Speakers | Paul Belford | Bill Cahan | Kyle Cooper | Simon Dixon & Aporva Baxi | Scott Goodson | Michael Johnson |
David Kester | Erik Kessels | Harry Pearce | Stefan Sagmeister | Simon Sankarayya | Wally Olins |

Erik is co-founder and President of Dutch advertising agency KesselsKramer.

In 1996 Erik Kessels co-founded the Amsterdam based communications agency KesselsKramer. Erik Kessels is the creative director at KesselsKramer. He has created campaigns for Nike, Audi, Levi's, Hans Brinker Budget Hotel Amsterdam, Ben, Diageo, Diesel and the City of Amsterdam. He's won many international awards for his advertising work.

Besides writing reviews for several magazines he has a regular column in style magazine Bon International and has published several photography books, such as The Instant Men, Useful Photography and In Almost Every Picture. Erik Kessels has also taught photography and art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and other art schools. He curates photography exhibitions at national and international museums and galleries. Erik has also had group and solo exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad.

Kessels is a photography collector and has published several books of his 'collected' images: Missing Links (1999), The Instant Men (2000), in almost every picture (2001, 2003, 2004, 2006) and Wonder (2006). Since 2000, he has been an editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography. For BON International and iM (Identity Matters) Kessels has made editorials on a regular basis. He has taught communication at the Hallo Academy Amsterdam and photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Willem de Kooning Academy.