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Over 1,000 international participants from government, politics, civil society and other change-making organisations join the Creative Bureaucracy Festival every year to celebrate outstanding examples of innovative public administrations. We will meet again on 15 June 2023 in Berlin!
06.07.2022
After two years of the pandemic, we were incredibly excited to bring back the Creative Bureaucracy Festival as a physical event. And what we experienced on 2 June 2022 far exceeded our expectations. Over 1,000 participants from administration, politics and society came to discuss successful innovations in the public sector and celebrate administrative talent from…
15.06.2022
After a two-year pandemic, the festival brought together over 1,000 international participants as a face-to-face event. Charles Landry, the festival president, sees this as the strength of the format: “The Creative Bureaucracy Festival is a place where administrative talents from around the world learn from and inspire each other.” The next Creative Bureaucracy Festival will…
03.06.2022
What a day!!! We are absolutely thrilled about the great response, the festival atmosphere and above all: the inspiring talks and impulses, workshops and bowls. THAT WAS GREAT! Let’s do it again: 15 June 2023. Thank you to everyone who participated today and especially to all our partners who contributed to the inspiring programme and…
01.06.2022
Are you ready for Thursday? Go through our festival checklist, tick the boxes and download our programme overview below to make sure you’ve got your Creative Bureaucracy Festival experience covered. We have some limited remaining tickets left – bring a friend and use the code: Friend@CBF2022 in our ticketshop. Join us from 8am (CEST) at…
29.05.2022
For the first time, the Young Faces – Young Spaces Award, supported by the Hertie Foundation, will be presented to recognise a municipality for its creative involvement of young people at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2022. The municipality of Bleckede from Lower Saxony will be honoured as the very first recipient! We present the award…
24.05.2022
At the heart of changemaking are leaders at every level willing to take on responsibility, and the unfolding urban crisis demands more effective leaders with ever greater urgency. How can we support the emergence of more of them? This article covers: What is Responsible Leadership, what are RISE Cities, the RISE Cities sessions at the 5th Creative…
19.05.2022
Two weeks from today we will meet again – both live in person and online via our livestream! With us are more than 150 speakers from 36 countries in over 60 programme sessions. Join us in Berlin! Join us online! Today we want to introduce you to our very first Creative Bureaucracy Award Young Faces…
16.05.2022
Following last week’s announcement of our 2022 programme, we are delighted to continue our deep dive into the sessions you can find at Radialsystem on 2 June.Get ready to meet over 100 speakers from accross the globe who are joining us in Berlin to share both best practice examples and vital questions and provocations around…
06.05.2022
Only one month left! To join the event live in Berlin, make sure you secure your festival ticket in advance. Can’t join us on site? We made sure you will be able to stream our mainstage programme online. Simply register to watch the livestream on 2 June.
22.04.2022
How are you helping to shape modern public administrations? Join us on 2 June in Berlin and let us know! Or learn more about how you can start becoming an active part of creating future-oriented bureaucracies. Meet public sector innovators and creative changemakers at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival and take part in over 50 keynotes, seminars, fishbowls and…
11.04.2022
Das Creative Bureaucracy Festival ist das Forum für Innovatoren im Öffentlichen Sektor. Das Festival will das Ansehen von Verwaltung stärken und insbesondere ideenreichen Nachwuchs ansprechen. 2022 laden wir deshalb gemeinsam mit PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand die nächste Generation der Verwaltungsinnovatoren zu einem exklusiven Event nach Berlin. 40 junge Talente bekommen am 1. Juni…
04.04.2022
It’s been a bit over a week since our first Digital Kick-Off Day. We are grateful for the overwhelming response, counting around 1,500 participants from over 50 countries, more than 30 programme sessions and 100 speakers, as well as 3,500 votes cast to elect this year’s community voting winners! Did you miss one or more of the…
30.03.2022
Marriage via video identification and innovation diplomacy for the climate of the future – the digital audience of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival has selected the best ideas of imaginative bureaucrats. Around 1,500 festival participants from over 50 countries took part in the voting. On 2 June 2022, the winners will present their ideas on stage…
30.03.2022
We are over the moon with the positive response on all channels to the Digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March 2022. What a great start to the 2022 festival season! We are really looking forward to the next steps. And to help us improve, please let us know your feedback. It only takes a few…
18.03.2022
Last week we shared the Digital Kick-Off Day (24 March) with you – a programme largely curated with the support of our festival jury. And now it’s your turn! From now until the end of the 24 March itself we are opening a community voting for you to choose which topics or projects you find the most interesting,…
11.03.2022
The wait is over! The full programme of our Digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March is now online and ready for you to explore. Browse through more than 30 sessions, which the festival jury selected from around 200 nominations from over 30 countries. To join us and many brilliant creative voices online, all you need…
02.03.2022
Are you ready for a new year of public sector innovation? Register now for free for the first of our core activities this year, our Digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March!Our digital stage will host a packed programme of inspiring examples of creative bureaucracy in action with brilliant, creative solutions for all kinds of problems and untapped opportunities. We…
31.01.2022
Following our announcements of our upcoming 2022 events – our first Digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March and our first live event after two years on 2 June – we are now excited to introduce you to our first official Creative Bureaucracy Festival Jury! Of our 16 jury members, many are longstanding supporters and co-creators…
21.12.2021
We are delighted to announce that we will be continuing our collaboration 🤝 with PD-Berater der öffentlichen Hand. With PD, we have a strong, knowledgeable and well-connected partner at our side who just received the “Hidden Champion” Award for their public sector consulting services in Germany. We look forward to entering 2022 with such a…
17.12.2021
After hitting some new records in 2021 with our second digital edition, we are thrilled to announce that the Creative Bureaucracy Festival will return in 2022 with the best of both worlds – online and in-person! SAVE THE DATE:24 March 2022 – Digital Kick-Off Day (online)2 June 2022 – Creative Bureaucracy Festival (in-person in Berlin) We are…
27.10.2021
Using Data to Shape our Future Cities: Best Practices from Germany As the digital transformation of society changes our cities, an essential issue is that of so-called ‘data sovereignty’. How should the data generated in urban areas be handled? And who should handle it? While the private sector has long been using data to build…
22.10.2021
Did you miss any sessions during the festival? No problem. The entire 2021 programme is now available in our Creative Bureaucracy Content Library. Use the search function or browse through the different thematic blocks to find the right video for you. The Creative Bureaucracy Content Library is a platform by and for creative changemakers. Browse through more…
23.09.2021
Help us make the 2022 Festival even better by taking a few minutes to complete our questionnaire. We have put together a couple of short surveys and would be very grateful for your feedback. One relates to the festival as a whole, and the other to individual sessions. All reflections and suggestions are very welcome: What did you…
17.09.2021
The fourth Creative Bureaucracy Festival comes to an end with new records: 18,000 creative minds and administrative visionaries from 94 countries participated in this year’s Festival. The comprehensive Festival programme included 150 digital sessions and over 400 international speakers. “The Creative Bureaucracy Festival is not only a forum for the best ideas for bureaucracy, but…
12.09.2021
What kind of bureaucratic infrastructure do we need for the 21st century? How can we create an empowering set of practices, resources and structures which together provide the best possible conditions for the imagination at all scales of society? Finance and resourcing don’t sound like especially ‘creative’ topics, but they are often the key to either halting…
12.09.2021
“Digitalising a broken process gets you a digitised, broken process.” – New America. As governments increasingly automate their work and the digital possibilities around us proliferate, it’s Creative Bureaucrats and their allies who are ensuring we get the ‘digitalisation’ process right. From AI and data ethics through service design standards and digital public space stewardship, they’re…
12.09.2021
Smart City and Governance Digitization is both a challenge and an opportunity for cities around the world. Furthermore, the combination of digitization and urban development is the basis for the emergence of smart cities. But smart cities are much more than just a collection of intelligent electricity systems and autonomously driving cars. A city, at…
07.09.2021
Working in the public service of the state of Berlin means working for the common good and having a truly creative and meaningful job. Approximately 128,000 people work in Berlin’s public authorities every day to ensure that things are safe, social and fair in the city, that our children are well educated, that streets, parks…
06.09.2021
Civic participation is at the heart of democracy. Yet so often citizens aren’t involved at all in their political system or policymaking processes. Creative Bureaucrats and their allies listen to individuals and their communities and find ways to actively involve them in the decisions that will affect their futures, providing agency and building trust along the…
06.09.2021
Quality education and meaningful employment are two of the most powerful tools for lifting socially excluded individuals into society and for building bonds between citizens. In our new world of digital technologies, climate crises, and different social challenges to the past – What jobs and skills do we need? And what kind of education should we…
