It is great to see the power of social media and online networks pulling down the barriers in knowledge and information.  Events are transient things but the tools that we have today - live Twitter feeds, podcasts, mobile phone cameras, YouTube - make it possible to experience it at a certain level even if you are not there.

One such event was Public Sphere Australian ICT & Creative Industries Development. While discussions where held in Wollongong University Innovation Campus, remote 'nodes' where set up in Brisbane (University of Queensland) and Melbourne (Trinity College).  I must admit that when I bought a virtual ticket to these nodes, I didn't actually realise that there were physical locations being set up until a day or two before this event!

There's a lot of snippets of commentary on the right hand side application of this live feed throughout the day.

For more reading about the presenters/presentations, have a look at the following links:

Industry growth - what we need: The Silicon Beach Paper.  By Elias Bizannes

Innovation Cities

Sylvia Pfeiffer's blog (she did 'ICT Innovation is easy - commercialisation is hard')

Using lean approaches to strenghten the IT industry

Read about Amanda Lawson (she did the talk 'Developing skills for the ICT industry')

Too smart, too cheap, too small

Judith Benneth from the UTS Creative Industries Innovation Centre (part of Enterprise Connect) talks about setting the scene in Australia.  We (AIMIA Qld, not BCI) are coordinating an event with the Qld Enterprise Connect in September 17. 

Queensland's own Des Walsh "On Crossing Borders" (he's from the GC as well.  Note: the Brisbane Creative Industries just recently started incorporating some of the events in the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers areas with contributions from Arthorse Jo)

http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/eesstaff/UOW003006.html

http://culturemap.org.au/

NB: I will be keeping my eyes on any more write-ups about this event.  Please comment here or email me if you made a write-up or if there are any other important links that I have missed out on.

Slides from Slideshare.net:

Senator Kate Lundy, please bring the next portion or the sequel to this in Brisbane.  I look forward to seeing more of the Brisbane creative industries community being more engaged in a discussion of this sort.  I have just interviewed a Brisbane-based furniture designer tonight and her sentiments about the community here is similar to mine and other people that I have talked to in that Brisbane is fairly collaborative...for example, I ran into someone who was the Producer of Brisbane Powerhouse (multi-arts venue) and talking to him about mobile technologies and performances...it is all very exciting..

Hannah Suarez

You may also be interested in: The Future of (Serious) Gaming, Creative Industries and regional south-east Qld with Sarah Keating (interview), The Future of Digital Art with Jaymis Loveday (interview), Creative Industries Networks (slideshow), CCI Symposium: Visual Effects Industry (liveblog), CCI Symposium: Asian Creative Transformations (liveblog), Creative Drinks June (event wrap-up), IDEAS Festival (event wrap-up), Justin Brow - Creative Industries, Advice, MEGA (interview), For students: Help out the Brisbane creative industries