Giffoni Innovation Hub at start, 3rd edition Next generation event

Giffoni Valle Piana (Sa) - Strategies to educate kids and young people in Artificial Intelligence , a focus on the new frontiers of the Content Industry to support and launch startups and young people's ideas, the collection and the analysis of Big Data revealing digital natives' actualities. Furthermore, augmented reality, animation and videogames aimed at starting a Giffoni academy and workshops for the development of the Dream Team under 30 talent community projects, intended for the creative and cultural industries market. Giffoni Innovation Hub (giffonihub.com) proposes new meetings on innovation: from 14 to 22 July 2017 the creative agency promotes the third edition of the Next Generation event within the 47th edition of Giffoni Experience, one of the most well-known children's film festival in the world.

"There will be meetings, labs and reflections - explains Luca Tesauro, ceo of Giffoni Innovation Hub - which will concentrate in nine days all the activities Giffoni has been investing in for the whole year with a unique goal: educating young people and accompanying them towards the accomplishment of their dreams and ambitions in the most innovative fields of creative and cultural industries". "Each event of Next Generation - Tesauro adds - is open to the public and is carried out through the network of national and international relations with institutions, universities, startups and companies that support the Hub in its mission and will take an active part in the Next Generation event ".

The highlights of the programme are: the round table 'Creative and Cultural Industries' (investors and specialists will work together to define new models of business development in the field with a particular focus on the Content Industry); Giffoni Big Data, a data report promoted by GIH providing a portrait of the younger generations; Giffoni Business Case, research by the Lisa Lab of the University of Salerno and the George Washington University which will turn Giffoni into a business model to be studied abroad ; Startup Experience School, project carried out in partnership with auLAB and dPixel (100 students from all over Italy will submit their original projects to the most important Italian stakeholders of innovation and venture capital; Workshop Animation, VR & New Technologies for Kids Education Videogames, animation, augmented reality as instruments of innovative education for kids.

The event will be attended by CN Production, an italian startup specialised in educational audiovisual products which will show a preview of its animated series 'Skinny, the dolphin'; The Dream Team, the Giffoni Innovation Hub community consisting of 300 creative young people from 5 countries around the world (they will work closely with startuppers and innovation leaders to develop marketable ideas, with special reference to the Innovation Design for Kids project, in cooperation with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico and the accelerator The Creative Plot based in Lund, Sweden.