Speaker series: An interactive event organized by Advertising Club Guwahati

GUWAHATI: The Advertising Club Guwahati organized its signature event “Speaker series” on April 10, 2019 at Guwahati. The event is one of its kind and was organized for the first time in the North East.

The eminent speakers for the evening were Pratik Gupta, Founder of FOXYMORON, a company which has grown to become one of India’s leading independent digital marketing agencies, Malavika R Harita, who founded and ran Saatchi & Saatchi Focus in India for 25 years where she worked on brands like Bosch, Coats, Reliance Polymers, Infosys, Microsoft, Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Novartis, Mead Johnson, AIS and Novo Nordisk amongst others, and Shubhrastha, who has been working as a Campaign Consultant for the past six years now and heads the Arthashastra Group. As a co-founder of Citizens for Accountable Governance (CAG), Shubhrastha was part of the Narendra Modi’s 2014 Prime Ministerial Campaign. Thereafter, she worked on Nitish Kumar’s campaign in Bihar.

According to a press release, the Speaker series club initiative was undertaken to invite emerging stories, campaign creators, industry professionals, from Advertising and Media fraternity to Guwahati interactive sessions with Ad Club members and their guests.

This Club of Guwahati works towards the promotion, growth and protection of the advertising industry. In the past, Ad Club Guwahati organized various events like an interactive seminar on the ‘Role of Branding’, an interactive session with Rohit Ohri, CEO, FCB ULKA on the existing opportunities and potential of Northeast India as a developing economy, a workshop on Digital Marketing in association with Calcutta Media Institute. Prominent industrialists of Northeast India attended the event which saw footfalls of around 120 guests from diverse background. The event was supported by TOPCEM, Potential & Concept Education and Dyna Roof.

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