The Conference of the Austrian EU Presidency on Creative Industries
8th 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.
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
REGISTRATION
The event is fully booked – register for the waiting list!
Interest in the event has been overwhelming and we have reached the limits of admissible registrations. However, to accommodate you we are still accepting applications for a waiting list. If you wish to participate, please register below to be placed on the waiting list. We will contact all applicants by email no later than mid September 2018 to inform whether admittance to ECIS 2018 in Vienna is possible and confirmed.