Built around two themes, BEYOND Conference convenes those shaping the creative industries to harness the sector’s greatest opportunities and tackle its defining challenges: in experience, in growth and in what the creative industries build next.
EXPERIENCE talks to the creative and intellectual heart of BEYOND. This is where boundary-pushing ideas live: immersive technology, new formats, R&D in action. Content for the curious, the makers and the people driving what comes next.
GROWTH is where bold ideas become sustainable realities. Funding landscapes, scaling strategies, investment models: practical, forward-looking content for leaders turning creative ambition into scalable innovation.
Together, they reflect the reality of working at the forefront of the creative industries. You’re always doing both: creating and building, innovating and scaling. BEYOND is built around that dual identity.
EXPERIENCE.
TUE 24 NOV 2026
CREATE, DISCOVER & INNOVATE
What is changing in how we create and experience culture and what can the world’s creative economies learn from each other?
Shared, felt and remembered: at the heart of every creative experience is a human moment. The creative industries exist to generate those moments and right now they’re doing so in a world changing faster than real time, as technology, AI above all, reshapes how culture is made, distributed and consumed at a scale we are only beginning to understand.
The more the world accelerates, the more human connection, creative practice and shared experience matter. Across screen, music, live performance, immersive and the wider experience economy, we gather around a shared conviction: that culture is at its most powerful when it connects us, in person, virtually and in forms of shared experience that are still being invented. Together, we’ll find out what comes next.
GROWTH.
WED 25 NOV 2026
BUILD, FUND & SCALE
How do we fund and scale creative innovation sustainably?
The creative industries are one of the most dynamic investment frontiers of our time. New technologies are opening up new IP, new platforms and new markets. And a new generation of founders is building businesses that are as culturally significant as they are commercially compelling.
BEYOND is where that potential meets the people who can unlock it. We bring together investors, founders, policymakers and cluster leads to explore the full picture: the funding models, the IP frameworks and the infrastructure that creative businesses need to grow. We showcase the latest technologies attracting capital, connect the people who have ideas with the people who have resources, and help founders build the language, the relationships and the ambition to take creative businesses to local, national and global markets. Because when creative innovation scales, the returns go well beyond the financial.
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