Name: Driving innovation through creative technologies
Start: 2026-03-24T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-24T17:00:00+00:00
Location: York Guildhall

Driving innovation through creative technologies

Discover how creative technologies can drive innovation across a wide range of sectors.
About this Event

C3 Creative Technology Discovery Event

📍 The Guildhall, York

📅 Tuesday 24 March

⏰ 1:00pm – 5:00pm

Creative technologies are increasingly shaping how organisations innovate across sectors including manufacturing, engineering, health, heritage, tourism, construction and digital services.

Join us for the first Creative Technology Discovery Cluster (C3) event, bringing together organisations from across York and North Yorkshire to explore how creative and interactive technologies can create new opportunities for innovation and growth in a wide range of sectors.

What to expect

This interactive afternoon will focus on ideas, insight and collaboration, helping participants explore the practical potential of creative technologies within their own organisations.

The programme includes:

A future-focused keynote from Phil Adlam, CTO of Live Lab and Production Park, exploring how creative technologies may develop over the next 15–20 years
Facilitated group innovation sessions supporting participants to identify opportunities, challenges and next steps
Cross-sector discussion and networking, bringing together SMEs, larger organisations, creative practitioners and innovation leads

Who should attend?

This event is ideal for organisations of all sizes that are curious about innovation and interested in learning from other sectors. No technical expertise is required.

About C3

The Creative Technology Discovery Cluster (C3) supports organisations to unlock the potential of creative and digital technologies and is supported by the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, and regional partners.

We are very grateful to our C3 project partners TechYork, York Central and the West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.

Any personal data you provide in this form will be collected, processed and stored by the event organisers in accordance with The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Privacy Notice and Enterprise Works - The University of York Privacy Notice.