Use8 – The User Experience Society is supporting the University of Brighton’s “Connecting Innovation” event that will take place next 26th of March in Brighton, UK.

Today creativity and innovation have become the driving forces of our economy and society. Innovation can be considered as the creative output of an ongoing process that develops and applies new knowledge to work, life, product and services.

A new field is emerging for innovation where economic, technological, social and cultural trends move more closely. This new field is not located in distinct domains but is situated at the intersection and crossover where different knowledge domains, institutions and people connect and engage.

Connecting Innovation is an event that will explore this new field of innovation investigating the interplay between diverse disciplines and exploring new innovation strategies for the knowledge based society. What are the advantages of an open approach to innovation? Why are multidisciplinary team more effective? What role does culture play in innovation? These are some of the topic that Connecting Innovation will explore.

Confirmed speakers include:
Charles Leadbeater, a leading authority on innovation and creativity and the author of “We-think: the power of mass creativity”, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning.

Ken Thompson, an expert practitioner in the area of swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams and has published two landmark books: “Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs” and “The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks”

Visit an exhibition of local artists, companies and organisations supporting the creative and digital industries