PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The Cristal Festival is designed to celebrate great work in advertising, media, digital and marketing innovation and it is my very great honour to be invited to be President of the Digital and Mobile Jury at this prestigious event.

The world of marketing innovation becomes synonymous with mobile and digital, and this will only increase. Digital and mobile will be more and more fundamental to the way that we create experiences that consumers want to engage with and which will drive forward the relationships that brands have with their customers so it feels like completely the right time for these to take such a prime role in the festival.

I look forward very much to working with all of the jurors as take the opportunity of being immersed in the best examples of digital and mobile work the world has to offer.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
As the Cristal Festival returns to France for the first time in four years, I think it is appropriate to borrow the words of the great French philosopher Voltaire to describe the unique opportunity this event offers to the international marketing and media community: “Is there any man so wise as to learn from the experience of another?”Learning from the experience of another – that is the essence of Cristal. Far beyond the awards competition, Cristal is first and foremost an extraordinary learning experience, taught by some of the most creative and innovative minds in our industry.

Indeed, only need look at the program cover – with its bold promise of “an international summit of media and advertising” – to confirm that advancing the art and science of engagement is the primary mission of this festival.

And it is in that spirit that I am proud to serve as the president of the 2013 Cristal Media Jury, not simply to award the best ideas and thinking, but to help support our collective opportunity to learn from them as well.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Imagination, curiosity and hard work are a driving force behind humanity’s insatiable desire to create and innovate. This year, at the Cristal Festival, I have taken on the responsibility as the President of the jury of “The Future is Now” awar
d competition. This global competition aims to award the different platforms, innovative technologies and new ideas that celebrate the creativity of the people who are pioneers in the art of reinventing technology at the customers’ service.

Together with the jury, I hope we will share our perspectives and our thoughts from around the world on the prospect of transforming the digital experience through not only creativity but also technology and what it means, how it plays a crucial role in the context of digital transformation.

Our dreams determine our future. Let’s dream at the Cristal!

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
It’s a cliché, but it really is an honour to preside over the PR Jury in our maiden year.Earned and shared media has for years been the most exciting frontier of communications. With media channels colliding it will be fascinating to see where the best work has been done. It’s extremely decadent to spend a few days in the mountains talking about brilliant creativity. Our expectations have been set very high for ideas that set the tone for 2014.

Good luck to everyone. See you in the snow.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Judging an international award show is always a privilege – but it is also an education. It’s the place where one first sees the new directions our business is going in. The changes, the developments and the evolutions. This is the cutting edge. The concentration of the best of the best.

And as a Chairman of the Jury, one gets a unique opportunity - to facilitate the debate and discussion of ones fellow judges - to listen to some of the world’s top Creatives make their case, for or against a new piece, or even a new kind of work. If a breakthrough is about to happen, it will happen here first. And I wouldn’t want to miss that.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Serving as President of a jury in an international festival is both an incredible honour and an unforgettable experience. The chance to share and talk about the entered work with great advertising minds is always an exciting experience.
I am sure that we all will leave the Cristal Festival this year being better professionals, enriched by the work we saw, the people we met, the conversations we participated in and the incredible surroundings we will be in.I am really looking forward to this opportunity.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
I am extremely excited to be joining all of you in the coming weeks to begin our work as Cristal’s jury members. What a great opportunity to catch up with such creative and innovative minds of our industry, exchanging ideas and mostly, learning from the experience of one another. Learning from a gang of Global Nomads.

As we all know, we live in a very exciting time. Full of changes. With more questions than answers. But also with one key message: never before creativity was so appreciated.

We are leaders and seekers of innovative ideas, which makes us the perfect team to be part of the Cristal Festival. This being a sole reason for us choosing to leave our families in a time where most people are seating around Christmas trees beginning the holiday festivities.
How come we do such a thing? Because we are crazy. This craziness driven by the constant search for creativity. That’s our goal, our fuel which transform our industry in setting and raising the standards of excellence in print and design.

I have never been to Courchevel before but while researching I found out why Cristal Festival has moved to this lovely location. To get inspired and keep being as prestigious and exclusive as this beautiful St Tropez of winter sports.

Respecting that spirit I urge all you guys to get inspired by these beautiful mountains of Courchevel and leave our vanities, and group interest at the base of the mountains. Then we will feel lighter to keep climbing till the end and select the very best idea. No matter where it comes from.

So, I really expected that we can all follow in the next days the 3 F’s rules; Be FAIR, Make FRIENDS, have FUN.
Let’s do our part and good luck for all of us.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The Cristal Festival and I, we go way back.

A few Grand Prix, a lot of Cristal, but this time I am on the other side as “President of the Production Jury”.
It is a great honor for me and for Prodigious.
It took many years for any festival to welcome Production and the Cristal was one of the first if not the first.

We all agree that there is no great advertising without great ideas but there is no great advertising without great production either.

Can’t wait to be among you in Courchevel.