We now have a transcript of Alan Davey’s keynote speech that he made at Cr8net 2012. Click here to view.
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Thanks you very much to all who came along to Cr8net 2012. It was a brilliant day, packed with great discussions and ideas. From passionate entreprenurs such as Dirujan Sabesan, Araceli Camargo and Roger Wade to Alan Davey (CEO of Arts Council Englad, who revealed the Creative Industries Finance Scheme exclusivly at Cr8net).
We have had some great press about the event, check out posts by the Guardian, a-n, BOP Consulting, TaCity, and by Cr8net’s chair, Matthew Taylor. The Guardian have also rounded up all of the best tweets of the day, makes an interesting read.
We have uploaded some photos of the day to Flickr, more pics and videos to come soon.
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We are very happy to announce that the Guardian Culture Professionals Network are media partners of Cr8net!
The network is a place where professionals from all departments in arts and heritage organisations – including audience development, communications, education, fundraising, finance, logistics, management and policy – can come to share advice and inspiration.
For more information, please visit the Guardian Culture Professionals website.
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One of our keynote speakers, Roger Wade, puts forward his thoughts about Cr8net. See what he thinks here!
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We met up with Matthew Taylor (CEO, The RSA) who will be our host at Cr8net 2012. Take a look at this short clip and see what he thinks about Cr8net!
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Fancy helping us out at Cr8net? We are looking for volunteers for the day, click here for more information.
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’18 tips for managing your arts and heritage staff’
Our CEO, Toks Majek-Akisanya, recently participated in a Guardian live chat. Take a look at the round-up of the discussion here.
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Check out our CEO’s article for the Guardian Culture Professionals Network about arts cuts undermining our contribution to economy.
Click here for the article!
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Watch a summary of last year’s keynote speech by Richard Florida, available on our YouTube page now!
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Cr8net has taken over the Creative Times website! Head over their now to check it out!
“Cr8net is a high visibility platform for leaders in the creative and cultural sector to debate the state of the industry, to highlight opportunities, to face down challenges and to offer resolutions: creative minds supporting creative minds”. Toks Majek-Akisanya, CIDA’s CEO.
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We are very proud to announce our host/chair for Cr8net 2012 will be Matthew Taylor of The RSA. He will be joined by
- Alan Davey, CEO, Arts Council England
- Hasan Bakhshi, Director of Creative Industries, NESTA
- Claude Grunitzky, founder of TRACE magazine
- Professor Andy Pratt, Head of Culture & Creative Industries, KCL
- Ekow Eshun, cultural commentator & former Director of The ICA
- Dirujan Sabesan, Entrepreneur, Creative Nerds
- Pim Baxter, Deputy Director, National Portrait Gallery
- Natalie Wade, Projects Manager, Small Green Shoots
- Araceli Camargo, The Cube London
- Sara Shamsavari, Artist
- Baroness Lola Young, Crossbench Peer and Writer
- Roger Wade, Founder, Boxpark
- Paul Kirkman, Head of Arts and Culture at DCMS
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Luckily we have Natalie Wade of Small Green Shoots on a Cr8net Panel!
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We are very proud to announce Claude Grunitzky will be speaking at Cr8net 2012. Find out more about him here.
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Save the date - 24th April 2012, Cr8net is back!
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Check out the feedback about Cr8net from our twitter fans. Mostly good with a bit of constructive criticism thrown in for good measure!
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Take a look at Professor Ian Hargreaves blog about his experience at Cr8net.
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We’re excited to have Ken Livinstone speaking at Cr8net! Ken will be joining Rt. Hon. Ivan Lewis MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and John Howkins, Author of The Creative Economy discussing creative entrepreneurship and new business models for the sector.
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Managing Intellectual Property What’s copyright got to do with it
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Music Week The industry will be watching next month’s new creative industries conference closely for the first high profile appearance by Professor Ian Hargreaves since the end of the call for evidence stage of his IP Review.
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CMU Hargreaves to meet face-to-face with smaller stakeholders