Panel: Labs and incubators for the rest of us
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 07/12/2016

Panel: Labs and incubators for the rest of us
Paula Bray, Tui Te Hau, Seb Chan & Julia Kaganskiy (State Library NSW, Te Papa, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, NEW INC)

2:15 - 3:15pm Wednesday 23 November, Rangimarie 2

Join our expert panel to discuss how we can all benefit from cultural sector labs and incubators. Can smaller organisations get involved in this space, or is it only for the big institutions?

Tui’s background includes working for NZTE, where she headed up the Māori Enterprise Team, supporting major primary exporters into offshore markets. She went on to be New Zealand Trade Commissioner, based in Melbourne, and on her return to New Zealand headed NZTE’s exporter education programme. Tui then spent over a decade working with start-ups. She founded Wellington’s Fashion HQ business incubator and was the former Chief Executive of Creative HQ. She was responsible for the establishment of the Lightning Lab, New Zealand’s business acceleration programme. Tui joined Te Papa in December to set up Mahuki, Te Papa's Innovation Hub.

Seb is currently Chief Experience Officer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). He is in charge of a holistic visitor-centric design strategy for the organisation, and recently helped open ACMI X, a studio for the creative industries. He was previously Director of Digital & Emerging Media at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, where he was been responsible for the museum’s digital renewal and its transformation into an interactive, playful museum after a 3-year rebuilding and reimagining process. He also has had a parallel life in electronic music and art organising and curating festivals, international touring, and publishing.

Julia is Director of NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator for art, design and technology founded by the New Museum in New York in 2014. She previously served as Global Editor of The Creators Project, a partnership between VICE Media Group and Intel, and founded #ArtsTech Meetup, a group that brings together professionals from New York City’s museums, galleries, art-related start-ups, and digital artists. Julia has been cited as one of Crain’s New York "40 Under 40" (2015), named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company (2011) and Business Insider (2013) and profiled in the 2012 AOL/PBS series MAKERS honoring women leaders.

Paula is the DX Lab Leader at the State Library of NSW and is responsible for developing and promoting an innovation lab utilising emerging and existing web technologies to deliver new ways to explore the Library’s vast collections and its data. Paula is shaping the Lab up as a place for creative ideas and a partner for innovation.