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re:publica has always been more than a conference. When 5,000 visitors start making their way into the STATION-Berlin it won't be just for the exciting talks, panels and workshops but also to meet and hangout with nice and interesting people.

At least since the Snowden revelations it has been clear: we live with and in a “surveilled Net”. What that means for us and our future will be debated at our subconference.

Constantin Seibt is on the hunt for the journalism of the 21st Century. He will give us the latest updates on the continually warring camps of media acceleration vs deceleration and print vs online news.

Last year we invited tech community representatives from all over the world to our 'Global Innovation Lounge'. Join us again this year at the 'Global Innovation Gathering'.

It’s on! On 6 May, the eighth re:publica will go INTO THE WILD and will be accompanied by three days of creative entrepreneurship through the startup scene at the STATION-Berlin. Today we are presenting some of the startups, which will be attending.

Hannah Fry is a mathematician. She holds a PhD in fluid-dynamics, has worked in motor sports as an aerodynamicist and now teaches at University College London. Her research focus is on the London riots of 2011.

The hallmark of design research is an elegant theory and participative praxis that factors in the person and thereby serves the networked society. But how do we do this and how do we want to communicate and interact with one another in the future?

In December, we announced that this year’s droidcon, the world’s largest gathering of Android developers, was taking place pretty much simultaneously to re:publica. Now tickets and programme are available!

The first 100 sessions received and accepted through our Call for Papers have been put online. You can start right now and begin planning this year’s route through talks, workshops, discussions and actions.

IT security expert Morgan Marquis-Boire tracks down state-operated trojans, analyses surveillance software and warns of a new phase in global, digital proliferation.

Surviving without a car, without supermarkets, without power, heating or running water? Impossible? Greta Taubert wanted to find out for herself and dared an experiment: For one year she tried to live as self-sufficiently as possible. 

In the tug-of-war between techno-enthusiasm and digital disenfranchisement, the forces are changing strength. Sara Spiekermann argues for a society in which the use of technology and the desire for privacy can be united.