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Since 2018, the International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries, hosted by the USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry (ICCI), has successfully held six sessions. 28-30 March 2025, USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry (ICCI) will host the 7th International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries

The theme for this year’s conference is "New Quality Productive Forces, New Drivers of the Economy, New Ecology of the Cultural and Creative Industries." Against the backdrop of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, new quality productivity, with its characteristics of technological innovation, knowledge intensity, and cross-disciplinary integration, is vigorously promoting the upgrading and innovation of cultural and creative industries as never before, reshaping the intrinsic driving force of global economic development, and constructing a sustainable development ecosystem for cultural and creative innovation. We will delve into how new quality productivity, through empowering content innovation, format innovation, and model innovation, stimulates the intrinsic dynamics of cultural creativity in disciplines development, talent cultivation, scientific research, industrial upgrading, innovation-driven, and sustainable development, fostering new formats and models, and building a more open, interconnected, and intelligent new ecology for the development of cultural and creative industries. This international conference aims to gather global wisdom, jointly explore new paths for the deep integration of new quality productivity and cultural and creative industries, and promote the global cultural and creative industries and cultural and creative economy to enter a new era of innovation-driven and high-quality development.

To adapt to the development trend of the times, grasp the frontiers of culture and creativity, and respond to the common expectations of the society, the seventh International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries builds a platform for full dialogue and communication based on interdisciplinary, inviting scholars and industry experts from various disciplines at home and abroad, including cultural industry studies, management, economics, communication, design, art, ethnology, computer science, sociology, psychology, intangible cultural heritage studies, etc., to actively participate, forming academic collisions of new ideas, new perspectives, and new technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring new issues, challenges, and opportunities in the development of cultural and creative industries, and jointly creating a new ecology for the development of global cultural and creative industries.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Ke Xue
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

ACADEMIC STEERING COMMITTEE

(In alphabetical order)
Prof. Ang Peng Hwa
Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Qinghe Chen
Shih Hsin University
Prof. Peter Childs
Imperial College London
Prof. Shantanu Dutta
University of Southern California
Prof. Caiwu Fu
Wuhan University
Prof. Anthony FUNG
Prof. Terry Flew
The University of Sydney
Prof.Thomas Goodnight
University of Southern California
Prof. Guo Bin
Prof. Sherwood HU
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Jinzhang JIANG
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. William Latham
Goldsmiths (University of London)
Prof. Ben Lee
University of Southern California
Prof. Yu-li Liu
City University of Hong Kong
Prof. Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Lingyun Sun
Zhejiang University
Prof. Xiaohong Wang
Communication University of China
Prof. Ke Xue
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Yong Xiang
Peking University
Dr. Dong Zhang
Kuanchuang International
Prof.Zhang Weimin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof.Zhou Shuhua
University of Missouri
Global Cultural and Creative Knowledge Exchange Platform
Global Cultural and Creative Industry-University Interactive Platform
10
Cultural and Creative Field
30+
Countries and Regions
5000+
Scholars and Industrial Professionals

ICCI has held five consecutive "International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries" since 2018. Through the international academic exchange platform of the international conference, we attempt to discuss the development of global cultural and creative industries, establish an international academic center of global cultural and creative industries and academia centered in Shanghai, and promote the development of global cultural and creative industries, academia and research. Through 5 years' efforts, the " International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries" has become one of the world's largest academic conferences on cultural and creative industries, with more than 5,000 participants, and is one of the most influential international academic conferences on cultural and creative industries in the world.

HIGHTLIGHTS FROM THE 2023 CONFERENCE