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HOST @ GOOGLE CREATIVE HARBOUR / VIRTUAL
Organisation:Google
Location:Virtual (produced in London)
Topic / Event:Google Creative Harbour
About: Christian was one of the three main hosts of Google’s 2021 ‘Creative Harbour’ event. Google’s annual virtual thought leadership event – dedicated to building excitement with their most important clients & creative holding companies around Google’s unique new products and technologies.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ DIGITAL SUZHOU / CHINA
Organisation:Ministry of Culture (China)
Location:Suzhou, China
Topic / Event:Hello Tomorrow
About: Christian had been invited as a keynote speaker to speak about his start-up 'Get The Mayor.com' at ‘Digital Suzhou’ – an event hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Background: ‘Digital Suzhou’ was a 3-day conference focussed on the digital transformation of the mayor Chinese city Suzhou (10,6 Mio population), giving impulses on their journey to transform the traditional city into a future hub for creative and digital savvy talent.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ MELT / MUMBAI
Organisation:Melt
Location:Mumbai, India
Topic / Event:Melting pot of creativity
Background: MELT, Mumbai, is a 2-day festival of creativity for the advertising, marketing, media, digital and emerging technologies
About: Christian gave a keynote on the topic ‘From award winning to world changing creativity' to an audience of 500+.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ VIVID / SYDNEY
Organisation:VIVID / Festival of Light
Location:Sydney, Australia
Topic / Event:Creativity, Art and Technology
Background: Each year, Sydney becomes a canvas for brilliant light installations and projections. Vivid Sydney is where art, technology and commerce intersect.
About: Christian was invited to join a panel discussion on ‘Creativity, Art and Technology’.
Keynote Speaker @ Mumbrella 360
Organisation:Mumbrella 360
Location:Sydney, Australia
Topic / Event:Digital Dopamine
Background: Mumbrella360 is Australia's largest marketing and media conference. It’s the one place the entire ecosystem comes together to explore, expand, debate and make the connections that will shape future success.
About: Christian Behrendt, Executive Creative Director at Razorfish Australia, discussed ‘The Generational Chasm in Digital Habits’ at Mumbrella360.
Keynote Speaker @ Adobe Summit / Sydney
Organisation:Adobe Summit 2015
Location:Sydney, Australia
Topic / Event:The Future of Retail
Background: Razorfish, the world leader in helping global brands drive customer obsessed business transformation and part of the Publicis.Sapient platform, unveiled a ground-breaking business-to-business (B2B) commerce experience at the Adobe Summit in Sydney, Australia: Razorshop B2B powered by Adobe Marketing Cloud.
About: Christian was one of the three main speakers/ hosts, who presented and demonstrated the Razorshop experience to a 500+ audience.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ IAB / CHILE
Organisation:IAB
Location:Chile, South America
Topic / Event:New Normal Digital
Background: IAB is the global advertising business organization that develops industry standards for the online advertising industry.
About: In October 2020, the year of Covid-19, Christian was giving a keynote about ‘How to drive collaboration and creative innovation in a WFH environment’.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ ADVERTISING WEEK ROADSHOW
Organisation:Advertising Week
Location:Berlin, Germany
Topic / Event:Creativity X Innovation
Background: Advertising Week events are celebrations for the cross-section of the industry, built on a foundation of best in class thought leadership.
About: Christian joined a panel discussion of 5 industry experts with the goal to inspire and guide people on how to leverage transformative innovations in virtual reality, interactive design, video and more – helping guide brands in this new era of creativity and technology.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ RETHINK! EUROPE
Organisation:Rethink! MAD Minds
Location:Hamburg, Germany
Topic / Event:The Digital Marketing Summit
Background: Rethink! MAD Minds is the leading digital marketing event in Europe for marketing professionals, to over 150+ CMOs, CDOs and marketing decision makers.
About: Christian gave a keynote at Mad Minds in Hamburg, to over 150+ CMOs, CDOs and marketing decision makers, speaking about ‘How to leverage Machine Learning for Brand Marketing’.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ SAP UX DAYS
Organisation:SAP
Location:Walldorf, Germany
Topic / Event:SAP UX Days
Background: The SAP UX Days is the biggest SAP UX event worldwide.
About: Christian gave a keynote on the topic ‘From award winning to world changing creativity' to more than 500+ people – ie. CEOs, CMOs and CTOs, UX-designers, innovation and technology experts from all over the world.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ C-HR FESTIVAL / BERLIN
Organisation:CHR Festival
Location:Berlin, Germany
Topic / Event:Creativity + Technology = Magic
About: Christian gave a keynote at the Innovation & Creativity Festival ‘C-HR’ in Berlin, Germany – speaking about ‘How to use Creativity and Technology to make Magic happen for brands and users’.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ CREATIVE HARBOUR / CANNES
Organisation:Google
Location:Cannes, France
Topic / Event:Creative Harbour
About: Christian is a frequent speaker and host of the ‘Creative Harbour’ – Google’s exclusive annual C-level event, which always takes place during the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival – to build excitement with their most important clients and their creative partners world-wide around Google’s new products, platforms and technologies.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ FUTURE CONGRESS
Organisation:2bAhead
Location:Wolfsburg, Germany
Topic / Event:Prototypes of the Future
About: Christian was invited to speak at the 11th Future Congress in Wolfsburg, Germany
Details: The event was hosted by one of Germany’s leading Think Tanks, 2bAhead, where Christian spoke about ‘Prototypes of the Future’ by the example of the start-up ‘Pay with a tweet’ that he co-founded.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ YOUTUBE SPACE / BERLIN
Organisation:Google
Location:Berlin, Germany
Topic / Event:Building your brand (YT Creators)
About: Christian was giving a keynote on "Building your brand" to around 20 of Germany's Top YouTube Creators in the YouTube Space in Berlin, Germany.
Quote: ‘Having Christian as part of our very first YouTube Business Building Bootcamp in Berlin took the event to the next level!’ YouTube-Space lead
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ NORTHERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Organisation:NiT
Location:Hamburg, Germany
Topic / Event:German Economic Dialog
About: Christian gave a keynote at the German Economic Dialog. Presenting to an exclusive group of German CEOs, CMOs and CIOs about ‘How to use Creativity and Technology to make Magic happen for brands and their Creative Agencies’.
Background: The event was organised by the Northern Institute of Technology (NiT).
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ ADC / SWITZERLAND
Organisation:Art Directors Club
Location:Zurich, Switzerland
Topic / Event:Welcome to the Creative Circus
About: Christian was a keynote speaker at the Creative Week presented by ADC & ZHdK. Talking about ‘The Digital Transformation of the Creative Circus’.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER @ REEPERBAHN FESTIVAL
Organisation:Reeperbahn Festival
Location:Hamburg, Germany
Topic / Event:Artificial Creativity
Background: Christian was invited to speak at the Reeperbahn Festival – Germany's version of SXSW.
About: At the event, Christian was speaking on two stages. One, giving a keynote on the topic of ‘Artificial Creativity’, and the second, where he joined a panel discussion on the topic of ‘Influencers in the digital age’.