Cr8net is a one-day conference for the creative industries, bringing together industry practitioners, policy makers and businesses. This year, Cr8net will be held at the innovative Village Underground (in ‘Tech City’) on 24th April 2013.
Visit our YouTube page to see footage of the panels from 2011 and 2012, including keynote speeches by Richard Florida and Alan Davey (CEO, Arts Council England). The event will be chaired by Matthew Taylor (CEO, The RSA).
Confirmed speakers this year include:
- Ed Vaizey MP (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries)
- Eze Vidra (Google, Head of ‘Campus’)
- Alison Wenham (CEO, Association of Independent Music)
- Pauline Tambling (CEO, Creative and Cultural Skills)
- Rashid Kasirye (Founder of LinkUp TV)
- David Parrish (Author of ‘T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’)
- Andrew Senior (Creative economy expert)
- Mary-Alice Stack (Director, ArtCo/Arts Council England)
- Fabio Santos (Artistic Director, Phakarma)
- Nancy Groves (The Guardian Culture Professionals Network)
- Charmaine Hayden (Founder, Face 4 Music/ graduate of CIDA’s Digital Women’s Club)
- Frances Brindle (Director, Strategic Marketing and Communications, British Library)
- Auro Foxcroft (Village Underground)
- Charlotte Higgins (Chief Arts Writer, The Guardian)
Topics for the day include creative entrepreneurship, networks, funding and also a look at the creative industries 6 months after the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The overarching theme of the day will be Digital Diversity. We are interested in dissecting current issues facing creative organisations and coming up with solutions to the concerns of the industry. We encourage our panellists and speakers to speak from their own personal perspective and share their experiences.
Cr8net has established itself as the industry’s most important creative conference and is an opportunity to make positive change and inspire the industry to assume its mantle and contribute to economic revival.