How To Join The Biggest Festival For Public Sector Innovation

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 how bureaucracy and creativity can go hand in hand.HOW TO JOIN US?We can’t wait to welcome so many of you to Berlin again this year. Secure your festival ticket to join us on site. It will give you access to all stages and areas at the Radialsystem venue, allowing you to take part in the entire programme. You can’t travel to be with us on site this year? Join us digitally and register for the livestream of our mainstage which will host several keynotes, specialist lectures and project presentations on a variety of themes.

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FESTIVAL MAINSTAGE

🗓 The Intelligent Bureaucracy: Big Data, AI and Smart Bureaucracy | German (Thu, 2 June, 10:00 – 10:50 CEST)

Artist Josef Hader says, “We have to make some assumptions or we won’t get up at all.” Representative surveys and artificial intelligence can help bureaucracies base assumptions on data-based facts. But is that ethical? What present gets illustrated, and can the future really be predicted?

How innovative are administrations? In the first talk, we hear from Janina Mütze from the opinion research institute Civey about German views on administrations.
In addition to surveys, administrations can also rely on synthetic data. A team from PD presents what this is and what potential it offers.
In the third talk, Matthias Spielkamp from AlgorithmWatch takes a critical look at the effects of algorithmic systems and makes suggestions for the profitable use of artificial intelligence.
In the fourth talk, Sven Egyedy from the German Federal Foreign Office looks into the future with the crisis early warning tool “PREVIEW” and explains how reliable it already is and whether artificial intelligence really simplifies processes.
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🗓 The Regenerative Bureaucracy: Leadership in Times of Crisis |English (Thu, 2 June, 15:00 – 15:50 CEST)

Many say we’re in an age of permanent crisis – the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing environmental disasters, gaping inequality and military conflict to name but a few. What does it take to lead in times of crisis? And what better futures could be created in the process?

How do you rebuild a country after war? While the Russian war against Ukraine is still raging, Alexander Shevchenko, founder of ReStart Ukraine, is already starting the process of recovery and revival.
Public organisations are notoriously risk averse. But some crises are unavoidable. UCL IIPP’s Rainer Kattel explains how growing dynamic capabilities in public organisations can ensure both agility and stability.
The roots of the climate crisis lie in our disconnected relationships – to self, others, and nature. Susan Pettifer’s powerful work to empower female climate leaders across Australia tackles this problem head on.
How can responsible leadership unlock the power of grassroots innovators to imaginatively deal with compound urban challenges? Prathima Manohar shares her work on liveability in India.
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FESTIVAL BOWL

🗓 Disrupting Bureaucracy: Equitable and Just Policymaking | English (Thu, 2 June, 11:00 – 11:50 CEST)
Representation and inclusion in policy-making are not buzzwords. Hosted by Salzburg Global Fellows from the first Public Policy New Voices Europe programme, this conversation sets a space to discuss how common exclusionary practices in the policy-making sphere can be disrupted. More…

🗓 Dare to Take More Risks! Startups, Politics and Administration Discuss | German (Thu, 2 June, 12:00 – 12:50 CEST)
Changes accompany us always and everywhere. In order to face change, we often have no choice but to take risks. Can and should administrations dare to take more risks, and what opportunities does a “risk-taking” approach offer for everyone? And what can and must be done to create a framework in which risks can be meaningfully taken? More…

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FESTIVAL SEMINAR

🗓 Fighting the Fear of Imagination: Growing Institutional Capacity For Better Futures | English (Thu, 2 June, 10:00 – 10:50 CEST)
Taking agency and navigating unexpected futures requires the ability of institutions to promote courage in imagining. Yet today’s institutions lack the capacity of imagination required to deal with complex, systemic and uncertain policy issues. Demos Helsinki invites you to dive into this Imaginary Crisis along with guest speakers from the UNDP and Dark Matter Labs. More…

🗓 More Diversity – Better Administrations! | German (Thu, 2 June, 17:00 – 17:50 CEST)

Adequate representation in administrations is an expression of social participation, belonging, and equal opportunities. Does this require a creative diverse administration to truly meet the specific needs of different social groups? How can we strategically anchor diversity as a top priority in administration and politics? Where are blind spots and how can we overcome the hurdles? More…

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NETWORKING LOUNGE

🗓 Kontaktschmiede: Come in and Meet Everyone! | German/English (Thu, 2 June, 8:10 – 11:00 CEST)
People are finally allowed to meet each other in real life and we want to encourage that – with the Facilitated Networking method in the lounge. To kick off the festival day you’ll have a chance to break the ice and make some new connections through lightly facilitated exchange. From 11:00 onwards you’ll then find more structured themed networking options around a variety of topics! More…

🗓 International Mingle – Changemakers From All Continents Unite | English (Thu, 2 June, 16:00 – 16:50 CEST)
You’re interested in international exchange and collaboration? You just want to meet someone from a different continent? Then this is your chance to join forces with innovators and changemakers from around the globe in a more structured Facilitated Networking session. Cathy Narriman will bring you in and out of amazingly deep conversations in a very short amount of time. More…

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CBF ACADEMY

The Academy offers the opportunity to explore a topic interactively in a 90-minute workshop. This year’s four workshops focus on #DemocratisingTransformation at four levels: local, regional, continental, and planetary. The first two take place in German, the second two in English.

🗓 Democratising Transformation – ENABLING PARADIGM CHANGE LOCALLY | German (Thu, 2 June, 10:00 – 11:30 CEST)
Creative bureaucrats are capable of enabling transformative actions such as climate-neutral living or new relationships between people, nature and technology. The question is: How can we release this potential? What change processes are needed at the local level to encourage fundamental change and create new structures? More…

🗓 Democratising Transformation – REGULATING TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION | German (Thu, 2 June, 12:00 – 13:30 CEST)
Regulation is not only a means of control – it can also catalyse potential development. What approaches are needed to unlock systemic change, taking social robustness and speed into account? What is important for regulating complex dynamic systems? And how can our capacity to act be strengthened in the process? More…

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Room for Exchange - With PD

A key success factor for the success of the digital transformation of public administrations is the courage of all stakeholders to explore new ways of working together. On the seminars and bowl stages, our main festival partner PD will present “Digital Administrations: Best Practices from Hessen” together with its customers and discuss the “Sovereign Design of Administrative Digitalisation“. On the main stage, Dr. Ralf Kleindiek, the person responsible for digitalisation in Berlin, will explain what is needed for more collaboration across departmental boundaries and administrative levels. And you’ll learn about the potential of “Synthetic Data” to replace sensitive personal data.Away from the big stages, PD offers a meeting place for creative public sector professionals: in the PD Lounge, you will meet representatives of innovative authorities and organisations who are sharing their projects and initiatives in one of the 12 PD sessions. You can also expect an exciting exchange on the role of “Mini-Publics as Drivers of the Great Transformation“. Feel free to drop by and expand your network!