PARTY We’re bringing the community together at Studio IIII for a night full of creative energy and visuals that’ll take over the whole club.
DESIGN (ALB) Baugasm, the alias of Vasjen Katro, turned a passion for music into a bold daily design journey.
GRAPHIC DESIGN (UKR) Freelance designer Vlad Boyko explores his emotional landscape and the world around him through design.
DESIGN (GER) HELLOME is an international creative studio defining contemporary culture.
GRAPHIC ART (UK) Graphic artist Anthony Burrill masterfully blends simplicity with impactful analogue craftsmanship, delivering powerful and uplifting messages.
DESIGN, MOTION & MUSIC (GER) COLORS AND THE KIDS is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary studio specializing in motion design, CGI, Identity systems and integrated sound design/audio-visual storytelling.
CREATIVE BUSINESS (GER) Vanessa is a Berlin-based consultant helping creatives gain clarity and confidence in their business.
DESIGN & ADVERTISING (SWE) A creative agency of misfit geniuses conquering the world through fine lookin’ design and real emotions.
ART & DESIGN (NED) Luna Maurer is a mixed media designer and artist, lecturer, and author with a focus on digital technologies’ impact on daily life.
WORKSHOP In this workshop, we’ll explore workflows for creative direction with different levels of control on generative AI. To get the images you want.
ANIMATION & MOTION DESIGN (GER) Deveroe is a Berlin-based motion designer, multi-media artist, and creative director.
AI (GER) Michael Jonas & Blake Gibbons explore how creativity, technology, and human aspiration shape the next generation of designers for jobs that don’t yet exist in our AI-first world.
SIDE EVENT The winners from our Shortest AI Film Competition are hitting the big screen!
HAPPENING Meet like-minded creatives and build new connections & friends for a lifetime!
MOTION DESIGN (UK) Found crafts innovative, research-driven 3D visual content that captivates audiences through refined aesthetics and a fresh perspective.
PANEL TALK Delfina Carmona and Marina Mónaco share their experiences capturing the city for Berlin Views in a live Q&A in cooperation with C/O Berlin.
ADVERTISING (NED) W+K Amsterdam is a leading agency, creating impactful campaigns.
VIDEO & DESIGN (LBN) Chehad Abdallah is a Lebanese-German artist working across graphic design, video, illustration and different forms of intervention.
MOTION DESIGN (MEX) Mario Carrillo is an artist with a profound interest in creating moving images to explore creativity, technology, and visual perception.
3D & MOTION DESIGN (UK) London based Digital Artist Rose Pilkington specialises in experimental 3D illustration and motion.
GRAPHIC DESIGN (GER) Marcus Rentsch is a graphic and logo designer who inspires the creative community through his video content and talks.
DESIGN (US) New York-based PORTO ROCHA unites strategy and design to create impactful branding systems, products, and experiences.
ADVERTISING & ART (NED) Erik Kessels is a Dutch graphic designer, advertising manager, editor, collector, exhibition curator and artist.
FASHION & DESIGN (US) Nicole McLaughlin is a New-York based designer with a focus on sustainability.
ART & DESIGN (GER) Sarah Illenberger captures the poetry of everyday life in her objects and installations, blending art and design.
SIDE EVENT Join Erik Kessels for a deep dive into the business side of creativity on a boat tour along the Spree river.
COLLAGE ART (UK) Alice Isaac is a multimedia artist who fuses hand-collaged imagery with digital effects, blending surrealism, fashion, and vintage aesthetics into her distinctive style.
DESIGN (GER) Hugo Hoppmann is a distinguished designer and creative director celebrated for his work with elite clients.
BRAND & VISUAL STORYTELLING (GER) Studio Yukiko is a Berlin-based creative agency specialising in creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, concept generation and graphic design.
BRAND DESIGN & MUSIC (AUT) Studio Herrström is a design studio dedicated to transforming the music industry through innovative branding.
CITY GUIDE Explore our curated guide through the city of Berlin, tailored for the creatively curious!
AI (SWE) Martin LeBlanc is CXO at Freepik and founder of Iconfinder.
DIGITAL ART (AUT) Catherine Spet is an interdisciplinary artist combining media-theoretical and techno- philosophical ideas to explore societal issues.
MEDIA ART (AUT) Total View is a media art collective founded in 2024 that develops digital tools to investigate state repression and cultural assimilation.
DESIGN (NED) Random Studio is an experience design studio based in Amsterdam and Paris, bridging the physical and digital in unexpected ways.
SIDE EVENT Don't miss the chance to dive into Hugo Hoppmann's creative thinking in this Q&A session following his talk.
HAPPENING Tufting Berlin / CL Studio is a creative studio independently led by artists Sungeun Claire Choi and Wonek Lee who became captivated by the tactile immediacy and expansive creative possibilities of tufting.
HAPPENING KLUB7 is a collective working at the interface of fine and applied arts. Their works ranges from large scale murals to public site-specific performances.
OPEN CALL Share your favourite unrealized project at Forward Festival 2025.
WORKSHOP In this session, you'll learn the fundamentals of crafting expressive camera movements, surreal transitions, and visually rich AI-generated sequences using LTX Studio.
HAPPENING Connected Archives is opening the archive to you: dive into hundreds of carefully curated photographs and create your own visual moodboard, live on site.
DIGITAL (UKR) Chris Kore is a digital dreamer and multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist.
SIDE EVENT Join Snask for conversations on creativity, business, and everything in between!
PANEL TALK This panel brings together some of the city’s leading creative minds – CEOs, founders, and decision-makers of Berlin-based start-ups and creative companies.
PHOTOGRAPHY (BEL) Stig De Block is a (fine-art) photographer who’s cultural referenced practice is inspired by heritage values.
AI ART (FRA) Fan Shi calls herself the “accidental artist” who stumbled upon her true calling through a chance encounter with AI.
CREATIVE STUDIO (GER) Fred North is the Creative Director at Koto, leading the Berlin studio and shaping global brands with creativity and clarity..
ART & DESIGN (UK) Sarah Boris' practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, printmaking and design.
DIGITAL ART (TWN) Ariel Lu (呂亭葳) is a Berlin based Taiwanese artist and CG image maker.
WORKSHOP We will dive into the fascinating world of handmade and tactile models and digital tools that will help us developing our process.
MODERATION The Main Stage will be hosted by Davide Bortot.
OPEN CALL Make your most creative shortest film with LTX Studio and compete for $10.000 in prizes!
Branding & Design (GER) Peter Schmidt Group is one of Germany’s most renowned brand and design agencies, known for shaping iconic identities across industries.
DIGITAL ART (UK) Lucy Hardcastle stands for sensual storytelling for a digital age.
GRAPHIC DESIGN (UK) Kladi is an award winning designer, visual strategist, author, and Senior Design Evangelist & Community Advocate at Adobe.
DIGITAL ART & MOTION DESIGN (PRT) Lisbon-born, Dublin-based Mario Domingos blends technical experimentation with artistic expression.
3D ART (UK) Emily Bisset is a digital artist specializing in Substance 3D.
AI & PUBLISHING (GER) A compendium of the most powerful image prompts, launching its second volume at Forward Festival.
DIGITAL DESIGN (GER & UK) International Magic is a futurist design studio creating unseen digital experiences.
SIDE EVENT Connect with other creatives while lunching!
DESIGN (MEX) Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Lummi.
OPEN CALL Become a Speaker at Forward Festival 2025!
HAPPENING The Moon Exhibition is a virtual gallery for any creative discipline you can imagine.
PERFORMANCE (DE) Niklas Apfel and collective Blitzbereit examine self-exploitation and the artist’s struggle for visibility in a world saturated with digital information.
