Creative Clusters, the world’s leading event on the creative economy, is looking for lively and challenging speakers from all parts of the world.

Today, creativity is the key factor driving development. Businesses based on creativity are transforming the global economy, and policy-makers are scrambling to respond. If you have compelling experience in the following areas, we want to hear from you.

The Creative Economy in Smaller Nations In the ‘winner takes all’ world of the creative economy, it is increasingly apparent that issues facing the creative industries in smaller nations are substantially different from those in larger ones. What makes a ‘Creative Nation’?

The Moving Image goes Online Take-over battles between major media companies, the rise of file-sharing, YouTube, the use of viewer-donated clips in mainstream newscasts, major TV channels available on the web – just a few signs of the internet’s emergence as a global distribution channel for moving images. How can cities and regions attract the next generation of audio-visual producers?

Policies for Festivity Cities across the world are investing in cultural events to drive economic development and to tell the world, and their own citizens, what they are and what they will become. Meanwhile, live music of all kinds is booming, and new technology has made possible entirely new kinds of live event. How are policy-makers helping their events and festivals to prosper?

Leadership in the Creative Economy The creative economy, with its economic, cultural and social dimensions, calls for multidisciplinary policy responses and inter-ministerial action. How are strategy leaders challenging traditional boundaries between art, business, education and science, between for- and non-profit enterprise, between economic, social and cultural policy?

The Long Story of Glasgow’s Creative Economy Culture and creativity have been at the heart of Glasgow’s regeneration policies for a generation. Twenty years on from the Garden Festival, we take stock, and ask where Glasgow might be in 2028.

Creative Clusters 2008 runs November 17th to 20th 2008 Glasgow , UK in partnership with: Scottish Government, Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, and Glasgow Concert Halls.

To take part, go to http://www.creativeclusters.com.