Cosima Giannachi, Country Leader and CEO of Mindshare Switzerland, Karin LangManaging Director & Head of Dialog of Publicis Communications Switzerland and Andreas MädlerCreative Director & Member of the Board of JWT/Fabrikant, will be traveling to Cannes this summer to judge the entries. Of the 15 categories that will be judged this year, Cosima Giannachi will judge the "Media" category, Karin Lang the "Direct" category and Andreas Mädler the "Promo&Activation" category.

Publicitas Cinecom is the Swiss representative of the "International Festival of Creativity" in Cannes and supports, among other things, the festival participants during the preparations and the organizers during the implementation. This year's festival will take place from June 17 to 23, 2012.

> More information about the submissions and the festival is available at here.
 

The international jury of Cannes Lions will again be reinforced from Switzerland this year. From the nine proposed jury members Nathalie Bösiger, CEO Mediaxis-MPG, Markus Ruf, Creative Director Ruf Lanz and Philipp Skrabal, Executive Creative Director Wirz Werbung were elected, according to Publicitas, the Swiss representative of the creative festival. The jurors will travel to Cannes this summer to evaluate outstanding works.

This year, judging will take place in the following 13 categories: Film, Film Craft, Outdoor, Press, Design, Direct, Media, PR, Promo & Activation, Radio, Cyber, Titanium & Integrated and Creative Effectiveness. Nathalie Bösiger will be on the jury for the Media category, Markus Ruf for the Direct category and Philipp Skrabal for the Promo & Activation category.