPP, Peru

Molefi Thulo, Creative Director, Ogilvy JHB, South Africa

Blanca Gomara, Executive Creative Director, Dimensión, Spain

Jill Kershaw, CEO, Executive Creative Director, Sound & Fury, USA

Sustainable Development Goals Lions 
Mark Tutssel, Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Global – Presidente del jurado

Akae Wang, Executive Creative Director, Tencent, China

Jean-Charles Caboche, Managing Director, BETC, France

Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division (Judging in Personal Capacity), United Nations, Global

Claudia Romo Edelman, Chair, We Are All Human Foundation and Co-Host, Global GoalsCast, Global

Kash Sree, Executive Creative Director, gyro, Global

Ariana Stolarz, Global Chief Strategy Officer, MRM//McCann, Global

Eduardo Maruri, President & CEO, Grey Latam, President & CCO Maruri Grey, LATAM

Gustavo Lauria, Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder, We Believers, USA

Tina Allan, EVP Director of Data Solutions, BBDO New York, USA

Social & Influencer Lions

Mark D’Arcy, VP, Chief Creative Officer, Facebook, Global – Jury President

Mônica Salgado, Journalist, Influencer, TV Presenter, Mônica Salgado, Brazil

Lennie Stern, Head of Creative and Entertainment Strategies, BETC, France

Ralf Osteroth, Senior VP Marketing & Sales, Studio71, Germany
Eric Edge, Head of Global Marketing Communications, Pinterest, Global

Anthony Svirskis, CEO, TRIBE, Global

Noriaki Onoe, Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan

Gerard Crichlow, Head of Cultural Strategy, AMVBBDO, UK

Michelle Franzoia, Executive Creative Director, Edelman, USA

Catherine Patterson, Director Experiential NA, Y&R, USA

Titanium Lions

Colleen DeCourcy, Chief Creative Officer, Wieden+Kennedy, Global – Presidente del jurado

Eugene Cheong, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather, Asia Pacific

James McGrath, Creative Chairman, Clemenger BBDO, Australia

Jason Xenopoulos, Global Chief Vision Officer & Chief Creative Officer, VML, EMEA

Caitlin Ryan, Regional Creative Director, Facebook and Instagram, EMEA
PJ Pereira, Creative Chairman & Co-Founder, Pereira O’Dell, Global

Fred Raillard, FFounder, Creative CEO, FF, Global

Susan Bonds, Co-Founder & CEO, 42 Entertainment, Global

Gail Heimann, President , Weber Shandwick, USA

Duncan Marshall, Founding Partner, Droga5, USA

Las ceremonias de premiación del próximo festival de Cannes Lions se llevarán a cabo entre el 18 y el 22 de junio.

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Founders Embassy equity-free accelerator aims to unlock the Valley for internationals

Startups who are looking to get a deep-dive into Silicon Valley but don’t want to give away equity have not had many options to choose from in the past. There are several government-backed accelerators which simply house startups in facilities and arrange pitch nights. But many of those demos tend to sink without trace. What if you were hand-picked by a programme which simply charged you for a service?

That’s the general idea behind Founders Embassy which is now releasing its first class of 8 founders joining them in SF this summer.

Created by two women founders, the idea behind Founders Embassy is to democratize access to Silicon Valley for the most talented international startups that often lack the privilege of insider connections and resources. Believe me, I know so many international founders who I have met on my travels who would appreciate such a service.

Founders Embassy was created by Andee Gardiner and Anastasia Crew.

As an Irish citizen and the daughter of two immigrants, Gardiner is passionate about leveraging her startup knowledge, network, and creativity for international entrepreneurs entering the Valley ecosystem. Crew, a Russian native, arrived in the US 10 years ago and has previously developed programs and events for international startups, corporates, and non-profits.

Gardeiner says: “Silicon Valley has an over-preference towards people who are local, who have insider knowledge and who have a specific pedigree (such as attending an Ivy League college). It has neglected foreign startups and immigrant founders with different backgrounds, which has prevented investors from being able to find the best startups from outside the country. We wanted to create a program that gave anyone who has a great startup around the world the insider knowledge that they need to navigate Silicon Valley and create a thriving startup whether here or in their home country. We want to democratize access to the insider knowledge necessary to leverage the skills that they already have.”

The program is a 2 week bootcamp program for approximately 10 international startups to come to silicon valley, live under one roof, and receive an intensive regimen of workshops and fundraising, growth, hiring, legal, branding, PR, engineering – every possible aspect of startup growth but also the specifics of Silicon Valley: How to act at networking events, how to handle introductions, how to find the right investors for your company, how to position yourself in the Valley. They’ll also have a Summit where startups will be able to demo their startups in front of investors, potential hires, and potential partners. Meanwhile, they’re going to set up individualized programming for each of the companies based on their industries and needs, connecting them to industry-specific mentors and investors.

Most accelerators take a significant amount of equity, which, if a company is valued at something reasonable like $30 million dollars, that equity amasses to a significant amount of money for those companies. By offering startups a chance to pay cash to be introduced to the Valley ecosystem instead, they get to keep their equity. And because the program is only 2 weeks, they don’t have to be away from their team for 3 months or longer which is actually a massive opportunity cost.

Crew says: “We work with startups that have already shown that they’re somewhat de-risked and already have traction. They don’t need $50 or $100 thousand dollars, they need the skills and understanding to help them raise 2 million or more. That combined with sponsorships is how we make money and we’re now open to looking for our flagship sponsors for our first program.”

Founders Embassy will be running its “Borderless” acceleration program from May 30th to June 13th in San Francisco. And The Borderless Summit will be held on June 5th in SF, which will welcome a few hundred investors, thought leaders, and global founders. Summit speakers include some big names in tech such as Justin Kan, Baiju Bhatt, Tom McLeod, Ashley Carroll, and Erik Torenberg among others.

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Adobe CTO leads company’s broad AI bet

There isn’t a software company out there worth its salt that doesn’t have some kind of artificial intelligence initiative in progress right now. These organizations understand that AI is going to be a game-changer, even if they might not have a full understanding of how that’s going to work just yet.

In March at the Adobe Summit, I sat down with Adobe executive vice president and CTO Abhay Parasnis, and talked about a range of subjects with him including the company’s goal to build a cloud platform for the next decade — and how AI is a big part of that.

Parasnis told me that he has a broad set of responsibilities starting with the typical CTO role of setting the tone for the company’s technology strategy, but it doesn’t stop there by any means. He also is in charge of operational execution for the core cloud platform and all the engineering building out the platform — including AI and Sensei. That includes managing a multi-thousand person engineering team. Finally, he’s in charge of all the digital infrastructure and the IT organization — just a bit on his plate.

Ten years down the road

The company’s transition from selling boxed software to a subscription-based cloud company began in 2013, long before Parasnis came on board. It has been a highly successful one, but Adobe knew it would take more than simply shedding boxed software to survive long-term. When Parasnis arrived, the next step was to rearchitect the base platform in a way that was flexible enough to last for at least a decade — yes, a decade.

“When we first started thinking about the next generation platform, we had to think about what do we want to build for. It’s a massive lift and we have to architect to last a decade,” he said. There’s a huge challenge because so much can change over time, especially right now when technology is shifting so rapidly.

That meant that they had to build in flexibility to allow for these kinds of changes over time, maybe even ones they can’t anticipate just yet. The company certainly sees immersive technology like AR and VR, as well as voice as something they need to start thinking about as a future bet — and their base platform had to be adaptable enough to support that.

Making Sensei of it all

But Adobe also needed to get its ducks in a row around AI. That’s why around 18 months ago, the company made another strategic decision to develop AI as a core part of the new  platform. They saw a lot of companies looking at a more general AI for developers, but they had a different vision, one tightly focussed on Adobe’s core functionality. Parasnis sees this as the key part of the company’s cloud platform strategy. “AI will be the single most transformational force in technology,” he said, adding that Sensei is by far the thing he is spending the most time on.”

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The company began thinking about the new cloud platform with the larger artificial intelligence goal in mind, building AI-fueled algorithms to handle core platform functionality. Once they refined them for use in-house, the next step was to open up these algorithms to third-party developers to build their own applications using Adobe’s AI tools.

It’s actually a classic software platform play, whether the service involves AI or not. Every cloud company from Box to Salesforce has been exposing their services for years, letting developers take advantage of their expertise so they can concentrate on their core knowledge. They don’t have to worry about building something like storage or security from scratch because they can grab those features from a platform that has built-in expertise  and provides a way to easily incorporate it into applications.

The difference here is that it involves Adobe’s core functions, so it may be intelligent auto cropping and smart tagging in Adobe Experience Manager or AI-fueled visual stock search in Creative Cloud. These are features that are essential to the Adobe software experience, which the company is packaging as an API and delivering to developers to use in their own software.

Whether or not Sensei can be the technology that drives the Adobe cloud platform for the next 10 years, Parasnis and the company at large are very much committed to that vision. We should see more announcements from Adobe in the coming months and years as they build more AI-powered algorithms into the platform and expose them to developers for use in their own software.

Parasnis certainly recognizes this as an ongoing process. “We still have a lot of work to do, but we are off in an extremely good architectural direction, and AI will be a crucial part,” he said.

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Kaptivo looks to digitally transform the lowly whiteboard

At Kaptivo, a company that’s bringing high-tech image recognition, motion capture and natural language processing technologies to the lowly whiteboard, executives are hoping that the second time is the charm.

The Cambridge, UK and San Mateo, Calif.-based company began life as a company called Light Blue Optics, and had raised $50 million in financing since its launch in 2004. Light Blue Optics was working on products like Kaptivo’s white board technology and an interactive touch and pen technology which was sold earlier in the year to Promethean, a global education technology solutions company.

With a leaner product line and a more focused approach to the market, Kaptivo emerged in 2016 from Light Blue Optics’ shadow and began selling its products in earnest.

Founding chief executive Nic Lawrence (the previous head of Light Blue Optics, even managed to bring in investors from his old startup to Kaptivo, raising $6 million in fresh capital from Draper Esprit (a previous backer), Benhamou Global Ventures, and Generation Ventures.

“The common theme has been user interfaces,” Lawrence said. “We saw the need for a new product category. We sold off parts of our business and pushed all our money into Kaptivo.”

 

What initially began as a business licensing technology, Lawrence saw a massive market opening up in technologies that could transform the humble whiteboard into a powerful tool for digital business intelligence with the application of some off the shelf technology and Kaptivo’s proprietary software.

Kaptivo’s technology does more than just create a video of a conference room, Lawrence says.

“In real time we’re removing the people from the scene and enhancing the content written on the board,”  he said. ”

Optical character recognition allows users to scribble on a white board and Kaptivo’s software will differentiate between text and images. The company’s subscription service even will convert text to other languages.

The company has a basic product and a three year cloud subscription that it sells for $999. That’s much lower than the thousands of dollars a high-end smart conferencing system would cost, according to Lawrence. The hardware alone is $699 and a one-year subscription to its cloud services sells for $120, Lawrence said.

Kaptivo sold over 2000 devices globally already and has secured major OEM partners like HP, according to a statement. Kaptivo customers include BlueJeans, Atlassian, and Deloitte, as well as educational institutions including George Washington University, Stanford University, and Florida Institute of Technology.

The product is integrated with Slack and Trello and Blue Jeans video conferencing, Lawrence said. In the first quarter of 2018 alone, the company has sold about 5,000 units.

The vision is “to augment every existing whiteboard,” Lawrence said. “You can bring [the whiteboard] into the 21st century with one of these. Workers can us their full visual creativity as part of a remote meeting.”

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Google will start investing in early-stage startups that use the Assistant

Google is betting big on the Assistant ecosystem and it’s now putting its money where its mouth is. As the company announced today, it’s launching a new program that will provide investment capital and other resources to early-stage startups that build applications in the Google Assistant ecosystem.

Typically, companies announce these kind of program to kickstart an ecosystem around a new product. While developers have already launched plenty of services for the Google Assistant, the company says that it is launching this new program to “promote more of this creativity.”

Google VP for search and the Google Assistant Nick Fox echoed this. “With the Google Assistant, we’re focused on fostering an open ecosystem for developers, device makers, and content partners to build new experiences,” he told me. “We’re already seeing a lot of creativity from developers with the Google Assistant, and to help promote this, we’re opening a new investment program for early-stage startups.”

Investments are one part of this program, but Google will also work with these startups directly to provide them mentorship and advice from engineers, product managers and design experts. The startups in the program will also get early access to new features and tools, as well as access to the Google Cloud Platform and promotional support. That sounds a bit like an accelerator program, though that’s not quite what Google is calling it.

Fox tells me that Google won’t put a cap on the investments. “We’ll invest as much as we see fit, and are focused on helping startups succeed in this emerging space,” he said. “And we’re not just offering investment capital. We’re eager to partner with these startups and leverage our company’s strengths to help these products come to market poised for success.”

The first startups in this program include GoMoment, a concierge service for hotels and Edwin, a personal English tutor, as well as the developer tools BotSociety and Pulse Labs.

These startups are good representatives of what Google is after. Fox tells me that Google is looking for startups that are “pursuing an interesting space for Assistants, such as vertical industries like travel or gaming.” In addition, Google is also looking to deepen some of its partnerships, but for the most part, it’s simply looking for startups that are pushing technologies like the Assistant forward.

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