In the new edition of the Gerety Talks, Gerety speaks with the winners of the Young Lotus Workshop from ADFEST 2025.
Young Lotus is one of the industry’s longest running mentoring programs, providing the next generation of advertising leaders with valuable hands-on, practical experience since 2004. The program is open to advertising professionals aged 30 and under, with teams selected by local representatives in markets across the region. The program includes talks, mentoring and workshops and a live “brief” with just 24 hours to meet the deadline.
This year, the Young Lotus Workshop welcomed 34 young creatives in 17 teams representing 17 cities, with the theme, The Collision of Creativity, Creativity++. For the first time, the selected teams included one from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This year’s Young Lotus winners were the Ho Chi Minh team for their work, Journey to the DEPTH by Dat Nguyen Thanh, manager, and Dung Cao, art director, both from Dentsu Redder. They are the first team from Vietnam to win the Young Lotus competition.
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