5th European Creative Industries Summit 2016

The Topic of ECIS 2016:
Structural Policies for the Industrial Future of the Creative Industries
The ECIS wants to initiate and facilitate a collaboration of the leading drivers for industrial
strategies within creative industries on European, national and regional levels. For the first
time these leading, yet diverse drivers are invited to exchange know-how and coordinate
their policy strategies, which could lead to a major leap in the industrial capacities: Already
an European coordination of national funding policies, f.e. for design or games, could open
markets transnationally, extend value chains and increase income for the given sectors –
without any additional funding. Thus in times of increasing global challenges the ECIS is
focusing on the industrial and global dimension, the scaling skill within the cultural and
creative industries.

If you would like to register to attend this event, you can do so here.

Preliminary Agenda
12.00 – 13.00 Networking Lunch
Bernd Fesel, ECBN
Gerin Trautenberger, creativ wirtschaft austria

13.00 Welcome
Caroline Norbury, Chair ECBN, CEO Creative England

13.10 The Industrial Agenda for Creative Industries
– Key Notes –

• Martine Reicherts, Director-General, DG Education and Culture

• Garrelt Duin, Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy and Industries of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
• Christian Ehler, MEP, Co-Chair of Intergroup for Cultural and Creative Industries in the EU-Parlament, Brussels
• Prof. Dieter Gorny, special advisor for creative and digital economy of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin

14.15 Building Industrial Capacity
– Statements & panel debate with the audience –

Scaling Business: The Skill / Design Thinking for all Creatives

• Pieter Aarts, Director, Design Management Network Rotterdam

Going international (as a SME in creative industries)

• Caroline Bos, CEO and Founder UNStudio

International Creative Industries: Challenges Ahead

• Geert Christiaansen, Design Innovation at Philips

15.15 – 15.45 Break

15.45 National Agendas 2016 for Cultural and Creative Industries
– Statements & panel debate with the audience –

• Austria: Gerin Trautenberger, cwa, Vienna
• Italy: Ugo Bacchella, Fitzcarraldo Foundation, Milano
• Netherlands: Frits Grotenhuis, Amsterdam
• Poland: Marcin Poprawski, Cultural Observatory
• Scotland: Clive Gillmann, Creative Scotland
• France: Boris Meggiorin, Samoa, Nantes

17.15 Understanding Trends in the Cultural and Creative Industries:
– Presentations and debate –

Spillover Effects: Measuring the Unmeasurable NN; European Research Partners

The Next Big Thing: Social Entrepreneurship; Leo van Loon, Rotterdam

Launching the Cultural and Creative Economy Barometer; Dr. Arndt, Prognos AG, Bremen

17.45 Closing Words

• Bernd Fesel, ECBN
• Gerin Trautenberger, cwa

For further information and a full description of the summit and agenda you can download it here:

ECIS_2016 Concept