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CREATIVE CAPITAL
In May 2009, the University of Wales, Newport staged a major showcase event - CREATIVE CAPITAL - in the heart of one of the UK’s most important commercial centres, Canary Wharf in London which had the aim of encouraging businesses to use fresh thinking to break out of the recession.
The venue was the stunning East Wintergarden, with its spectacular glass atrium based on the Winter Garden in New York’s Battery Park. Canary Wharf is renowned as a hub of global commerce and financial services, as well as a dynamic media, retail, leisure and arts destination and was the perfect venue to launch and display the University's creative and innovative talents.
Entrepreneurship Foundation
CREATIVE CAPITAL saw the launch of the University’s Entrepreneurship Foundation. The aim of the Foundation is to develop innovative managers who can combine senior leadership and entrepreneurial skills and power future business growth, even in the current economic climate.
Speakers included:-
Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Executive Chairman, Virgin Money
Institute of Advanced Broadcasting (IAB)
The IAB, which was launched at Creative Capital, will work alongside broadcasters, content developers, film makers and key industry players to develop research projects that will address the challenges of convergence in digital technology and media and explore suitable distribution and business models for the future.
Speakers included:-
Simon Gibson OBE, Chief Executive, Wesley Clover Corporation
Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP, Secretary of State for Wales and UK Minister for Digital Inclusion
Future Music
Future Music was a 2-day residential 'sandpit' event where the effects of the evolving digital landscape and rapidly advancing technology on the music industry were scrutinised in an innovative interactive workshop. a particularly important theme explored at Future Music surrounded how people will pay for music in the face of piracy, declining CD sales, handheld technology and online content.
Speakers included:-
Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1
Ron Berry, e-Business Inward Investment Advisor, Isle of Man Government
Gerd Leonhard, Music & Media Futurist, Author of "Music 2.0", Co-Author of "The Future of Music"
Jeremy Silver, CEO Mediaclarity, Deputy Chairman of Futurelab
Ffotography Futures
The cultural importance of photography and the commercial challenges it faces as an industry were debated at Creative Capital, which also saw the launch of nu:studio, the University's online portal for the creative industries.
Speakers included:-
Michael Pierre Davis, Director, MPD Digital Laboratories
Francis Hodgson, Financial Times Photography Critic and Chair of Prix Pictet Jury
Fashion Futures
The Fashion Shows throughout Creative Capital event showcased the new talent emerging from Newport this year. Newport receives growing acclaim for its innovative fashion design that includes collections of commercial appeal, as well as those that move towards the avant-garde - always demonstrating a wearable vision of the fashion future.
Speakers included:-
Wayne Hemingway MBE, Hemingway Design
Laura Tenison, Founder and Managing Director, JoJo Maman Bébé