The Grand Opening 2022 – with Head of the German Federal Chancellery Wolfgang Schmidt and International Creative Bureaucracy Leaders (DE/ENG)
Festival President Charles Landry and presenter Astrid Frohloff welcome you to the Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2022. To kick things off we want to hear from Wolfgang Schmidt, Head of the Federal German Chancellery, what German politicians are doing to strengthen the public administration amid the current crises? Does the German public administration need more independence and autonomy to react more flexibly to the current challenges? And how does he know when an idea is worth taking a risk and fighting for?
Charles Landry and a collection of international creative bureaucrats will then discuss what has happened in the public sector over the past 5 years since the festival was founded. Have challenges such as the pandemic, the climate crisis and the current war in Ukraine drained us beyond salvation, or are they catalysts for fundamental change? How much untapped potential can be unleashed through better collaboration between administration and business, science and civil society? Could international mission-driven alliances take us to a new level?
The first 30 minutes will be held in German. The second 30 minutes is then devoted to the international programme and will take place in English.
Berlin, 10243 Germany
Wolfgang Schmidt
Bundesminister für besondere Aufgaben und Chef des Bundeskanzleramtes
Christian Bason
CEO / Danish Design Center
Astrid Frohloff
TV Moderator & Journalist
Charles Landry
President, Creative Bureaucracy Festival