Join us Monday 7th September, 16:30 CEST, as Creative Futures Academy (CFA) hosts a landmark session at LUCA Auditorium (and live streamed), recognised as an Associated Event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.

READ THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE

This high-level dialogue brings together leading voices in creative education and policy:
🔹 Louise Allen, Director, Creative Futures Academy
🔹 Jennie Moran, Artist & Programme Lead, Creative Hospitality (NCAD/CFA)
🔹 Professor Alex Milton, Head of School of Design, NCAD & CFA Institutional Lead
🔹 Martin McGinn, CFA Arts & Health Lead, and Service Design Graduate, CFA at NCAD
🔹 Shane Casey, Creative Lead, Accenture and Speculative Design Futures Graduate, CFA at IADT
🔹 Charlotte Barker, CEO, Institute of Designers in Ireland
🔹 Robert Power, Irish artist discussing the development of A Version of Life through CFA and UCD at Trapdoor
🔹 Professor PJ Mathews, Director of CFA at UCD
🔹 Barbara Revelli, Head of Programmes, ELIA
🔹 Vivienne Patterson, Higher Education Authority, Ireland
🔹 Sarah Glennie, Director, NCAD
🔹 David Smith, President, IADT
🔹 Barbara Stacher, Senior Expert, EU-Commission, EU cultural and creative sectors and industries’ policies
🔹 Clare Sands, sixth-generation fiddle player and bilingual singer and Strategic Development for Creative Professionals Graduate, CFA at IADT
🔹 Regina Uí Chollatáin, Principal, College of Arts and Humanities, UCD

On the agenda:
✅ Investment in creative education
✅ Creative skills as drivers of innovation
✅ Micro-credentials & flexible learning

If you can’t make it in-person, make sure to join us online and tune in via livestream:

WATCH THE LIVESTREAM