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The Incubate Pirate Conference will take place on September 17, 2010. It’s a day on Piracy in the Arts in Midi Theater, Tilburg. The Pirate Conference offers reflection on the comprehensive piracy-program of Incubate Festival and on the value of creation in society. Incubate Festival is about artistic progress, that’s why the artist also takes a central role in this part of the program. A lot of the time, the discussion on Piracy evolves around the economic and legal position of the consumer and producer. This conference is about creation itself though. What do artists think about the current state of issues? How can they best react to the current operation of copyright? What strategies, tactics and interventions can be used? How do we shape creativity and innovation as a society, and what could businesses learn from these tactics? As the main guest, Matt Mason will give a keynote speech at the Pirate Conference. Like in his book The Pirate’s Dilemma, Mason can give an overview about different subcultures that have brought on the most innovative ideas in history. These ideas often have been adopted by businesses later on. The underground scenes that Mason describes often swam against the current or even acted illegally, but always because they strongly believed that the legal environment didn’t match reality. They often showed that business sectors could (and should) be developed further, beyond other people’s vision. These pirates forced businesses to a difficult decision: ignoring new developments, or competing with the pirates.