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The Innoversity Creative Summit is a 14 year old non-profit media summit sponsored and presented by Bell Media. Their mandate is Innovation, Diversity and Creativity. For several years their partners have been the National Film Board and the Canadian Film Centre. We’re sponsored by Bell Media, Shaw Media, DGC. They have worked with the gamut of Canadian media over 14 years. In 2001, the first keynote was Malcolm Gladwell and last year Disney and Shaw.
It is an extremely unique annual Canadian media summit. They bring top insiders together with emerging to mid-career producers. Innoversity is a non-profit founded in 2000. It works to create opportunities for women, people of colour, cultural minority, Aboriginal people and disabled Canadians to actively engage with, and be reflected within, key societal sectors and institutions. It’s a marketplace for great media ideas and a meeting place for those in the media and cultural sector. Innoversity is a hot bed for media talent from diverse Canadian backgrounds.
With practical and creative workshops, panels and showcases, thought-provoking guest speakers, and many opportunities to launch ideas, Innoversity serves to inspire. Innoversity has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes, scholarships, cash, mentorships and development contracts to talented individuals.
They have provided creative professionals with the skills and tools to develop and pitch their ideas with backgrounds in TV, print, film, and digital media. We work with media departments in colleges and universities. We also give mentorships and training to emerging students in media with disabilities.
The organization prides itself that their Summit looks like Canada. They bring top insiders together with emerging to mid-career outsiders.
Powys Dewhurst is the producer: pitch competition/Innoversity content development committee for this year’s Innoversity Creative Summit.
During our conversation, Powys talked about:
– The history of the summit and how he got involved with the summit
– The history of the pitch competition and the competition at this year’s Summit
– some of the panel discussions at this year’s Summit
– Some great features of this year’s event
– How can attendees get the most out of the summit
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