Ken Hensley & The Sawubona Acoustic Band@Creativity World Forum, 1 December, Ludwigsburg

Ken Hensley & The Sawubona Acoustic Band are invited to perform "Songs Of Good Hope" at 1 December for the Creativity World Forum (CFW) in Ludwigsburg. The CFW takes place every year in different regions of the world. This year the government of the German region Baden-Wuerttemberg will host the event.

Werner Acker

Werner Acker, Prof. Jazz guitar at the Music University Suttgart and Ken Hensley working together to prepare songs from the contributions to the Sawubona MusicJam project. The band will perform a "Songs Of Good Hope" concert in the evening of the 1 December to open an exhibt for the Creativity World Forum as well as in the morning's main session as part of a talkshow about "The Impact of Digitalization on the Music and Creative Industries" with Prof. Dr. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (Ilmenau), EU Ambassador of the "Year of Creativity and Innovation" Germany, Ken Hensley, Musician and Founder of "Uriah Heep" and Dr. Niko Waesche, IBM Global Business Services, Media Industries, Northeast Europe. The talkshow will be hosted by Prof. Udo Dahmen, University Of Popmusic, Mannheim.

Ken Hensley

High-profile speakers and international exchange is to characterise the Creativity World Forum which will take place in Stuttgart und Ludwigsburg between 1st and 3rd December 2009. Approx. 1,200 participants from all around the world are expected to participate in the congress premiering in Germany this year. The event organisers, the Ministry of Economics Baden-Wuerttemberg and the MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Public Innovation Agency for ICT and Media will be bringing together prominent representatives from industry, science, politics, film, architecture, music and design on both days of the congress – 1st and 2nd December. These high-profile speakers include the inventor of the MP3 Professor Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, the CEO of Robert Bosch GmbH, Franz Fehrenbach, Nokia Vice President and the former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho, film-maker Professor Doris Doerrie, top architect Professor Tobias Wallisser as well as high-ranking designer Professor Hartmut Esslinger. One of the main assets of the Creativity World Forum is its interdisciplinary and international character. The networking of various actors promotes the location development and the creative industries in Baden-Wuerttemberg as well as the international cooperation with other excellent creative regions worldwide. Further information about the Creativity World Forum