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The Insider: Innovation Philadelphia to Host Second Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit in Philadelphia

On October 5-6, 2009, Innovation Philadelphia will host the second Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Over 1,000 entrepreneurs, business leaders, and creative industry professionals will converge for this two-day Summit to network, exchange ideas, and share information on emerging technology and initiatives that drive a successful creative economy.

The first Summit, held in 2006, focused on defining the creative economy, measuring its size and identifying the industries compromising it. The 2nd Summit will move from looking at the basic economic and social implications of the creative economy to delving into more complex discussions and calls to action. The 2009 Summit will explore key questions that everyone has—how do you do it? How do you develop a creative economy, from both the top down and the bottom up? The Summit will also explore the complex ecology that makes up creative economies, looking at all aspects of what creative ecologies need from physical space, to funding, to access to talent, to emerging technologies, to infrastructure and the policies necessary to create that ecology.

The Summit will have results-driven discussions, presentations, interactive workshops and panels within following four tracks: Creative Economy 201, Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative 21st Century Workforce, and Creative Sustainability.

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Innovation Spotlight: Creating Sound Design Concepts

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Innovation Philadelphia spotlights regional creative industry entrepreneurs and young professionals making an impact on the Philadelphia Region, or innovative initiatives that showcase the tremendous innovative and creative talent driving Philadelphia's economy.

April’s spotlight on creativity is local creative professional Keith Webb. Keith is a freelance graphic designer based in the Philadelphia suburbs. Before establishing Keith Webb Design, he had an extensive background in graphic design at established magazines such as Philadelphia Magazine, Fast Company Magazine and The Boston Globe Magazine. Keith started his career with Knight-Ridder Newspapers.

Most recently, Keith re-designed the logo and created the design pieces for the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009. Keith continues to make his design mark in the region as he will be expanding his business to include web design in the near future.

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Innovation Philadelphia invites you to participate in Spark!, June 1 from 5-9 pm

Innovation Philadelphia invites you to participate in an exciting upcoming event called Spark!, June 1st from 5-9 p.m. at The Hub at Cira Centre.

Unlike any other Philadelphia entrepreneurship event ever before, Spark! offers a fun and fresh new take on networking. With interactive conversation, idea generation and solution-based workshops, attendees will have the opportunity to network with inspired entrepreneurs and have the opportunity to make connections that will help build their businesses. A variety of idea sparking activities will take place throughout the evening including:

Idea sharing events (Bloblive) providing the forum for entrepreneurs to voice their business idea and get live feedback from other attendees.
Solution-based workshops designed for interactivity and practical education
Free-form networking where non-traditional methods of connecting will be utilized
Spark! rooms that involve interactive community projects and provide a private location to help foster new ideas right at that moment

Visit the Spark! web site for more information and to Register.

Innovation Philadelphia followers have been given an exclusive discount. Use the discount code "SPKIP", which will make the registration cost $10, instead of $30. NOTE: IP will be checking the list of registrants using this code daily, so please do not share this discount code with non-followers.

Creative Jobs. Creative Freelance. One Site.

Philly Creative Jobs

Finding the perfect position isn’t as hard as you think. Refine your search by using local niche job boards to find what is right for your career. Recent job and freelance opportunities on PhillyCreativeJobs.com are below.

Communication Intern
Philadelphia, PA

Group Creative Director for GSI
Commerce
King of Prussia, PA

Web Designer for Knockout
Asbury Park, NJ

PhillyCreativeJobs.com serves as an interactive online resource for creative professionals and companies to find and post freelance and employment opportunities in the Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Northern Delaware regions. It is an initiative of both Innovation Philadelphia and PhillyCreativeGuide.

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