
Recently departed WPP CEO Martin Sorrell will join New Yorker writer Ken Auletta onstage at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June, Ad Age has confirmed.
The discussionset to occur at noon on Friday, June 22 on the main stagewill be a “candid discussion about the marketing industry issues of today,” according to Cannes Lions organizers.
Although Cannes will provide the most prominent stage that Sorrell has taken since he suddenly stepped down in mid-April following an internal investigation into misconduct, ending a 33-year career at the world’s largest agency holding company, it won’t be the first. Sorrell spoke at the Technonomy NYC conference last week, where he said he doesn’t plan to go into “voluntary or involuntary retirement” and plans to “start again.”
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