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This year, we’re inviting our specialist audience to symposia on 3rd and 4th May. We’ll be focusing on "digital food", "digital retail", "women in fintech" and "experience marketing".

The last week of the Call saw a huge surge of great ideas! The number of sessions received climbed from 400 to 950. Read more on the end of the Call here.  

Thanks to the huge amounts of work done by activists, journalists and scientists, the general facts have become clear to a section of the population: The internet is broken.

Got an idea that illustrates how the right application of technologies can contribute to more efficiency, transparency and participation? Then you’ve got until 31 January to submit your proposal for #rp18.

This year, we not only have the honour of welcoming speakers Wendy Chun and Safiya Umoja Noble from the US. Katherine Roberts Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation (US), will also be flying in for #rp18.

To all female techmakers, to all tech pioneers, to all the coders out there: Take part in the Call for Participation 'Fe:male Digital Footprint'! Attention: We’re extending the Call for Participation for 'Female Digital Footprint' until 31 January 2018!

We’ve unfortunately had a bug creep into our system that made it unnecessarily hard for some of you to submit your session proposals. We’ve already managed to find a solution and have decided to add an extra week to the Call’s runtime. New Deadline: 14 January 2018.

The Berlin pop critic Jens Balzer will be explaining present-day mass cultural phenomena to us and #rp18. Clear the stage for an introduction into pop!

One last shout-out at the end of the year! 2017 is coming to a close and we look back at a year with LOVE OUT LOUD! and re:connecting EUROPE.

For the fifth time, MEDIA CONVENTION Berlin is taking place in cooperation with re:publica. In Mai decision-makers and opinion-shapers will discuss media and Internet policy issues, market trends, and developments of our digital media society.

#rp18 Speaker Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the connections between the humanities and engineering, critical theory and new media.

We’re heading into #rp18 - be aboard and give your ideas a stage at re:publica 2018. Our Call for Participation is up and running until 7 January 2018. Join in! Get more inspiration for our # rp18 POP topics here.