Breakout Sessions Cross Con 2025

Our breakout sessions will immerse you in hands-on activities, dynamic discussions, and innovative collaborations. Led by experts across various fields, these sessions are designed to spark creativity, explore cross-sector opportunities, and provide practical tools for cross innovation. Dive into focused workshops, role-playing, and unique formats that inspire new ways of thinking and working together.

Breakout sessions include coffee break

At first glance, it may seem like time stands still, but the museum world moves fast. Expect the speed of a Super-G racer and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Curious? Join a workshop on collaboration, where we’ll discuss different approaches and explore new opportunities for working together.

The compass addresses important points of attention when starting a cross-innovation project (or other cooperation between organizations and/or individuals with very different cultures). After this hands-on workshop, you will be equipped to use the compass in your own projects.

This workshop explores tools and methods for cross-collaboration to tackle urban challenges, using the Design for Urban Change toolkit. Participants will also discover different projects from Sweden and Lebanon.

Unveiling the collaboration for innovation scenario of practice-based formats involving artists and creatives. Receive evidence-based suggestions and move towards concrete objectives to innovate the value chain of your user/client/public offer.

We will lead you through a two-year journey of cross-innovation challenges, co-creations, labs, lighthouses and pop pop-ups in Cross-Innovation Southern Sweden. We invite you to reflect and discuss design, innovation- and research approaches to cross-innovation (from a multidisciplinary field).

How to create a cross innovation project is a practical exercise using transdisciplinary teams, to create something new,  In this workshop we will de-mystify it by engaging all participants in actual cross cross-sectoral collaboration, effectively showing how it can work in reality.

We will explore how constraints can enable innovation and how the emerging profession, growing body of knowledge and international standards for innovation management allows us to systematically remove disabling constraints. Your contribution will be used to improve the body of knowledge.

Breakout session includes coffee break

Participants will engage in an interactive workshop to explore creative strategies for enhancing talent retention in Uppsala, with a focus on fostering a thriving environment for life science professionals through collaboration, innovation, and practical solutions.

Intrapreneurial Capital is the portfolio of human and material resources and organizational structures that bridge entrepreneurial exploration with corporate authority. It transforms innovative ideas into productive practices, fostering antifragility and sustained value creation.

A cross-innovation social experiment exploring subculture’s role in social cohesion and innovation. Inspired by music, participants reflect, exchange ideas, and share perspectives in a circle of voices, uncovering how subculture impacts well-being and fosters collaboration for social change.

In our Art Ideation Workshop, we invite you to explore this transformative potential. Designed for a wide audience – from creatives and cultural professionals to business leaders and scientists – this workshop introduces a framework that demonstrates how artistic thinking can inspire and sustain innovation across diverse fields. By embracing the synergy between the seemingly unrelated fields, we can unlock immense potential for creating positive spill-overs.

Workshop around new findings on the role of culture in social cohesion and transformation to a more innovation-driven society.

The CCI4Change project explores the potential of cultural and creative industries (CCI) in driving social change. This workshop invites participants to co-create practical tools to support future CCI projects, focusing on innovation, community engagement, and sustainable impact.