NSF Creative Industries Summit

Date / Time	Friday, October 18, 2024 9:30a – 4:00p
Venue / Host	Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity  510 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90020
Parking Information	PARKING STRUCTURE ADDRESS 523 Shatto Place, Los Angeles, CA 90020 Please pull a ticket when entering the parking structure and park in any available space. Take the elevator to the 9th floor and walk across the bridge (located towards the northwest corner of the parking structure) to reach the Terrace (T) Level lobby. Prior to leaving the facility, please take your ticket to the Terrace Level security desk for validation. (See below for map and image of parking structure entrance). DO NOT PARK AT THE 510 SOUTH VERMONT AVENUE STRUCTURE. Violators may be towed at vehicle owner’s expense.

Friday, 10/18
This agenda will continue to be updated.

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8:30 – Check-in, breakfast available

9:30 – Welcome, Introduction to the ICC Project

• Kelly LoBianco, Director, Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity
• Jeff Burke, Principal Investigator, Innovation, Culture, and Creativity

9:40 – Introduction to the National Science Foundation and its partnership models

• Erwin Gianchandani, Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, NSF
• Chaitan Baru, Senior Advisor, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, NSF
• Allen Walker, Strategic Partnerships Officer, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, NSF
• Kerstin Mukerji, Staff Associate for Strategic Engagements, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, NSF
• Kevin Clark, Program Director, STEM Education, NSF

11:00 – Subsector / affinity group roundtables 

• Roundtable discussions will focus on the needs, opportunities, and challenges for increasing research, entrepreneurial, and workforce collaboration between the creative and technology sectors.
• This site will be updated with the roundtables as they are finalized. The discussions will explore the perspectives of mid- to large-sized technology and media companies, entrepreneurs, independent artists, labor, and non-profits.

12:30 – Working Lunch

• Discussion, NSF responses to questions from roundtables.

1:15 – Partnership ideation breakouts – new approaches and opportunities

• Breakouts will be created dynamically based on the preceding discussion, and focus on opportunities for new types of partnerships between industry stakeholders and the National Science Foundation.

2:30 – Coffee Break

2:45 – Synthesis and Next Steps

• The day’s discussion will be synthesized into potential follow-ups by the NSF and other participating organizations, as well as input into the ICC National Convening in December.

4:00 – Conclusion and reception

5:00 – End of the event

Following introductory presentations by the Assistant Director of NSF for TIP, Dr. Erwin Gianchandani, and other NSF Directorates, the primary agenda for this working meeting will be to explore technology innovation and workforce development opportunities for the creative sector in partnership with the NSF. It will explore opportunities to: 

• Engage earlier with disruptive technologies such as generative artificial intelligence.
• Support talent pipeline needs at the intersections of science and engineering with arts, media, design, and the humanities. 
• Translate innovative discoveries by NSF researchers to creative and cultural uses. 
• Integrate regional excellence into innovation ecosystems, including independent artists, non-profits, as well as guilds, unions and professional societies.

The summit will involve about seventy leaders responsible for research, external engagement, and “horizon scanning” from Fortune 500 companies to small and medium sized businesses, non-profits, guilds, unions, professional societies. In addition to Dr. Gianchandani, senior members of the TIP Directorate as well as representatives from several other NSF Directorates, e.g. STEM Education, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and Computer and Information Sciences will participate in the meeting.

Participants will discuss opportunities for partnerships with NSF, interact with the agency’s leadership and staff, provide input on how NSF could support the creative sector, and gain ˜insight into federal investment in research behind the technologies that are transforming how we create and communicate. 

The NSF Creative Industries Summit is the first subsector meeting to follow up on the inaugural NSF industry summit in Spring 2024.

This summit is part of the Innovation, Culture, and Creativity Project organized by UCLA and UC Santa Barbara with support from TIP. The ICC effort aims to develop a roadmap for increased support for research innovation at the intersection of the creative and technology sectors. It has convened seven regional workshops across the country to explore the interplay among innovation, culture, and creativity in communities across the country. Ideas generated from these workshops as well as at the summit will be incorporated into a national convening at UCLA on December 5-6, 2024. 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories, with a FY23 budget of $9.9B, including $1.4B invested in STEM education. NSF’s investments account for about 25% of federal support to America’s colleges and universities for basic research. The summit is supported by the agency’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP), which is actively funding 2,700+ awards to over 900 distinct organizations spanning academia, nonprofits, and startups and small businesses across the country. 

To learn more about NSF and its vision of Innovation Anywhere, Opportunity Everywhere, visit new.nsf.gov/about.