Your Festival checklist

✓ How can I join the festival in Berlin?

To join us on site you need to secure your festival ticket via our ticketshop. You can get your ticket online until the 2 June. You’re not yet sure, if you’ll be able to join? Drop by spontaneously on 2 June and buy your ticket on site. Get your ticket here

✓ Can I watch the programme online?

You can’t travel to be with us? Stream our mainstage programme online and follow several creative keynotes, specialist lectures and presentations. Register your email address and login to watch the stream on our website. Register online here

✓ How do I get there?

The festival takes place at the event location Radialsystem in Berlin: Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin, just across the Ostbahnhof train station and easily reached with the S-Bahn, by bus and by local and express trains. Please note that there are no parking spaces at the location. How to find us

✓ How do I check in on site?

Festival registration will be situated right at the entrance. If you have already purchased your ticket, all we need is your QR code. You will receive your badge which gives you access to the location and all stages. You can check in from 8am (CEST) and throughout the entire day. Ticketshop

✓ When does the festival officially start and end?

The festival takes place on 2 June 2022. Doors open at 8am (CEST). The programme will kick off at 9am (CEST) with our Grand Opening. We offer you a packed programme until our Grand Finale including our Award Ceremony at 6pm (CEST). Don’t forget to join the evening reception though, right afterwards at 6:45pm (CEST). This then lasts into the evening. Find the full programme here

✓ What’s on and who is coming?

Meet around 1,000 creative bureaucrats and over 150 speakers from 36 countries and take part in over 60 keynotes, seminars, bowls and workshops as well as a variety of networking opportunities – including our CBF Stories photo wall. Find more information on all speakers, sessions, topics and performances in our programme calendar! And see who is coming on our speakers list.

✓ Do I need to book my space for any sessions in advance?

You are welcome to join any session, whether it takes place on the Mainstage, in the Bowl room, the Seminar room or the Networking Lounge. The session “E-Government Office Hours” offers limited 1-to-1 conversations with experts. Book your slot here in advance or on site.

Please note that there are limited spots for the CBF Academy workshops – first come first serve. If you would like to join, be sure to arrive ahead of time.

✓ Great programme! But will there be space to network?

Take part in diverse meet-ups, speed dating and other facilitated encounters between international city leaders, government innovation agencies, and the various other creative changemakers in our Networking Lounge, and connect with speakers and participants.

Don’t miss out on the Garden & Riverbank (Food Court) with snacks, drinks and vibrant talks in deckchairs.

✓ How can I ask further questions?

Any questions unanswered? Do you have trouble with your ticket, your online login or the website stream?
Our team will try to help you as best as we can before and during the festival at info@creativebureaucracy.org. If you are on site please do not hesitate to come to our info desk for questions about the venue, the programme or anything else. Contact us

✓ What about COVID-19 regulations?

There are currently no legal COVID-19 restrictions on holding events in Germany. However, we recommend that you protect yourself and others by following the known rules: Keep your distance where possible, wash your hands and use our disinfection dispensers, and please don’t enter the location with obvious symptoms of disease. We will also have plenty of festival FFP2 masks on site for you!