Thank you so much to all of our delegates, speakers, chair, media partners and sponsors! Cr8net 2013 was a brilliant day to which you all contributed. We have our review up online here.
What did you think of the day? If you forgot to fill in your evaluation form, drop us an email on cr8net@cida.co.uk and let us know!
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Today is the final day for Earlybird tickets! They are just £175 (that’s £100 off the full price!). Book now to take advantage of the offer, or check out our discounted rates for group bookings, students, small organisations and previous delegates.
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Our lineup for Cr8net is almost complete! Just a couple more announcements to make shortly though…
In the meantime, remember to book your ticket before the Early Bird deadline! Full price tickets are £275, but if you book now tickets are just £175 each, that’s a saving of a whopping £100. You can pay online or request an invoice. Check out the Tickets tab for more info.
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Happy New Year!
Preparations are in full swing for Cr8net 2013, you can still get hold of Early Bird tickets. We are also offering a range of discounted tickets for group bookings, students and small charities. Take a look here. You can book your tickets online or by requesting an invoice.
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News just in, Charmaine Hayden of Face 4 Music will be joining the Cr8net line up!______________________________________________________________________
We are honoured to announce that Ed Vaizey MP (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries) will be delivering the keynote speech at Cr8net 2013!
Also joining Cr8net is Mary-Alice Stack (ArtCo/Arts Council England) and Nancy Groves (The Guardian).
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We are pleased to announce that Cr8net 2013 will take place on 24th April 2013, at the innovative Village Underground. Speakers include:
- Eze Vidra (Google, Head of ‘Campus’ project)
- Alison Wenham (CEO, Association of Independent Music)
- Pauline Tambling (CEO, Creative and Cultural Skills)
- David Parrish (Author of ‘T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’)
- Andrew Senior (Creative economy expert)
- Kanya King (to be confirmed, Founder of MOBO Awards)
More details coming soon!
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Don’t forget to take a look at our Youtube page for footage and interviews with speakers from Cr8net 2012!
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We are proud to welcome the Guardian Culture Professionals Network back as media partners for Cr8net 2013.
More details about speakers and agenda to follow soon!
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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 England, who revealed the Creative Industries Finance Scheme exclusively 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