The first set of jurors for the 2025 edition of the Pepper Awards have been announced.

Founded in 2007, the Pepper Awards are a celebration of creative ideas coming from the South of India. 

Starting this year, Manifest has entered into a partnership with the awards, which will be held on 5 December in Kochi.

The first set of jurors for the awards are:

• Anupama Ramaswamy, chief creative officer, Havas Worldwide
• Devaiah Bopanna, co-founder, Moonshot
• Manasi Narasimhan, head - communication and strategic partnership, CEGIS
• Prathap Suthan, managing partner and chief creative officer, Bang In The Middle
• Raj Nair, chief creative officer, Garage Worldwide
• Senthil Kumar, former chief creative officer, VML 
• Shikha Gupta, independent creative director

Judging is scheduled to begin shortly.