The Largest Festival for Public Sector Innovation Calls all Creative Minds
The Largest Festival for Public Sector Innovation Calls all Creative Minds: Free Registration Open Now
Berlin, 29 July 2021. Now in its 4th year the Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2021 brings together public sector innovators and their allies from 13 - 17 September 2021. It will showcase great examples of imaginative bureaucracies driven by public servants at every level from around the world. With 400 speakers and 150 sessions the programme is peppered with highlights. This year the festival will be organised digitally again. The free registration is open now on the festival homepage creativebureaucracy.org
The festival focuses on the public service workers who strive to make a difference through their dedicated creative work. It celebrates the invisible unsung heroes. It promotes outstanding innovations and how they contribute to a more livable, sustainable, and fairer world and the common good.
“The 2021 Creative Bureaucracy Festival is more relevant than ever”, says Festival President Charles Landry. He has invited creative minds and the most convincing examples from around the world to the festival. “The pandemic forced us to think afresh and bureaucrats across the world are responding to the challenges with remarkable inventiveness and grit. Hear the emerging pioneers and hidden champions battling against the odds to change how we can do things for the common interest.”
After the great success of the digital event in 2020, the organisers expect around 15,000 participants. Free registration is now open on the festival homepage (creativebureaucracy.org/register).
Partner of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, the second year in row, is PD. “We see ourselves as a source of inspiration for the public sector of tomorrow - this makes the festival an ideal platform for us,” says PD Managing Director Claus Wechselmann. “As in-house consultants for the public administration, we want to help taking bold and innovative approaches and our joint festival sessions create a common forum for this!“
Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tangs shares her views on making the most of digital potentials to both safeguard privacy and democracy as well as their exemplary approach in fighting the pandemic. Kate Raworth, the inventor of the “doughnut economics” model of operating within planetary limits, explains her toolkit to transfer her idea into practice at community, city or state levels.
Sir Geoff Mulgan, professor of collective intelligence at UCL and former head of NESTA, Demos and the Young Foundation discusses how to make getting to Net Zero a reality. Cass Sunstein from Harvard and the author of ‘Noise’ as well as co-author of ‘Too Much Information’ with Nobel prize-winning psychologist-economist Daniel Kahnemanndiscusses how the infodemic can obscure and weaken judgement.
In the German programme, one of the main themes is digitisation. Dr. Markus Richter, the German Federal Government's IT Commissioner, will take part in a summit with Digitization Officers from German municipalities. In another session, success criteria will be discussed by Ammar Alkassar, the CIO of the State of Saarland, Ernst Bürger, responsible for digital administration at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Dr. Martin Hagen, the State Council for Digitization of the State of Bremen.
The event is supported by the main festival partners Falling Walls Foundation and PD. The festival’s programme is being developed in close cooperation with many other partners and involves national and international actors from the worlds of politics, administration, science, foundations, and society. These include the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Regulatory Control Council, CityLAB Berlin, the Humboldt University, the Hertie School of Governance, the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Apolitical, the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, the Council of Europe, the Barcelona City Council, the Danish Design Center, and the City of Sydney.
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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
