4A’s San Francisco IAAS 2020

Hey Biggies, we got a chance to extend the registration for this awesome 14-week experience. Check it out!

The 4A’s Institute of Advanced Advertising Studies (IAAS) offers San Francisco’s next great marketing and communications leaders the opportunity to expand their exposure to the business-driving solutions that our industry creates. It helps our aspiring leaders to sharpen hard and soft skills through first-hand experience by solving a real-world marketing and advertising challenge for one of today’s top challenger brands. The 4A’s IAAS helps to propel your career through new experiences, challenges, and perspectives that may not exist within your agency walls. In fact, it has trained some of the best and brightest industry professionals in the business – including many of today’s top agency executives.

Join the IAAS today to be part of a 14-week experience that provides an opportunity to: 

• Get outside your comfort zones and stretch your abilities
• Learn from industry veterans with a range of experiences
• Collaborate and overcome challenges in a team environment
• Gain exposure to broad and varied marketing activities
• Go from client brief to winning integrated campaign in 14 weeks

IAAS combines weekly instruction and access to industry mentors/advisors with a marketing case challenge based on a real client brand. Participants will be divided into teams and asked to brand themselves as an Institute-based agency. Together, the teams will work to develop a strategic marketing solution to a critical business challenge provided by this year’s client (to be announced).  Participants will “pitch” their plan – inclusive of insights, strategy, creative concepts and tactical/channel execution (paid, owned, and earned) – to representatives from the client as well as agency leaders from across our region.

Who Should Attend
The San Francisco IAAS program is designed for promising agency professionals with two to five years of experience across all disciplines—creative, media, research, planning, strategy, account management, public relations, direct marketing, digital, social and mobile. Titles often include, but are not limited to:

• Designers/Jr. Designers
• Copywriters/Jr. Copywriters
• Account Coordinators
• Account Executives/Assistant Account Executives
• Strategists/Jr. Strategists
• Social Media Managers
• Media Planners/Jr. Media Planners
• Digital Technologists/Jr. Digital Technologists
• UX designers

Course Curriculum
IAAS opens with a client challenge, and then follows the path of preparing for a pitch. Industry instructors provide an overview of a number of skills the participants will need in order to successfully meet the client’s needs. Topics to be covered include:

• Strategic planning and fundamentals
• Crafting a compelling brief
• Generating creative options and a “big idea”
• Crafting an idea and integrating it across tactics and channels
• Presenting a plan (i.e. objectives, insights, ideas, budget, and measurement)

A detailed course schedule will be provided to all participants following the close of registration, but participants can expect courses to be held every Thursday evening from 6:30PM until 8:30PM at agencies located throughout San Francisco so students can experience a range of environments throughout the city.

The course begins on Thursday, February 6th and final presentations will be held on Thursday, May 7th; attendance for all IAAS participants is mandatory. There will also be a graduation event for all participants, instructors, advisors and the client team on May 11th.

For Attendees
Gain a unique experience that will better prepare you for your career ahead. In the course of IAAS, you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn from experts in our field
• Work in teams to address a real-world client challenge
• Present your own ideas and marketing plans to both client contacts and your own agency leadership
• Gain insight into the different ways each agency works and approaches client needs
• Network with other up-and-coming professionals
• Build your portfolio
• Learn new skills for working within a team environment
• Stimulate your creativity to apply to your day-to-day responsibilities

Registration Fees
4A’s Members:

• $1,300 for the first participant
• $1,200 for the second participant
• $1,100 for subsequent registrants from the same member agency

Non-4A’s Members:
$1,500 for each participant from a non-4As agency. There is limited capacity and priority will be given to 4A’s members.

*Note that to register, you must first create an account with them. 

Questions?

IAAS Registration: Juan Suarez | [email protected] | 310-584-7494

Program/Logistics: Mitchell Friedman | [email protected] | 415-517-5756