In the beginning…

C&binet | 28 Nov 2008, 18:31

Last week, 17 of the c&binet ambassadors came together with the Director General of the BBC Mark Thompson, the CEO of BBC Worldwide John Smith, the CEO of Ingenious Media Patrick McKenna and the Secretary of State Andy Burnham and Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism Barbara Follett at a dinner in Liverpool.

Cabinet - Salon 2008

The purpose of the meeting was to debate the biggest issues facing the creative industries and, from there, begin to map out an agenda for c&binet and gather ideas for the 2009 forum. The speed of change that every creative business faces was a unifying theme and the discussion lasted long in to the night and carried on over breakfast the next day.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be discussing the 2009 agenda here and throwing open issues for wider debate. For now, we’ve uploaded some photos to our Flickr group from the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, where c&binet was launched.