ICW concludes Portfolio Evening 2023 with 96 participants over 2 days

Pallavi and Nidhi Shah were declared winners

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ICW concludes Portfolio Evening 2023 with 96 participants over 2 days

To provide women and non-binary creatives a platform for visibility in the Indian advertising and design industry, Indian Creative Women (ICW) partnered with DDB Mudra Group and D&AD for the fourth edition of Portfolio Evening, sponsored by McDonald’s. Held on December 7 (virtual) and December 8 (Mumbai) the event saw participation from 96 women and non-binary creatives from design, UI/UX, writing, animation and other diverse backgrounds. The panel comprised 39 jurors from creative, media and digital agencies along with marketing leaders from the industry.

The in-person event kickstarted with an inspiring opening address from Jo Jackson, CEO, D&AD and Rahul Mathew, CCO DDB Mudra Group. Following this, participants started engaging in brief one-on-one sessions with multiple jurors over the course of two rounds showcasing the best of their work, receiving feedback and insights from the brilliant creative minds. Pallavi emerged as the winner at Portfolio Evening, Mumbai while Nidhi Shah won the virtual Portfolio Evening. They’ve both earned themselves a chance to an all-expense paid trip to the D&AD Festival in London in March 2024.

Student Art Director and winner of Portfolio Evening – Mumbai, Pallavi commented, "I heard about Indian Creative Women for the first time in the first month of ad school. And just the thought of a female and non-binary-centric initiative was so exciting to me that I was ready to participate when the time was right. Fast forward to a year and here we are, and it feels surreal.

Just the fact that I got to share the space with so many fellow female and non-binary creatives for the evening was a huge privilege, to see them shine and share their work. The energy was contagious!

Many of the faces of Indian Creative Women are women that I admire and look up to, so just to have the opportunity to interact with them and share our stories was definitely an experience I'll cherish forever. Hopefully, this push by Indian Creative Women will enable me as a female creative to help give a platform to other female and non-binary creatives in the future."

Advertising student and winner of the virtual Portfolio Evening Nidhi Shah said, "As someone who has never been in front of industry leaders, this was already a surreal chance to present my work to them! But winning it as well? I’m still pinching myself if this is real! Thank you, Indian Creative Women, for organising this and for helping foster the creative women’s community!”

Portfolio Evening (Mumbai) - Jury

Sr No

Name

Position

Agency

1

Bidisha Roy

Founder

Popping Mustard

2

Binaifer Dulani

Founding Member and Creative

Talented

3

Garima Khandelwal

Former CCO

Mullen Lowe

4

Hetal Ajmera

Co-founder, Chief Design Officer

Sharpener

5

Iraj Fraz

Creative Head

DDB Tribal

6

Jo Jackson

CEO

D&AD

7

Meghana Bhat

ECD

Mullen Lowe

8

Minakshi Achan

Head - Network Brand & Creative Communications

Disney

9

Mukund Olety

CCO

VMLY&R

10

Pallavi Chakravarti

Founder and CCO

Fundamental

11

Pragati Rana

Former ECD

Dentsu Creative

12

Pratheeb Ravi

ECD - Head of Creative Services

Publicis

13

Priyanka Joshi

Sr. Creative Manager

Swiggy

14

Rahul Mathew

CCO

DDB Mudra Group

15

Rohan Naterwalla

Sr CD & Founding Member

Punt Creative

16

Shitu Patil

National Head of Art & ECD

L&K Saatchi & Saatchi

17

Tista Sen

CEO & CCO

Ladyfinger

18

Varsha Desai

ECD

Mullen Lowe

Portfolio Evening (Virtual) – Jury

Sr No

Name

Position

Agency

1

Abhilasha

Creative Director

Oliver Agency

2

Avani Rajesh

Senior Art Director

Target, India

3

Binaifer Dulani

Founding Member and Creative

Talented

4

Çağla Büyükkoç Sütlüoğlu

Founder and CEO

Walrus Creative Works

5

Deepa Geetakrishnan

Former CCO

Ex Lowe

6

Francis Thomas

GCD

Maitri

7

Harshada Menon

Group Creative Director

DDB Mudra

8

Huei Yin Wong

Senior Art Director

Clemengor BBDO

9

Kainaz Karmakar

CCO

Ogilvy

10

Lauren Mitchell

Creative Lead and Art Director

King James Group

11

Moumita Pal

Head of Creative

Enormous

12

Palak Kapadia

Copywriter

Amazon

13

PG Aditya

Founder

Talented

14

Pooja Manek

Creative

Talented

15

Prajakta More

VP ACD

FCB Health

16

Ramyakh Jain

Marketing

Cred

17

Ritu Sharda

CCO

Ogilvy

18

Shikha Gupta

Creative Head

Blissclub

19

Shruthi Venkataraman

Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Art Director

Independent

20

Swati Bhattacharya

CCO

FCB

21

Tammy Ratter

CD

Ogilvy

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