World Creativity Forum 2009

You are invited to attend the Creativity World Forum, the top meeting of leading creative regions in the world, which takes place from 30. November - 3. December 2009 for the first time in Germany.
During the "European Year of Creativity" under the slogan "Where Creativity Meets Technology" innovation concepts of regions and companies, as well as Cluster development and internationalization of creative industries are main topics.

THE CREATIVE EVENT
The Creativity World Forum 2009 offers speakers and panels on international top level, a top-class political and artistic framework programme and many opportunities for networking within a congress on the 1st and 2nd December. On the 3rd December you will have the op-portunity to get to know the creative side of Baden-Württemberg with regional tours.

BE PART OF IT!
Use the opportunity to experience the Creativity World Forum in Ludwigsburg, enter into dia-logue with leading minds of creative industries, innovative regions and policy makers, de-velop new business ideas and help to shape the future.
Further information you’ll find in the Programme-Guide and at our website www.cwf2009.de. There you can also order tickets and register up to November 20 latest.

Yours sincerely
Dr. Birgit Buschmann
Project Coordinator Creativity World Forum 2009
Ministry for Economics
Baden-Württemberg
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Programme overview:
THE KEYNOTES
Digital Media and the Music Industry: a Journey from MP3 to the
21. Century Online Music Market"
Prof. Dr. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Director Fraunhofer Institut for digital Media Technolo-gies, Ilmenau, EU Ambassador of the "Year of Creativity and Innovation" Germany
"Innovation as Motor of Continuing Modernization"
Franz Fehrenbach, CEO Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
"Creativity and Innovation – Driving Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth"
Esko Aho, Executive Vice President Nokia, former Finnish Prime Minister and EU Ambas-sador "Year of Creativity and Innovation" Finland
Creative Writing and Storytelling"
Prof. Doris Dörrie, Director, Author and Producer, University of Television and Film Munich
"Visionary Architecture inspired by Digital Technology"
Prof. Tobias Wallisser, Chair in Innovative Spatial Structures and Digital Design at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
"A Fine Line: How Design Strategies are Shaping the Future of Business"
Prof. Hartmut Esslinger, Founder frog design, San Francisco

THE PANEL TOPICS:

ATTRACTIVENESS OF REGIONS
REGIONAL INITIATIVES FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
INNOVATION POLICY
LEARNING CREATIVITY & KOMMUNIKATION
TALENT FOSTERING & ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
CREATIVE POWER: CREATIVE, SUCCESSFUL, FEMALE!
VIRAL MARKETING & DIGITALIZATION
CREATIVITY THINK TANK: 100 IDEEN in 100 MINUTEN!
CREATIVE ENGINEERING & DIGITALE MEDIEN
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN FOR THE URBAN LIFESTYLE
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL REPORTING
THE MATCHMAKING FORUM AND EXHIBITION
During both congress days all participants have the opportunity for networking and match-making at the cooperation platform b2fair.
Parallel to the Panels, an exhibition will be hold where the regions of “Districts of Creativity”, institutions of the creative industry, initiatives and regions form Baden-Württemberg as well as further international partner regions, companies, research and transfer institutions will present themselves and interactive presentations.
This can be used for networking, establishing business contacts, developing new ideas and projects and information about new locations and markets.

THE REGIONAL TOURS
To get an on-site idea of what creative industry, innovation ability and technological leader-ship means in practice, a “regional day” takes place at December 3.
Participants have the possibility to visit famous companies and institutions in the region of Stuttgart, the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and the technology region of Karlsruhe, for example the research laboratories of the Fraunhofer Institute Stuttgart-Vaihingen, the tech-nology centre of Festo AG at Esslingen, the “Centre on Art and Media Technology” at Karlsruhe or the “Musicpark” at Mannheim.