Keen minds in need of a little motivation will find all the encouragement they need at Brisbane’s Creative³ forum this September. The two-day event recently revealed its program for 2014 – and it’s shaping up to be a cracker. This year, the creativity x investment x enterprise conference will focus on the need to develop the nation’s creative, innovation and technology industries, while highlighting new and disruptive business models and applications to inspire everyone from startup founders to successful business leaders to build innovation in business.

Now in its fifth year, the cross-platform event will feature an inspiring program of panels, presentations and networking events to offer insight into new technology, business tools and creative intelligence. Inspiring innovators like Ben Fogarty, founder and CEO of Shorthand, David Briskin, chairman of sass & bide, James Boyce, creative director and founding partner of Grumpy Sailor, Jonathan Chippindale, CEO and co-founder of Holition, and Alexandra Keating, co-founder and CEO of DWNLD Media, will share their thoughts on digital disruption, innovation, design-led thinking and new ways to do business for arts, culture and creative ventures alongside their peers from around the globe. The initiative of QUT Creative Enterprise Australia will run from Thursday September 18 to Friday September 19. Browse the program and register your interest online.