Thursday 17th March 2016

09:30-10:10 | registration

Conference 2, AMI Incubinc
Cultural business incubators, incubators for Democracy?

10:10-10:40 | introductive lecture
10:40-11:00 | Q’s and A’s

11:00-11:20 | coffee break

Ricardo Mbarkho, Artist, Researcher, Speaker, and University Lecturer, Author of "For a double definition of the relationship between digital creation and cultural industries", Lebanon

11:20-12:20 | conversation 4
What forms of cultural incubators are available? What are we talking about?

Lucie Sanchez, Project Manager - Startup Area, ASTER, Italia | Marion Louisgrand, Kër Thiossane, Senegal
Conversation followed by a debate


12:20-12:40 | artistic aperitif - Cocotte Minute, "Permis de Bouger"
12:40-14:20 | lunch break


14:20-15:20 | conversation 5
What kind of corporate social responsibility (CSR) do cultural business incubators have?

Andre Le Roux, Managing Director, Samro Foundation, South Africa | Aadel Essaadani, General Coordinator, Racines, Morocco
Conversation followed by a debate

15:20-15:35 | coffee break

15:35-16:35 | conversation 6
Can we invent new cultural markets, in a fair, sustainable, autonomous mode?

Vincent Carry, Director, Arty Farty - Nuits Sonores, France | Daba Sarr, Africa Fête, Senegal
Conversation followed by a debate


16:45-18:45 | six concluding tables
To conclude these two days of conference: each table produces three recommendations (convergences to be strenghtened, actions to be implemented). These eighteen points will be the core of the conference publication.

18:45-19:15 | plenary session
public reading of the eighteen points


Moderator: Ferdinand Richard, Director, AMI