Festival of creative industries G8 announced a headliner, Jessica Walsh. Jessica is a founder and creative director of &Walsh agency. For the first time, the organizers also opened free conference programme tickets due to the pandemic. The tickets are available till 1 May.

This year the mission of the festival is to support all the businesses which were affected by the crisis. The organizers hope that the festival will be a platform for rehabilitation of creative crews, matchmaking, contacting employers and clients. 

Jessica Walsh who is the headliner of the festival is going to be a speaker for the first time in Russia. At G8 Jessica will determine the G8 Awards participants’ works and she’ll also give lectures at the main hall (online speech format is also available). 

Jessica Walsh is a founder and creative director of &Walsh agency. She entered the Forbes “30 under 30” list and Ad Week “Top 10 Visual Creatives”, Jessica’s works were shown in many galleries, books and magazines. She made branding and publicity campaign for Meetup.com, Snapchat Spectacles, TED, Apple, Beats Cinepolis. Izze by Pepsico, Aldrich museum and many more. 

Jessica is also a founder of Ladies, Wine & Design which is a global initiative aimed at the promotion of creative women's rights, assistance them to grow and hold leadership positions. Her project 40 days of dating has attracted more than 30 million readers and gained international recognition.

Jessica was a partner of a designer Stefan Sagmeister in Sagmeister & Walsh Studio. In collaboration, they published a book "Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty”.

Free entry tickets are available only from 10 April till 1 May 2020. Link to register:  https://digitalevent.timepad.ru/event/1048036/