Ideas2007: Creativity Beyond Borders
Conference Themes & Topics

Open Forum: Creativity in the Middle East & Islamic World: This full-day forum will be held prior to the actual conference and open to professionals, academics, students and the public. The Open Forum's intention will be to specifically address issues around creativity in the Middle East,Islamic and Arab region, and to recommend short, medium and long-term solutions to shortfalls and problems. The resulting brief of the Forum will be presented at the start of the plenary sessions.

Creativity Beyond Borders has six to eight plenary sessions in total, including the opening and closing sessions. Each session will have several principal contributors making prepared presentations or speeches, plus the conference moderator John Hockenberry's crossfire panel discussion towards the end of each session.

The conference is aimed at the regional communications and corporate elites, urban planners, designers and architects, educational and academic leaders, and decision makers in areas of the creative economy. Our speakers and  presenters are amongst the world’s leading creative thinkers and practitioners, innovators, architects, communications and media experts, urban culture strategists and senior educators.

Conference themes and topics:

There are three principal themes to the event:

• Creative City: Architecture, Design, Technology, New Planning, Art and Culture.
• Creative Communications: Media, Advertising, Branding, Web 2.0 and the New Knowledge Economy.
• Creative Strategy: Corporate Governance, Creative Entrepreneurship, Big Business and New Business.

There are eight principal topics for the conference:

• The Creative World: Creativity in Everything We Do
• Education: The Creative Teacher
• Press and Media, Film and Television
• Advertising, Branding and Communication
• The Creative Entrepreneur: Big Business, New Business
• The Creative City: Public Space and Branding Places
• Creative Culture: Arts, Science and Design
• Creative Interdependence and the Global Knowledge Economy