FutureEverything: The City Debate Conference May 14, 2010

A special event exploring the future of Manchester.

Manchester is today on the cusp of great change, home to major projects such as MediaCityUK, Corridor Manchester, and Sharp Project, plus plans for next generation broadband, and discussion on opening up public data.

Hot on the heels of the election, this is your chance to inform the thinking and ideas that will shape Manchester's future.

An ideas event for evangelists, cynics, digital artesans, policy makers, property magnates, media vultures, urban planners, you, and me.

Key figures working today to build Manchester's future will give their vision. Each will reply to the FutureEverything Proposition, a statement about the future of the city region commissioned from leading international thinkers. A studio audience will then debate the future of Manchester.

Theme: Manchester is a prototype of the world

Manchester is a city built on innovation and radical thinking, from the industrial age to the time of Factory Records and today’s creative edge and digital sector.

Manchester's recent regeneration has been led over the last 15 years by property development. Now the city is embarking on a new phase of development, posing the question of who is going lead the new development and what will be its direction.

People are today building future hubs for creative and digital industries. The roll out of a grid of high bandwidth connectivity and the opening up of public data will change our relationships with one another, how we have fun, our places of work and the city. How organisations are structured, where they locate and what they do is all being transformed.

Official Website: http://www.futureeverything.org/festival2010/thecitydebate