The Best Emerging Talent Festival 2022 is a celebration of emerging talent returning from the UK's best creative institutes. Showcasing over 100 graduate portfolios, this Festival aims to directly introduce fresh creative talent to international agencies and businesses across China who are seeking quality talent.

By joining this event, you will gain exclusive access to a rich pool of Chinese talent graduating from a wide range of creative courses, as well as enjoy a half-day webinar of panels and talks that unites UK creative educators with creative industry experts in China.

The Festival half-day webinar

On 29 September, our half-day online webinar offers a packed agenda of talks and panels with inspiring creative educators from the UK, and industry creative entrepreneurs in China. Accessible from the UK and China, this online event is a great chance for students and companies to gain a better understanding of the creative market in China and future opportunities for collaboration and employment.

Agenda

• 3:30 pm Opening remark by Kirsten Johnston, Founder & CEO, JWDK; Chair, Creative Industries & Marketing Committee, BritCham SH
• 3:40 pm Introduction video of ROCKBUND
• 3:50 pm Keynote speech 'The benefits of involving industry as collaborative partners' by Derek Yates, Acting Head of Design, Ravensbourne University, London
• 4:30 pm Panel Discussion 'Trends in the Creative Industry in China'
• Siu Tang, Executive Creative Director, The Orangeblowfish
• Austin Pietrobono, Senior Motion Designer, JWDK
• Darren Crawforth, Executive Creative Director, Media.Monks
• 5:00 pm Keynote Speech by Professor Juliette MacDonald, International Dean, Donghua University – University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation
• 5:30 pm Panel Discussion (Language in Mandarin) 'Building a Successful Creative Career in China'
• Wen-Xi Chen, Creative Director, Design Bridge
• Charllotte Qin, Senior Designer, JWDK
• Lammy Xu, Creative Lead, The Orangeblowfish
• 6:05 pm End

* The Chamber reserves the right to alter the above agenda at its sole discretion.

Notes:

• For online attendees, you will receive an email with a ZOOM meeting ID and password around 5 pm, 28 September 2022. Please ensure your email address is valid, and please make sure to check your junk box as well.
• In case of cancellation, please kindly note you must email Eloise.Zhang@britishchambershanghai.cn before 5 pm, 27 September 2022. Due to the service charges of Glueup and online payment platforms, we can only partially refund up to 90% of your ticket price and payment will be processed within 14 days after the event via your original payment method. However, it is non-refundable for cancellation request made beyond the above-mentioned timeframe.