The Advertising Association promotes the role and rights of responsible advertising and its value to people, society, businesses and the economy. We represent UK advertisers, agencies, media owners and tech companies on behalf of the entire industry, acting as the connection between industry professionals and the politicians and policy-makers.

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The Advertising Association focuses on major industry and policy areas that have huge ramifications on UK advertising. This section contains our work around public health, gambling advertising, data and e-privacy, trust, the digital economy and more.

Credos is the advertising industry’s independent think tank. It produces research, evidence and reports into the impact and effectiveness of and public and political response to advertising on behalf of UK advertisers in order to enable the industry to make informed decisions.

Front Foot is our industry’s member network of over 90 businesses across UK advertising. It aims to promote the role of responsible advertising and its value to people, society and the economy through a coalition of senior leaders from advertisers, agencies and media owners.

We run a number of events throughout the year, from our annual LEAD summit to the Media Business Course and regular breakfast briefings for our members. We are also the official UK representative for the world’s biggest festival of creativity – Cannes Lions.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Ben Hunte

Global LGBTQ Correspondent, VICE News

Kathryn Jacob OBE

CEO, Pearl&Dean

Danny Josephs

Chief Operating Officer, mFuse

Nadach Musungu

Diversity & Inclusion Lead, Kantar

Ade Rawcliffe

Group Director of Diversity and Inclusion, ITV

Josh Krichefski

CEO, EMEA & UK, GroupM; President, IPA

Pete Markey

Chief Marketing Officer, Boots UK

Dinah Williams

Founder & Director, The Avenir Network

Sharon Lloyd Barnes

Commercial Director, Advertising Association

Sufia Hussain

Inclusion Equity & Diversity Director EMEA, Wunderman Thompson; MEFA

Sarah Jenkins

Chief Operating Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi London

Jake Dubbins

Co-founder & Managing Director, Media Bounty

Veriça Djurdjevic

Chief Revenue Officer, Channel 4

Neil Henderson

CEO, St Luke's

Omar Oakes

Editor, The Media Leader

Harry Tan

SVP, Marketing & Digital Products, ITV Studios

Sue Todd

CEO, NABS

Melissa Johns

Actor and co-founder at TripleC DANC

Dame Caroline Dinenage DBE MP

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Maria McDowell

Founder, lollipop mentoring

Jon Evans

Chief Customer Officer, System 1 Group

Matt Bush

Managing Director of Agencies, Partners and Creative, Google

Kat Bozicevich

Managing Director, MG OMD