Executive Producer Creative XR

Digital Catapult is looking for a partner to provide Executive Producer services for the CreativeXR programme. The Executive Producer role is to shape, support and add value to the CreativeXR Cohort 3 programme of workshops, mentorships and ongoing programme strategy. Specifically, the Executive Producer will provide programme strategy recommendations, industry insight, analysis and introductions, act as a programme evangelist, judging services and expertise as part of cohort selection, business development workshops to the cohort, mentor cohort companies both from a business standpoint and creatively, and ongoing liaising and reporting to the Digital Catapult CreativeXR team. Digital Catapult are looking to award the position of CreativeXR Executive Producer to a supplier who has current extensive experience in curating and organising international immersive showcase and market events. The Executive Producer must also sit on content advisory boards in the UK and have an extensive knowledge of CR&D funding and familiarity with other grant funded initiatives in the UK. The Executive Producer must be an experienced immersive judge and panellist with an international profile and have experience dealing with senior stakeholders in the public and private sector. CreativeXR is an acceleration programme designed for UK teams from the creative and technology sector who have strong, well-developed, ground-breaking creative ideas that need early-stage financing. Now in its third year, CreativeXR is run as a partnership between Digital Catapult and Arts Council England You can find more about the programme on https://creativexr.co.uk