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Speakers 2023
Full line-up of speakers announced! Meet the crafters, thinkers, and doers who joined us in Berlin for this last edition.
Check the line-upJury 2023
We are pleased to introduce the global leaders who will award excellence in craft and creativity.
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PATRICK MILLING-SMITH
SMUGGLER | Co-Founder & CEO

SHAWN LACY
Biscuit Filmworks | Co-Founder & Managing Director

XOLISA DYESHANA
Joe Public | Chief Creative Officer

ERIN GOODSELL
Mother | Head of Production

NICK SETOUNSKI
Wieden+Kennedy | Global Head of Production

ALICE BOTTARO
Apple | Creative Director
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CICLOPE Festival 2023: The Highlights
CICLOPE 2023 is a wrap. And here’s our wrap-up video. Thank you to everyone who entered, judged, spoke, attended and sent love from afar. We are so grateful to all of you and we had so much fun in Berlin. We hope you did too. Three whole days of inspiration and craft went by in a flash.
Behind the craft

Newsflash: 2023 Festival Winners Announced
The winners of CICLOPE Festival 2023 have been announced. The biggest CICLOPE Festival to date saw attendees gather in Berlin to celebrate the power of craft in a three-day festival, culminating in the Awards Show.
Behind the craft

Newsflash: CICLOPE announces Shortlist 2023
CICLOPE Festival has announced the Shortlist selected by the Jury across 37 distinct craft and creative categories. Winners will be decided by the Jury in the final stages of judging, live in Berlin, to set the global benchmark for the world’s best-crafted creative work of the year.
Behind the craft

Craft in Culture: What about the ethics of AI?
For craftspeople and creatives, whose skills have been honed carefully and exhaustively over hours, weeks, and years, AI is not the most welcome bedfellow. Recent ripples of progress have shown how AI is stepping into the creative process, transforming processes, speeding up systems and helping human creativity to scale new heights. The opportunities and implications ahead are massive, and no one knows quite what the future holds.
Behind the craft

Behind the Idea: Tanja Grubner
Essity, a global, leading health and hygiene company, has been at the forefront of the taboo revolution, creating cultural change through its impeccably crafted creative campaigns, and changing advertising laws in the process.