The inaugural edition of South East Creative Economy Summit is billed to hold in Umuahia, Abia State from November 21-22, 2024.

South East Creative Economy Summit is a social innovation program aimed at enhancing the capacity of creative industry practitioners and entrepreneurs operating in South East Nigeria, and connecting them with global development trends and partners, in line with the policy of the Federal Government to promote non-oil economy by strengthening the overall productive and competitive capacity of the creative industries.

Organized by a consortium of creative industry stakeholders coordinated by Ojemba Media & Entertainment Limited, the Summit seeks to review in critical perspectives, the status of the South East Creative Economy with a view to identifying fundamental growth gaps and adopting pragmatic economic models for sustainable development, especially in the context of intellectual property, copyright, piracy, entertainment technology, structural profile, access to credit, credit management, and diverse windows of long term empowerment for wealth creation.

Under the theme, Intellectual Property, Entertainment Technology and Wealth Creation: Imperatives for Enhancing the South East Creative Economy, the Summit, in partnership with key agencies of the Federal and State governments as well as private sector institutions, would rally the very best of Nigerian and international experts, creative industry stakeholders and regulators, to enlighten creative industry practitioners and commercial users of copyright content in the South East on the imperatives of intellectual property protection as a fundamental pillar of sustainable growth for the creative economy.

The Summit also seeks to explore functional mechanisms for more extensive enforcement of the Nigerian Copyright Laws, enhance the managerial structure of the South East Creative Industry and evolve data-based blueprint to facilitate planning, investment, regulation, risk management and performance audit in line with statutory protocols at the national and sub-national levels.

Devised as one of the major strategic interventions to upscale the development of Nigeriaโ€™s creative economy, incorporating national and global trends, the Summit would hold at the prestigious Sun Heaven Hotels, Umuahia.

The organizers and partners shall hold a Press Conference in due course to unveil more details.

Victor C. Nwokocha, ANIPR
Summit Coordinator
0703 544 3374

Prince Clinton Uba
Head, Media and Publicity
0803 431 0732

August 19, 2024