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40%
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Springboard your career

Early in his career, working as a creative for FCB Brazil, Icaro Doria attended Cannes Lions for the first time. After being selected to participate in the Young Lions competition, his team won Bronze. The experience led to a chain of events that saw him receive a job offer where he relocated to New York, before realising his ambition to open Wieden+Kennedy Brazil.

Icaro maintains that the last 16 years of his career springboarded from that one week, in June, in 2005.

THE AWARDS

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specialist trophies
9
award tracks
25,000+
pieces of work entered
500+
world-class Jury Members

“This week of education at Cannes Lions has been more valuable than the four years I spent at university. Hands down.”

Darrien Case

Cannes Lions Creative Academy Graduate 2022

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Junior Art Director

Badger & Winters

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