And for the final announcement of companies / entrants with shortlisted entries in Group A: Experiential Marketing and Group B: Experiential Business. Click HERE to see all categories in these groups. 

The jury for these segments of awards includes, Lydia Buthello, Head of Events, Star Network; Ashish Sihare, Head - MICE, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance; Shanker Sareen, Head - Marketing - Enterprise & Public Sector, Cisco; Alan Gordon, CMO, Majid Al Futtaim, UAE; Payal Babbar, Brand Head - Ultratech Cement; Vikram Malhi, MD- Asia, Expedia; Puneet Vidhyarthi, GM & Head - Rural Business, JCB India; Vijay Sharma, GM, GSK Consumer Healthcare; Koustubh Kanade, Director - Marketing Sanofi; Anshul Punhani, CMO, Monster.com; Sujan Roy, Head of Marketing Passenger Vehicles - International, TATA Motors and Ruchi Aggarwal, Director - Marketing, Microsoft.

As a result of round one of judging the Experiential Marketing and Experiential Business category groups, the following 64 entrants have shortlisted entires in one or more categories (in alphabetical order):

1. Black Pepper Exhibition

2. Brandwidth Events

3. Cairn India

4. Candid Marketing

5. Carat Media Services India 

6. Cheil MENA (UAE)

7. Cineyug Entertainment 

8. Communique Marketing Solutions 

9. CS Direkt Events & Exhibitions 

10. DDB Mudra Group

11. Dialogue Factory

12. Encompass Events and Group M (Joint Entrant)

13. Encompass Events 

14. Entertainment Network India Limited and Victor Tango Entertainment (Joint Entrant)

15. Enthuse Answers Communications

16. Event Capital

17. Event Crafter

18. Ferriswheel

19. Fountainhead Entertainment 

20. Fuel Media Solutions 

21. Go Bananas

22. Group M Media (Sri Lanka)

23. Hansa Events & Activation

24. Impact Communications

25. Invent Creative Event Solutions

26. Jagran Prakashan 

27. Jagran Solutions

28. KW Conferences 

29. Laqshya Live Experiences

30. Leisure Corp

31. Madison OOH

32. Mamemo Productions

33. Markcom Solutions

34. Matrix Direct Communications

35. MCI Management India

36. Mercury Integrated Marketing Services 

37. Oxygen Entertainment & Media Solutions

38. Percept D Mark, A Division Of Percept

39. Percept Live 

40. Phase 1 Events & Experiences

41. Pinnacle IES - Madison OOH

42. psLIVE GLOBAL

43. Pulp Strategy Communications

44. QED Productions

45. Radio City 91.1 FM

46. Radio Mango 91.9

47. Rashi Entertainment

48. RedFilo Events

49. Reliance Broadcast Network

50. Salt Experiences & Management

51. Seventy Event Media Group

52. Showhouse Event Management

53. Showtime Events 

54. The Brand Brewery

55. The Circus Entertainment

56. TIC, Integrated Marketing Services

57. True Events

58. Uphill EMG

59. Viacom18 Media

60. Vibgyor Brand Services

61. Victor Tango Entertainment

62. We MediaWorks

63. Wizcraft International Entertainment

64. WOOT Factor

The shortlisted entries from the above entrants will be announced at the Networking evening on 24th June and the winners amongst these shortlists will be announced at the WOW Awards Asia Gala on 25th June. 

See the full event schedule HERE

The WOW Awards and Convention Asia 2015 will feature exclusive MARKET INSIGHT sessions by international experts in topics including:

Opportunities in India for Asia. Opportunities in Asia for the World

Key Note: Sabbas Joseph, Director, Wizcraft International

Trends of the Future and their effect on Experiential Marketing

Key Note: Jordan Waid, VP - Experience Design, FreemanXP, London

Panel Discussion with: Atul Nath, Director, Candid Marketing; Ruchi Aggarwal, Director- Marketing, Microsoft

 

Can Events Power Countries? Insight into the UAE Market

Key Note: Alan Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer, Majid Al Futtaim Group - UAE

Panel Discussion with: Roshan Abbas, Director, Encompass; Nowshir Engineer, Director, EMDI; Tim Jacobs, COO, KTS Global; Rebecca Wilson, Director, espInternational

 

Sponsorship Activation and Brand Association with a LIVE Platform (Session powered by DDB Mudra Group)

Key Note: Steve Dupee, Executive VP, Business Development and Charlie Dundas, Business Development Director, GMR Marketing

Panel Discussion with: Aneil Deepak, Creative Lead, DDB Mudra; Martin D'Costa, Director, Seventy EMG; Shaju Ignatius, Business Head - IP Projects, The Times Group

International Event Safety and Standards

Key Note: Ton Soepenberg, Director, Poly Worldwide Entertainment

Panel Discusion with: Mohmed Morani, MD, Cineyug; Warren D'Souza, Director, SOUND.COM; Sumit Chandoke, DEO, Salt Experiential and Suresh Madan, Director, Dynamix Media

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