LGBTQIA+ History with Queer Britain

As culture shapers, our role to push for progress is more important than ever. This LGBTQIA+ History Month, we hosted an exciting panel in partnership with Queer Britain.

We need to ask ourselves: Is the portrayal of LGBTQIA+ representation in advertising as we want it to be in 2021?

How have we moved forwards? Who is still missing from our narratives? What will 2030 look and FEEL like? How do we deal with the 73 countries where being LGBTQIA+ is against the law? And the REAL question: are LGBTQIA+ voices always at the decision-making table?

In collaboration with QUEER BRITAIN and Outvertising, we discussed how adland can keep making history happen now.

Your speakers:

• Joseph Galliano, CEO, Queer Britain

• Bhavik Pancholi (he/him/his) Pancholi, Capabilities Director, Creative Equals

• Christopher Kenna, CEO/Founder, Brand Advance

• Tamara Littleton, CEO/Founder, The Social Element

• Ben Golik, Chief Creative Officer, LIDA

• Lucy Rennie, Outvertising Awards Co-Director', Consultant Brand & Creative Strategist'

• Ali Hanan CMRS, CEO/Founder, Creative Equals

How to drive supply chain diversity

As part of our #AdlandCommits​2021 series, we talked about how it’s more important than ever to hold the industry to account for our #AdlandCommits​ promises.

The new year offers us a real opportunity to reset. Let’s make this the year we transformed the sector as we work to reduce racial inequality and honour the memory of George Floyd.

This is your chance to explore how your I&D policy lives and breathes throughout your supply chain with experts who do this for their organisations.

They’ll bring you tangible actions to drive change from how you procure your partners to your media buy.

Your Host:
Sonoo Singh, co-founder Creative Salon

Your Speakers:

• Chris Kenna, CEO, Brand Advance

• Megan Stowe, Greater European Strategic Sourcing Director + International Supplier Diversity Manager at Intel Corporation

• Serhat Ekinci, Managing Director at Omnicom Media Group UK - Diverse and Inclusive Marketing Division

IWM: Where are Muslim Women?

When Zara Mohammed, the first female head of the Muslim Council of Britain, was met with a hostile interviewer, 100 public figures immediately signed an open letter. The interview enforced damaging stereotypes and prejudicial tropes about Muslim women. Is this what our Muslim sisters face on a daily basis?
 

Ask yourself: when did you ever see a Muslim hijab-wearing woman as a protagonist in an ad or in the media?

In our businesses, do Muslim women feel free to wear the hijab, if this is part of their faith identity?
What are their experiences in the workplace? And, are we missing out on the Muslim Pound, worth £20 billion and growing?

Your host:

• Nicola Kemp, Editorial Director at Creativebrief

Your speakers:

• Arif Miah, Creative Strategy Director at Mud Orange

• Sufia Parkar, Senior Diversity and Engagement Specialist at McCann Worldgroup 

• Shelina Janmohamed, Writer and Vice President at Ogilvy Noor

• Zara Mohammed, Head of the Muslim Council of Britain