Issue #28

March 4th, 2021

Creativity – A life, commercial, and economic force

THIS week’s webinar – Friday March 5th 4:00PM MST

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9280952495

Our weekly webinar. Join us: share and network, discover and learn.

Last week’s webinar HERE introduced the topic of Creativity, a natural expression for children and core to innovation. The webinar moderated by Haley Simons, featured presentations by George Tzougros, Michael MacDonald, and Lorenz Sigurdson. The following discussion concluded that systems of education and the innovation ecosystem players need to recognize that Creativity is now fundamental to sustainability.

This Friday March 5th 4:00pm MST – moderated by Haley Simons, we will dig deeper into Creativity as a life, commercial, and economic force. 

THE FUTURE

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CHINA’s AI CHALLENGE

HERE

US investing critical. Thank you Dennis

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HEALTHCARE

HERE

Microrobots delivering precise therapeutics and biologics

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UNCERTAINTIES

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CLIMATE CHANGE

HERE

Monitoring geoengineering proposals and safeguards

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COVID PARADOX

HERE

ICUs can be both empty and full

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LEARNING LOSS

HERE

Covid’s impact and the failure of On-line learning

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A CREATIVE CHUCKLE

Thank you Charles

                    Haley Simons

FACILITATOR

Advocate for creativity, innovation, and creative development in education, culture, and economic sectors. Instigating and developing creativity initiatives throughout and between sectors. Creativity is the driving force behind our greatest ideas, our most comprehensive solutions, and our profitable enterprises.  The very future of our communities depends on imaginative, creative, innovative solutions to profound and complex challenges, and on our ability to nurture and harness imagination to creatively solve problems.

PRESENTERS

  Margaret Collins  

  Center for Creative Economy

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Mark Anielski

Economics of Happiness

During Covid we have been living through a period of imposed creativity. We have been isolating and forced to experience something very new – personalized commerce, entertainment, learning, etc. The selling, packaging, marketing of personal experience, as public activities have been cancelled. The lockdown has served to create the market for On-line education and eCommerce, eCommunications and On-line Conferencing, virtual tourism and an increase in On-line gaming and entertainment – digital everything.

What looms ahead? When might machines dominate the market: buying and selling, marketing and transacting, entertaining and educating – one another! Can you imagine a scenario when humans offload their welfare to technology?

Since 2010 we have continued to explore creativity and the application of technology: 

• Off-loading Intelligence – When Machines Decide! (2010)
• Analytics, BIG Data, and the Cloud (2012, 2013) – aiding and automating decision making
• Creativity & Convergence (2015) – the power of cross-sector collaboration
• BIG Ideas – Creating the new Alberta (2016) – innovations across industries and professions
• The Festival of BIG Ideas (2017) – creativity in various tech sectors
• Moonlight in the Meadows (2018) – innovations, innovators, and incubators
• Vision & Leadership (2019) – creativity in mobilizing change
• KEI Network webinars (2020 2021) – viewpoints on the future, threats and opportunities

 Are you and your children ready? Your staff and constituents? Join us Friday for an exhilarating discussion of the relevance of Creativity in living, working, succeeding.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9280952495

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