To be eligible to enter, entrants must be able to demonstrate a proof of concept - be it a marketing campaign, initiative or product - that has the potential to impact the world for good. Those selected for a place on the ten-person programme will receive access to a shared prize fund worth $150,000, which also includes attending the D&AD Future Impact Accelerator, a two-day masterclass programme aiming to provide tangible tips and tools to inspire students to take their idea to the next level.

D&AD Future Impact Programme

The mentoring provided by the D&AD Future Impact Programme will draw on the expertise of the D&AD Impact Council to help successful entrants bring their ideas to market. Comprised of 70 individuals from a range of backgrounds across the creative, brand, investment, social impact, sustainability and NGO space, the Impact Council are an esteemed group of business and thought leaders who stand for positive social impact and are ambassadors for D&AD Impact’s mission.

Through their invaluable expertise, the D&AD Impact Council helps great ideas to scale, and connect NGOs, brands and social entrepreneurs with creative practitioners in the belief that businesses with creative thinking and design excellence at their heart are more successful both commercially and in terms of their potential for social change.

The Council have been selected based on their experience and contribution towards the progress of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. D&AD Impact Council members include:

Name	Job Title	Company
Aaron Gershenberg	Founder & Managing Partner	Silicon Valley Bank Fund of Funds
Abigail Fuller	Director	Boardwalk Pictures (Netflix Original's Chef's Table)
Aline Santos Farhat	EVP Global Marketing & Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion	Unilever
Bevan Bloemendaal	VP Global Environments & Creative Services	Timberland
Claudia Romo Edelman	Special Advisor	`
Emily Kortlang	Brand Director, EMEA	Beats by Dr Dre (Apple)
Fernando Machado	Senior Vice President Global Brand Management	Burger King
Gal Barradas	Partner & CEO	Gal Barradis Brand & Venture
Harsh Kapadia	Executive Creative Director	VML
Jack Brockway	Founder	Brockway Photography
Joaquin Cubria	Chief Creation Officer	DAVID
Julia Porter Plowman	Principal & CEO	Brand Purpose & Brand Citizenship
Kerstin Emhoff	Co-Founder & President	Prettybird
Kwame Taylor-Hayford	Co-Founder	Saturday Morning
Nils Leonard	Founder	Halo / Uncommon
Paco Conde	CCO & Co Founder	Activista
Thomas Kolster	Founder	Goodvertising
Tiffany Rolfe	EVP/US Chief Creative Officer	R/GA
William Seabrook	Global Chief Creative Officer	IBM
Jesse McMillin	VP Creative Director	Lyft
Richard Bullock	Director	Revolver / Hungryman
Sally-Ann Dale	Chief Creation Officer	Droga5
Alejandro Canciobello	SVP, Creative Director	Moon Rabbit
Chris Garbutt	Global CCO	TBWA Worldwide
Jim Moriarty	Director of Brand Citizenship	72andSunny
Vincent Gillet	CMO (INternational)	Hertz
Bill Tai	Founder	ACTAI Global
Emad Tahtouh	Managing Director	Nakatomi
Erin Hersey	Lead Inventor	What if innovation
Jennifer Barrett	Chief Education Officer	Grow from Acorns
Roshi Givechi	Consultant	Design Strategist & Storyteller
Shana Dressler	CEO	Turquoise Consulting
Jessica Lauretti	Founder & Principal	Laurels
Gigi Brisson	Founder	Ocean Elders
Shrutri Chandasekhar	Head of SME Ventures Emerging Markets (specialises Female led companies)	IMC/World Bank
Kavita Gupta	Founding Managing Partner	ConsenSys
Jennifer Morris	President	Conservation International
Betise Head	International Media Consultant
David Jones	Founder and CEO / Founder	You and Mr Jones / One Young World
Freya Williams	CEO North America	Futerra
Janet Scardino	CEO	Comic Relief
Joanna Catalano	CEO	IProspect APAC
KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz	CEO and Founder	Sustainable Brands
Marcus East	EVP & Chief Technology Officer	National Geographic
Ben Akers	Founder	Made with +
Rachel Haas	Senior Program Manager, Global Women’s Safety & Gender-Based Violence Initiatives	Uber
Ben Cooper	Founder	Tricky Jigsaw
Cyrill Gutsch	Founder	Parley for the Oceans
Deborah Alden	Senior Director, cultureOS	WeWork
Haiyan Zhang	Innovation Director	Microsoft Research
Paul Herz	CEO	Oblate Optics
Marsha Meredith	Creative Director	Aesop
Sarah Moffat	Executive Creative Director	Turner Duckworth
Danielle Krettek	Founder	Google Empathy Lab

Tim Lindsay, CEO of D&AD comments:

We are delighted to introduce the D&AD Future Impact Programme. The power of great, creative campaigns to invoke tangible positive change is something we are incredibly passionate about. With the help of the invaluable expertise and experience of our esteemed members of the D&AD Impact Council, we are excited to put in place a programme which will unlock the full potential of world-changing ideas, and we hope to enable our first cohort of ‘Future Impacters’ to deliver a tangible, real-world impact within twelve months.

Work eligible for entry includes prototypes, products, initiatives and campaigns, which can be entered in a range of categories including: environment and sustainability, health and wellness, humanitarian aid, community and civic engagement, equality and diversity, and educational and financial empowerment.

Winners of the D&AD Impact Awards 2018 included Bodyform’s ‘bloodnormal’ campaign, which aimed to eradicate period taboos, and Trash Isles, the campaign from LADbible and the Plastic Oceans Foundation to raise awareness of the scale of the world’s plastic pollution problem.

For more information about the Awards, click here.