For over two decades, Liz Taylor has been recognized as one of the industry’s most progressive creative leaders. She is known for her collaborative, empowering leadership style and the pivotal role she has played in helping local and global brands find their voices in the modern world. Liz currently serves as Global Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy, where she is responsible for overseeing the agency’s creative product across 131 offices in 93 countries and spanning the network’s Advertising, PR, Experience, Health, and Consulting offering. Under her leadership, Ogilvy was named Network of the Year at the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Ogilvy was also named 2022 Network of the Year by The One Show and Global Network of the Year by Campaign Magazine.

Prior to Ogilvy, Liz served as Global Chief Creative Officer for Leo Burnett and Chief Creative Officer for Publicis Communications North America where she was a Founding Partner at Le Truc, a new business model threaded across the Publicis Groupe. She has been named an Ad Age “Woman to Watch” and a member of the Adweek “Creative 100.” Her work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art, multiple Super Bowls, and seen across the pages of Harper’s Bazaar, Fast Company, Rolling Stone, and even topped Billboard charts. In 2022, she added an Emmy nomination to her name as Change the Ref’s campaign “Lost Class” earned recognition in the Outstanding Commercial category.

Driving transformative creative solutions and culture-shaping work is what Liz does best. Her career credits include iconic and brand-defining work for Budweiser, Clorox, Gatorade, Wrigley, Michelob Ultra, Morton Salt, Beam Suntory, GE, Kimberly-Clark, Boeing and many more. As one of the most awarded creatives in the industry, she has numerous honors to her name including Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, ANDYs, and Effies, among others. Alongside the recognition of her work, she has helped set the industry bar for creativity around the world, serving on a multitude of juries that include Cannes – Digital Craft and Print & Publishing; One Show – Social Media and Integrated Campaign; and D&AD – Experiential and Direct. An industry leader in addressing workplace inequality, Liz also served as an inaugural jury chair of the Athena Advertising Awards, held in conjunction with the 3% Movement.

A proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Portfolio Center, Liz is based in her native Chicago, where she lives with her husband, a Goldendoodle and her two kids when they are home from college. When she’s not writing for work, she’s writing a memoir that she hopes will one day be published. And when she needs a break from writing, you can find her indulging in any number of her favorite things—whether binge-watching, fashion obsessing, pop culture devouring, vintage t-shirt collecting, mid-century modern furniture shopping or poker playing.

Passionate about designing platforms that scale human interactions, Cleve spends his days crafting innovations that are both useful and usable. As Chief Technology Officer at Wunderman Thompson, Cleve oversees executive technology decisions around strategy, innovation, engineering, and product to deliver world-class connected experiences for Fortune 500 clients such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Pfizer.

Cleve holds a doctorate in computer science and a marketing diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Always learning, he’s also completing his AI for Business Diploma from the University of Oxford this October. He sits on various technology councils across the WPP Group and advisory boards such as for Adobe, Sitecore, and Google. He is a passionate speaker, writer, and thought leader on subjects including business platforms, content architecture, digital transformation, and strategy.

Cleve served as the 2022 Cannes Lions Innovation Jury President and has judged the One Show as part of the IP and Products Jury, among other industry shows. He lives in Seattle with his family and loves to get outdoors running or skiing.

​Dan is the Chief Creative Officer of the Havas flagship office in NY and Annex88, overseeing all work on a multitude of brands such as Lotto.com, Lincoln Financial Group, American Cancer Society, Bank of New York Mellon, adidas, Reckitt, NYP, Wells Fargo, Keurig Dr Pepper and others.

Prior to Havas and Annex88 he was the Executive Creative Director and equity partner at JOAN, where he managed the creative output for Georgia Pacific, Virgin Hotels, General Mills' Fiber One, Facebook, Walmart, Graduate Hotels, SafeAuto, Hive, Burst and Potential Energy.

Dan believes that it is essential that brands form a meaningful connection with their audience through impactful work that plays off modern cultural tensions and truths. He formed this point of view from over 20 years of experience at some of the world’s most prestigious agencies.

His work has earned multiple awards at Cannes, The One Show, D&AD, The ANDY’s, Clios, Art Directors Club, and the Effies. He is also proud that his most recent campaign for General MIlls recorded the greatest turnaround in the brand’s history.

His recent efforts lead JOAN to a 2020 Small Agency of the Year accolade from AdAge thanks to the agency’s “head turning creative.” JOAN also won a gold Glass Lion for their IP Womanikin, a device that turns traditional male CPR dummies into female CPR dummies. This attachment addressed the problem in which woman are less likely to receive lifesaving CPR aid because society is uncomfortable touching a woman’s chest. By training people on both male and female dummies we can ensure women will get equal help.

He was recently included in Business Insider’s Most Creative People in Advertising Right Now, AdAge’s 40 under 40, and ADWEEK’s Creative 100. His Tide To Go Super Bowl commercial has been named one of the 10 best, on multiple polls.

Before JOAN, Dan joined BBDO New York, and teamed up with Chris Beresford-Hill, as an Executive Creative Director, leading a group that managed all Foot Locker brands, Guinness, Bud Light and priceline.com, helping the flagship office earn multiple AdAge A-List and Creativity A-List appearances, year after year.

Prior to BBDO, Dan led the Comcast and Google accounts at Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Before that he was at Saatchi & Saatchi New York, where he created some of the agency’s most high-profile, award-winning work, for Tide (Talking Stain), Crest (You Can Say Anything With a Smile), and Fruit by the Foot (Replacements). Dan started his career at Mad Dogs & Englishmen, in NY.

When he is not working, he can be found at home spending time with his wife and two children.

Kerry is President of Mischief, a title she invented when she was six and somehow made happen in 2020. Her superpower is surrounding herself with great talent and ensuring she doesn't get in the way of them doing amazing things. She has a habit of making order out of chaos, loves turning the impossible into possible, and has a strict no assholes policy. When she's not kicking ass and taking names, she can be found hanging out with her four-year-old and her husband.

Grace Francis is the Global Chief Creative and Design Officer at WONGDOODY! and founder of the creative industry mentorship program elsewherestudio.org.

They guest lecture at Hyper Island and University of the Arts London, with a focus on the ethics of empathy, design thinking and creativity as a tool for societal change.

An advocate of ESG, Grace is a non-executive director at Doconomy, the impact tech start up focused on everyday climate action for all.

Grace is non-binary transgender so if they say anything that bears repeating, please be sure to use the pronouns they/them.

Katie joined Mother as a Junior Strategist in 2008, was made Head of Strategy in 2014 and became Partner of the agency in 2017. During that time, she has led some of our most celebrated and effective campaigns; developing the enduring Wonderful Everyday platform for IKEA; radically reframing Baileys as a grown-up treat to reverse a decade of decline and creating a national discussion around palm oil with Greenpeace. Under Katie’s strategic guidance, IKEA and Baileys were recognised with IPA Effectiveness Awards, and Mother crowned both Effie Agency of the Year and APG Agency of the Year. She loves nothing more than helping a business unlock the brand platform that will transform their fortunes for the long-term, which she continues to do alongside her lead areas of focus as Partner – nurturing and growing Mother in London while developing our long term, ‘Making our Children Proud’ vision around the world.

Armed with a passion for crafting authentic and emotionally provocative work, Gabrielle strives to build the creative that moves culture forward — the work that both keeps us up at night and helps us sleep knowing art has the power to change the world.

Gabrielle founded Kitchen Table, a full service creative agency built so all brands have a seat – creating work for the culture from within the culture and focused on championing underrepresented brands. Since launching, the agency has created work for Madam CJ Walker, Ciroc, Hebru Brantley x Adidas, StatusPRO, Group Black and more.

Gabrielle was voted to AdAge’s 25 Most Inspiring People according to Industry Creatives, Adweek’s Creative 100 and also named AdCouncil’s Champion for Good.

Prior to the launch of Kitchen Table, Gabrielle was SVP Group Creative Director at McCann NY and has had the honor of crafting work for leading brands such as, Ulta Beauty, LinkedIn, AdCouncil and Microsoft – including the 2020 Super Bowl spot, voted Most Emotionally Effective. Throughout her career, Gabrielle has collaborated alongside cultural icon Spike Lee and led campaigns for global brands such as; New Era, Nature Valley, Adobe, Smirnoff, Cadillac, JBL and more. She takes pride in mentoring underrepresented talent in advertising – creating the table.