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  • Clara Blume on Art, Culture and Music

    Clara Blume, Ph.D., is an Oakland-based artist, cultural diplomat, and researcher. As head of the Open Austria Art + Tech Lab, she curates artworks that explore the interplay of human and artificial creativity. As a professional musician and singer/songwriter, Blume was invited to tour Europe and the US. Apollo - The International Art Magazine most recently selected her among the 40 UNDER 40 most talented young people worldwide working in Art + Tech.

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    Music by Iain Mutch

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    1 hr 7 min
  • Roy Sharples on Entrepreneurship

    Roy Sharples is Founder and CEO of Unknown Origins, and Author of "Creativity Without Frontiers: How to make the invisible visible by lighting the way into the future." 

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    1 hr 26 min
  • Rasmus Smith Bech on Creative Direction

    From Copenhagen to being a runner in Hollywood to a serial creative at advertising and brand agencies, media and entertainment companies; Zupa, KesselsKramer, GREY London, Adam & Eve DDB, Channel 4, Uncommon Creative Studio, and now the Executive Creative Director at the BBC, Rasmus Smith Bech leads the creative output across all BBC campaigns and branding.

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    35 min
  • Peter Hinssen on Business Innovation

    Peter Hinssen is a serial entrepreneur, advisor, keynote speaker, and author. Peter is one of the most sought-after thought leaders on radical innovation, leadership, and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He lectures at various business schools such as the London Business School (UK) and MIT in Boston. Peter has founded nexxworks to help organizations become fluid, innovate and thrive in 'The Day After Tomorrow.'

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    54 min
  • Sadie McKinlay on Performing Arts Fundraising

    Sadie McKinlay is Head of Development for the Edinburgh International Festival, where she raises funds to enable this annual celebration of the performing arts, working with sponsors, donors, and trust & foundation supporters to create meaningful and valuable partnerships that support the presentation of music, drama, and dance in theatres and concert halls, and learning and engagement and Community Programmes throughout Edinburgh. Sadie previously worked for the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and the South Bank Centre in London.

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    29 min
  • Chris Kay on Creative Leadership in Communications & Advertising Networks

    Chris Kay has had a truly global career that has led him from London to Sydney to Los Angeles to Asia Pacific, and now back to London as the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi. 

    He has consistently led brands and companies into exponential growth, most recently doubling the size of 72andSunny LA as it became one of FastCompany's most creative companies globally and founding 72andSunny in Sydney and Singapore.

    Chris has a wealth of global sports experience. He was previously the Head of Marketing for Manchester City Football Club and helped expand the club's global footprint. He has also led the Adidas business globally, worked on the 2012 London Olympics for Cadbury, and helped build the brand proposition for LA as it won the 2028 Olympic bid.

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    25 min
  • Tanya Denning-Orman on Indigenous Media Broadcasting

    Tanya Denning-Orman, a proud Birri and Guugu Yimidhirr woman from Central and North Queensland, who leads National Indigenous Television (NITV), an Australian channel dedicated to Indigenous voices, overseeing its diverse and innovative multiplatform content, since it joined Special Broadcasting Service's (SBS) in 2012, and more recently became SBS's first Director of Indigenous Content. Tanya plays an instrumental role in developing and delivering First Nations storytelling across the SBS network.  As a champion for strong Indigenous media, she holds several industry Board positions, including Media Diversity Australia, First Nations Media Australia, and the World Indigenous Television Broadcast Network.

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    36 min
  • Sara Nagy on Product Development
    Leadership means removing barriers and having a bias for action to make meaningful work happen, and nurturing talented people to capitalize on their passions and strengths by unleashing the power of creativity to achieve self-actualization.

    Sara Nagy has spent the last 25 years as a business leader at Microsoft and as an entrepreneur, where she built and led her own business. Sara has mastered the art and science of developing and bringing people-centered products and services to market that solve real-life problems by providing solutions that people and businesses actually need.

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    35 min
  • Elliot Grove on Film

    Few people know more filmmakers and screenwriters than Elliot Grove. Elliot is the founder of the Raindance Film Festival,  British Independent Film Awards, and the Raindance London Film School. He has produced over 700 hundred short films and five feature films: the multi-award-winning The Living and the Dead (2006), Deadly Virtues (2013), AMBER (2017), Love is Thicker Than Water (2018), and the SWSX Grand Jury Prize winner Alice (2019). He teaches screenwriting and producing in the UK, Europe, Asia, and America.

    Elliot has written three books that have become industry standards: Raindance Writers' Lab: Write + Sell the Hot Screenplay, now in its second edition, Raindance Producers' Lab: Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking and Beginning Filmmaking: 100 Easy Steps from Script to Screen (Professional Media Practice).

    In 2009 he was awarded a Ph.D. for services to film education.

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    47 min
  • Andrew Dobbie on Entrepreneurship
    Andrew Dobbie founded the global strategic brand agency, MadeBrave, with £1,000 of personal cash in the bank and a two-week-old baby at home – very brave, and as everyone knows, bravery always pays off. A Photographer and Graphic Designer by trade, he has 20 years of experience in the creative industry. With a turnover of circa £5.5m, MadeBrave helps large global giants like VELUX, Diageo, Medtronic, Edrington, First Group plc, KPMG, and Nestle to grow and strengthen their brands.

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    59 min

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