This year is poised to be bigger as we look at bringing back the sentiment that has been missing for almost 10 months now.

2020 has been a year of big learnings for the event and experiential industry with the past few months becoming the harbinger of a new hope.

The industry needs to celebrate its resilience and agility to pivot and tackle the crisis well.  To do this, BW Applause and everythingexperiential.com is all set to host the 4th Edition of BW Applause Experiential Marketing Awards in March 2021.

This year the jury consists of names like Umar Tramboo, MD, Khyber Group, Vikram Chandra, Founder, Editorji, Deepali Naair, CMO, IBM, Anil Singh, MD, Procam and many more.

The 3rd edition last year witnessed massive response with over 300 entries across 50 categories. This year is poised to be bigger as we look at bringing back the sentiment that has been missing for almost 10 months now, with some exciting new categories born out in response to the pandemic.

Other jury members are: 

1. Boria Majumdar, Author & Sports Expert 

2. Dr Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor in Chief, BW Businessworld & exchange4media

3. Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, 82.5, Ogilvy

4. Khushboo Gupta, Head Public Relations, Kia Motors India

5. Bhuvana Subramanyan, CMO, Randstad India

6. Vishwajeet Parashar, CMO, Bajaj Capital

7. Arvind Saxena, Head Marketing & Corporate Communications, NEC India

8. Anup Rau, MD & CEO, Future Generali India

9. Chanpreet Arora, Digital Business Leader, Former CEO VICE India

10.  Sebnem Mardini, Director, Sebnem Event Design, Turkey

11. Charu Sharma, Commentator & Director, Mashal Sports

12. Samyukta Iyer, CMO, Baskin Robbins; 

13. Bidisha Nagaraj, VP-Marketing, Schneider Electric India; 

14. Vani Gupta Dandia, Founder, CherryPeachPlum, Growth Partners

15.  Joji George, Founder, Gonuts

These Awards aim at recognizing and honoring the quality work that agencies are producing in the space of events and experiential marketing.