Jury 2024

Maryam Akhunova

Executive Creative Director, GRAPE, Russia

Maryam is Executive Creative Director with 15 years of experience in advertising. She has judged and won awards at festivals such as The One Show, The Webby Awards, E+ Awards, FWA, ADCE, ADCR, White Square, Red Apple, Wednesday, Silver Mercury, MIXX, Perspectum Awards, G8 and others.

She promotes the principle of sustainable creativity and always strives to come up with ideas that improve the quality of human life and solve society's social problems.

She helped re-socialize ex-prisoners, wrote a children's book about mothers from commercials, traded the the last slides of the presentations, taught gamers English right in the game, helped cats and dogs find homes through stickers in Telegram, and people - to repay loans and mortgages with the help of motion, gave away the days off, created a mobile game that received more than a million downloads without a single promotion, made a trailer for a non-existent movie and produced a board game based on a real movie.

Maryam was a speaker at such events as National Advertising Forum, E+, RIF, Silver Trends, Russian creative week, Best Cases Conference, Red Jolbors, Noble Academy (Bulgaria), Red apple, Ad Black Sea, MACS, Koshta Trendsspotting.