Grand Entrance

Please arrive with plenty of time to check in and collect your delegate badge. We kindly ask however that you do not arrive *before* 8.15 as the doors will be locked.

Tea and coffee and use of the cloakroom will be available on arrival.

Theatre

Introducing the programme for the day is our host this year, broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

Andrew Chitty, Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC), Loughborough University London

Samira Ahmed, Broadcaster and Journalist, BBC

Theatre

The 2023 programme has been produced in partnership with the Creative Economy team at the British Council. The team champions international creativity, and works to support the growth of dynamic, diverse creative economies through long-term collaborations, and are led by Rehana Mughal who will give an introduction to the BEYOND programme.

Rehana Mughal, Director, Creative Economy, British Council

Theatre

The opening in March of Oman Across the Ages marked the extraordinary culmination of over a decade of work. The museum project was commissioned by the late Sultan with the brief to create an immersive, narrative-led experience that would absorb a new generation and uncover the nation’s history. We will hear from the creative team behind the work to tell us about the collaborations and partnerships that brought the deep past to life for the 21st century.

Amanda Dimmock, Senior Content Designer, EVENT Communications

Esteban Botero, Creative Director, EVENT Communications

Library

Generative AI is having a huge impact on the creative industries, for good, bad, and often somewhere…unknown. A panel with a variety of perspectives on GenAI will take part in an audience Q&A session exploring the challenges and opportunities for the creative sector, from questions of authorship, copyright and fair reward, to the potential for new tools and co-creation.

Chris Speed, Director, Edinburgh Futures Institute

Lara Carmona, Director of Policy and Engagement, Creative UK

Oliver Bown, Associate Professor, The University of New South Wales

Rachel Lyske, Chief Executive Officer, DACCI

Theatre

In Saudi Arabia, (and across other states in the region) a resurgence is taking place within the creative industries, with big ambitions to create a sector that drives both social and economic change. We will hear how some large-scale initiatives are taking shape, and explore the role of creative international collaboration in these transformations.

Hala Al Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer, Nuwah Foundation

Miguel Blanco-Carrasco, Advisor, Royal Commission for Riyadh City

Paul Owens, Co-Founder and Director, BOP

Vilma Jurkute, Executive Director, Alserkal Initiatives

Georgian RoomMezzanine

Time to stretch your legs, network and visit the Immersive Futures Lab, which features research-led projects exploring new and novel ways to push the boundaries of what is possible in creative technologies.

Theatre

Working with textile mills and garment makers in Bangladesh, Bureau 555 are introducing virtual fabric sampling, a tool with the potential to significantly reduce carbon footprints in the fashion industry. We will hear from founding partners Gabrielle Shiner-Hill (UK), and Nusrat Mahmud (Bangladesh) on how Bureau 555 grew out of an R&D programme to become a company on a mission to make digital tech accessible within the fashion supply chain.

Gabrielle Shiner-Hill, Co-founder, Bureau 555

Nusrat Mahmud, Co-founder, Bureau 555

Theatre

Some of the fastest growth and most radical thinking in the creative economy is in the Global South, where the possibilities of the digital world are being applied to social and cultural issues such as women’s empowerment, youth unemployment, the celebration of indigenous cultures and the impact of climate change. But the COVID pandemic has highlighted the precariousness of people working informally in the creative sector in countries of the Global South – from traditional craft artisans to TV script writers. This session explores some of the responses.

Daniar Amanaliev, Co-founder and Band Master, ololo Group

John Newbigin, Chair, PEC International Council

Samira Ahmed, Broadcaster and Journalist, BBC

Tita Larasati, Executive Committee, ICCN

Georgian RoomMezzanine

Time to stretch your legs, network and visit the Immersive Futures Lab which features outputs from creative research-led projects exploring new and novel ways to push the boundaries of what is possible in creative technologies.

Library

Both Glasgow-based ISO Design and global agency EVENT Communications specialise in design-led cultural projects, devising and building large-scale interactive and immersive experiences. Their collaborations on museum works have included Bletchley Park, EPIC (the Irish emigration museum) and the Oman Across the Ages museum. This session will explore their collaborations work, as well as the global market for UK design, and how worldwide, museums are embracing digital and immersive exhibition design.

Amanda Dimmock, Senior Content Designer, EVENT Communications

Chris Michaels, Founder, Digital Advisory

Damien Smith, Partner, ISODESIGN

Esteban Botero, Creative Director, EVENT Communications

Theatre

Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are home to rich, diverse and dynamic arts and technology ecosystems. In all three, digital innovation in the arts is becoming a government policy priority, leading to new programmes, infrastructure and R&D. Launching at BEYOND 2023, this report from the British Council explores the ‘Arts & Technology’ landscape of each place, and the potential for future partnerships and exchange.

Manami Yuasa, Regional Arts Director, East Asia, British Council

Theatre

The Panasonic XR Lab in Tokyo is a big co-creation space that uses hardware and technologies including hologram, spherical mapping, AR and VR, working with creators and commercial clients on R&D for immersive experiences. Chad Kunimoto from the lab will introduce how they work with designers and artists, and how new technology is being used in these collaborations.

Chad Kunimoto, Global Business Development Manager, Immersive Experiences & Themed Entertainment, Panasonic Connect

Theatre

Preevue specialise in LiDAR scanning and producing photo-realistic digital twins for the creative industries, providing ‘event visualisation’ services that can transform planning for venue-based events and screen production. Managing Director, Ryan Metcalfe will give an inside view of their tech, the organisations they are working with, and the future projects and products they are working on.

Ryan Metcalfe, Founder & Managing Director, Preevue

Sunley Room

Learn how immersive technology is being used to have a positive impact mental health outcomes. Hear from some of the businesses that are helping to build the immersive mental health sector and learn how you can get involved in the Mindset XR Programme and the programme’s R&D funding and support opportunities.

Floris van der Breggen, SyncVR Medical UK Ltd

Jon Hymus, Managing Director, Innerva

Jonathan Freeman, Managing Director, i2 Media Research Ltd

Jorge Lopes Ramos, Professor of Interactive Theatre & Performance, University of Greenwich

Julia Glenn, Design Innovation Lead, Healthy Ageing Challenge, UKRI

Persis Jade Maravala, Co-Founder / Artistic Director, ZU-UK

Theatre

A handful of letters, a chest of drawers and a sketched floor plan are all that bear witness to the life of Felix Ganz and his wife Erna in a so-called “Judenhaus” in Mainz.

A UK/German co-production, Felix’s Room premiered in Berlin in June. Projected holographic effects and high-resolution 3D scans immersed audiences in this one room that moves between prison and a memory palace. We will hear from writer, Adam Ganz (Felix’s great-grandson) and Matt Shaw (Scanlab).

Adam Ganz, Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London

Matthew Shaw, Director and Co-Founder, ScanLAB Projects

Theatre

Joining us for her first conference appearance talking about ABBA Voyage will be Svana Gisla, the producer behind this extraordinary multidisciplinary show. Svana will be taking us behind the scenes, telling us how the show unfolded, and how one of its legacies can be to engage the next generation of creative talent.

Andrew Chitty, Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC), Loughborough University London

Svana Gisla, Producer, Abba Voyage

Theatre

Rematch have set about recreating iconic sporting moments as big scale immersive events. Their latest production, ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ launched in London in September and has just extended its run. We will hear from CEO Les Seddon-Brown how Rematch are bringing together a clever combination of festival format and performance formats with legacy sport IP to create a unique audience experience.

Les Seddon-Brown, CEO, Rematch

Theatre

Tech-driven visual shows are booming – and it’s not just more Van Gogh. Driven by powerful projection and audio technologies, new types of cultural and heritage experiences are appearing. This session looks at the diverse forms they are taking, the venues (from purpose-built to under-used urban spaces), production and business models that underpin them, and where they are heading next.

Hilary Knight, Senior Consultant, AEA Consulting

Mark Grimmer, Company Director, 59 Productions

Michael Couzigou, CEO, NEW ART EXPERIENCES / Big incredible

Samira Ahmed, Broadcaster and Journalist, BBC

Sunley Room

The Ida Network, hosted by Ida XR Studio, is for women, non-binary and trans people working, or hoping to work, within the immersive XR sector. Ida celebrates and makes space for these underrepresented groups via meet-ups at various events and festivals across the UK. Come along to this inclusive informal meet up to meet new people and make new connections. Ida is thrilled to be collaborating with BEYOND to provide a dedicated space for women, non-binary and trans people to come together at the 2023 conference.

Leah Kurta, Co-Founder, Ida XR Studio

Victoria Eyton, Co-Founder, Ida XR Studio

Georgian RoomMezzanine

Time to stretch your legs, network and visit the Immersive Futures Lab, which features research-led projects exploring new and novel ways to push the boundaries of what is possible in creative technologies.

Theatre

Samira Ahmed, Broadcaster and Journalist, BBC

The Refinery

Join us for an informal networking reception to allow conference delegates to digest, discuss and dissect the Day 01 programme from 5pm

The Refinery

Join us at nearby venue The Refinery NW1 3FG, for an informal networking reception to allow conference delegates to digest, discuss and dissect the Day 01 programme from 5pm-7pm

Address: The Refinery, 18 Grosvenor

Ante Room

Please arrive with plenty of time to check in and collect your delegate badge. We kindly ask however that you do not arrive *before* 8.45 as the doors will be locked.

Tea and coffee and use of the Cloakroom will be available on arrival.

Grand Entrance

Please arrive with plenty of time to check in and collect your delegate badge. We kindly ask however that you do not arrive *before* 8.45 as the doors will be locked.

Tea and coffee and use of the Cloakroom will be available on arrival.

Demonstration Room

AI has been heralded as the biggest threat to artists in decades. This panel will discuss the positive opportunities it can and could offer to creatives and how they work, expanding their potential and allowing them more time to focus on developing their practice.

Ana Betancourt, Head of Sound Innovations, Black Goblin

Ben Schogler, Founder and Creative Director, Playable Technology

Nicola Osborne, Programme Manager, Creative Informatics

Piotr Mirowski, Staff Research Scientist, DeepMind

Theatre

The CoSTAR network, which will provide the UK’s screen and performance sector with the state-of-the-art facilities and expertise they need to conduct world-class R&D, is being launched at the BEYOND Conference on 22 November. CoSTAR is formed of five Labs, based across the UK and bringing together a diverse range of partners across academia and the creative industries.
 
Supported by UK Research and Innovation through the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this transformative £75.6m programme will drive innovation in emerging technologies across screen and performance, utilising technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual production.
 
Hosted by AHRC, the launch event is the first chance to find out more about the network and meet the Labs. The session features keynotes from industry experts, plus a panel session and networking.

Chris van der Kuyl, Principal, Chroma Ventures

Christopher Smith, UKRI Creative Industries Sector Champion/AHRC Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council

Laura Partridge, Strategic Lead, CoSTAR, Arts and Humanities Research Council

Peter Bazalgette, Pro-Chancellor & Chair, Royal College of Art

Sara Coppola-Nicholson, Head of Research Programme, disguise

Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company

Sol Rogers, Global Director of Innovation, Magnopus

Sue Lyster, Executive in Charge, London Studio, Industrial Light & Magic

Tateo Nakajima, Arup Fellow, Arup

Georgian RoomMezzanine

Time to stretch your legs, network and visit Immersive Futures Lab which features outputs from creative research-led projects exploring new and novel ways to push the boundaries of what is possible in creative technologies.

Library

How can we encourage collaboration and what kind of framework is needed to unlock its potential and impact? Join an insightful 60-minute discussion as we introduce the vibrant network of the Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE).

Bringing together creative practitioners, researchers, institutions and businesses from across Europe to work together on creative impact, CIRCE has collaboration at its heart. To get an idea of the creative and transformative potential of a network, voices from the community will share their perspectives and lessons learned from within the project and its creative ecosystem, but also beyond.

All participants are encouraged to actively engage in the discussion and generously share their insights and experiences in an inclusive and open format.

Aiwen Yin, System Designer and Creative Research Fellow

Charline Munzer, Project Manager, Creative Impact Research Centre Europe

Jess Turtle, Co-Founder and Director of Museum of Homelessness, Museum of Homelessness

Toby Bennett, Lecturer of Media, Culture & Organisation, City, University of London & University of Westminster

Sunley Room

How can international collaboration contribute to the future of sustainable fashion globally? The team behind the pioneering New Landscapes: Fashion, Textiles and Technology Catalyst R&D Grant Scheme, led by UAL’s Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI) in partnership with the British Council, will discuss the value of international knowledge exchange and the environmental, social and economic impact of global R&D partnerships on the fashion and textile sector.

Aanchal Sodhani, Senior Manager, Arts, British Council, India

Chioma Ogbudimkpa, Founder and Creative Director, Redbutton

Gabrielle Shiner-Hill, Co-founder, Bureau 555

Hannah Robinson, Architecture Design Fashion, Senior Relationship Manager, British Council

Jane Harris, Director, Fashion, Textiles & Technology Institute, UAL

Laura Solomon, R&D Fellow, Fashion, Textiles & Technology Institute, UAL

Nusrat Mahmud, Co-founder, Bureau 555

Demonstration Room

Join a panel of expert makers and thinkers in the field of emerging creative technologies to learn why we need to imagine, support, and develop technology innovations in ways that are human and planet-centred if we are to build a future we want to live in.

Asha Easton, Immerse UK Lead, Innovate UK KTN

Clare Reddington, CEO, Watershed

Rachel Coldicutt, Executive Director, Careful Trouble

Simon Moreton, Director Bristol+Bath Creative R+D, UWE Bristol

Stephen Hilton, Director, Bristol Futures Global Ltd

Georgian RoomMezzanine

Time to stretch your legs, network and visit the Immersive Futures Lab which features outputs from creative research-led projects exploring new and novel ways to push the boundaries of what is possible in creative technologies.

Sunley Room

An Introduction to audience segmentation, audience centred-design and robust evaluation methods – this session offers a taster in how to design with audiences central to your process.

A short briefing is followed by an interactive activity where participants learn how to apply i2’s IMPACT model to their creative outputs or their research.

Anna Stewart, Research Psychologist, I2 Media Research

Jonathan Freeman, Managing Director, i2 Media Research Ltd

Lewis Turner-Brown, Quantitative research specialist, i2 media research ltd

Demonstration Room

How can industry professionals ensure that they can keep pace with advances in new and colliding creatTech skills in the stage and screen Industries? An expert panel will discuss the skills shortages and gaps they are encountering now, what the landscape could look like in the coming decade in the UK and across the globe, and the opportunities and challenges in harnessing investments like CoSTAR and XRArtists outside of the infrastructure and academic frameworks.

Alex Wills, Chief Experience Officer, Disguise

Emma Turner, Head of Film, Animation and Future Skills, ScreenSkills

Michael McKenna, CEO and Co-Founder, Final Pixel

Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company

Library

Join us on Day 2 of BEYOND for our symposium on the Creative Industries Clusters Programme, supported by CRAIC, reflecting on the impacts and achievements of the programme and the nine Creative R&D Partnerships it has supported.

The afternoon will bring together those who have delivered this extraordinary programme in four panels that will reflect on the unique achievements and characteristics of each cluster and what has changed as a result of them.

R&D Programmes & Processes

1. Becoming an R&D Driven Cluster: Approaches to delivering growth, value and resilience through collaborative R&D in Dundee’s games development cluster | Gregor White
2. “The money was nice, but it wasn’t the most useful bit”: the Importance of Scaffolding to Support Innovation in the Creative Industries | Melissa Terras

Transformed Ecosystems

1. A Tale of Two Cities: Cardiff before and after the CICP intervention | Justin Lewis & Sara Pepper
2. Future Screens NI and Tactical Opportunism | Paul Moore
3. Responsible R&D: Opportunities and challenges for creating innovation ecosystems centred on care, diversity, and planetary justice | Simon Moreton, Liz Roberts & Jack Lowe

Creative Technologies & STEM

1. Mobilising transdisciplinarity in R&D for fashion, textiles and technology | Jane Harris
2. Unpicking the dynamics of design-led R&D: the emerging models driving creative technologies within the Future Fashion Factory | Dawn Ellams

Reconfigured Universities

1. Models of Innovation and Intermediation in Creative Industries Research and Development Programmes: Ten Years of Research in Digital Creativities at the University of York | Damian Murphy
2. We’re going to need a bigger boat … How to fit a cluster into a university (and vice versa) | James Bennett
3. Genesis of an Institute: A New Paradigm | Sue Rainton

Andrew Chitty, Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC), Loughborough University London

Damian Murphy, Director XR Stories, University of York

Dawn Ellams, Senior Tutor, Royal College of Art

Gregor White, Chair of Applied Creativity, Abertay University

Jack Lowe, Research Associate in Creative Economies, Bristol + Bath

James Bennett, Director, StoryFutures, Royal Holloway, University of London

Jane Harris, Director, Fashion, Textiles & Technology Institute, UAL

Justin Lewis, Director, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University and Media Cymru

Liz Roberts, Senior Research Fellow, University of the West of England

Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Director of Creative Informatics , University of Edinburgh

Paul Moore, Director, Future Screens NI

Polly Dalton, Audience Insights Lead, StoryFutures, Royal Holloway

Sara Pepper, Professor of Creative Economy, Cardiff University

Simon Moreton, Director Bristol+Bath Creative R+D, UWE Bristol

Sue Rainton, Associate Director, Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC) / University of Leeds

Sunley Room

Join us for an engaging conversation with a dynamic panel of experts as we delve into the fascinating intersection of technology and live performance. Hosted by Jessica Driscoll of Digital Catapult, our panel features executive producer, Dan Munslow of Target3D, alongside the virtual realists, Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli of Gibson/Martelli, and choreographer, Alexander Whitley of Alexander Whitley Dance Company.
In the age of virtual production, motion capture, and 5G enabled experiences how does this translate to the practicalities of performance? Fresh off the launch of the Advanced Media Production studios (AMP), the panel will discuss how the technologies made available through AMP will be transformative to artists and performers, share learnings from the UK’s first permanently 5G connected studios, and explore what production looks like when the technologists get involved.

Theatre

White Light – a d&b solutions company, will be hosting an interactive panel session with special guests. Join them as they explore themes of how existing and emerging technologies are unlocking a wealth of potential for increasing visitor engagement in the Creative Industries. From virtual production and extended reality (XR), to immersive audio, the experts will deep dive into some trailblazing projects and the technologies at the pinnacle of innovation, before opening up the floor to questions.

Andy Hook, Technical Solutions Director , White Light ltd

Jason Larcombe, Senior Project Manager, White Light

Demonstration Room

The team from INGAME present a series of short films about their R&D work, followed by a discussion panel on collaborative R&D and the opportunities presented by Virtual Production. The work presented includes a multiplayer VR sound performance project, an AR prototype bringing to life a “Ballet for Vehicles”, and a behind the scenes look at the first UK proof of concept for 5G wireless real-time virtual production filmmaking across multiple locations.

Jung In Jung, InGAME R&D Fellow and Lecturer in Creative Computing, Abertay University

Matthew Bett, Lecturer, Division of Games Technology and Mathematics,, Abertay University

Peter Richardson, Head of Virtual Production at StoryFutures and Professor of Creative Industries, Royal Holloway

Ruth Falconer, Head of the Division of Games Technology and Mathematics, Abertay University

Sunley Room

This session presents findings from “Shaping the Metaverse: Policy engagement with immersive technologies in the UK”, the first part of a new study lead by Queen’s University, Belfast into the challenges and opportunities presented by the Metaverse to create practical and ethical policies to support its evolution. Hear from the researchers and find out how to get involved in the next stages of the project.

Donal Phillips, Business Development Manager, Queen’s University Belfast

Gavin McWilliams, Multidisciplinary Programmes Director, Queen’s University Belfast

Helen Kennedy, Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham

Kirsty Fairclough, Professor of Screen Studies/Deputy Head, School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester Metropolitan University

Leo Tarasov, R&D Science and Analysis Portfolio Programme Manager, Department for Culture, Media & Sport