MFG European Reporter -

Create10, the European Future Conference for Digital Trends in the Creative Industries, will be staged for the first time on November 10 and 11, 2010.

Media pioneers, creative thought leaders and IT experts from all over Europe are expected to attend Create10 in Stuttgart, Germany.

The conference will be divided into three parts. The CReATE Forum will introduce the five most promising research fields that will play a leading role the European creative industries in the next ten years (CReATE is an EU research project led by MFG). Various interactive workshops will present outstanding trends in the digital creative industries and collaboratively develop new ideas.

Read more in MFG’s press release (pdf).

MFG Baden-Württemberg will present the “MFG Visual Experience Lab” at FMX 2010, the internationally renowned platform for computer animation, visual effects, games and digital media.  MFG uses this new laboratory to test and research current visualisation trends and technologies together with universities, businesses and talented newcomers from South-West Germany, providing them with an open experimental forum in which to study current trends and projects and test new applications jointly with MFG.

FMX visitors will have the opportunity to learn how these technologies can be integrated into computer games and virtual training worlds, for example at the “MFG Games Track” on May 5 or at the demonstration of the “MFG Visual Experience Lab” on May 6.

Read more in MFG’s press release (pdf)

Today at 2 p.m. in the fascinating Turin the International Conference “CReATE: CONNECTING ICT RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ENTERPRISES” will start. For two days (4th-5th November) the conference will be the meeting point for experts, coming from several countries and different background, to discuss the state of the art of ICT innovation in creative industries and cluster development.

Experts, entrepreneurs, public decision makers, academics will share their experience during thematic workshops addressed to discuss the CReATE research priorities. A round table about IT research policy for creative industry will provide a multiple approach on public actions to innovate and make competitive the creative sector and will give inputs to the upcoming CReATE Joint Research Agenda.

Many ispiring speakers are attended, here the full program. If you are not in Turin, you can follow the conference for free in streaming on WIPIE TV.

The CReATE project, coordinated by MFG and funded within the FP7 – Regions of Knowledge framework,  is organizing the international conference  “CReATE: CONNECTING ICT RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ENTERPRISES”, that will take place in Turin, Italy, on 4th and 5th November 2009.

The conference  will be the meeting point for experts, coming from several countries and different background, to discuss the state of the art of ICT innovation in creative industries and cluster development. It is meant to involve public, political, entrepreneurial stakeholders through targeted workshops and discussions, in order to network them, to identify new ICT development trajectories and ICT research priorities, to focus innovative business models.

The event is addressed to cluster organisations, company representatives (SMEs and MNCs), researchers, intermediaries, enterprise associations, political decision-makers, both from CReATE partner and non-partner regions.

The CReATE conference will be hosted at the Virtual Reality & Multimedia Park in Turin, a high tech facility supported by local university and Regione Piemonte to promote research and development of innovative applications – especially in virtual reality and new technologies – for the audiovisual and multimedia sector development.
Moreover, the CReATE conference is part of a week in Turin full of events and festivals, to explore digital creativity, such as VIEW conference, Share Festival, Club to Club Festival in cooperation with Regione Piemonte.

The conference is part of the programm of the European Year of creativity and innovation and will be be streamed on WIPIE TV.

The event will be enriched by a Matchmaking session, organized for the evening of the 4th November, which will bring together enterprises, working  in Creative sector,  from the hot-spots region involved in CReATE.

Klaus Haasis and Sergio Duretti

We are happy to celebrate the strong collaboration with our Italian partner, CSP- Innovazione nelle ICT, now strengthened with a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Mr Haasis, CEO of MFG and Mr. Duretti, Director of CSP.

Under the umbrella of Open-Days, Mr Haasis and Duretti met each other for a strategic meeting, during which future cooperation activities have been defined. CReATE, Focus, SVEA, Master dei Talenti – with the collaboration of Fondazione CRT of Turin – are just some examples of projects and programmes which remark the collaboration between CSP and MFG during these years.

The moment of the signature