Dear All

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 is taking place from June 17 to June 23.

Over the last decade, Cannes has gone from being a somewhat niche event for the creativity community to one of the most important meetings of the year for the global marketing, advertising and digital industries with major representation from our clients and prospects. This year Reckitt Benckiser will be sending a large delegation for the first time, as will Pernod Ricard and many of our other clients including Kraft, Unilever and ING will be there.

It's for that reason that for the 6th year running we are delighted to announce that the Havas Café will again be present but this year at a new address. The brand new and more spacious café will be in the garden of the Grand Hôtel (which is actually closer to the Palais and opposite Twitter's Cannes HQ).

This year's other "nouveauté" is that we will be open all week, from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd.

We are finalising the programme of which a detailed version will be sent to you within the next few weeks.  There will be very good facilities for meetings and seminars with clients, and we encourage you to use the Havas Café as a meeting point to host your clients, organize your appointments with journalists, colleagues etc and/or your internal meetings... Should you need to make client or team presentations, please feel free to ask us and we, along with our technical team on site, will be more than happy to help (for football fans who are planning to follow "Euro 2012".... you will be able to watch the matches thanks to the Havas Café outdoor and indoor screens).

To make sure that you are always up-to-date with the latest Havas Café news, do not hesitate to become a fan of our Facebook page Havas at Cannes where information will be posted on a regular basis!

Please make a note in your agendas - we really look forward to welcoming you this year!

The Havas Communications Team

Havas Café
"Le Grand Hôtel" à Cannes
45, LA CROISETTE
06400 CANNES - FRANCE
blog@havascafe.com

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Contacts:

Lorella Gessa, Communications Director – Havas
+33 6 22 11 21 85 / lorella.gessa@havas.com

Ghislaine Brégé, Public Relations Director – Havas
+33 6 22 20 84 30 / ghislaine.brege@havas.com

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has appointed three more jury presidents for this year's event taking place 17-23 June.   

David Jones, (pictured left), Global CEO of Havas, Global CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide and co-founder of One Young World will lead the judging of the Creative Effectiveness Lions category, which launched last year.

At the forefront of the next generation in advertising, Jones - a former CEO of Euro RSCG Sydney - is the youngest global CEO in the history of advertising. In his role at Havas, he is responsible for all creative, marketing, media and design companies throughout the network of more than 16,000 people.

Jones was the driving force behind the hugely successful 'Tck Tck Tck' campaign for Kofi Annan for the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, with 18 million people signing up as climate allies, and is the co-founder of One Young World, the premier forum for young leaders across the globe.

He worked closely with David Cameron and the UK Conservative Party from 2007 up to and including Cameron's election as prime minister in 2010.

Via Campaign Brief