An International Conference for Cultural Leaders seeking inspiration and realizing the benefits of engaging collectively with todays and tomorrows audiences

10th of November | The Pier Venue, Århus Denmark

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Welcome
to Dialog Digital

Walk away with a playbook of operational tactics, including:

Leveraging the best and cheapest of culturetech
Templates for cross-institutional agreements.
Budget models for pooled funding initiatives.
Protocols for community co-creation (without chaos).
Metrics that convince city councils to invest in collaboration.

The challenges we're addressing

The conference is an international meeting space for Cultural practitioner, tired of fragmented audiences, stretched budgets, and siloed efforts.

Cities and cultural collectives worldwide are proving that collective action isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a survival strategy.

This conference is about how to build, fund, and scale collaborative systems, that leverage new digital tools and the power of many, to build stronger relationships with existing audiences, whilst finding and engaging new audiences groups.

This is a unique opportunity for cultural leaders from across the Nordics to convene and co-create their own cultural engagement strategies alongside leading organizations from across Europe, as well as Scandinavia's own APPLAUS, Norwegian Audiences, and RePublik.

Keynote Speaker: Revitalising Communities through Culture with Paul Callaghan

Paul Callaghan is a pivotal figure in the cultural redevelopment of North East England. With a background spanning economics, technology, and cultural governance, Paul offers a unique perspective on the transformative power of culture in community regeneration.

Born and raised in Sunderland, Paul's journey from a rock band dreamer to a cultural catalyst is as inspiring as it is instructive. His roles as Chairman of The Leighton Group, a collection of technology and media businesses, and Chair of the Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture Trust, have positioned him at the intersection of commerce and culture.

Low-Cost, High-Impact Marketing

The power of many: Collective multi-brand and multichannel marketing campaign strategies.

Measuring Success Beyond Visitor Numbers

Adoptimng an evidence-based approach to tracking social cohesion and satisfaction alongside revenue

New organizational models for collective cultural engagement

Checklist on practical governance models that address the organizational and legal requirements

Shared Infrastructure in Practice

New generation digital tools to pool marketing budgets and audience data insights across institutions.

Breaking Silos, Building Networks

Negotiating partnerships between cultural organizations and venues and commerce

Space Making Culture

How cultural organization take the lead and leverage urban renewal and through citizen cultural engagement

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Our venue - The Pier

In the spirit of Dialog Digital, we've chosen Århus and with spectacular views across the harbour, and The Pier as our venue.

The Pier Venue is part of Incuba, a leading business environment within IT/tech, cleantech & life science. A professional community for knowledge startups, and an exciting environment that also includes investors, mentors, researchers, students and business specialists.

Our Speakers

Here's a quick overview of speakers currently lined up to give their expert insights, good ideas and answers to your questions

Centre for Cultural Value

Dr Stephen Dobson

The Centre for Cultural Value is dedicated to strengthening the cultural sector through research and evaluation, aiming to build an equitable, confident, and sustainable sector that enriches lives.

The term "cultural vitality" refers to the overall health of a community's cultural life, and the Centre is developing a "Cultural Indicator Suite" to measure and understand this vitality, which involves looking at cultural activity, participation, diversity, access, and infrastructure

Aarhus Municipality

Head of Cultural Department Lars Davidsen

Culture is a vital element of our city, of which we are very proud, and probably the reason why we were chosen as European Capital of Culture in 2017!

In order to strengthen our cultural engagement, we asked ourselves the question: how broadly and to what extent does cultural and leisure life in Aarhus Municipality create value for the individual citizen and Aarhus?
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Silverlining

Terje Vammen

Working with evidence based customer analysis across multiple sectors such as airports, public sector, tourism, we've discovered the special needs and requirements the cultural sector needs to address. Culture is holistic and needs to be treated as such.

CultureSuite

CEO Coen van der Poll

We believe culturetech plays a key role in the development of cultural collectives and we believe that collective action is the future norm rather than the exception.

Scaling solutions that address culture-clusters just makes good economic and artistic sense as we can see with organizations like Leeds City Council and the theatre cluster De Doelen in the Netherlands.

Digital transformation is organizational transformation and tech is the oil.

Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique (CSPLA)

Fayrouze Masmi Dazi

Operating in the intersection between audience data, collective initiatives and the challenges of AI is a key challenge for cultural organizations going forward, both nationally amnd internationally.

As a lawyer, we discover that this requires a clear and well-thought out strategy, and if we get this right the potential upside for the culture sector is huge and provides a solid basis for challenging big-tech!

KULTURDATA

Frederik Fabricius

Formerly IBM's European Data Solutions Manager, Frederik provides insights and results from an 18 month pilot conducted in Region Skåne on behalf of Kulturforvaltningen and with the Audience Agency.

The goal was to evaluate the digital skills and potential for sharing data collectively for the 14 largest cultural organizations including Malmø Opera, Malmø Live, Malmø Teater and Skåne Danse Teater.

Culture Central

Erica Love

Culture Central is a collective, and Collective voice for the cultural sector in the West Midlands region of England.

As a membership organisation and sector support body, it convenes, challenges and connects the cultural sector to create opportunities through culture for the people and places of the West Midlands. Culture Central’s priorities and programmes focus on cultural innovation, capacity building, equity & opportunity, placemaking, and advocacy, connection & ecology.

Kultur Planner

Katharina Roehle

Based out of Vienna and being 100% culture sector focus we've discovered the need for culture-specific, easy-to-use data analysis solutions that integrate business intelligence tool and customer data platform for theaters, concert halls, opera houses, and museums.

TAA & The Turing Institute

Oliver Mantell

The Audience Agency and the Turing Instute in the UK are creating a common language for comparing data across venues, producers and regions.

Supporting sector-wide benchmarking to understand audience behaviours and programming gaps.

Also attending
The European Audience Data Alliance

Attending the conference will be members of the European Audience Data Alliance (EADA).

Our goals are to strengthen EU citizens cultural identity and digital democracy, by helping publicly-funded organizations pursue their common interests and pool their resources, in light of the technological development and the rising influence of Big Tech.

The EADA is an open forum, where cultural engagement practitioners from across Europe can discuss & discover common issues, share new insights and develop trans-national collaborations

The goals are to provide funders and cultural agencies a common framework for audience data insights, by futureproofing common benchmarks for measuring cultural engagement, and setting the agenda for tomorrow’s collection, management and presentation of audience data.