Innovation does not have to be a major investment - it is much more important to live a culture of innovation within the company. This means that creative innovation work is integrated step by step into everyday working life. We take the first step!
When day-to-day operations consume all resources, investments in the future are difficult to realise. Something is always more important. But we know that: Carrying on as before is not a model for the future. But how can companies ensure that they not only survive in the long term, but are also profitable? With a culture of innovation!
At the Innovation Culture Starter Workshop, we teach the most important basics of how you can integrate creative innovation work into the day-to-day work of your company and your employees in just half a day. Innovation experts and the best creative minds in Hamburg come together here to work with you to establish openness to innovation as a mindset. In rotating table discussions with creative experts, we identify your problems, sharpen your company-specific challenges and provide you with initial individual solutions.
Initial approaches can be deepened in advanced modules (optional).
Companies of all sectors and sizes outside the creative industries
0.5 days
Sean Weingarten is Programme Manager in the Conception & Implementation department of the Cross Innovation Hub. Previously, he was part of the Consulting & Training team, where he worked as project manager for the third round of the Creative Future Academy and the Music WorX Incubator 2022.
He completed his studies at HafenCity University Hamburg in the Culture of the Metropolis programme in 2017. This was followed by a phase of reorientation from cultural studies to artistic-practical work. He studied Digital Media at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Digital Arts at the City University of Hong Kong until 2023.
Nicole Wittek is responsible for cooperation and partner management at the Cross Innovation Hub and is the point of contact for all companies and organisations that want to find out more about the potential of cross innovation with creative experts and are interested in working together.
She studied Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Business Administration at the University of Regensburg. There she played a key role in the development and management of the inner-city creative centre and helped to establish the area of cultural and creative industries promotion. Most recently, she worked in an interdisciplinary office for urban development, where she designed co-creative formats and implemented them in projects for city centre development and mobility.
Nicole has been voluntarily organising projects at the interface of culture, (creative) economy and urban development for over ten years and is a founding and board member of the association obenstadt e.V., which promotes multifunctional roof uses, and is co-initiator of the Hamburg Roof Days.