Thu 10/5-Fri 10/6
If the Futureland conference at Playhouse Square is half as flashy as its website, with its moving and scrolling images, primary colors and deluge of diverse graphics, it should be really impressive. It’s self-described as a “multi-day conference celebrating diversity in art, tech and culture in Northeast Ohio.”
Its theme, they tell us somewhere in that mass of visuals, is “Thrive: Growing from the Forest City into a Thriving Tech & Entrepreneurial Hub.”
Those three days offer pitch competitions, networking opportunities, performances and a lengthy roster of speakers and panelists, including officers and founders of financial and tech businesses, nonprofit leaders, media people, consultants, educators, artists, filmmakers, musicians, producers, songwriters, stylists, game designers and even three mayors: Cleveland’s Justin Bibb; Quinton Lewis of Kansas City, Kansas, and Shawyn Patterson of Mt. Vernon, New York. You can even come to say goodbye to Rock Hall curator Nwaka Onwusa, who’s leaving after three years to join New York’s Hip Hop museum.
The event includes an exhibition hall at the Key Bank Theatre lobby and a lounge in the Gund Dance Studio. It will undoubtedly also include copious uses of the word “innovation.”
Go here for more information and registration.