REMIX, taking place December 7 and 8 at UTS, explores the intersection of culture, technology and entrepreneurship bringing together pioneers from different industries to explore the future of culture, creative cities and the creative economy.
Alongside Sydney, REMIX takes place in locations including London, New York, Los Angeles and Dubai at venues including MoMA, the British Museum and Google. REMIX is held in partnership with organisations including UTS, Google, Bloomberg, VICE, ABC, The Guardian and Time Out.
Participants will get to hear from organisations as diverse as Airbnb, NASA, WOMADelaide, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in London. Keynote speakers include Kylie Watson-Wheeler, Senior Vice President & MD, DISNEY Australia, Daniel Houghton - Global CEO, LONELY PLANET (US), Zareh Nalbandian - CEO & Co-Founder, ANIMAL LOGIC (LEGO MOVIE, HARRY POTTER, THE GREAT GATSBY) and Russel Howcroft, Chief Creative Officer, PWC, Chair, AFTRS & GRUEN (ABC).
Participants will also be joined by UTS Academics Professor Margaret Petty - Executive Director, Innovation & Enterprise, Jason Twill - Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Dr Julia Prior - Director, Engagement (Teaching & Learning) Faculty of Engineering and IT and Dr Natalia Nikolova - Senior Lecturer in Management, UTS Business School.
Delegates will also hear about:
- The pivotal role Brooklyn Academy of Music and culture has played in transforming Brooklyn into one of the world’s leading creative districts
- How the Royal Shakespeare Company are working with collaborators such as Intel to reinvent the way we experience theatre
- How the National Theatre (London) developed an ‘Immersion Studio’ collaborating with the likes of Damon Albarn to understand the potential of technologies like VR & AR to shape the future of storytelling
- The story of the 'poppy project' at the Tower of London seen by over 5 million people, a phenomenon that became one of the most visited cultural experiences ever created
- How disruptors such as Airbnb are shaping the future of travel
- How Buenos Aires has become a leading global creative capital
- Find out how NASA are using creative mediums to find new ways of communicating complex ideas and mission discoveries
- Artist & technologist Beatie Wolfe share her insights on music innovation, and experience her perform and understand why she is described as "Ingenious" (Fast Company), "Ground-breaking" (BBC) and "Extraordinary" (Forbes)
See below for some REMIX Sydney 2017 highlights. Check out the full agenda here.
7th December - Creative Places
Sessions include:
- Incubating ideas - New infrastructure for the creative industries
- After 5: Revitalising our city after dark
- Designing the communal backyard - The future of public spaces
- Creative collisions & cross pollination - Moving beyond the Silicon Valley model of innovation clusters
- Keys to the city: How can we redistribute power to unlock creative communities
- Models for designing places in suburbs, regional centres and rural locations
- 21st Century cultural infrastructure - Blurring digital and physical
8th December - Future of storytelling stream
Sessions include:
- New horizons: Technology & storytelling
- New business models: Monetising content
- Story & Place - Telling old stories in new ways
- What's next ... Podcasting
- What's next ... Games
UTS is proud to be venue partner for REMIX 2017, supported by the university’s Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creative Intelligence Unit. We have a small number of FREE tickets available for UTS students who can say in one sentence why they should be allocated a free ticket to attend REMIX 2017. Email response should be sent to leah.lucas@uts.edu.au by Friday 1 December 2017.
Meanwhile we are offering a 25% discount for UTS staff. Please contact leah.lucas@uts.edu.au for the promotional code.