About us
re:publica Berlin is Europe's largest digital society festival. re:publica participants represent a cross-section of (digital) society, which include professionals from economics, politics, business, hacker culture, NGOs, media, and marketing, as well as bloggers, activists, artists, and social media experts.
re:publica 26 took place from 18-20 May 2026 at STATION Berlin with the Motto "Never Gonna Give You Up" and counted more than 29.000 visits during the three conference days.
The active involvement of the community – initiated by the Call for Participation ahead of the festival – is what makes re:publica such a unique event. Anyone interested can submit exciting topics, ideas or projects, which can become part of the programme. This is one of the reasons why re:publica achieves such a wide variety of topics and offers exceptional networking opportunities.
Over 50% of re:publica’s speakers are women. As such, re:publica has long been a pioneer and leading voice in the debate surrounding ‘gender balance’ and ‘diversity’ in general.
Founded in 2007 by Tanja Haeusler, Andreas Gebhard, Markus Beckedahl, and Johnny Hauesler, re:publica GmbH's shareholders have been dedicated to the fields of internet politics, digital culture and digital society for over a decade.
re:publica Hamburg x Reeperbahn Festival
In September 2025 re:publica took place in Hamburg for the third time. As part of the Reeperbahn Festival, the re:publica team organised a two-day programme consisting of lectures, workshops, panel discussions and performances.
re:publica Remote
On 7 May 2020, re:publica took place exclusively online for the first time as #rpREMOTE. The content of this free online conference was broadcast on four channels simultaneously and continuously on on a platform created especially for this purpose, re-publica.tv, as well as on YouTube and Facebook, and the live streams were accessed more than 100,000 times on the day of the event. In September, re:publica Campus was realised as a month-long, daily live programme with new digital and hybrid event formats.
On 20-22 May 2021, re:publica took once again place as an online conference with the motto "In The Mean Time".
Innovative event formats
re:publica regularly activates its comprehensive network of partners and speakers to host new and innovative event formats about digital society, including: re:publica x srh CAMPUS, .txt conference in 2022, Fachkonferenzen (2018 & 2019), Netzfest (2018, 2019 & 2020), Future Affairs conferences in 2018 & 2019 as well as Lange Nacht der Museen 2018 & 2019.
re:publica International
Since 2016 re:publica also took place outside of Germany, including Dublin (2016 & 2017) and Thessaloniki.
At the end of 2018, re:publica celebrated its Africa debut in Ghana's capital, Accra. Goal of this African edition of re:publica was to strengthen Afro-German dialogue about digital issues, while utilizing intersections between digitalization and collaborative developmental efforts.
re:publica was also a strategic partner of Deutschlandjahr USA and hosted five events in LA, New York, Portland, Detroit, and Austin between fall 2018 and 2019.