Keynote: Creative is not a noun!

Creativity is not magic. Creativity is for everyone! In this talk, writer and artist Austin Kleon (New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, Keep Going and Don’t Call It Art) will share 10 principles for doing more creative work in the digital age. We’ll learn how to think in networks, embrace influence instead of run away from it, use analog tools for better ideas, and cultivate habits of lifelong curiosity and attention. Kleon will also talk about how his career started in a library and how librarians serve as a personal model for parenting both his kids and his own inner kid.

Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a series of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, Keep Going, and Don’t Call It Art. He’s also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. His books have sold over two million copies and have been translated into over 30 languages. He’s been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. New York Magazine called his work “brilliant,” The Atlantic called him “positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet,” and The New Yorker said his poems “resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead.” He speaks for organizations such as Pixar, Google, Netflix, SXSW, TEDx, Dropbox, Adobe, and The Economist. In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons. Visit him online at www.austinkleon.com