Dentsu Inc. announced on June 15 that it will host the following three seminars at the 63rd Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, held in Cannes, France, from June 18 to 25.
1. Dentsu Lab Tokyo Seminar
Date & Time: June 19 (Sun), 16:45–17:30 (French time)
Theme: Creativity Through Machine Intelligence: A Conversation with Brian Eno
(Creativity Through Machine Intelligence: A Conversation with Brian Eno)
Overview: Dentsu Lab Tokyo conducted a project exploring how Machine Intelligence (MI) could potentially acquire human-like creativity. This resulted in the creation of unique, automatically generated visuals synchronized with the title track of "The Ship," the latest album by Brian Eno—a musician, composer, producer, writer, contemporary thinker, and political activist. Ahead of the video's global release, Eno joins as a guest to explain the project's background and production challenges.
2. Dentsu Seminar
Date & Time: June 20 (Mon) 14:00–14:45 (France time, Japan time same day 21:00–21:45)
*Scheduled for live streaming on YouTube as " Lions Live "
Theme: Thinking Design
Overview: Design is not just about appearance or taste. Join Yoshihiro Yagi, a 28-time Design Lion winner and Creative Director, as we travel the world to explore a broader concept of design.
3. Dentsu Ventures Innovation Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 22, 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM (France time)
Theme: Redefining Creativity, Reinventing Agency Business
(Redefining Creativity, Reinventing Agency Business)
Overview: With various forms of innovation emerging in the relationship between startups, clients, and agencies, can agencies themselves innovate? Using case studies, Dentsu Ventures' Kotaro Sasamoto examines how agency business evolves when creativity is redefined and agency skills are leveraged.
Details in the Dentsu Inc. News Release.
