A stellar line-up of the most exciting and influential leaders from across APAC and beyond are set to take the stage at Spikes Asia 2019.

Spikes Asia, the annual Festival where Asia Pacific’s creative communications community comes together for three-days of inspiration, networking, learning and celebration, has announced the first 28 speakers that will share their expert knowledge on the region.

More speakers will be added to the line-up weekly.

Asia Rising – the theme for this year’s festival reflects the transformational shift that the Asian creative industry is going through.

Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity 2019 will showcase inspiring content from agency creatives, strategists, brand marketers and creatives from outside the industry who have compelling stories to share.

Delegates can look forward to 3 days of exciting content revolving around the five key content tracks of Communications, Effectiveness, Innovation, Experience and Reach across 4 stages, featuring over 100 speakers.

Spikes Asia festival director, Joe Pullos said: “The high caliber of content submissions we have received this year is an indication of the industry’s passion in sharing insights and knowledge to raise the bar of creativity and effectiveness in the region.

“We will be continuing to add a mix of very impressive regional and international speakers up until the festival in September who represent all areas of the creative communications industry for a wholesome delegate experience – stay tuned.”

Some of the speakers highlighted in the initial announcement include:

Levi Slavin, Chief Creative Officer, Colenso Bbdo

Sheen Jeng, Chief Creative Officer, Creative Chairwoman, Mccann Worldgroup China

Michael Peachey, Senior Vice President, Marketing Asia Pacific, Salesforce

Vibha Bakshi, Honorary Doctorate And National Award-Winning Director & Producer

Michael Shi, Chief Branding Officer, Weltmeister Automobile

Devi Attamimi, Executive Director, Strategy, Hakuhodo Network Indonesia

Mark Doran, Global Marketing Director, Rapid Rugby

Valerie Pinto, Ceo, Weber Shandwick India

Ronald Ng, Global Chief Creative Officer, Isobar

The Spikes Delegate – Early Bird pass can be purchased at www.spikes.asia up until midnight SGT Friday, 5 July 2019.