Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communication has confirmed his participation as the Keynote Speaker and Special Guest of Honour at the MARKETING EDGE National Marketing Stakeholders Summit scheduled to hold Friday 16th June, 2017.
According to the minister, he is excited and willing to be a part of the yearly event especially given the theme of this year’s award, which he said is a fallout of industry’s appreciation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic recovery and restructuring plans aimed at making Nigeria a self dependent and self reliant country.
The theme for the Summit which holds at Federal Palace Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos is “Brand Marketing and Marketing Management in a Recovering but Restructured Nigerian Economy: Challenges and Implications for Marketing Services Providers”.
The Guest Speaker at the Summit is Ekwunife Okoli, former Managing Director of Guinness Cameroun, and Founder/CEO, Advantage Consult, while Managing Partner of Market Space, George Thorpe will chair the occasion.
Confirming the Minister of Communication’s participation at the event expected to attract over four hundred industry players and gladiators,John Ajayi, publisher of the leading Brands and advertising magazine said “the Hon. Minister, Adebayo Shittu gave his consent as a way of encouraging and assuring industry operators of Federal government’s genuine desire and intention to make everybody key into its newly released economic reform agenda while also promoting backward integration in critical industries as it is no longer business as usual.
The Publisher and the convener stated further that the event which is a two-in-one-initiative is intended to promote the brand idea while further expanding the frontiers of marketing and advertising knowledge. He disclosed that the theme for this year’s summit was adopted as a result of the need to create conversation around the current economic realities in the country as a way of opening up new opportunities for industry players.
His words: “We adopt the theme for this year’s stakeholders summit because we are not unmindful of the changing mood of the nation both at the micro and macro-economic levels. Specifically, we are committed to showing our support to the Federal Government’s reform and restructuring plans, hence our commitment in charting a direction for those in the business of brand management and the management of brand business”, Ajayi posited.
Discussants expected at the occasion are top marketing and advertising professionals such as Iquo Ukoh, former Marketing Director, Nestle Plc, and Founder/CEO, IQ Food Platter, Patricia Jemibewon, Marketing Director, Coca-Cola International, Emeka Okeke, Managing Director/CEO, Media Fuse Aegis Dentsu, Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head Marketing and Corporate Communication, First Bank of Nigeria, and Ikechi Odigbo, Managing Director, DDB Lagos.
