The Culture Capital Exchange presents: Research, Creativity and Business 2: Making the Extraordinary

Tuesday 30 April 2013, Cass Business School, London 

To book (early bird rates available until 10 April 2013) please go to: www.eventbrite.com/event/5610808078.

Following the success of our inaugural conference on Creativity and Business in 2012, The Culture Capital Exchange is delighted to announce ‘Research, Creativity and Business 2: Making the Extraordinary’ in partnership with Cass Business School and supported by Creativeworks London. 

‘Making the Extraordinary’ brings together: leading edge researchers and thinkers, artists, creatives, technology innovators and people ‘to watch’, to share their knowledge, experience and challenges of trying to do just that.  Showcasing some of the rich sets of interconnections between research, the creative sectors and the wider business worlds, the conference will ask some timely questions about how - or indeed whether - these fields could work together to realise the full potential of applying their respective intelligence, knowledge and creativity.

Questions for discussion will include: what is the potential for greater connectivity and what do we gain from working and playing better, smarter and closer? What are our ambitions to make the extraordinary and who’s doing it? How could applying creativity and creative thinking more widely enrich our social, cultural and economic lives? 
The day is about exploring potential, encouraging play and debate, showcasing projects and partnerships and creating a space to propose and address social, technological and economic challenges. 

Contributors include: Patricia Austin (Central St Martin’s), Pru Ashby (Head of Partnerships, Tech City Investment Organisation), Maurice Biriotti (SHM Productions), Geoff Colman (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), Lydia Fraser-Ward and Mary Paterson (Creative Directors, Fantasy High Street), Dr Amanda Goodall (Cass Business School), Joanna Griffin (Transtechnology Research Group, University of Plymouth), Nick Hand (Slow Coast), Tim Jones (Executive Director, Moti Roti), Lynne Murray (Brand Director, Holition), Gavin Starks (CEO, Open Data Institute) and Becky Stewart (Codasign). Conference chair: Bidisha. 

The day is a must for people who believe in and are excited by working together to inspire and support, solve problems, gain fresh insights and encourage extraordinary innovation. It will also appeal to those who are keen to set future challenges or who are seeking solutions, be they creatives, entrepreneurs, academics, policy-makers, community builders or business leaders.  Details on the structure of the day will be updated online.

Evelyn Wilson (Director, The Culture Capital Exchange) 

Early Bird Rates £140 (payable before 10 April 2013)
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Full price tickets £240 (after 10 April 2013) 
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TCCE and Creativeworks London are offering a number of £70 reduced-price bursaries to TCCE members and London based creative micro-enterprises and practitioners. For more information please email [log in to unmask] by 10 April 2013.

The Culture Capital Exchange is a membership organisation of 10 Higher Education Institutions: www.tcce.co.uk. For details about Creativeworks London: www.creativeworkslondon.org.uk