Did you know that 75% of people think that they’re not living up to their creative potential?
If people are not given the opportunity to express their creativity, it can cause shifts in mood, their perspective and performance. It’s important to ensure you have the right tools to showcase your creativity so devoting time to exploring how you can be more creative is crucial.
Here are our top picks for creative events running throughout March – April 2020 (just click on the event names for more information!):
1st January – 31st March – Beazley Designs of the Year, The Design Museum, London
Innovative designs chosen by the public and design experts will be on display. See designs spanning the themes of fashion, architecture, digital, transport, product and graphic design.
2nd – 3rd March – The UX Conference in London 2020, The School of Lux, London
The design conference with a difference – it’s beyond trends and buzzwords. Instead it focuses on the collaboration between designers. Speakers have experience working in Airbnb, Shopify, Transport for London, OpenTable, Dyson, Abstract and Nike – to name just a few! The event aims to explore how UX designers can improve how they work with UI, content and graphic designers.
Day 1 – Insightful talks
Day 2 – Hands-on workshops
7th March – Can I Be Creative? Part of the Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre, London
What does it mean to be creative?
Use this inspirational session to create something and find out how to release your artistic side at this event designed to explore the overlooked topic of women’s creative forces. A panel of artists will talk about the historic exclusion of women from the artistic space. Discover how to build confidence to own your creative vision, overcome vulnerability and doubt and give yourself permission to create.
12th March – Product Strategy Workshop with Gibson Biddle, Techspace, Shoreditch, London
Gibson Biddle, ex VP of Product at Netflix will be delivering this workshop together with Beyond, a design and technology agency. Discover how to inspire your product team with the models, tools and frameworks that can enable you to build better products as well as scale your business and create world-class customer experience.
12th and 13th March – Deliver Conference, Manchester, UK
DeliverConf will help you connect with your community. This conference is packed full of practical takeaways that will help you discover how you can deliver value to clients and customers and internally. There’ll be two days of workshops, talks, case studies and discussion with useful advice and refreshing perspectives.
March 16th – 18th – VFX Festival 2020, London, UK
Hosted by Escape Studios, the VFX Festive is an annual celebrated of visual effects, animation, games and motion graphics. Emerging talent can explore the creative industries and creative professions can provide an insight into award-winning products. This year’s focus is on discovering and developing new and emerging talent.
March 17th – 18th – AI & Big Data Expo Global 2020, Olympia, London, UK
The leading Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Conference & Exhibition event will showcase the next generation of technologies and strategies in AI and big data. Explore and discover how using AI and big data is key to propelling your business forward in 2020 and beyond.
20th March – FutureFest by Nesta, London, UK
How can the planet sustain us? What will Alexa do with your biggest secrets? How can we learn to be alone together?
FutureFest celebrates the fact we have the power to shape the future, bringing together interactive experiences, performances, talks and debates that you need. The idea of the festival is based on “the belief that the future is not something that happens to us, but something we can create.”
26th March – 6th April – London Games Festival, Various London venues, London, UK
This festival isn’t just for gamers as there are hundreds of games, from old classics to new releases which can be played at several London venues with talks and opportunities for games developers and lots of interactive fun.
25th April – 3rd January 2021 – Bags: Inside Out, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The V&A brings you a collection of over 300 items, taking you on a journey to discover the evolution of our most used apparel item: the humble bag.
27th – 29th April – Beyond Tellerrand, various locations across Germany
Creativity and technology meet at this event covering a wide variety of topics and putting an emphasis on creativity, inspiration and learning.
30th April – Contagious Live, London UK
Contagious Live is designed for planners on the lookout for perspective, creatives with a whole lot of curiosity, marketers aiming to build a brand that matters and for anyone that’s looking for inspiration.
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