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FutureEverything: The City Debate

Friday, May 14, 2010 from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM (GMT)

Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

FutureEverything: The City Debate

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FutureEverything: The City Debate

Friday 14th May 2010
Manchester Business School
3pm-5:30pm
FREE (limited places available)

A TV studio style debate exploring the future of Manchester engaging all stakeholders and communities. Hot on the heels of the election, this is your chance to inform the thinking and ideas that will shape Manchester's future. An ideas event for evangelists, cynics, digital artesans, policy makers, property magnates, media vultures, urban planners, you, and me.

Key figures working today to build Manchester's future will give their vision. Each will reply to the FutureEverything Proposition, a statement about the future of the city region commissioned from leading international thinkers. A studio audience will then debate the future of Manchester.

Join us to find out:
− What is the vision?
− What is the global opportunity people in Manchester need to collaboratively grasp?
− How can we find more ecologically sound ways of trading and interacting?
− What will be the role of cultural organisations in a digital landscape?
− Who will benefit and who risks being left behind?

The City Debate will engage communities, businesses and other stakeholders to explore new ways to bring life, energy and commerce to the city. The event will be followed by a networking reception.

Confirmed speakers include:
Sir Howard Bernstein (Manchester City Council) by video, Susan Woodward (Sharp Project), Roger Milburn (Arup), Mike Ryan (Manchester Digital), Dave Carter (Manchester Digital Development Agency), Lyn Barbour (Manchester City Council), Walt Crowson (Learning Skills Employment Network), Patsy Hodson (Manchester Communication Academy), Alice Morrison (NWVM), Nick Johnson (Urban Splash), Professor Alan Harding (Institute for Political & Economic Governance), Martin Carr (True North), Mike Emmerich (Commission for the New Economy), Colette Williams (Moss Side independent candidate), Kate Feld (The Manchizzle),  Tim Newns (MIDAS), Clare O'Neill (Manchester Knowledge Capital).

Journalist and broadcaster Jenni Murray will moderate The City Debate.

For more information and updates go to: http://www.futureeverything.org/festival2010/thecitydebate

Venue: Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, Gtr Manchester, M15 6PB, UK

Supported by Manchester Business School, Manchester Cultural Partnership, British Computing Society, Northwest Vision and Media, Experimentality!, Imagination Lancaster, MIDAS, Creative Times.

When & Where


Manchester Business School
The University of Manchester
Booth Street West
M15 6PB Greater Manchester
United Kingdom

Friday, May 14, 2010 from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM (GMT)


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After 15 years at the forefront of art, music and ideas, Futuresonic is now FutureEverything. FutureEverything 2010 takes place 12-15 May 2010 in Manchester, England.

FutureEverything is an award winning, world class organisation using mass participation in creativity and social innovation to bring the future into the present. It has a strong global network and international profile, and is recognised around the world for leading pioneering projects and important international debates. The organisation delivers a range of benefits, including mass engagement, awards, international networks, local advocacy, training and thought leadership, on themes including innovation, technology, art, society and the environment. It is embedded in business support networks, and is central to the innovation ecology in the UK.

FutureEverything Awards - A major new international award in four categories for artworks, social innovations, or software and technology projects which bring the future into the present, awarded by an international jury following a rigorous assessment process.

Festival - The FutureEverything festival (formerly Futuresonic, est. 1995) is attended by 75,000 people and is completely unique, bringing together world premieres of cutting edge artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world.

Conference - The place to go each year for the important international debates in the field, bringing 500 opinion formers, futurologists, researchers, artists, technologists and scientists together to explore the latest upgrade affecting today’s digital culture.

Innovation & Leadership - FutureEverything is an innovation incubator with a long history of creative leadership in areas such as mobile and locative arts, social media, and the environment.

Global Network - FutureEverything is a destination for a world-wide community of creative visionaries in digital media and contemporary art, and an international hub for Manchester and England.

Year-round Impact - FutureEverything is embedded in research and business development networks feeding in and out of the festival, so that there is continuity between the inspiration space of the festival and year-round support and engagement.

Collaborators - FutureEverything enjoys an important strategic alliance with the ImaginationLancaster research centre at Lancaster University. It is collaborating with the BBC to establish an alliance of technology events in the North of England, and is working in partnership with a wide range of other regional, national and international organisations.

Get Involved - in The Experimental City in 2010, and New Mobilities in 2011.