Events

World Creativity and Innovation Day

Thursday 18 April 2024

The interdisciplinary Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice (c2p2), working with CCE (the Centre for Charity Effectiveness) and ETHOS (the Centre for Responsible Enterprise), will lead an event to celebrate UN World Creativity and Innovation Week on Thursday, April 18^th, 2024.

The event will use research from the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice’s network to inspire creative thinking on UN SDG Goal 13: Climate Action, through workshops using AI-powered services and tools, futures thinking and legislative theatre.

Please save the date, and get in touch at creativity@city.ac.uk to find out more. Sign up information to follow.

Previous Events

CreAtIve Comm 22 | CebAI’s annual conference at Bayes Business School

Bayes Innovate 2023

At Bayes Innovate, the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice delivered a workshop entitled Creative Responses to Climate Change: Imagining Food Security. Participants in the workshop used creative processes to examine potential impacts and implications of emerging trends, which will acted as inspiration for innovations aimed at enhancing food security and enabling green livelihoods, especially in those parts of the world that are currently worst affected.

CreAtIve Comm 2022

For CreAtIve Comm 2022, the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice delivered a creative problem-solving workshop using the SCAMPER technique to find creative solutions to the problem of creating a sense of community amongst people who are rarely or never able to be in the same time and place together. Professor Neil Maiden interviewed Nigel Redman, former Olympic coach about finding ways to integrate creativity into the sports coaching process, and demonstrated how CebAI's latest product, Sport Sparks, uses AI and creativity to enhance innovation in sports coaching.

CreAtIve Comm 2021

Professor Neil Maiden hosted an afternoon of discussions, presentations and case studies on the subject of technology, human creativity and effective collaboration between academia and the commercial sector, and Dr Sara Jones contributed a session on Inspiring a Future Vision.

World Creativity and Innovation Day 2022

The Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice (C2P2) and The National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI), celebrated collaborative innovations for the United Nations' World Creativity and Innovation Day. In 2021, the special focus was on Goal 16, the sustainable development of peace, justice & strong institutions.

The Global WIIN Conference 2022

• The Global WIIN Conference 2022

The Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GlobalWIIN) Conference, Showcase & Awards ceremony introduced speakers from around the world to discuss creativity, digital trends, sustainability and innovative solutions. More than 70 attendees from different worldwide organisations presented at plenary sessions, hosted by the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at Bayes. These were on subjects including the pursuit of protection and ownership of intellectual property, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the rise of digital assets, the food industry, the growth of women inventors in the Mi

CreAtIve Comm 22 | CebAI’s annual conference at Bayes Business School

ddle East, investing in the next generation of female leadership and the value and impact of protection in a competitive world.