Debbi is global chief creative officer at VMLY&R, a brand experience agency delivering contemporary, integrated work across the connected consumer experience to clients worldwide, including Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Dell, Ford, Intel and Wendy’s. She was named the 2020 Ad Age CCO of the Year and has helped lead the agency to Ad Age Agency A-List honors over the past several years as well as being named to Adweek’s Creative 100 and Business Insider’s “30 Most Creative People in Advertising.”

The company has experienced unprecedented growth and recognition under Debbie’s leadership, earning accolades from top international shows including Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (receiving 31 Lions, including two coveted Grand Prix in the Glass Lion and Social & Influencer categories, 69 shortlists and Agency of the Year in the Reach and Good Tracks in 2019), Andys, ADC, Clios, D&AD, Effie Awards, LIA, One Show and Spikes Asia.

Debbi has led top international juries, including Andys; ADC (2018 jury chair); Cannes (2020/2021 Social & Influencer jury president, 2018 Entertainment jury president); Clios (2019 Direct & Experiential/Events jury chair, 2016 Digital jury chair); D&AD (2020 Experiential jury president); One Show Interactive; and Spikes Asia (2019 Entertainment & Music jury chair).

Bianca Guimaraes is an executive creative director at Mischief. She was named one of Business Insider’s “30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30” in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Adweek included her among its “Creative 100”; the One Show and the 3% Conference named her as one of their Next Creative Leaders; most recently, she has been featured on Ad Age’s 40 Under 40 list.

Guimaraes’ work has been nominated for an Emmy three times and went on to win in 2020 for the Sandy Hook Promise "Back to School" campaign.

Ultimately, Guimaraes hopes her achievements can encourage more young women to consider advertising as their profession and inspire women in the business to see a future in it.

Partner and Head of Brand Strategy at GS&P, Bonnie Wan is re-imagining the reach and role of strategy for brands as well as everyday people.

At GS&P, Wan has expanded its strategic offerings to include new revenue streams such as Brand Camp, an accelerated and concentrated path to identifying a brand’s position. Brand Camp has proven to be a new client generator, bringing in new clients including Kraft/Heinz, Bare Snacks, One Medical, Indigo Agriculture, and the San Francisco Giants. Brand Camp also generated new assignments from existing clients such as Comcast Business, Boston Beer, HP, BMW and Frito-Lay.

Beyond the industry at large, Wan is using strategy to transform how everyday people approach life. As creator of “The Life Brief,” she helps people live with greater clarity and creativity by teaching them to write briefs for their lives. The Life Brief is a practice based on her belief that “you cannot have it all, but you can have all that matters.”

The Life Brief has evolved from an agency talk into a workbook, workshops and recurring speaking appearances at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, 3% Conference, change.org, Accenture, Bain & Company and the University of Oregon. Wan and The Life Brief have been featured in Fast Company, Well+Good and Campaign.

Wan currently serves on the Ad Age Diversity Council and has been a two-time finalist for Chief Strategy Officer of the Year as part of Ad Age’s A-List & Creativity Awards.

God-is is responsible for better serving and engaging communities on Twitter all around the world through Twitter’s brand marketing, campaigns with partners and events and experiences. Internally, she drives strategy to make sure that campaigns and programs are connective, inclusive and reflective of the communities Twitter serves. Externally, God-is builds on Twitter's work in developing relationships and programs with community leaders, content partners, influencers, creators, partners and brands.

Prior to joining Twitter in 2018, God-is was director, inclusion & cultural resonance for VMLY&R. Earlier, she held lead channel strategy roles at VMLY&R, global agency iCrossing and Austin-based T3.

God-is has been profiled in digital trade publications Ad Age, Adweek, eMarketer, Campaign US and The Drum. In 2018 she was named an Ad Age “Woman to Watch” and an Adweek “Disruptor” for continuing to fight for representation and equity in the advertising industry.

She resides in New York City with her husband and daughter. She is @GodisRivera on Twitter.

Dara Treseder is a business leader with expertise in building and leading high performing global marketing, communications and commercial organizations. Treseder is currently senior VP, head of global marketing and communications at Peloton, the world’s largest interactive fitness platform. At Peloton, Treseder sets the strategy and goals for Peloton’s marketing efforts to build the Peloton brand and drive the company’s growth and international expansion. She also oversees brand and strategic marketing, consumer insights and strategy, communications and creative.

A veteran chief marketing and communications officer (CMO), Treseder was previously the CMO of Carbon and the CMO of GE Business Innovations and GE Ventures. Earlier in her career, she led marketing and growth efforts at Apple and Goldman Sachs.

Treseder has received several awards and industry recognition for her work. She was recognized by Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of Silicon Valley’s Top 40 Leaders Under 40, named one of AdWeek’s Women Trailblazers, by Business Insider as one of the Top 25 Most Innovative CMOs in the World, by Forbes as a “CMO Next”—a list made up of 50 marketing chiefs redefining the role and shaping the future—by Ad Age as a Women to Watch and by Inc. Magazine as one of the 30 Inspirational Women to Watch in Tech.

A champion of public health, women’s issues and diversity initiatives, Treseder is the vice chair of the board of the Public Health Institute (PHI). She also serves on the board of PG&E. Treseder graduated cum laude from Harvard University with the highest honors in the field and holds an MBA from Stanford University.

Diane Jackson, an award-winning Chief Production Officer, transcends barriers and expectations, not only by what she does for DDB Chicago, but also by who she is as an industry leader, mentor and creator. She defies the conventional constructs of the production discipline, and in turn, has significantly impacted not only the Chicago ad community, but also the global advertising industry.

Colleagues and clients alike recognize Jackson’s rare combination of tenacity, strategic vision, and creativity. Thus, not only has Jackson been critical to sustaining DDB Chicago’s growth and profile in the industry, she has also taken an active leadership role in strategizing for the entire agency network. Her influence permeates the company both locally and globally on brands such as Molson Coors, Mars/Wrigley, State Farm, McDonald’s and the U.S. Army.

As Chief Production Officer, Jackson has built an award-winning team that truly understands integrated production and believes in the power of collaboration. She introduced a new production model that allows the agency to quickly produce branded content for both planned and unplanned opportunities, and designed Studio225, a 10,000-square-foot agile facility within the agency that is “always on.” Jackson advises on production procedure, best practices, market trends, media solution and creative collaborations throughout the DDB global network.

Additionally, Jackson has led award-winning production teams, creating work that has been recognized by the Emmys, Cannes Lions, The One Show, D&AD, London International Television Awards, Clios, Webbys, and the Effies.

Jackson has represented DDB as a juror on numerous award shows. In 2012, she was selected for the Film Craft Jury at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, making her the first female agency head of production to be part of the jury. She served again in 2018 and, the following year, Jackson was on the Film Advertising Jury for the D&AD Awards. She has served as a jury president at the London International Awards and has also served multiple times on the AICP Curatorial Panel for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jackson is dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion in advertising. As a former board member of the VCU Brandcenter, she is invested in encouraging young people of color to consider advertising as a career path. On behalf of DDB, she sponsors the Free Spirit Media Program, which connects more than 700 underserved youth in the Chicago area to arts education and opportunities in media production.

Jackson was also an early supporter of Free The Bid and ensured that DDB was one of the first agencies to partner with the initiative, dedicated to increasing the number of female directors, and now supports “Free the Work” for broader inclusion.

Jackson is mum to Spike and Alfie and lives in the city of Chicago.

Champion of directors, networker who cares, advocate for Black rights and representation, sales-focused executive producer, fun-loving Brit with a big personality—and that STILL doesn’t fully cover the scope of Sophie Gold’s abilities. More simply, she’s an industry powerhouse with an impeccable eye for talent and the uncanny ability to get things done above and beyond expectations.

Born in France but raised in Great Britain (which explains a lot), Gold started her career in finance. Tired of making money for other people, she turned her attention to executive producing. Was there an internship? Was she a PA who worked her way up the ladder? No. By sheer force of will, Gold started as an EP and took to it like a fish to water. What followed was a string of music videos, commercial campaigns, short films and general widespread success. With deep roots established in London, it was time for Gold to cross the Atlantic and introduce herself to the United States.

Once in the U.S., Gold worked for several production companies in New York and eventually Los Angeles. She not only signed and nurtured new directorial talent but also worked to restructure the companies themselves. She helped to define and focus their goals and enter new marketplaces while building their client list, something she has done more than once and with incredible results. In the process, she worked on national campaigns for brands such as Disney, Lexus, Star Wars, Pepsi, Nissan, AFI, Poland Springs, GMC, Lipton and Yahoo, to name but a few.

Inevitably, it came time to fulfill her destiny and do what she was meant to do all along: start her own company. She formed Eleanor in early 2020 (yes, that 2020), and despite a raging pandemic, has firmly established a foothold in the marketplace. Her roster includes Alice Waddington, Anton Watts, Jeff Bitsack, Jeff Yeats, Los Chacón and Stanley Morse.

Gold is on the AICP Equity and Inclusion Committee, where she’s helping to create a set of guidelines and “best practices” for agencies and production partners to use when hiring and making creative decisions. Her company, Eleanor, is the only Black female-owned production company in the U.S., though hopefully, not for long. She’s a podcaster, a voracious reader, and, as one might expect, an incurable Cinephile. Gold currently lives in Los Angeles but desperately misses the London weather and British cuisine.