Margaret River Drop-In: David Nobay heads south for Emergence Creative Collision
David Nobay drops into Emergence Creative Collisions 2025 with a Side Bar session at the event on September 18th & 19th in Margaret River.
Nobay (aka Nobby) is the kind of creative who doesn’t just shift brands — he shifts culture. With a career that’s taken him from London and New York to Sydney, he’s racked up over 40 Cannes Lions, led Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney to three consecutive Campaign Brief Australian Agency of the Year titles, built agencies like Droga5 Sydney and Marcel from the ground up, and earned a spot on AdAge’s Top 50 Global Creative Thinkers.
But awards only tell half the story. Nobby’s known for taking risks others won’t — from penning plays and staging art exhibitions, to turning ABC’s ArtBreaks into experimental poetry films. His mantra? Double the trust. Halve the budget.
Now co-founder of Favourite Child Studio, he continues to blur the lines between art, tech, and storytelling — proving that when you’re a natural maker, you never stop moving.
Says Nobay: “We’re a WA registered co, thanks to my partner Stephen Tate being based in Perth, and also it’s the location for a feature film I wrote, and currently hustling to get up early next year, so EMERGENCE seemed a natural place to kick off the conversation. Ironically, I haven’t touched booze for over a decade, but I’m pretty sure I invested significantly in Margaret River back in the day, so I’m hoping for some good karma there!”
Forget the stage lights and PowerPoint decks — this is Nobby, unplugged. At the HEART bar, you’ll get a raw, unfiltered peek inside the mercurial mind that’s been blowing up the ad world for three decades. Expect riffs, tangents, big ideas, maybe even a little chaos — because when David Nobay drops in, the conversation never behaves itself. Grab a drink, lean in, and see where the madness takes you.
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Event Partners & Sponsors:
● Event Partners: Creative Tech Village, Shire of Augusta Margaret River, Edith Cowan University, South West Development Commission, Regional Development Australia South West, West Tech Fest, The Box, EUSO Digital, Perth Media, Upstream Ventures, Radio Margaret River and SAE University College.
● Industry Partners: WA Marketing Association (WAMA), Perth Advertising and Design Club (PADC), Advertising Council of Australia (ADA), IN:WA, and Youngbloods.