Digital Transformation

Forward Festival Berlin 2026

Das FORWARD Festival ist eine jährliche Veranstaltung für Kreativschaffende und Innovatoren, die in verschiedenen Städten Europas stattfindet. Das Festival bietet eine Plattform für inspirierende Vorträge, Workshops und Networking-Gelegenheiten für die Teilnehmer. Branchen wie Design, Kunst, Technologie, Architektur und Musik kommen zusammen, um neue Trends,…

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19Speakers
118Sponsors
0On the bill · sessions
125Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Forward, in alphabetical order.
Anne-Katrin Ziegan
Adobe
Annie Atkins
Graphic Artist
Eray Basar
CEO · IMG.LY
Erik Kessels
Graphic Designer, Advertising Manager, Editor, Collector, Curator, Artist
Gab Bois
Designer and Director
Gabriela Namie
Visual Lead · Google’s Seed Studio
Gemma O'Brien
Artist
Jim Stoten
Illustrator, Artist and Musician
Johanna Jaskowska
Digital Artist
Julia Hoffmann
Head of International Creative · OpenAI
Luna Maurer
Designer, Artist, Lecturer, Author
Mah Ferraz
Co-Founder · Church Edit
Mike Meiré
Designer, Art Director, Artist, Co-founder · Meiré und Meiré
Natasha Jen
Partner · Pentagram
Rose Pilkington
Digital Artist
Stefan Sagmeister
Designer
Stig De Block
Fine-art Photographer
Vanessa Olt
Consultant
Vera van de Seyp
Computational Designer, Artist, Educator
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
13 Grad
42DIGITAL
abgekruggelt
Albert Bauer Digital
animal EQUALITY
Aufgesang
AUTO1 Group
AutoScout24
Backlinked
bazoom
Bredaland
Bücherbogen
Buzzmatic
Canto
chop solutions
clicks digital
collaborator
.comspace
Conversionmaker.ai
Cotton Club Berlin
Crazy Bastard Sauce
DamnPlastic
Delucks
DEPT
DesignerDock
DHEMANT Consulting
digitaleffects
digitallotsen
Diva-e
Draplin Design Co
Ecosia
eMBIS
Exali.de
exatics
FinanceScout24
finanzen.de
findling
GIBION AI
Great Content
havendo
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 125 companies, parsed from the program.

125 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
118Sponsoringsponsor only
7Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

32% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite15%
  • Founder / Owner316%
  • Director / Head of211%
  • Manager / Lead211%
  • Engineer · IC421%
  • Other roles737%

Of 19 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 0113 GradSp
  2. 0242DIGITALSp
  3. 03abgekruggeltSp
  4. 04Albert Bauer DigitalSp
  5. 05animal EQUALITYSp
  6. 06AufgesangSp
  7. 07AUTO1 GroupSp
  8. 08AutoScout24Sp
  9. 09BacklinkedSp
  10. 10bazoomSp
  11. 11BredalandSp
  12. 12BücherbogenSp
  13. 13BuzzmaticSp
  14. 14CantoSp
Sponsors by tier
unspecified118
100% of 118
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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