If you have not already heard about the upcoming BCreative 2012 Conference and Showcase, you are in for a real trea

Invited speakers include a veritable double

rainbow of talent

• ▶  Charles Landry, world-known creative city thinker

• ▶  Robert Sirman, Canada Council CEO

• ▶  Ryan Holmes, founder and CEO of the

  hugely successful social media,

  Vancouver-based Hootsuite

• ▶  Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg, author

  of two United Nations reports on the

  creative economy

• ▶  Karen Thorne-Stone, CEO Ontario

  Media Development Corporation

• ▶  Patrick Cocquet, CEO Cap Digital, Paris

• ▶  Michael Geller, real estate planner

  and developer

• ▶  Mark Jamison, CEO Magazines Canada

• ▶  Timothy Taylor, author

• ▶  Will Garett-Petts, Small Cities Project

  Thompson-Rivers University

  Running concurrent to the conference will be a showcase of creative sector artists, featuring muralists, designers and visual media performance.

  Please find the most recent schedule attached to this email.

  Suzanne Norman, BA, MPub. Conference Director creative@sfu.ca
  t: 778 782 5241

  f: 778 782 5239
  @CreativeBC2012 facebook.com/pages/BCreative-2012 http://www.sfu.ca/bcreative

Please click through our website for additional information www.sfu.ca/bcreative

You can also like our facebook page

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and/or follow us on Twitter @CreativeBC2012 for the latest news.

MITACS (www.mitacs.ca) is providing small bursaries to cover travel and accommodation for eligible graduate students.

Please contact Suzanne Norman for additional details.

The conference fee for non-profits, creatives, students and startups is $150; academic and scholarly associations is $250; business and government is $395. These are early bird rates and end

April 20, 2012.

For accommodations visit

http://tinyurl.com/d96mqjb

Travel booking can be made through Jennifer Courage at jencourage@shaw.ca

See you at the conference! May 10-12, 2012
SFU Vancouver