The Unmissable Survive & Thrive is Back
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The future is here already - are we all ready? Survive & Thrive believes that it’s up to us to take charge of the disruption and fast-paced change living in the ‘future now’ brings and our line-up of local and international speakers and specialists will explore just that.
Survive & Thrive is New Zealands smart-thinking event for creators, innovators, and anyone keen to use design and arts-led practice to build resilience in their career, business or organisation.
This year, Survive & Thrive will be held on 13-14 September, at AUT University’s Sir Paul Reeves Building. A rich mix of inspiring world-class speakers, practical workshops, networking, one-on-one mentoring, and independent sessions led by sector organisations, makes this an unmissable professional and enterprise development event.
Now spread over TWO days make this an event that meets your needs.
On Friday weave your way through any of our four strands – Going Global, Site Pacific, For a Better World and Resilience Rules to pick and mix a day that matters most to you.
There are big issues to grapple with and at Survive & Thrive we will begin a number of conversations through four programme strands:
- Site Pacific - Paora Joseph, Harry Silver, Kim Newall, Grace Taylor and Nick Gerritsen will talk about how we stand in relation to the past, how that shapes our different personal and professional identities, and also how that influences the way we face the future.
- Going Global – with Mike Mizrahi, Luca Van Brandenburg and Rebecca Mills. How have different creative entrepreneurs successfully developed opportunities for their products and services outside their cultural comfort zone? With Asia on New Zealand’s doorstep, there’s a growing interest across the creative economy to reach out and engage new audiences and customers over there.
- For a better world - Join positive agitators Cate McQuillen, Richard Reid, Jerome Partington and Vivian Hutchinson talking about ‘a Better World'. When we accept that a critical collapse in our environment and economy is no longer in the future, but is unfolding here and now, it is positive agitators we must call on to shift us into new ways of being.
- Resilience rules - Join Alex Hillman, Jo Randerson, David McGregor and Charlie McDermott in our Resilience rules sessions as they explore the addage - change IS constant [and often unpredictable]. They will share stories of conflict, collaboration, community as well as crisis in building personal resilience and how the creative community can contribute responding to global crises and making a unique contribution to building humanity’s collective resilience.
Then on Saturday, you’ll be provoked! It's all about Provoking Open Participation or ‘POP’
- In the morning, POP: Share sessions led by industry organisations will jump-start your day.
- Then in the afternoon, join POP: Action [our open source programme led by Dr Ralph Kerle], where YOU provide the content by sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas with other thinkers, makers and doers.
Survive & Thrive is New Zealand’s smart-thinking event for artists, creators, innovators and entrepreneurs…you’d be mad to miss it.