On-Demand Webcast
Are we on the brink of a creativity crisis? Best-selling author, social theorist and professor Richard Florida answers this question with a resounding yes. The global competition for talent is the defining economic issue of the modern world economy, Florida says, and the corresponding need to build more inclusive, creative societies that tap and reward the creativity of all is the biggest challenge.
Please join Richard Florida, SAS CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight and Dr. June St. Clair Atkinson, State Superintendent of North Carolina's public schools, as they share their visions for how an investment in innovation and creativity enables success in education, technology and business.
Webcast topics include:
- The importance of harnessing the power of creative citizens and enabling their contributions to society.
- How K-12 and higher education can be more than laboratories for technological, scientific and social advances.
- Why Goodnight contends that a company's most important asset is its creative capital – an arsenal of creative thinkers whose ideas can be turned into valuable products and services.
- Goodnight‘s explanation of how creative employees pioneer new technologies, birth new industries and power economic growth.
- Atkinson's discussion of the importance of preparing students to participate effectively in today's global economy and of leveraging technology to develop new teaching tools and practices.
Co-sponsored by SAS and the William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation in Raleigh, NC, this special event brings together top leaders and innovators from education, government and business to explore how the US can maintain its creative edge – focusing specifically on the power and potential of education.
