Keynote speakers include Ed Vaizey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Doug Richard, Founder of the School for Startups, Dragon's Den panellist and author of the Richard Review of Apprenticeships, Wayne Hemingway, Founder of HemingwayDesign, and Stella Mbubaegbu, Principal and Chief Executive, Highbury College, Portsmouth.
The creative industries have been widely celebrated by Government in recent weeks as the fastest growing economic sector following a report by the DCMS. This conference will explore ways to consolidate and build upon this success by making jobs in the sector available to all young people.
The Conference will mark the peak of Building a Creative Nation, Creative & Cultural Skills' campaign to create 6,500 jobs in 1,000 days for young people within the creative industries through apprenticeships and paid internships.
The conference will call on employers to back the campaign. It will feature industry leaders who are making our sector a powerhouse of economic growth, as well as from pioneering education leaders who are future-proofing this position by implementing innovative approaches training.
A range of participatory breakout sessions will be hosted by leaders in the field, allowing attendees to tailor their own learning opportunity. Including:
- Forward-thinking approaches to developing employer shaped training
- Putting enterprise and industry engagement at the centre of education and training
- Engaging with employers to put qualifications in the workplace
Speakers also include:
Paul Latham, Chief Operating Officer - Live Nation Entertainment UK and Ireland and Chairman, Creative & Cultural Skills
Robin Townley, Chief Executive Officer, ABTT
Paul Rowlands, Rigging Development Manager, NEC Group Arenas
Will Quekett, General Manager, The Ticket Factory
Dawn Whitmore, Principal and CEO, New College Nottingham
Di Dale, Principal and CEO, Wiltshire College
Cathy Walsh, Principal and Chief Executive, Barking & Dagenham College
Pauline Tambling, Joint CEO, Creative & Cultural Skills said: "Our fifth Annual Conference will be our biggest event to date, and it comes at a moment when the creative sector is under the media spotlight. We've known for a long time how important the creative industries are to the wider economy, and we're delighted to see that success recognised, but now we have to ensure that our training methods are able to sustain that success long term.
"Our campaign Building a Creative Nation, which we launched in November, aims to get more employers working with the education sector, taking on young people into vocational training roles such as apprenticeships. As the pinnacle of this campaign, our Annual Conference is an opportunity to reinforce the call for improvements to recruitment and training in in the creative sector, as well as celebrate its considerable successes as a world leader."
Tickets are on sale now at building-a-creative-nation.org,
