The African Creative Economy Conference (6-9 October 2013) is an unique opportunity to empower yourself in a three-day intensive programme of exchanging cutting-edge information and innovative ideas. It will focus on unlocking the potential of the continent’s creative industries (Africa’s share of the global creative economy is currently less than 1%) and leapfrogging into emerging high-growth sectors of the world economy.

Keynote addresses and debates will broadly cover:

•   The state of the African economy in a global context
•  Examining and re-defining the creative industries under  African conditions
• Discussing their relevance to African economic, social and political developments
• Sharing up-to-date research on the creative sectors throughout Africa
• Exploring the creative industries within the broader political and economic context of Africa, the global south and north-south relations
• Key markets for African creative goods and services and practical suggestions on the way forward.

A preliminary programme of the conference is available at the Arterial Network website at http://acec2013.org.za/programme/. If you would like to download the programme, please click here.

Registrations are now open. For further information about registrations, click here.

For further information, please see the conference website at: http://acec2013.org.za/