Creative Mornings Bristol

CreativeMornings is the world’s largest face-to-face creative community. A free, monthly morning gathering happening in 227 cities worldwide, built around a short talk, informal connection, fresh perspective, and free breakfast! Welcome to the Bristol Chapter! Our monthly morning meetings encourage creative community connection and professional development. Bringing together a diverse, creative community from across disciplines, sparking ideas, collaborations and good vibes to start your day right. Usually the last Thursday of the month, from 8.00am to 9.30am, we're hosted by The Welcome Building with delicious free pastries and coffee provided by our brilliant partners at Restore. We're friendly, come say hi! Creative Mornings Bristol - April Event: Thursday 30th April - 8.00am - 9.30am @ The Welcome Building (BS2 0PS) This month's global theme is EMBER Speaker, James Gilchrist is Design Manager at Dyson, in the New Product Innovation team. James works from blank sheets of paper to turn ideas into best-selling products that solve problems others ignore. Ideas and embers have more in common than you think. Both have a fragile beginning, easily extinguished by neglect or excess, but with the right balance of patience and care, they can ignite into something far more powerful. Most ideas don’t fail because they’re bad. They fail because the conditions around them don’t allow them to flourish. So how do you protect an idea in its earliest stages? What cultures and behaviours turn innovation into a true tenet of your work, not just another ticket in the backlog? James will share stories from over a decade of product design at Dyson and beyond, exploring how and why we must give ideas the space to breathe, and the structure and culture they need to truly take hold.