Now online: The festival programme 2023
6th Creative Bureaucracy Festival - 150 speakers from more than 30 countries in over 70 sessions with creative solutions for the administration of tomorrow: faster digitalization, strategies for comprehensive equality and more skilled personnel.
- Tickets are available at €29 at https://creativebureaucracy.org/. The main-stage programme will be livestreamed for free on the festival homepage.
- The topics of the programme range from digitalization and AI to issues of modern organisational culture, participation, and citizen involvement.
- The thematic sessions will be complemented by a varied supporting programme with music, food trucks, awards ceremony, and networking opportunities.
- The festival will kick off with two events the day before: the Global Government Innovators Forum and the Young Creative Bureaucrats Event (both by invitation).
- More about the festival programme at www.creativebureaucracy.org/programme/
Berlin, 04 May 2023. For the sixth time, the leading creative minds of the public sector will meet in Berlin at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival. The participants will share their best practices and their insights and methods for more innovation in the public sector.
Ekin Deligöz, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, will present new strategies to solving the shortage of skilled workers in her keynote on the main stage. Christoph Verenkotte, President of the Federal Office of Administration, will look into the future of administration together with Elisa Lindinger from Superrr Lab. With the support of the Hertie Foundation, the "Young Faces Young Spaces Award" will be presented for the second time in a row for particularly creative youth participation in municipalities. Misbah Khan, MdB will address current digital policy and present a feminist perspective on register modernisation. Markus Richter, CIO of the Federal Government will give insights into current digitisation projects. The six winning teams of the community voting of the Digital Kick-Off Day will present their projects on the main stage.
On this year's Bowl Stage, the Goethe Institute will speak about its Cities Ahead programme, which supports cultural urban development, as well as representatives of the International Design Government network. GIZ, the digilab of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the GovStack Initiative will host a discussion on mission-oriented innovation in international development policy. The team of EIT Culture & Creativity, an initiative of the European Union, will present its plans for supporting cultural and creative industries (CCSI). In collaboration with Politics for Tomorrow, the festival will once again present the Academy - a creative workshop series that stands for unconventional thinking, radical imagination, and action to change systems.
On the day before the festival, 14 June, the thought leaders of the international changemaker community will meet at the Global Government Innovators Forum, and the next generation of creative bureaucrats will network at the Young Creative Bureaucrats Event.
Stéphane Beemelmans, Managing Director of the main festival partner PD, says: "I am pleased that in the diverse and challenging programme with lighthouse projects we can also present the topics that are important to us as PD - such as the sovereign handling of data and the responsible use of artificial intelligence, to which several of our 11 PD sessions are dedicated. It is important for us to effectively share experiences and knowledge for a robust administration of the future together with our public customers at all federal levels."
Other project partners of the festival include the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs, GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V., the Berlin Senate Chancellery, the Competence Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries and the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt.
The festival's programme partners also include the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation, the Federal Ministry of Finance, Red de Innovación Local and many 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
