Ronita Mukerjee

Executive Director Client Services, Landor and APAC Healthcare Practice Lead, India

As a client leader at Landor, Ronita inspires and guides teams to build brands that are designed to transform businesses. Complex briefs and meaningful conversations energise her. How many brands are too many? What if we enter a new category? Are you future ready? Is design really going to impact my business? Why should you care about culture? All of the above and more, have led to the creation of strong brands and experiences, and many industry awards. Some notable achievements would include collaboration with Indian School of Business (ISB), India Gate Basmati Rice, Google India, Tata Cliq Luxury, Kokuyo Camlin, ASK asset and wealth management, Taj Hotels, Diageo, Tata Consumer Products, Mahindra Hospitality, Aditya Birla Group and Haleon. A firm believer in the power of mentorship to help people grow; Ronita is a WPP Stella mentor that is dedicated to coaching young women leaders. Her e-book "Lockdown Musings" was on changing consumer behavior during the pandemic. She enjoys speaking at industry forums and design schools on brands and design. She practices "Heartfulness" meditation to stay centred and focused.

Speech Topic

AI can imitate. It can’t imagine.

Synopsis

Originality is a brand’s superpower. And the one thing customers will always pay a premium for. Originality is a brand’s superpower. And the one thing customers will always pay a premium for. 

In unpredictable times like now, ironically many brands defer to predictable solutions. The result? A sea of sameness. The same visuals, the same words, the same strategies that do the job, but fail to move anyone.

AI has accelerated this pattern. It is brilliant at recognising trends and generating endless variations at incredible speed. It is an extraordinary tool for exploration and efficiency.

But AI can only build from what already exists. What it cannot do is imagine something truly new.

That spark, the intuitive leap and the emotional insight that becomes a breakthrough idea is still deeply and uniquely human.

And in a world overflowing with AI-enabled output, that human originality becomes not just valuable, but essential.

A conversation on the human elements that fuel originality and how brands can win with them.