NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Advertising Week (AW), the world's largest annual gathering of advertising, creative, entertainment, marketing, media and technology industry leaders, today announced a global partnership with TIME'S UP™/ADVERTISING, an organization of women in senior leadership positions in advertising committed to driving new policies, practices, decisions and tangible actions that result in more balanced, diverse and accountable leadership; address workplace discrimination, harassment and abuse; and create equitable and safe cultures within our agencies.
Included in the year-round partnership between Advertising Week and TIME'S UP™/ADVERTISING will be educational content on Advertising Week's professional development platform AWLearn, editorial on AW360 and programming at Advertising Week events globally. An initial contribution of $150,000 will be made to TIME'S UP Advertising by the Advertising Week Foundation.
As a part of the celebration of this partnership and to celebrate the next generation of female talent, Best New Artist GRAMMY Winner Alessia Cara will headline Advertising Week New York's Wrap Party at Terminal 5 on Thursday, October 4, 2018, at 7:30 pm ET.
"For the last 15 years Advertising Week has provided a platform for dynamic and progressive conversations on important issues that impact the daily life of the advertising, marketing and tech industries. Today, there is no more important conversation than the diversity and inclusion of all people," said Lance Pillersdorf, co-founder and chief operating officer of Stillwell Partners. "Our partnership with TIME'S UP™/ADVERTISING is about building the industry and the next generation of female talent for the next 15 years and beyond."
The on-stage content programmed with TIME'S UP Advertising will include:
Last year's Advertising Week New York event featured 47% women on stage last year across more than 1,200 speakers and will once again lead by example by programming nearly 50-50 gender representation on stage and will continue to focus on conversations around social impact work as well as the leading tech-driven and other issues of the day.
About TIME'S UP™/ADVERTISING
TIME'S UP™/ADVERTISING is an affiliate within TIME'S UP's expanding coalition of women across industries dedicated to collectively shifting the paradigm of workplace culture for women of all kinds. TIME'S UP™/ADVERTISING's mission is to drive new policies, practices, decisions, and tangible actions that result in more balanced, diverse, and accountable leadership; address workplace discrimination, harassment, and abuse; and create equitable cultures within our agencies.
TIME'S UP™/ADVERTISING is a division of TIME'S UP™ and supports the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund, which helps defray legal and public relations costs in select cases for those who have experienced sexual harassment or related retaliation in the workplace. The Fund is housed at and administered by the National Women's Law Center, an established, national women's rights legal organization. A network of lawyers and public relations professionals across the country will work to provide assistance to those who have experienced harassment or retaliation. Access to prompt and comprehensive legal and communications help will mean empowerment for these individuals and long-term growth for our culture and communities as a whole.
About Advertising Week:
Since it began in 2004 led by co-founders Matt Scheckner and Lance Pillersdorf, Advertising Week has evolved into the # 1 business-to-business event in New York cutting across all industries and has expanded rapidly across the globe replicating its signature formula blending thought leadership on the business of the business by day and show business by night. The Week now enjoys a global footprint with editions in London, Tokyo, Mexico City and Sydney and via AW360 has extended the thought leadership platform beyond the events onto smartphones and tablets year-round.
Advertising Week is produced globally by New York-based Stillwell Partners.
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