Accessing the event

If you’ve registered to attend the Big Creative UK Summit, you will receive an email with a link to join Zoom.

Click the link, and you should be taken into our lobby where you can explore the programme, speakers, update your profile, and use the lobby chat to connect with others.

Can’t see an email link to Zoom? Check your junk folders, or you can register to attend here.

Zoom app

We recommend using Zoom on your browser for increased functionality, but you can also use the Zoom app. Download the Zoom app here.

Once registered, click ‘join a meeting’ then select ‘event’ and enter your email address (see pics). You might need to verify your email address, but then you’re in!

Need more help? Find out more in a guide here.

The Big Creative UK Summit 2024 will be taking place in BAFTA 195 Piccadilly in London on Wednesday 6 March and online on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 March.

We celebrate difference – respecting the humanity and creativity in everyone. We are committed to improving diversity and inclusion across our organisation and industry by championing a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, identities, talents and physical and cognitive differences.  

You can read our full accessibility statement here 

The Big Creative UK Summit 2024 aims to provide an accessible experience for our speakers, performers, and guests. We try to make sure that there aren’t any barriers that make it difficult or impossible for anyone to engage.  

The summit includes both virtual and in-person opportunities. For the in-person day we are sourcing a venue with full accessibility and we will have a BSL interpreter. For the virtual day, our online platform will be accessible to screen readers and our virtual sessions will support access through captioning, by providing accessible presentations, and by providing information in plain text if required. 

We recognise there are many and varied requirements and if there is something we have missed, please bring this to our attention by emailing events@wearecreative.uk 

In the following years, the festival grew exponentially, piquing the interest of industry experts, burgeoning voices, and established innovators, including Sir Steve McQueen CBE and Ben McOwen Wilson, and as a result we have amassed large audiences nationally and globally. Following feedback from our 2023 festival, it was time for a revamp. The community were keen to come together to learn, debate and discuss in-person and conversate over drinks, keen to support those who work from home or dispersed over large territories, which is why we have retained a virtual element to the event on Day Two. The demands on our festival have widened and our audience’s expectations with them. We hope you agree the new format will provide everyone involved with more opportunity to participate and more opportunity to grow, as we launch The Big Creative UK Summit.

The Big Creative UK Summit will continue to spotlight and analyse the critical issues faced by our Creative Industries, while generating space to exchange ideas, experiences, and expertise at the forefront of culture, creativity, and commerce. This structural re-design will continue to drive industry horizons giving you all the freedom to share space, physically and digitally, with our speakers, changemakers and leaders, and meet fellow creators whose pursuits resonate with your own.

We are running a completely in-person day in central London on Wednesday 6 March and two completely virtual days on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 March. We are not going to be live-streaming the in-person day as we want to put our resources into making it the best possible event for the people attending in person. On-demand content from the day will be available after the event for a fee unless you are attending the Summit all day, in which case you'll automatically be given access to on-demand content a while after the event.

Great question! We'd love to hear from you. To get involved as a speaker, performer or partner please email events@wearecreative.uk

We'll be publishing a full programme once it's been confirmed. The structure of the day is as follows:

9:00am - 9:45am: Registration & Light Breakfast

10:00am - 11:30am: Keynotes/Panels/Performances

11:30am - 11:50am: Networking break

11:50pm - 1:30pm: Keynotes/Panels

1:30pm - 2:30pm: Lunch

2:30pm - 4:00pm: Performance/Keynotes/Panels

4:00pm - 4:20pm: Networking break

4:20pm - 5:30pm: Performance/Keynote/Panels

5:30pm - 8:00pm: Evening Get-Together

Creative UK has recently partnered with tech start-up Zerofy, a UK-based sustainability and decarbonisation software platform. Zerofy will support our organisation’s mission to realise our Planet pledge, placing sustainability measures at the core of our business and creative operations.

You can read more about our partnership here.

Below are some ways you can help to make your participation in the Summit more sustainable.

Domestic Travel

• Coaches are the greenest way to travel.
• Megabus and National Express coach services arrive/depart from London Victoria.
• Coach is the cheapest form of transport and London Victoria is only a 35 minute tube journey from the Barbican centre.

• Record your train journey on the Trainline pledge website - every journey recorded will result in a tree planted.

International Travel

• Skip airport queues and reduce your carbon footprint.

• Flying economy class emits over 60% less emissions than business class.

• When all other possibilities for carbon reduction have been explored, look to off-set your remaining carbon emissions.
• Although some airlines offer you the choice to opt in to carbon off-set online, we recommend avoiding these.
• Choose a non-profit such as Atmosfair which can calculate a carbon estimate of your route.

• Hold an internationally recognised certification (VCS, Gold Standard).
• Do more than switch one fossil fuel for another.
• Be monitored to ensure carbon reductions are achieved.
• Cause no harm to local communities.

Accommodation

• The Corner Hotel in London puts sustainability at the core of it's operations and is redefining hospitality through its commitment to environmental responsibility.
• Compared to the industry average, The Corner Hotel emits 67% less CO2 emissions and uses 41% less water.
• Secure yourself a single 'Comfy' room with a window, desk and breakfast included for only £140 per night.
• To book, enter the promo code CREATIVEUK at the checkout.

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