The Best Ideas for Modern Administration at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival
- At the Creative Bureaucracy Festival’s 7th annual Digital Kick-Off Day on 21 March, over 40 teams will share their vision of actionable change within administration
- Attendees will have the ability to join the live stream, tune into podcasts, and a chance to engage in workshops
- An international jury selected the most innovative projects from over 230 submissions from more than 40 countries
- An online audience will vote on their six favourite projects and the winners will be invited to join the Live Festival in Berlin on 13 June 2024
- The Digital Kick-Off Day’s topics range from legal design and innovations for climate resilience to impact orientation and AI
- Participation in Digital Kick-Off Day is free of charge - pre-registration is available at https://digital-kick-off-day-2024.eventbrite.de/
- Details of the programme can be found at https://creativebureaucracy.org/programme/
- Tickets for the Live Festival on 13 June can be found here https://creativebureaucracy.org/tickets/. Early bird tickets are available until 12 April
Berlin, 15 March 2024. The Creative Bureaucracy Festival 7th year sets off to an exciting start with the Digital Kick-Off Day on 21 March, followed by the Live Festival on 13 June. Each year, these two gatherings unite thousands of participants from administration, politics, and society worldwide to exchange successful innovations in the public sector and honor administrative talent from across the globe.
As the first event of the year, the Digital Kick-Off Day promises an enriching programme with inspiring examples of creative and innovative management. The online event consists of more than 90 entries selected by an international jury from the Call for Participation. Participation is free of charge. In 2023, this format garnered international acclaim, drawing nearly 2,000 digital attendees from 77 countries via the live stream. This year, we're proud to introduce three distinct categories for the first time. The lineup boasts 40 project showcases, 22 digital workshops, and 30 podcast episodes featuring speakers hailing from over 30 countries, all as part of the Digital Kick-Off Day. The event revolves around four programme clusters: Bureaucracy 2045: Thinking Afresh, Transforming How We Work, Delivering Collective Impact, and Living Better Together. The community voting segment offers a key opportunity for engagement, allowing viewers to select the six winning projects that will be featured on the grand stage on 13 June.
“We see teams with drive, whose projects show us new ways of conceiving, developing and implementing administrative innovation in different settings. Their creativity and their ability to work together enable everyone to learn from each other. In this way, changes in public institutions can be sustainably shaped for the well-being of everyone," says festival director Johanna Sieben. For the fifth year in a row, PD - Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH is the main festival partner of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival. Claus Wechselmann, Managing Director of PD, recognises it as the most important event for learning about administration for the benefit of administration: "The festival has established itself as a networking platform for courageous and innovative thought leaders and shapers of administrative transformation. Our participation in the Digital Kick-Off Day and the Live Festival are highlights of our external communication activities. We look forward to the joint presentation and discussion of best practices from our public sector clients at the international festival. One focus this year will be on practical examples of artificial intelligence in public administration."
Other project partners of the festival include Bertelsmann-Stiftung, GPM - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V, German Federal Ministry of Defense, and BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt.
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival opens its doors on 13 June 2023 in Berlin at 8.30 am (CEST). The programme will present short talks, workshops, panel discussions and much more from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm. Once again, creative minds from all over the world will be welcomed to rethink principles, processes and practices for innovation and change in our public administrations and institutions. With over 70 sessions, over 150 speakers and over 100 participating institutions, a new year of innovation will be set in motion. The festival will cover a range of topics including digitalisation, strategies for promoting comprehensive equal opportunities, addressing the need for skilled workers, and enhancing coordination for collective action to tackle today’s greatest challenges. The programme and speakers will be announced in April/May 2024.
Pre-registration for Digital Kick-Off Day is available on the website: https://digital-kick-off-day-2024.eventbrite.de/. Admission to the Live Festival is 29 Euros. Early bird tickets are available until 12 April. Ticket sales can be found at https://creativebureaucracy.org/tickets/. This year, the festival is changing its location and will take place in and around Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin.
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ABOUT THE CREATIVE BUREAUCRACY FESTIVAL
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival shines a spotlight on creative solutions to a wide variety of community issues within administration, bringing them center-stage and fostering a dialogue among the individuals and minds behind them. According to its president Charles Landry, the festival stands for a change from a "No, because" culture to a "Yes, if" culture that inspires people to try new things. The festival also aims to strengthen the reputation of the administration and appeal to imaginative young talents. creativebureaucracy.org
ABOUT THE FALLING WALLS FOUNDATION
Since 2009, the non-profit Falling Walls Foundation has been bringing together the most renowned and influential thought leaders from around the world. Nobel Prize winners, start-ups, young scientific talents, research companies, culture, politics and the media discuss the question: "Which are the next walls to fall in science and society?". The Falling Walls Foundation's programmes build bridges be-tween science and society and convey enthusiasm for the work of scientists in all disciplines.falling-walls.com
ABOUT PD – ADVISOR TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR
As a partner to the public sector, PD combines economic and strategic expertise with in-depth knowledge of the special processes and structures of public sector clients. On this basis, PD offers consulting and management services on all aspects of modern administration with a team of around 1,100 employees. Clients are exclusively federal, state and local authorities as well as other public bodies and institutions, as PD is itself 100 per cent publicly owned as an in-house consultancy. pd-g.de
