UJ World Creativity and Innovation Week – Theme: Future Ready – Creative Confidence for One World of Many Ideas

This event is celebrate both via talk and video, and will be joined by special guests to discuss the importance of innovating innovation in today’s world. Attendees will have the opportunity to share about the innovators they most admire from history and why, and will be able to network with like-minded participants.

d in the format of a webinar series. Three webinars will be held. On the 15th of April, Prof Thea Tselepis will present the topic “Topic Title: Go Get, Go Give: Design Thinking in Higher Education.” This webinar will share insights on how we use Design Thinking in the College of Management and Economics to support rapid systems thinking. The second webinar will be presented by four speakers, Prof Oscar Sanchez, Amber Bellou (Co-Founder of GenMrkt and COO of Gen AI Global), Nina Pearse and Celia Falkenberg co-founders of Creativity Wake-Up. Their webinar’s title is “Creative Thinking with AI – From Situationship to Relationship.” They will share insights regarding the dysfunctional relationship with AI by many students and professionals. They will explore why AI can be a tricky and frustrating partner, where it can lead you astray and what to do to set good boundaries. Three take aways: (1) ways to improve your thinking, learning and outputs. (2) Practical AI settings and (3) instructions and tools to protect your judgement and decision making. The final webinar will be on the 21st of April featuring Michael Brian Lee. He will share his the launch of his World Innovators Cup. He will be sharing stories of great innovators of history. He will discuss the importance of innovating in today’s world.

Start: 15 April 2026

End: 21 April 2026