Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2025

The ‘Creative Bureaucracy Festival’ (CBF) will take place in Berlin on 5 June 2025. This conference will bring together representatives from administration, politics, civil society and science to rethink administration and present creative approaches to solving social challenges.

German development cooperation is actively represented in the CBF programme and addresses the following questions: How can data and artificial intelligence (AI) support policymaking in tackling global challenges? And what do innovative approaches look like in practice?

Link to Festival Website

Together with the Data Labs of the German Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV) and the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ), the BMZ Data Lab is organising the following events:

Interactive Panel: Game Changer Data—How Data Labs Make Smarter Policies

11 AM – 12 PM CEST | Transformation Stage

Innovative approaches and applications developed by the data labs of BMZ, BMV, and  BMBFSFJ for the German administration will be demonstrated. The Federal Chancellery’s data lab will also be part of the event, presenting the role of data labs in ministerial administration.

LINK to the PANEL

Workshop: Translating Data into Policy—Mapping Challenges, Crafting Solutions

12 – 13:30 PM CEST | Forum

Following the panel, participants can learn how data can be incorporated into political decision-making processes through practical use cases in the workshop, organised by the GIZ global project Data2Policy. The aim: to make policy more transparent and evidence-based.

LINK to the WORKSHOP