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Goafest 2011: Creative ABBY shortlist declared
MUMBAI: The Creative ABBY shortlists have been announced for the three categories – film, print and interactive digital advertising.
In the print category, 281 entries have been shortlisted, while the film and interactive digital categories have shortlisted 105 and 65 entries respectively.
Ogilvy India has 34 shortlisted entries in the category. The entries include Vodafone (Sanctuary Sinful Collection, Sanctuary Magic Beans), Pictionary campaign for Mattel Toys, Sour Marbels, and Pond‘s, among others.
With 83 entries in the print category, Mudra has the maximum shortlists.
Ogilvy has emerged as a leader in the film category with 34 shortlists for campaigns such as BlackBerry Boys, Vodafone Delights, Zoozoo, adidas, and the shadow campaign for Madhya Pradesh Tourism.
In the Interactive Digital Advertising category, Webchutney has eight shortlists with Samsung Frrunch, MakeMyTrip.com (Amar Prem), Bharat Matrimony (Biwi Ho To Aisi), Airtel (Songcatcher Banner and Songcatcher Viral), and Saffola (Young at Heart application).
Also, in the print categories, Ogilvy India has 34, while McCann Erickson has 24 shortlisted entries.
The other agencies include JWT India (20 shortlists), Creativeland Asia (17 shortlists), Bates 141 (17 shortlists), Out of the Box (12 shortlists), Grey (ten shortlists), Contract Advertising (nine shortlists), Euro RSCG (seven shortlists), ideas@work (six shortlists), Rediffusion Y&R (six shortlists), Umbrella Design (four shortlists), Alok Nanda and Company Communication (four shortlists), Eleven Brandworks (three shortlists) and RK Swamy BBDO (two shortlists).
In the Film category, Ogilvy has emerged as the leader with 34 shortlisted entries. Campaigns such as BlackBerry Boys, Vodafone Delights and the Zoozoo, Aegon Religare Life Insurance, adidas and the shadow campaign for Madhya Pradesh Tourism have got the agency the highest number of entries.
JWT is the next agency in line with 12 shortlists for various campaigns including the Airtel Mobile re-branding campaign and Airtel DTH‘s regional language pack campaign.
Creativeland Asia follows closely with nine shortlisted entries for works such as Frooti, the Aborigine campaign for LMN and the Fight Hunger, Fight Evil film for Hippo Baked Munchies feature among the shortlists.
The other agencies in the race are McCann Erickson‘s entries (eight shortlists), Bates 141 (six shortlists), Mudra (five shortlists), Contract Advertising (five shortlists), DraftFCB Ulka‘s (five shortlists), Leo Burnett (four shortlists), Capital Advertising (four shortlists), RK Swamy BBDO (three shortlists), ideas@work (three shortlists), Meridian (three shortlists), and Grey (two shortlists). Rediffusion Y&R and Stark Communications have one entry shortlisted each.
The Interactive Digital Advertising category has witnessed a very close race, with almost all agencies lagging by very short margins.
Webchutney has received the highest eight entries shortlisted for Samsung Frrunch, MakeMyTrip.com (Amar Prem), Bharat Matrimony (Biwi Ho To Aisi), Airtel (Songcatcher Banner and Songcatcher Viral), and Saffola (Young at Heart application).
Mudra closely follows Webchutney with seven shortlisted entries. The campaigns shortlisted are Idea Cellular (Idea Roadie Mobile Challenge 3.0, Idea Language Barrier and Use Mobile Save Paper), and Volkswagen (Innovation for Everyone) among others.
Hungama Digital Media has fetched six shortlists for campaigns such as PepsiCo‘s 7UP (You click, I dance), and Tata Sky+ DTH (Tata Sky+ Mobile Access).
Interface Communications has five shortlisted entries in the category that include Mahindra Blues (www.mahindrablues.com), Tata Docomo (Tata Docomo 3G Life – The Day the Web got 3x slow and The Day YouTube got real slow, and Tata Docomo – a million fans monetised), and Kamasutra (Lounge).
The list of other agencies include JWT India (four shortlists), BC Web Wise (four shortlists), Law & Kenneth Digital (three shortlists), Interface Business Solutions (three shortlists), Interactive Avenues (two shortlists), D‘Zine Garage (two shortlists), Ogilvyone Worldwide (two shortlists), Indigo Consulting (two shortlists), UFO Digital (two shortlists), Mindshare (two shortlists), Creativeland Asia (one shortlist), Maxus India (one shortlist), Quasar Media (one shortlist), Jack In The Box (one shortlist), Pinstorm (one shortlist), Resultrix (one shortlist), and Grandmother India Design (one shortlist).
Last week, the Media ABBY shortlists were announced, which had 133 entries shortlisted. Maxus is leading the pack with 33 shortlisted entries, followed by Mindshare and Lodestar UM with 19 entries each, and Mudra Max with 16 entries.
The other agencies on the list include names such as Mediacom (11 shortlists), Creativeland Asia (five shortlists), OMD (four shortlists), Madison Media Infinity 1 (four shortlists), Madison Media Plus (four shortlists), MEC India (three shortlists), McCann Worldgroup (two shortlists), Percept Media (two shortlists), Mates Madison (two shortlists), RK Swamy Media Group (two shortlists), Isobar (two shortlists), Dialog Factory (two shortlists), while Starcom Worldwide, Lintas Media Group and TELiBrahma Convergent Communication have one shortlisted entry each.
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Eight-year-old coder steals the show at India AI Impact Summit 2026
Ranvir Sachdeva meets Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman, links ancient philosophy to modern AI
DELHI: Amid a sea of global tech chiefs and policy heavyweights, the loudest buzz at Bharat Mandapam this week came from a boy barely tall enough to see over the lectern.
Ranvir Sachdeva, eight, became the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, elbowing his way into a line-up dominated by chief executives, founders and ministers. Calm, bespectacled and fiercely articulate, he declared himself a technologist — and spoke like one.
“I’m here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I’m talking about how I’m linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I’m also covering the different approaches which the rest of the nations are building AI,” he told news agency ANI.
He added: “I’m talking about how India is building AI with. I’m sharing my own use case of an Indian AI model just released and how I’m contributing to India’s GDP and driving AI literacy with it.”
The summit, held from February 16 to 21 in New Delhi, has drawn global names. Ranvir met Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on the sidelines, sharing photographs of the encounters. He has previously met Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Doreen Bogdan-Martin, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
In 2024, he met António Guterres, United Nations secretary-general.
His most high-profile brush with corporate royalty came earlier. In 2023, during the opening of Apple’s Delhi store, Ranvir demonstrated his Swift coding skills to Apple chief executive Tim Cook in a one-on-one session. Cook later posted: “What an incredible reception, Delhi, thank you! We’re delighted to welcome our customers to our newest store—Apple Saket!”
What an incredible reception, Delhi, thank you! We’re delighted to welcome our customers to our newest store—Apple Saket! pic.twitter.com/5Jmi79ixzl— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 20, 2023
Ranvir replied publicly: “Thank you so much, @tim_cook! It was great meeting you today and showcasing my Apple Swift coding skills! You are an inspiration and I so want to meet you at #WWDC2023!”
Thank you so much, Tim! You are an inspiration and I so want to meet you at #WWDC2023 ! 🙂 https://t.co/BVthznLjD8— Ranvir Singh Sachdeva (@ranvirsachdeva) April 20, 2023
The invitation followed. Cook extended a personal call for Ranvir to attend the Worldwide Developers Conference 2023 at Apple Park in Cupertino.
This is not Ranvir’s first turn on the global stage. In 2025, aged seven, he addressed the United Nations’ AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva as its youngest keynote speaker. He spoke for 20 minutes on “Agents of Change: A 7-Year-Old’s Lens on Generation AI for Good”, in front of more than 10,000 attendees from over 180 countries and 53 UN partner organisations.
He shared the broader stage with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and Turing Award winner, alongside senior figures from Amazon, Meta and Salesforce. According to a LinkedIn post by the Ardee School, Ranvir argued that “Generation AI are the true changemakers”, highlighting healthcare breakthroughs from bionic solutions and exoskeletons to assistive devices for ALS patients. He called for the democratisation of such tools to bridge the digital divide.
The precocity runs deep. At six, he became the world’s youngest TEDx speaker, speaking on technology and innovation. At five, he won a gold medal as a “Super Presenter” in the 2022 Global Reading Challenge. Media reports say that in 2021 he built a prototype rocket aimed at supporting NASA’s Mars exploration, earning recognition from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 2023, he became the youngest recipient of a robotics and AI certification from IIT Delhi after a summer workshop at the I-HUB Foundation for Robotics.
He began coding at three.
At an event otherwise obsessed with trillion-dollar valuations, sovereign AI stacks and regulatory guardrails, it was a small voice that cut through. Linking Sanskrit thought to silicon chips, GDP to generative models, Ranvir Sachdeva did more than make history. He made the grown-ups listen.
#WATCH | Delhi: At #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, Ranvir Sachdeva, Child Prodigy, Technologist, Global Author says, "I'm here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I'm talking about how I'm linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I'm… pic.twitter.com/e3OGgtxyDK— ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2026
