--- title: "7 quick insights relating to creativity and technology from remixldn day 1..." url: https://sam-page.com/thinking/7-quick-insights-relating-to-creativity-and-technology-from-remixldn-day-1 date: 2025-01-29 author: Sam Page type: Post or article categories: [Founder life and leadership, Emerging tech and AI] reading_time: 2 min summary: "7 quick insights relating to creativity and technology from #remixldn day 1..." first_published: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7290303261125869568 --- # 7 quick insights relating to creativity and technology from remixldn day 1... 7 quick insights relating to creativity and technology from #remixldn day 1... 🎙️ It starts here: Creating a location for innovation to thrive Gavin Poole, CEO, HERE EAST ↳ Insight: The intersection of technology and creativity are crucial to the future. They create a spark in life. - 🎙️ Classical music and change: Turning around declining audience numbers. Sam Jackson, Controller, BBC ↳ Insight: Listen to your audience and be prepared to change - especially if you want to thrive in a rapidly changing world. - 🎙️ Get off the sidelines: From catalogue, to catalyst. A mission to create advocates for the planet. Dan Phelan, Director of Communications, Natural History Museum ↳ Insight: You need a guiding principle to help shift behaviour change and to lead everything you do, without this your effort can often be focussed in the wrong places. - 🎙️ Reclaiming your creativity: Making space for creativity in your life to fuel growth. Guy Armitage, Founder, Zealous Co ↳ Insight: Put down your phone, and make more space in day-to-day tasks to be a little more creative. It will lead to amazing things. - 🎙️ A creative playground: a cultural space Dominic Cools-Lartigue, Founder, Dalston Yard ↳ Insight: If we are going to create future thinkers, we need spaces for them to exist and thrive, and this calls for an environment that balancers art, music, wellbeing and food and drink. - 🎙️ Creating Grand Theft Hamlet: During lockdown Pinny Grylls & Sam Crane, Co-Directors, Grand Theft Hamlet ↳ Insight: You never know where an idea might come from or if it will work, but when one comes along, at least give it a go... amazing things can happen! - 🎙️ The journey to SXSW: Enabling London to celebrate the intersection of Technology & Creativity. Randel Bryan, Managing Director, SXSW London ↳ Insight: Creativity and Technology working together and feeding each other, is going to be critical to the future. The next generation are going to need to embrace this, but also embrace focussing on many different things throughout their lifetime. Full write-up to follow on 7DOTS after day 2!