Creative Bureaucracy Festival Programme 2022 I CBF Award for Ukrainian Digital Minister
Berlin, 24.05.2022. War and climate crisis challenge societies. Public administrations are responding with new ideas and creative solutions. Sixty of them will present and discuss their best administrative ideas in Berlin on 2 June at the 5th Creative Bureaucracy Festival. High-profile speakers include Chancellery Minister Wolfgang Schmidt and Housing, Urban Development and Building Minister Klara Geywitz. The Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov will be presented with the Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award. Programme overview, registration and ticket sales at creativebureaucracy.org.
Programme highlights:
· The founder of "ReStart Ukraine" Alexander Shevchenko presents his vision for the reconstruction of Ukraine and tells about the first steps his homeland is making towards a peaceful future.
· The topic of crisis management with experts from Ukraine, the USA and South Africa sets the agenda for the panel discussion "Cities under Pressure: Innovating in Crises", organised by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt's "RISE Cities" programme.
· How do you change the habits of an entire nation? The Zero Waste Malaysia team talks about the collaborative handbook "My Zero Waste Life" with tips for more sustainability in everyday life, to which 40,000 Malaysian citizens contributed.
· Susan Pettifer, Director of Human Resources, Performance and Technology at the City of Sydney, uses a joint study with C40 Women4Climate to share her expertise on how to empower emerging women climate change experts.
· In her contribution on gender mainstreaming, the renowned Viennese urban planner Eva Kail explains how inclusivity is practiced in urban development using the example of the Austrian capital.
· Tina Pyka and Caroline Masabo from PD - Advisors to the Public Sector, provide behind the scenes insights of institutions and tell us how to establish agile methods in administration.
· In the area of digitalisation, the State of Hesse provides inspiration and practical expertise with projects such as marriage by video identity from Wiesbaden or the "Meteor" learning platform of the Hessian Financial Administration.
Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award
This year, three administrative innovators will again be honoured with the Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award. Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation, will be recognised for the successful digitisation of Ukraine. Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom will be awarded for her sustainable commitment and contribution to green urban development in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
Brian K Smith, Director of Performance and Innovation of the City of Minneapolis, USA, will receive the award for his police reform in the city that gave the impetus for Black Lives Matter movement in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
For the first time, the Young Faces - Young Spaces Award, supported by the Hertie Foundation, will be presented to recognise a municipality for its creative involvement of young people. The municipality of Bleckede from Lower Saxony will be honoured. Among the laudators is Federal Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Building Klara Geywitz.
Thematic orientation of the festival programme
Other themes of the festival programme in German and English are "cities and communities", "diversity", "organisational culture" and "digital transformation". The focus is also on aspects of new agile working methods, e-personnel policy, GovTech and artificial intelligence. Claus Wechselmann, Managing Director of the main festival partner PD, is looking forward to the Creative Bureaucracy Festival with excitement: "In twelve sessions, [PD] will talk about best practices of modern administrative work together with our clients - and learn from each other how the digital transformation of the administration can be advanced through cooperative and agile collaboration."
The event is supported by the main festival partners Falling Walls Foundation and PD - Advisor to the Public Sector, as well as numerous other organisations, including the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs, the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the Hertie Foundation, the German Association for Project Management, the Federal Agency for Leap Innovations, the Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe Institute and the Senate Chancellery Berlin, among others.
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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
