With over 100 speakers from the design, advertising, music, architecture, art and media sectors
Over 100 pioneers and decision-makers from the creative industries will be speaking at the summit. These include writer Nina George, artists Jonathan Meese and Roman Lipski, actor Hans-Werner Meyer, Hamburg's Senator for Culture and Media Carsten Brosda and social entrepreneur Veronica D'Souza. Other speakers include Peter Kraus, Managing Director of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, Martin El-Khouri, Head of B3 at Bertelsmann Investments, Holger Volland, CEO of brand eins Medien AG, Larissa Pohl, WPP Open X Europe Lead for TCCC, and Nicola Bramkamp, Artistic Director and founder of the SAVE THE WORLD initiative. The programme director of the news channel ntv and editor-in-chief for business and networks at RTL NEWS Sonja Schwetje and presenter Nina Sonnenberg will be among the speakers from the TV sector. The current list of speakers can be found on the GCES website.
As a leading platform, the German Creative Economy Summit connects creative professionals and companies from all 11 submarkets of the creative industries with decision-makers from politics, science, associations and national funding institutions, and is organised by the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, a public funding institution for the creative industries in Hamburg. Partners are the Coalition for Cultural and Creative Industries Germany (k3d) and the network of public funding organisations for the cultural and creative industries in Germany. The German Creative Economy Summit is sponsored by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.