Register Now for the Digital Kick-Off Day 2025
The festival journey begins with our Digital Kick-Off Day on 13 March 2025. Join us online to connect, share ideas, and discover fresh perspectives. Registration is free and open now! Once registered, you’ll receive a confirmation email and a link to the livestream one day before the event. The stream will be available on our website on 13 March, with easy access for all participants.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON 13 MARCH 2025?
The Digital Kick-Off Day features a full day of inspiring content to spark ideas and connect changemakers. The programme begins with German-language sessions (9:00 AM – 1:30 PM CET) and continues with English-language sessions (1:30 PM – 6:00 PM CET). Each segment starts with an opening talk on key public administration challenges, followed by 30 innovative Project Showcases and interviews with the Festival Jury’s top two favourites. The day concludes with the Community Voting winner announcement. From 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM (CET), join 15 Digital Workshops for hands-on learning!
PROJECT SHOWCASES
Explore 30 international projects and initiatives!
The 30 Project Showcases, selected from our Call for Participation, cover a wide array of global themes. From 15 international projects, you’ll discover how citizens are engaged in tackling systemic challenges like maternal health and urban flooding, how AI is streamlining processes, how communities are shaping governance, and how Indigenous perspectives are influencing urban planning. Projects come from countries such as India, Chile, Brazil, Finland, Japan, Peru, Cameroon, Australia, the United States, and many more.
Meanwhile, 15 showcases from the DACH region highlight practical innovations addressing issues like flexible deployment, staffing shortages, user-friendly application processes, participatory urban planning, and AI adoption, contributing to smarter, more inclusive governance.
DIGITAL WORKSHOPS
Join 15 engaging sessions in English and German!
The 15 Digital Workshops, selected from our Call for Participation, offer a diverse range of hands-on learning opportunities. For English-speaking audiences, workshops cover topics like improving citizen engagement, applying evidence-based policymaking, exploring creative approaches to policy design, and incorporating AI into public services. These workshops, from countries like China, the United States, New Zealand, Denmark, and others, offer valuable insights into how new technologies and creative methodologies are transforming public administration.
The German-language workshops dive into topics such as systems thinking, network-building, transparent public procurement processes, perspective shifts, co-creation between universities and municipalities, and logic-based AI solutions, all designed to help you tackle complex administrative challenges.
The full programme and workshop registration will be available starting mid-February.
COMMUNITY VOTING
Vote for your favourite project for the festival in June!
Two weeks before the Digital Kick-Off Day, the Community Voting will open.
Our community can explore all our Project Showcases and vote for the most innovative. Voting runs until the event, with the winner announced live. The selected projects will present their ideas at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival on 5 June 2025.
