Accenture has signed on as a premier accomplice of the Arts Centre Melbourne with the duty of reworking its digital capabilities and viewers expertise to create a long-lasting cultural affect.
Arts Centre Melbourne is Australia’s largest efficiency arts establishment of its type, with oversight for actions on the Sidney Myer Music Bowl and Hamer Corridor amongst different theatres and live performance venues within the Southbank precinct.
Accenture’s signature follows the tech consulting large’s current involvement as a accomplice of the Adelaide Fringe Pageant and fledgling SXSW convention in Sydney, supporting two of Australia’s most distinguished cultural occasions.
“We’re so happy Accentureis becoming a member of us,” said Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Karen Quinlan. “There’s nice synergy between the 2 organisations. Accenture’s core enterprise is outlined by innovation, reinvention and difficult the established order. Equally, dwell efficiency exists on the leading edge, the place each efficiency affords the potential to rework those that expertise it.”
Quinlan took over as Arts Centre Melbourne chief in late 2022 after serving as a director of the Nationwide Portrait Gallery in Canberra and the Bendigo Artwork Gallery earlier than that. Her ascension to the highest function at Arts Centre Melbourne was partly primarily based on the progressive and transformative method she took in her earlier jobs. Now, she has landed one of many nation’s greatest advisories.
The companions say they goal to forge a collaborative and dynamic working relationship bringing collectively inventive creativity with enterprise innovation, with Accenture tasked with serving to to rework Arts Centre Melbourne’s operations, digital capabilities, and viewers expertise to boost the organisation’s modern relevance and entice extra folks to its occasions.
Arts Centre Melbourne has a protracted historical past, initially established within the early 80s because the Victorian Arts Centre earlier than extra lately taking up its present title. Situated subsequent to the Yarra River alongside St Kilda Street, the complicated places on common performances by cultural establishments comparable to Opera Australia, Bell Shakespeare, the Australian Ballet, and the Bangarra Dance Theatre firm.
“This partnership additionally comes at a essential time,” Quinlan mentioned. “As we have a good time our fortieth yr and reimagine our bodily presence, Accenture will assist us reinvent our digital infrastructure, enabling us to leverage expertise for cultural affect. Essentially, working with the agency will allow us to do what we do finest: getting dwell efficiency onto the stage and in entrance of an viewers.”
