2026 Tracks
This year’s CICLOPE Festival Program features a carefully curated lineup of content, built around seven tracks. Explore the themes shaping the conversations in Berlin, and get your pass to join us at the Home of Craft.
Track #1 — Case Studies
Deep dives into one specific project.
Sessions will explore why a project needed to exist? How did creative and production decisions drive results or cultural impact? What almost killed it? Where did craft become strategic?
Track #2 — Meet the Director
Focused conversations around creative processes, authorship and the evolution of craft.
Track #3 — Craft Impact
Where craft meets business, effectiveness and decision-making.
Speakers will share insights on how creative and production excellence become competitive advantages for brands.
Track #4 — New Ground
Innovation, AI, new formats and evolving workflows in action.
Conversations will focus on creative problem-solving and learnings based on new technologies, tools or techniques, integrated into workflows.
Track #5 — Craft Lab
Hands-on, technical deep dives across all craft disciplines, sharing practical and applicable real-world knowledge.
Track #6 — Burning Bench
Aims to spark honest dialogue rather than deliver conclusions.
Sessions bring together voices with strong, often opposing points of view for discussions that are raw, human, and sometimes uncomfortable.
Track #7 — Craft in Action
Focussing on everything that is usually edited out of the final case study.
This track shows how great work actually gets made; bringing to the stage the abandoned routes, production challenges, uncomfortable conversations and decisions that changed everything.