DIGISET Forum: Creative industries for a sustainable future

The DIGISET Forum: Creative Industries for a Sustainable Future brings together pioneers from the creative, cultural, and social innovation sectors to explore how creativity can drive the triple transition, green, digital, and social. Through panels, workshops, and networking opportunities, participants will discover impactful initiatives, strategies for measuring change, and pathways to empower social SMEs in the cultural and creative ecosystem.

Event Overview
The forum opens with a networking breakfast and welcome remarks, followed by an inspiring keynote on the role of creative industries in enabling the triple transition.

• Panel 1 – Impactful Creativity: Showcases leading organizations and networks harnessing creativity to address climate challenges, promote social innovation, and engage citizens through art and culture.
• Panel 2 – Impact Measurement: Highlights approaches and tools developed by international actors to assess and strengthen the social, environmental, and economic impact of creative initiatives.
• Panel 3 – Enabling Digitalization of Social SMEs: Discusses the role of business support and enabling organizations in accelerating digital transformation within the cultural and creative industries.
• Panel 4 – Culture and Creativity Synergies: Explores cross-sectoral collaborations across architecture, audiovisual, heritage, fashion, gaming, design, and resilience, with a focus on AI-driven innovation and digital futures.
• World Café Workshops: An interactive session for participants to exchange ideas, co-create solutions, and build connections across sectors.

The day concludes with a collective reflection on takeaways and future directions for fostering sustainable, inclusive, and innovative creative ecosystems.
Financial support for participation is available upon application for participants working more than 20 km from the workshop location (based on the organisation's registered office): €948 (no supporting documents required).

Info: Cécile Ney is the Impact Lead at Impact Hub Global. She has worked across Europe and Latin America in diverse settings, including corporate foundations, local and international NGOs, and social enterprises, focusing on impact strategy and acceleration programs while also teaching social entrepreneurship in Central American universities.

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BeCentral, 12 Cantersteen, Bruxelles, Belgium

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