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Only one month left! To join the event live in Berlin, make sure you secure your festival ticket in advance. Can’t join us on site? We made sure you will be able to stream our mainstage programme online. Simply register to watch the livestream on 2 June.

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EXPLORE THE 2022 PROGRAMME

FESTIVAL MAINSTAGE

🗓 The Visionary Bureaucracy: Boring, Female, Expansive, Cross-Border | English (Thu, 2 June, 13:00 – 13:50 CEST)

A selection of visions for redesigned public institutions that truly work for all people and the planet.

Indy Johar from Dark Matter Labs explores how a ‘boring revolution’ of bureaucracies could ensure a great deceleration in fossil resource consumption and safeguard our planet.
As a female politician under the age of thirty, Djuna Bernard has a wealth of experience navigating the outdated power structures of public institutions. She shares her vision for more equal, feminist, modern and approachable party politics and administrations.
To address complex challenges, policy makers need to embrace a more expansive way of thinking. Christian Bason, a leading authority on innovation and design for government, shares six “expansions” every bureaucrat should have in their toolbox.
How can we support more cross-border collaboration to save the planet? The global CivTech Alliance has explored just that, championing the powerful notion of ‘innovation diplomacy’ to advance climate tech solutions.
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🗓 The Inclusive Bureaucracy: A Majority of Minorities | German (Thu, 2 June, 16:00 – 16:50 CEST)

A journey to resilient, gender equitable, inclusive, modern places that put people first.

Noemi David & Nina Oltmanns from PD will guide you safely through the jungle of subsidies and show solution paths based on their German Structure and Resilience Plan.
Eva Kail presents how Vienna has taken a new path in urban planning for 30 years. In Sharing the City Fairly – Gender Planning as a Strategic Approach we fade out the primarily male view of planners and instead focus on everyday contexts of many groups.
In Cities for All – Inclusion in Erlangen, Schila Nemeth-Heim takes us on a barrier-free excursion for more participation and a better urban society.
The Summer of Pioneers: Coworking and Coliving at Blumenfeld Castle with Frederik Fischer and Marian Schreier invites creatives and digital workers to live in the countryside for six months – including an all-round carefree package of furnished apartments and a coworking space.
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FESTIVAL BOWL

🗓 Cities Under Pressure: Innovating in Crises | English (Thu, 2 June, 13:00 – 13:50 CEST)

International experts who have practically dealt with post-conflict and socio-economic recovery explore the consequences of intractable crises like those in Ukraine, Lebanon or South Africa and how cities can move forward sustainably. The discussion is hosted by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt’s RISE Cities programme. More…

🗓 German Online Access Law (OZG) – An Interfederal Exchange of Perspectives | German (Thu, 2 June, 14:00 – 14:50 CEST)

To successfully implement OZG, hundreds of small moving parts must be brought together. Patrick Burghardt, CIO Hessen, Ernst Bürger, Head of Department BMI, and Ariane Berger, Deutscher Landkreistag, put themselves in each other’s shoes on this topic. Join the discussion! More…

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FESTIVAL SEMINAR

🗓 Digital Acceleration at Any Cost? | German (Thu, 2 June, 13:00 – 13:50 CEST)

What factors are missing from the equation “more money = acceleration of administrative digitisation”? Contrary to the long-standing trend of attempting to simply “buy in” digital administrations, more and more innovative, independent and consequently fundable paths are emerging from within the administration itself. More…

🗓 Driving Public Innovation: A Global Conversation | English (Thu, 2 June, 14:00 – 14:50 CEST)

How do you juggle the different expectations of governments to drive innovation? What are the strategies innovative local government leaders from Europe, North America and Australia have used? The discussion is hosted by the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins. More…

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NETWORKING LOUNGE

🗓 Evolutionary Networking: Human Bingo | English (Thu, 2 June, 15:00 – 15:50 CEST)

We will work together in an evolutionary way, in four different stages. STAGE ONE – The Big Bang … no… – the Big Bingo!… We will match the participants randomly in a human bingo. The goal is to meet and discuss with as many people as possible. Come, have fun, and be surprised! More…

🗓 Science Meetup: Nerds Welcome | German (Thu, 2 June, 17:00 – 17:50 CEST)

Are you a lecturer at an administrative university? Are you studying something like administration and politics? Are you working on topics that affect bureaucracies through a scientific lens? Then here’s your chance to connect with fellow enthusiasts via facilitated networking. Cathy Narriman will help you dive in and out of amazingly deep conversations with each other in a very short time. More…

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CBF ACADEMY

🗓 How can social transformation processes be democratised?

At the Creative Bureaucracy Festival Day, Politics for Tomorrow and Dark Matter Labs invite you to four workshops that open up a collective space for experimenting, learning from each other, and expanding our perspectives on the topic of #DemocratisingTransformation. Find the four workshops (2 German, 2 English) here:

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PD With Strong Themes

Excited and full of anticipation, our main festival partner PD – Germany’s 100 percent state-owned publoic consulting company – is also looking forward to the 2 June. In 12 sessions across the mainstage, seminars, bowl discussions, and networking lounge, PD colleagues and clients will share best practices and spark exchange on exciting future topics. Such topics range from digitalisation and organisational culture to housing and funding management to the environment, mobility and energy.

“Citizens and companies rightly place high demands on an efficient and modern public administration,” explains Stéphane Beemelmans, Managing Director of PD. “The projects that we will present together with our clients at the festival day on June 2 show an administration in transition. Given the many innovative and creative solutions our clients have found in collaboration with public and private partners, I am happy to say: We are on a good path together.”