Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2025

Every year almost 2,000 international participants from government, politics, civil society and other change-making organisations join us to share and celebrate outstanding examples of innovative public administrations.

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival will return on 5 June 2025 in Berlin to rethink principles, processes and practices of our public institutions. Once again we will welcome creative minds, public sector innovators and creative changemakers from all over the world.

More information about how to get tickets and what to expect for the next edition will be available soon.

Namatai Kwekweza on Impact Stage speaking in front of audience

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In 2024 the festival welcomed more than 1,850 participants as well as 2,500 viewers via our livestream. In 83 English and German speaking sessions, more than 200 speakers shared their expertise on public sector innovations. Watch all sessions of the Impact Stage from 2024 here.

Three month prior to the festival in Berlin, our Digital Kick-Off Day ushers in a new year for administrative innovation with forward-looking project showcases and digital workshops. The online event on 13 March 2025 consists of entries from the annual Call for Participation selected by our festival jury.

Call for Participation

INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 2025

The Festival takes place on Thursday, 5 June 2025. Doors open at 8:00 (CEST) and all programme sessions will run between 9:00 – 19:00 (CEST). And to ensure this really feels like the festival we all deserve, we are excited to also offer a day of music, art and entertainment throughout the day until late.

The festival will be hosted at Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin, located at Am Flutgraben 2, 12435 Berlin. Found between the underground station Schlesisches Tor and the train station Treptower Park, it offers convenient access via bus, S-Bahn and U-Bahn.

Every year we will offer sessions from speakers around the world presenting innovative solutions for the administration of tomorrow: faster digitalisation, strategies for comprehensive equality, a more skilled work force, and better coordination of collective action on the biggest challenges of our time. Our programme schedule and all speakers will be announced in April/May 2025.

To join us on site in Berlin make sure to secure your festival ticket. Tickets will go on sale in March 2025. It gives you access to all stages and areas at the venue, allowing you to take part in the entire programme. You can’t travel to be with us on site? You can watch our livestream for free and join us digitally on our website! We stream our biggest stage which hosts several keynotes, specialist lectures and project presentations on a variety of themes.