CreaTech, as described by the Creative Industries Council (CIC), "is where creativity meets technology. It brings together creative skills and emerging technologies to create new ways of engaging audiences and to inspire business growth and investment." CreaTech - The Creative Industries
On 17th May Creative Manchester and Digital Futures will host a CreaTech Innovation showcase along with our colleagues in the Greater Manchester Universities Partnership.
Crea-Tech Showcase
1200 Arrivals & Lunch
Keynote Speakers (1230):
Welcome & Why we are here: Prof John McAuliffe – Director, Creative Manchester
Empowering citizens and communities through Art & Tech: Irini Papadimitriou – Creative Director, Future Everything
Esports and Generation Z as Digital Native's and what this means for content and play in the next 5 years. Dr Anita Greenhill: in conversation with Mark Ashmore FRSA and Professor Andy Miah, University of Salford
BBC Data Science Research Partnership: Andy Secker, Lead Data Scientist BBC with Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro/Caroline Jay
Break (Showcase preview) 1400 to 1430
1430 Speakers (demonstrating outputs from academic projects & academic-industry collaborations)
Showcase lightning pitches (5 min each)
Measuring audience response: Michelle Phillips, RNCM
Bloomin' NFTs: Marsha Courneya, Adam Cooke, Alasdair Swenson SODA at MMU
We Love Our Parks: Ursula Hurley, University of Salford
UnSupervised, the Machine Learning for Music project: Ricardo Climent, The University of Manchester
Sonifying the Self: Biometric Data as the New Paradigm for Interactive Music Composition, Chris Rhodes, University of Manchester
