Conveo during Cannes Lions
Conveo presents Cannes Lions 2026
with Eyesee Norstat Dig Insights

Anchored.

Your business, anchored in always-on customer understanding.

VIP dinner on the water
The evening
Sunday, 21 June 2026 · 16:30 — 22:00
The setting
At anchor off the Croisette, Cannes
Sunday, before the noise

An evening worth
being early for.

Thirty to forty senior marketing and insights leaders. A long sunset off the Croisette. No panels. No decks. Just the people you'd want to sit next to anyway — and the kind of conversation that's hard to find once the week is in full motion.

Welcome drinks at 16:30. Food and conversation through dusk, with the city lights coming up in the distance. Guests ashore by ten, with the week still ahead.

I
The conversation

Talk to any CMO right now and you hear the same thing.

Customer understanding isn't a report anymore.

Marketing is moving faster than ever. The decisions are bigger, the windows are shorter, and the customer keeps changing underneath them.

The brands getting this right are rethinking how customer understanding shows up inside the business. Not as a quarterly report. As an AI-led layer everyone can reach, every day.

Always there, while the rest keeps moving. This evening brings together the leaders shaping that shift — and the founders of Conveo.ai, building the layer underneath it.

II
The evening

Close enough to see Cannes.
Far enough not to hear it yet.

The yacht stays at anchor off the Croisette through the evening. A way to open the week at the right pace, with the right people — before the rest of it begins.

Foredeck, alfresco dining table at sunset, and main salon interior
i.
16:30
Welcome drinks · boarding from the Croisette
ii.
18:00
Dinner at anchor · the bay in golden hour
iii.
22:00
Guests ashore · the week still ahead
III
Who you'll meet

A small gathering.
Every guest chosen.

Thirty to forty guests, hand-picked. The yacht is the setting — the room is the point. A few of them, so far:

Kees Kruythoff
Kees Kruythoff
CEO & Board Chair
Former Unilever executive turned impact investor and board chair, backing the next generation of sustainable consumer and food businesses.
Niels Schillewaert
Niels Schillewaert
Head of Research & Methodologies · Conveo
Researcher and methodologist; co-founder of Human8, former ESOMAR President, and Marketing Professor at Vlerick Business School.
Hendrik Van Hove
Hendrik Van Hove
Co-founder & CRO · Conveo
Building Conveo (YC S24) — research to revenue for Fortune 2000 through compounding, continuous, and proactive infrastructure for customer understanding.
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Co-founder & CEO · Conveo
Building Conveo (YC S24), the AI research platform marketing and insights teams use to keep customer understanding always on.
Joris De Bruyne
Joris De Bruyne
CEO · EyeSee
15 years across innovation consultancy and insights for FMCG, OTC, cosmetics and tech, with a System1 lens on packaging, shopper and advertising.
Hans van Avendonk
Hans van Avendonk
Managing Director · Norstat Netherlands
Former data & AI consultant, now leading Norstat's partnership with Conveo. Focused on combining high-quality human data with AI-enabled research approaches for faster decisions that you can trust.
Paul Gaudette
Paul Gaudette
CEO · Dig Insights
Strategist and entrepreneur; co-founder of Dig Insights, with 20 years in consumer insights and analytics across the world's leading consumer brands.
Jess Gaedeke
Jess Gaedeke
CCO · Dig Insights
Growth leader in tech-enabled insights; CCO at Dig Insights, previously in leadership roles at GutCheck, Affinnova, Designalytics, and InsightsNow.
Confirmed guests from leading brands
Accenture Adobe Amazon Bayer Citi Publicis Groupe PwC Reddit Jasper
IV
The reply

Reply to your invitation.

Seats are limited and curated. A short note is enough — we read every reply personally, and confirm within forty-eight hours.

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The favour of your reply

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