Advertising Week Is Expanding to Cuba This November

Launching inaugural event in Havana

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Advertising Week now has a fourth destination—Havana. 

Stillwell Partners, the organizing firm behind Advertising Week, will launch its first Advertising Week: Cuba x Creativity on Nov. 28, and it will run until Dec. 1. The announcement comes after JetBlue, a founding partner of the event, kicked off the first commercial service to Cuba from the U.S. in over 50 years. 

"This is a unique moment in history," said Matt Scheckner, CEO of Stillwell Partners. "When the door to go to Cuba opened a crack—the embargo is still in place; we're in a very interesting transition period and as an American, there has been 53 years that we have not been able to go to Cuba—we went down there right away to see if an event was possible." 

While adding Havana to the Advertising Week roster doesn't make sense when considering major advertising hubs—New York, London and Tokyo host the other three weeks...

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