ECIS 2018

The Conference of the Austrian EU Presidency on Creative Industries
8^th European Creative Industries Summit

BEYOND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Cross-Innovation as Driver for Growth in the European Digital Single Market

Date: 04.10.2018 | 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Location: Austrian Federal Economic Chamber | Sky Lounge
Wiedner Hauptstraße 63 | 1040 Vienna | Austria

Innovation is at the heart of the European strategy for growth, employment and resilience in the next funding period starting 2021. In this context the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Member States have recognized the potentials of the creative industries to contribute to innovation. Especially at the interface of creative industries and digital technologies, both break-through and incremental innovations can effectively be supported. The range of possible applications is manyfold, for instance in the areas of health & wellbeing, mobility, green energy and climate change.

The European Creative Industries Summit 2018 (ECIS 2018) will show how the creative industries drive the economy as well as the development of regions and the society as a whole through cross-innovation. ECIS 2018 aims at firmly showcasing cross-innovation practices of industrial scale, discussing possible policy measures and funding schemes as well as highlighting the unique benefits that creative industries deliver as an integral part of European economic and innovation policies.

This European Creative Industries Summit is an Austrian EU Presidency Conference. The European Creative Business Network welcomes you to join the conference, the debate and our efforts to make future happen.

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PROGRAM 4 OCTOBER 2018

09:30 Registration

10:00 Welcome
Gerin Trautenberger | President | Kreativwirtschaft Austria and Board | European Creative Business Network | Austria
Bernd Fesel | Managing Director | European Creative Business Network

Special Act by Elwood Loud

10:15 Setting the Policy Agenda Beyond 2021
Harald Mahrer | President | Austrian Federal Economic Chamber | Austria
Margarete Schramböck | Minister | Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs | Austria
Tibor Navracsics | EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport

11:15 Innovating Innovation
Pier Luigi Sacco | Special Adviser to the EU Commission on Culture Heritage
Gerin Trautenberger | President | Kreativwirtschaft Austria and Board | European Creative Business Network | Austria
Eberhard Schrempf | Managing Director | Creative Industries Styria | Austria

12:00 Built Environment in the Age of Big Data and Smart Tech
Roger Tan | Director | UNSense founded by UNStudio | Netherlands

12:20 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 Cross-Innovation Challenges
High level experts from the creative industries discuss in open spaces ideas and proposals for future innovation policies for cultural and creative industries. Moderator: Bernd Fesel

Digital Tech
Chair: Jan Bormans | Director | Startups.be | Belgium

Heritage
Chair: Ugo Bacchella | President | Fitzcarraldo Fondazione | Italy

Personal Mobility
Chair: Bart Ahsmann | Managing Director | CLICK.NL | Netherlands

Supply Management for Creative Industries
Closing the gap – from creation to production to distribution
Chair: Eberhard Schrempf | Managing Director | Creative Industries Styria | Austria

Health
Chair: Walter Amerika | Director | U CREATE | Netherlands

Innovating Cross Innovation Support
Chair: Egbert Rühl  | Director | Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft | Germany

Skills Development for CCIS
Chair: Alessandra Proto |  Acting Head  |  OECD Trento Centre for Local Development  |  Italy  |  and Ekaterina Travkina  |  Coordinator  |  Culture, Creative Industries and Local Development, OECD

Infrastructures for Entrepreneurs
Chair: Barbara Stacher | Policy Officer | DG EAC European Commission

15:00 Presentations and Debates
Bart Ahsmann | Managing Director | CLICK.NL
Walter Amerika | Director | U CREATE
Ugo Bacchella | President | Fitzcarraldo Fondazione
Jan Bormans | Director | Startups.be

Egbert Rühl  | Director | Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft
Alessandra Proto |  Acting Head  |  OECD Trento Centre for Local Development  |  Italy  |  and Ekaterina Travkina  |  Coordinator  |  Culture, Creative Industries and Local Development, OECD
Eberhard Schrempf | Managing Director | Creative Industries Styria
Barbara Stacher | Policy Officer | DG EAC European Commisson

16:00 Policies for the Industrial Impact of the Creative Industries
Christian Ehler | MEP | Co-Chair of Intergroup Cultural Creative Industries
Mathea Fammels | Head of EIT Liaison Office | European Institute of Innovation and Technology
Barbera Wolfensberger | Director General | Ministry of Education, Culture and Science | Netherlands

17:30 Closing Words
Caroline Norbury MBE | Co-Chair ECBN | CEO Creative England | United Kingdom
Michal Hladky | Director | Creative Industry Košice | Slovakia

Moderator of the Day:
Frits Grotenhuis | Netherlands

SPEAKERS

BEYOND welcomes leading policy makers such as Tibor Navracsics, EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and Christian Ehler, MEP, Co-Chair of Intergroup Cultural Creative Industries. Furthermore experienced experts and decision makers for the creative industries lead the debates.

Innovation is at the heart of the European Agenda starting 2020. BEYOND focuses the potentials of one of the largest and most successful industries in Europe – the Creative Industries with 12 million full-time jobs, which amounts to 7.5 % of the EU’s work force, and approx. EUR 509 billion in value added to GDP – to make the currently debated New European Agenda a success by focusing on industrial impacts of cross-innovation driven by creative industries, especially in sectors like technology, mobility and green economy, heritage, health and smart cities.

Margarete Schramböck
Minister | Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs
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Harald Mahrer
President | Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
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Bernd Fesel
Managing Director | ECBN

Gerin Trautenberger
Chairman | Kreativwirtschaft Austria