This is a slideshow of some pictures taken by IPG Mediabrands at the recently concluded 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012. Enjoy!

1. Meet our Cannes contest winners
at the Lions

2. The Palais des Festivals in Cannes where everything happens!

3. Welcome aperitif on Sunday. Duy, behind the camera, meet Gen
and Kanokrat for the first time

4. Kanokrat and Duy at the Palais

5. After registering, everyone was ready for a week full of
discovery, learning, and listening to amazing speakers!

6. Kanokrat having a great moment in Cannes Lions 2012 at IPG
Mediabrands villa

7. IPG Cocktail Party on Monday

8. Amazing scenery at the IPG Cocktail Party

9. Duy and Kanokrat pose with our branded tuk tuks!

10. Technology at the IPG Mediabrands villa

11. Guests tweeting their way across Cannes.

12. Initiative Twilight: Activating the Digital Universe for Change
Arianna Huffington, Jeremy Hymans and David Shing were our fabulous
speakers for the evening!

13. Guests share a drink at Initiative Twilight:
Activating the Digital Universe for Change

14. Guests gathering for a photo at Initiative Twilight:
Activating the Digital Universe for Change

15. Duy’s favorite seminar of the week was The Coca-Cola Company: New Rules of
Marketing and Consumer Engagement featuring Joseph Tripodi, Executive Vice-
President, Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer

16. It is not every day that IPG chairman Michael Roth takes to the stage only to introduce
the speakers. Here he is to introduce Shekhar Kapur, the noted Indian film director
and Balki (R Balakrishnan), chairman and creative head of Roth's own agency, Lowe
Lintas India.

17. India was in focus at Cannes, for the first time in 58 years
since the festival began in 1954.
Roth noted that the session at Cannes was an
indication of the importance of India in the global economy.

18. He added that his own group, IPG, was committed to India in a big way through Lowe
Lintas, which was launched in 1939. Today they handle about 250 clients – more than
what the agency's New York office handles

19. Yahoo! Party

20. Guests gather at the Yahoo! Party

21. IPG Mediabrands & Yahoo! Party. Gossip Girl and Glee actors
joined Mat Seiler and Yahoo! CEO

22. Time Warner featured Peter Roth, President Warner Bros
Television, Michael Patrick King, executive producer Sex and the
City and Jeff Bewkes, Chairman Time Warner.

23. O&M master class on Social Media skills

24. Duy exploring the YouTube booth

25. Duy having fun and featuring in his very own YouTube ad!

26. Duy took a break for some digital water skiing!

27. The Cannes Lions Connect Bar, a cool way to meet people

28. Kanokrat and Panwadee , Marketing Press from Thailand hang
out at Cannes Connection Bar

29. Good music all week with DJ partner Spotify

30. Evening in Cannes

31. Day 5 of the festival: A great talk by the acclaimed philosopher and writer Alain de
Botton, who was brought to Cannes by Ogilvy & Mather. He drew parallels between
advertising and art, which he describes as "the sensory presentation of an idea."

32. Alain suggested that much of advertising works at the bottom of Maslow's pyramid
and that we need to find a way to work at the top by appealing more to real needs than
to desires. Those needs could address one or more of Epicurus' three key ingredients
for happiness - friends, freedom and thoughtfulness/reflection.

33. He also talked a lot about the fear of failure, which impedes our creativity,
but reassured us that no creativity can occur without that fear and that
nobody can be successful at everything.

34. Our very own Jacki Kelly travelling up and down the croisette with
our branded tuk-tuks

35. Jacki Kelly and friends meet with Glee star Mathew Morrison

36. UM TWILIGHT with Facebook, speakers Jack Myers,
Dr. Gino Yu and Paul Adams.

37. UM TWILIGHT, Introduction by Carolyn Everson from Facebook

38. Jacki Kelly introduces UM TWILIGHT with Facebook, speakers
Jack Myers, Dr. Gino Yu and Paul Adams

39. UM TWILIGHT with Jack Myers

40. Dr. Gino Yu share his thoughts at UM TWILIGHT

41. BBH seminar at the Young lions featuring Sir John Hegarty!

42. BBH seminar at the Young lions

43. The Longest queue to attend Bill
Clinton speech

44. Gen and Duy at the one of highlight in Cannes Lions 2012
with Bill Clinton

45. There has been much talk in recent times about how the advertising industry could (and should)
use its considerable wealth of creativity (and wealth) to help change people’s behavior for the
benefit of the world. That message was amplified when former President Bill Clinton addressed
the ad world in Cannes. Invited to the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity by Brazilian media
group Grupo ABC, Clinton called on the assembled to channel their creative energy toward
coming up with world-changing ideas.

46. While Clinton’s message was simple - that those whose with the power to persuade could have
great impact when those energies are focused on the greater good - his impressive insight and
global context helped make his point.

47. Duy and Kanokrat dine out over a typical French breakfast

48. Duy and Kanokrat had an unforgettably rich week full of learning.
They hope to be back at the festival again!!!

49. Yes !! It’s the big experience in my
life
at Cannes Lions 2012