Study Visit Amsterdam, 22-24 September 2010 Creative Metropoles Presentation Delegation Creative Metropoles. More: http://www.creativeamsterdam.nl/cm

1. Learning experience for creative leaders Agnes Willenborg Managing Director

2. Culture is the greatest invention of humanity . We created our own world and with it our own freedom and limitations . Most of the large-scale challenges we face today are human-made . In other words, humans should be able to resolve them again. Culture is in need of a grant new scheme and THNK takes the lead in its design .

3. Our societal and economical challenges ahead are of such complexity that they require creative leaders , with a human-centered , multidisciplinairy approac h.

4. THNK offers you a learning experience to develop yourself as a creative leader . THNK integrates design thinking , emerging technology , and business building to create value and have impact

5. World-wide, we gather talent, brilliance , and skills in areas like: design, arts, technology, business , science and governance .

6. These are the disciplines , we believe, that in creative collaboration can make the difference : From idea to implementation, from a local to a global scale.

7. It is not about designing the next chair

8. Instead, current society requires the design of new products, services, systems, organisations, processes, situations

9. On big questions such as the future of cities

10. And other complex challenges in area’s like healthcare, mobility, sustainability and finance

11. Integrated domains Design Thinking Business Building Emerging Technology

12. In search of the new renaissance ( wo ) men

13. creating t-shaped leaders

14. International postgraduate education , integrated with research and business acceleration

16. An innovative learning environment in the creative capital Amsterdam.

19. A creative leader is an individual , a team , a company , a country , the world !

20. Partners