The Call for Administrative Reform has never been Louder
The Call for Administrative Reform has never been Louder, the Need for Creative Bureaucracy has never been Greater - The Largest Festival for Public Sector Innovation Starts Today
Berlin, 13 September 2021. The Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2021 brings together creative minds and administrative visionaries from around the world for the fourth time: from 13 to 17 September, participants will discuss ideas and solutions for innovative administration with 400 speakers in around 150 digital sessions.
The daily Festival Highlight Hour with Charles Landry and Astrid Frohloff will present the best of the programme between 1 to 2 p.m. CET. See all sessions and speakers online at creativebureaucracy.org/festival-programme/ Participation and registration is free via the Festival homepage creativebureaucracy.org/register
"The Creative Bureaucracy Festival has become THE international meeting place for innovators in the public sector," emphasizes innovation researcher and festival president Charles Landry, "each year more and more people from more and more countries join in."
From 13 to 17 September around 400 speakers will come together in 150 English- and German-language digital sessions to discuss the current challenges and potential future for the public sector. The festival programme challenges all participating creative bureaucrats and those interested in a modern and future-oriented administration with numerous formats and impulses for lively debate and joint idea generation: What have administrations in Germany, Europe and on other continents learned from the Corona and other crises? What does modernization mean and what impulses do we need today to shape sustainable administrative action? How can society's formulated expectations of public administration be met?
"We look forward to numerous creative ideas and approaches to solutions together with the festival participants from all over the world." - comments Stéphane Beemelmans, Managing Director of the public in-house consultancy PD, partner of the festival. All sessions and speakers of the digital event can be found at creativebureaucracy.org/festival-programme/.
The Festival Highlight Hour will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. each day. At the center of the two parallel live programme strands broadcast in English and German and renowned German journalist Astrid Frohloff and Festival President Charles Landry will present the best of the daily programme and link the varying topics with news, discussion partners and further creative interventions.
During the Highlight Hour on Friday, September 17, the winners of the Creative Bureaucracy Awards 2021 will be awarded: The Finnish government and Demos Helsinki will receive the award for the Steering 2020 initiative and its Humble Government approach, which bases innovation processes on continuous review and ongoing testing. Also receiving an award is Hamdan Abdul Majeed, executive director of the nonprofit organization Think City, which reversed the decline of Malaysia's George Town. Tiaji Sio, founder of the diversity network Diplomats of Color will receive the award for being the driving force behind the anti-racism discourse in the German Foreign Service.
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival is supported by two festival partners, Falling Walls Foundation and PD - Advisors to the Public Sector. Numerous other national and international actors from politics, administration, science, society, and the media will again be actively involved in programme development and events in 2021.
More information at creativebureaucracy.org
CONTACT FESTIVAL PRESIDENT CHARLES LAUNDRY AND SPEAKERS
The festival press team will be happy to put you in touch with Creative Bureaucracy Festival President Charles Landry and the speakers of the programme formats.
Press Contact:
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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