The Creative Edge of Innovation

Join us for a dynamic, highly-focused programme designed for creative founders to facilitate cross-industry collaboration driving real-world solutions aligned with emerging tech trends.

Event Details
When

4 February 2025, 18 February 2025, 5 March 2025, 18 March 2025

Where

London / Online

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About the events

Funded by Innovate UK, the Creative Edge of Innovation is a six-week programme bringing together innovators from across the creative industries to connect, network and build use cases demonstrating cross-sector collaboration and commercial potential.

This programme is designed to facilitate inspirational knowledge exchange by connecting business founders and the alumni of Innovate UK programmes with successful leaders and experts who will share their experience in converging technologies and cross sub-sector use cases.

Aims:

  • Foster cross-industry collaboration: To encourage innovative partnerships and knowledge sharing among innovators from different creative industries.
  • Drive commercial success: To equip innovators with the tools and networks to develop commercially viable creative solutions.
  • Unlock innovation potential: To stimulate innovative thinking and idea generation at the intersections of creative industries.
  • Promote business expertise: To integrate business acumen into creative endeavours, ensuring practical applications and market relevance.
  • Inspire and connect: To create a supportive environment for innovators to connect, network, and learn from industry leaders.

Who Can Attend?

  • Businesses in the creative industries with a commercial product or service, looking to understand collaboration opportunities or explore new content creation avenues.
  • Up to two individuals from each business may attend. The individuals who attend must be founders, owners or senior leaders/decision makers.
  • NB: At least one individual from each business MUST attend each session to ensure continuity throughout the programme.

This event is not aimed at:

  • Academia
  • Research Technology Organisations
  • Government/NGOs
  • Businesses without a live commercial product or service.

NB: Expressions of interest are now closed, as attendees are expected to attend all events in the series. Recordings of the online sessions will be made available to registered attendees.

Agenda

  • 4 February 2025
    10:30-16:00
    Session 1 – Setting the Challenge
    London
  • 18 February 2025
    11:00-12:30
    Session 2 – Leveraging Market Research
    Zoom
  • 5 March 2025
    11:00-12:30
    Session 3 – Collaborative Innovation Management
    Zoom
  • 18 March 2025
    10:30-16:00
    Session 4 – Sharing the solution
    Google – London

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