Announcements
Since the inception of the Creative Exchange: South Yorkshire programme we have spent time listening to the needs of the Creative and Digital industry.
Thursday 19th June sees the second Creative Exchange: South Yorkshire "Get Connected" event. The day will begin at 9:30am and run through till 4.30pm. Industry leaders have agreed to join us to deliver topical speaking sessions relevant to the CDI industry. Tom Flemming, a contributor to the National Strategy document "Creative Britain: New Talent for the New Economy" UK will be speaking in detail, and Julia Thomason of DCA Consultants will be presenting the findings of the Creative Workspaces Project.
The "Get Connected" series aims to enable a creative workspace audience to learn practical networking skills from industry leaders, share best practice from international workspace studies, raise the profile of CDI workspace projects across South Yorkshire, and participate in interactive workshop settings.
We do hope that you will be able to join us for what we hope to be key CDI events of the year.
Get connected by:
- Learning practical networking skills from industry leaders
- Sharing best practice from international workspace studies
- Raising the profile of CDI workspace across South Yorkshire
- Participating in interactive workshop settings
Keynote Speaker - Dr Tom Fleming
Dr Tom Fleming, Director, Creative Consultancy based in London. Tom will discuss the challenges and opportunities of the Governments recently published National Strategy for a “Creative Britain: New Talent for the New Economy”
This Plan envisages a Britain where creative industries are at the heart of the new economy and all local economies are driven by creativity within 10 years. It also aims to support 5000 creative apprenticeships a year by 2013; develop creative clusters and move the creative industries from the margins to the mainstream of economic and policy thinking by 2018.
Keynote Speaker - Julia Thomason
Julia Thomason, DCA Consultants based in Birmingham. Julia will present the findings of the Creative Workspaces Project
which aims to raise awareness of the vital contribution that creative workspaces make to economic growth and local regeneration with a view to increasing the number and improving the quality of workspaces across England’
The presentation will cover financing workspaces; the results of a stock take of creative workspaces across England; and an evaluation of the cultural, social and economic importance of creative workspaces in order to advocate their value and secure strategic and financial support for their further development.
