The invitation-only gathering brought together senior marketers, business leaders and media executives for conversations around AI, marketing and the changing global business landscape.
Global advertising and marketing industry leader Sir Martin Sorrell, Founder and Executive Chairman of S4Capital and Monks, joined a select gathering of senior marketing, business and media leaders in New Delhi on Friday, August 21.
Hosted by Dr Anurag Batra, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of BW Businessworld Media Group and Founder of exchange4media Group, the intimate, invitation-only evening was held at Tyde, The Park, New Delhi.
The gathering brought together CMOs, founders, business executives and industry leaders for conversations around artificial intelligence, the changing marketing ecosystem and the forces reshaping global business.
Sorrell, one of the advertising industry’s most prominent global figures, has been an influential voice on how technology, data, AI and changing consumer behaviour are transforming the marketing and advertising business.
Senior marketing leaders come together
The evening saw participation from senior executives across technology, consumer brands, financial services, media and marketing.
Among those present were Utsav Malhotra, Chief Operating Officer, Noise; Nitin Gupta, Managing Director, Fujifilm Sonosite; Himanshu Khanna, Group CMO, CK Birla Group; Ajay Kaul, Global Head, Growth Marketing, DiDi; Rajeev Jain, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, DS Group; and Satinder Juneja, CMO, Birlasoft.
The gathering also included Rajat Abbi, VP, Marketing, Schneider Electric India; Rajiv Dubey, Vice President, Media & Marketing Activations, Dabur India; Abhinav Iyer, Chief General Manager, Marketing & Strategy, The Muthoot Group; Nikita Malhotra, Head, Digital & Retail Marketing, Woodland; Nidhi Rastogi, Head of Marketing, Uniqlo India; and Ratin Duggal, GM, Marketing, ITC.
Representing Monks were Monisha Chowla, Senior Vice President, Operations, APAC Centre of Excellence; Niranjan Singh, Head of Media, India; and Prabhjot Kaur, Senior Director, Operations, India.
Media and industry representatives at the evening included Raktim Das of Zee Media, Gaurav Barjatya of NDTV, Raghu Khanna of CashUrDrive and Brij Pahwa, Editorial Lead, exchange4media.
The gathering was also attended by several experienced industry leaders, including broadcast media veteran Avinash Pandey; Sidharth Shakdher, former CMO and Business Head at Paytm; K. Ganapathy Subramaniam, former Chief Marketing Officer at LT Foods; Karan Kumar, former Chief Marketing Officer at Hero Realty; and Tathagat Jena, former CMO at HMD.
AI and the next phase of marketing
The gathering comes at a time when artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how brands approach marketing, creative production, media, customer engagement and organisational structures.
For marketing leaders, the conversation around AI has increasingly moved beyond experimentation towards questions of implementation, productivity, competitive advantage and how marketing organisations themselves need to evolve.
The evening provided a closed setting for senior industry leaders to exchange perspectives on these shifts, alongside broader conversations around marketing and global business.
The interaction was followed by dinner and networking, bringing together leaders from across brands, technology, media and the wider marketing ecosystem.
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