Press release -
Heartbeat – a summit on creativity and innovation to bring back hope
Heart 17 brings the new Heartbeat summit to iconic Vega, Copenhagen on April 20 for UN (United Nations) World Creativity and Innovation Day. The topic is how to leverage creativity and innovation to ignite hope and accelerate action towards the 17 Global Goals and beyond. On the agenda is a varied program of cross-sector conversations mixed with cultural performances, featuring some of the world’s most interesting thinkers in their respective topics.
Heart 17 exists to counteract despair and bring back hope. The initiative is born out of a notion that creativity and innovation accelerate hope and impact towards the 17 Global Goals and beyond. Heart 17 gathers organizations and individuals from multiple sectors, leading with creative examples of progress and action to counteract the sense of hopelessness felt by many in today’s world.
Heart 17 does this through various initiatives, but for the second time, the network culminates in Heartbeat, a summit on creativity and innovation for hope. Last year at Fotografiska in Stockholm, this year at Vega in Copenhagen. Heartbeat on April 20th is preceding and kickstarting the celebration of the UN World Creativity and Innovation Day on April 21st.
The program features a unique mix of business, youth, artists, and scientists, alongside UNDP. Join us and meet Henrik Fredborg Larsen (Director Nordic Office United Nations Development Programme), José González (artist), Per Olsson (Deputy science director Stockholm Resilience Centre), Lisa Lindström (EY Global Innovation and Experience Design Leader), Fernanda Drumond (Strategy lead H&M Foundation), Claudia Kvarnborg (activist Climate Live Sweden), Cecilia Mosze Tham (CEO and co-founder Futurity Systems), Herbie (AI Plantpreneur and CEO of Plantiverse), Eva Karlsson (CEO Houdini Sportswear), Molly Fannon (CEO Museum for the United nations/UN Live), Madeline Doyle (Global Communications Specialist IKEA), Oscar Molander (Youth advisor Future Minds and Sweden’s youth delegate to the United Nations), Koen Thewissen (Founder WeareDaniel), Joshua Idehen (artist), and Alessandro Giaquinto (Stuttgart Balett), and many more. All panels are moderated by youth leaders and the day is made possible thanks to support from H&M Foundation and EY.
– To have the energy to keep going, we need to meet and be inspired by a variety of creative progress driving concrete impact and hope. We need a new perspective, an optimistic approach between doom and naive ignorance about the challenges ahead. It is necessary to be able to focus on the important work that needs to be done. Our aim is to ignite action and hope among more organizations and individuals and together make progress more visible - all needed to accelerate transformation, says Anna Rindefjell, Managing Director of Heart 17.
More information about Heartbeat, including press information and participants, here: HEARTBEAT
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Topics
- Art, Culture, Entertainment
Categories
- 21 april
- collaboration
- heart 17
- creativity
- un world creativity and innovation day
Regions
- Skåne
There is a plan. Heart 17 is a social enterprise dedicated to counteracting despair and bringing back hope. By changing the narrative and raising the level of creativity we can accelerate hope and progress towards the 17 Global Goals and beyond. In collaboration with business, youth organizations, artists, scientists, and other creatives. A Collective act for Hope. Across silos. United by Creativity.
Heart 17 is made possible thanks to support from EY and H&M Foundation.
For more information go to https://heart17.com
