A Mobile Guide to Surviving Cannes Lions

If you want to be successful during the week of Cannes you have to be preparedamp160 I39ve been there the last five years and take this from me What happens in Cannes needs to be activated so it doesn39t stay in Cannes or your boss will be wondering why they dropped the money on such an expensive boondoggle in the first placeCannes is a business development person39s dreamamp160 You get meetings with executives you otherwise would never have a chance to meet and get amazing levels of insight due to the nature of them being relaxed and willing to meet amp160To be prepared I identified six essential mobile apps that you39ll need to successfully and properly activate your time thereGoogle MapsYou39re going to be running from meeting to meeting or jumping in a car so you39ll need directions to get from point a to point bamp160amp160Google Maps is the best most accurate global map to do just thatamp160 You can plot out your day from meeting to meeting and identify places along the way for a quick pick me up or a glass of rosamp233 amp160You can even book an Uber or your everpresent Ubercopter to get to the airport from the appamp160 Google Maps is the best way to get around CannesWhat39s AppConnecting with your team and colleagues in Cannes can be difficultamp160 It39s a fluid week with meeting locations changing all the time and the next event constantly being changedamp160 With What39s App you can build group messages and keep everyone up to date on when and where you need to be Share updates to meetings and plansamp160and make sure you know where you39re headed nextamp160 What39s even better is you can use it all on WiFi and you won39t get stuck with a massive text messaging billSlackBy now your team is likely operatingamp160on Slack but have you used the mobile appamp160 It39s a beautifully welldesigned app that allows you to get quick insights to your team and follow the thread when you get back homeamp160 In Cannesamp160you are schedulechallenged likely being as much as nine hours off from that of your team but you can easily drop them a note or share an insight and follow up on it when you get backamp160 You can also tag the folks on your team who weren39t there but who are required to make things happenTodoistSometimes when you leave a meeting or are headed to an event you simply need to remind yourself of somethingamp160so you don39t forget itamp160 Check out Todoist and have your own personally running reminder appamp160 Quickly note things that inspired you or got you thinking amp160maybe it was an ad or a session you saw or maybe it was overhearing someone else39s conversation amp160Come up with a great creative idea and you don39t want to lose itamp160 Drop it quickly into Todoist for follow up when you get homeamp160 This way you never forget an inspirationInstagramLet39s not forget or overlook Instagram which is an amazing way to capture and maintain a photographic log of what was inspiring to youamp160 It39s been around for a while but it39s a necessity in this kind of environment when sometimes you can39t come up with the words and a picture could easily tell the story for youVoiceraAs Chief Marketing Officer of this company I have to testify for Voiceraamp160 Here39s why I still objectively recommend it Over the course of your trip to Cannes you39ll be meeting with literally hundreds of peopleamp160 Your schedule is jampacked with sessions that range from a bench on the Croisette to an airconditioned beachfront conference room to the patio of whatever hotel you landed atamp160 All of these meetings are valuable and all of these meetings require followup either by you or people on your teamamp160 We designed Voicera to be an AI notetaker and meeting recorderamp160 When you open the app and push start Voicera enables an enterprise virtual assistant that will listen take notesamp160and email those notes to you after the meeting even updating your sales team with those notes to keep everyone on the same proverbial pageSome of these apps are old and some are new but these are all a necessity for Cannesamp160 Before you leave make sure you have themamp160ready to go I promise that they will make your Cannes trip more efficient more effective and guarantee you the chance to attend another yearamp160 Cannes is a place where dreams come to the surface and great ideas are rewardedamp160 Don39t be late and forget yoursPhoto creditamp160 William HookUnsplashClick the social buttons above or below to share this story with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers amp160

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