The One Club For Creativity Concludes Portfolio Night 2024; Sukanya Aggarwal & Udo Döhler Neto Emerge Winners

The One Club for Creativity has successfully concluded the third edition of what has today become one of the most important networking events for the creative industry- Portfolio Night 2024. 

The event was held at the Ecole Intuit Lab in Mumbai and was co-hosted by agencies under Omnicom Advertising Group – BBDO India, DDB Mudra Group, and TBWA\India, and brought together about 110 emerging creatives with diverse academic backgrounds in design, planning, direction, content writing and so on. 

The same saw AlmapBBDO’s Udo Döhler Neto winning the virtual pan-India Portfolio Night on October 10 and Ecole Intuit Lab’s Sukanya Aggarwal emerging as the winner of the Portfolio Night Mumbai on October 11.

Winning at the event, the two have earned the chance to participate in the prestigious global Portfolio Night All-Stars program which brings together creatives with winning portfolios from all host cities. 

As part of it, the lucky All-Stars will work in global teams on a brief from a major brand and attend seminars and recruiting sessions with each team presenting their pitch at the end of the week and the winning Portfolio Night All-Stars flying to New York by The One Club for Creative Week 2025.

That being said, fostering connections between emerging talent and established creatives, Portfolio Night is believed to be an ecosystem of creative development, the launchpad of careers, and a major force in shaping the future of creativity.

Kicking off the event with an inspiring speech, Josy Paul, Chairman and CCO, BBDO India, said, “Portfolio night is really about a portfolio of creative values: Originality, freedom, fearlessness, love, passion and belief. That’s what I was looking for. It is as much about the people as it is about the work. And I got all of it. For that’s what I saw, felt and experienced at this electric night. Thank you for the collision of emerging talent and established creatives. It was alchemy. The future of creativity is shining bright.” 

The opening address was followed by an energetic, fast-paced evening of one-to-one portfolio reviews by the jury panel comprising 30 jurors over the two days.

Speaking about this year’s juror experience, Rahul Mathew, CCO, DDB Mudra Group, said, “While the Portfolio Night may come across as a night of evaluation by the creative heads, it’s also an introduction. We’re introduced to where the talent is headed and what the future has in store for our industry. And once again we leave reassured and confident that the future of creativity is bright.”

To this, Russell Barrett, Chief Creative Experience Officer, TBWA\ India, added, “As always it was an amazing experience to interact with the energy and the openness of the future of our industry. This year I saw a number of portfolios that were not from the traditional areas of creativity- animators, cinematographers, UX, UI designers. While a good number of the other portfolios had experiential and innovation ideas too. It’s great that the portfolios at portfolio night are keeping pace with the rapid changes we’re seeing all around us.”

Jury Panel – Mumbai

Jury Panel – Virtual