No, there is no cost to speak at the Festival, nor does Cannes Lions pay any speaker fees, however, all speakers will receive a 5 day complimentary pass. If your session is selected, you are responsible for covering the costs associated with the session e.g. speaker accommodation and travel expenses. Please note that many of the hotels within Cannes can only be reserved with purchased pass types. Please see canneslions.com for more information.

For Cannes Lions Festival content, the deadline for submissions is 5th January 2024. 

You will have the option to 'Save for Later' or submit a 'Complete' submission. Incomplete submissions within the portal can be edited up until 25th January. The ability to edit your submission will not be possible beyond this date. Please note the submissions review will begin on 5th January and only completed submissions will be reviewed, so we encourage you to complete your submissions sooner rather than later. 

Yes, please! We welcome all ideas, from both inside and outside the creative communications industry. Creativity can come in many forms and all ideas are welcome. 

Attendance is predominantly made up of advertising agencies, brands, media companies/agencies, tech, production, press, public relations and design agencies. A breakdown is included in the LIONS Content Guide.

Yes, we encourage you to submit multiple ideas where possible. This can sometimes help us understand the scope of topics/ground your speakers could cover. It also betters your chances of success! 

There are two options to submit, you can either send in an idea for a session with your selected speaker(s), or you can nominate someone to speak on one of our existing panel series.

Due to high demand, we aim to only feature a speaker/organisation once in the official Cannes Lions Festival Programme. We also prefer to have speakers who are exclusively appearing on the official programme and not speaking elsewhere.

That’s easy! Work your way through the LIONS Content Guide. All of our research and delegate feedback has been used to put together this document. It outlines our plans for the content programme in 2024, what we’re looking for and how to put together a strong submission. 

Each year, we receive hundreds of proposals to speak at Cannes Lions. No spot is guaranteed and due thought and consideration should be put into your submission. We can tell when someone has really thought about their ideas and when someone has filled out the form in a rush! Be clear in your title and synopsis about what the session is. Please use the Guiding Principles in the LIONS Content Guide to help you craft your idea. Your submission will be judged with these principles in mind. 

Not at all! While we ask for all submissions to be carefully considered, we don’t expect to receive an award-winning short story. If you know you have a brilliant speaker and/or idea, but are not sure how to communicate it, use the submission form to share with us bullets of what questions the session will answer, or video footage of your speakers in action.

When you submitted your idea you would have received a confirmation email from content@canneslions.com along with your log in details. (Check your junk inbox as it can sometimes make its way there!) You can go back in at any time before 22nd January and edit your proposal.

The receipt email would have come from content@canneslions.com (which can sometimes go in your junk mail!) 

It can take between 6-8 weeks from when the LIONS Content team starts their review, to you receiving a status update. For Cannes Lions Festival submissions, we will begin reviewing completed submissions from January. A member of the Content Team may contact you to ask you more questions about your proposal or, offer you an initial slot, subject to speakers being confirmed and session content agreed. If you have not heard from a member of the team by the end of February please assume that your submission has not been successful on this occasion. 

If you click the submission link initially received, in the top right hand corner you will see ‘My submissions’ - this displays the status of your idea(s); under review, on hold, confirmed, published, or unsuccessful.

We strive to give feedback on as many ideas as possible, but due to the volume of proposals we receive, this is not always possible. Ahead of the submission deadline, our feedback will be light as our full consideration on what will make the programme is given after we receive all submissions and begin review.

A session is not guaranteed until we agree on all aspects of the session (speakers, session title, synopsis etc) and the session is then confirmed on this basis.

No, the initial offer has been made based on the original idea proposed. All changes must be discussed with the Content Team and the session may be revoked if there are significant changes e.g. you reach out to new speakers without consulting the Content Team.

No, due to demand we aim to only feature a speaker/organisation once across the official Festival programme. If there are any conflicts with your speaker’s appearance, please contact the Content Team.

If you have any speaker changes please discuss this with the Content Team before reaching out to and confirming a replacement. 

Your contacts in the Cannes Lions Content Team are dedicated to your session; a Content Manager will help shape the content with you and an Operations Manager will ensure you have all the next steps in place to take the stage.

The Festival provides a basic AV package and the specifications will be provided in due course. Should you require materials outside of the package, the session holder would be required to cover this cost.

Your dedicated Content Operations Manager will be in touch with these details and more once confirmed. 

All confirmed speakers receive a complimentary speaker pass to the Festival. Those who are organising the session on your side who are not officially speakers at the Festival, can apply for a complimentary pass, but there is a criteria that the applicant will need to meet.

All content will sit behind the paywall on our intelligence platform, Love The Work (https://www.lovethework.com/) and other LIONS platforms. Please contact us for further information.