Salzburg Global Seminar hosted the first major regional meeting of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators on April 27 to 29, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan, with support from The Kresge Foundation.The Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators (YCI Forum) is a ten-year project launched by Salzburg Global Seminar in 2014 to engage fifty of the world’s most dynamic young creative change-makers every year. The YCI Forum represents a major commitment by Salzburg Global Seminar to fostering creative innovation and entrepreneurship worldwide with the intention of building a more vibrant and resilient arts sector and of advancing sustainable economic development, positive social change agendas, and urban transformation worldwide. This meeting brought together sixteen Fellows from the YCI city hubs in Memphis, Detroit, and New Orleans.
