Date: 13th October, 2015, Mumbai
The first edition of IndIAA Awards kicked off on 13th October, 2015. Srinivasan Swamy, President, IAA-IC described the awards as “With the IndIAA Awards, IAA has added another interesting concept to its existing cache of clutter-breaking events. We attempted IndIAA awards as an experiment; we wanted to create a different way of awarding creativity. With the response to our call for entries and the turnout at the Awards night, we know that this concept has been very well accepted.” Pradeep Guha, Chairman, IndIAA Awards Committee said, “The IndIAA Award format ensured that ‘ads for awards only’ didn’t come through and this itself was the differentiator.”
From over 500 nominations, 76 were shortlisted and finally, 16 winners were chosen by a jury which comprised of Harish Manwani, COO, Unilever; Bhaskar Bhat, Titan; Sangeeta Pendurkar, Kellogg’s India; B. Sriram, State Bank of India; and Sanjeeb Chaudhuri, Standard Chartered Bank.