Overview
- The four-day conference runs December 27–30 at Hamburg’s Congress Centrum with roughly 16,000 attendees, and it is sold out.
- Organizers scheduled about 165 talks plus workshops, including late-night sessions across multiple tracks.
- This year’s motto, Power Cycles, spotlights critiques of geopolitical power, AI’s societal effects, and proposals for more livable digital infrastructures.
- The CCC emphasizes a sponsor-free, self-organized format run entirely by volunteers with no sales stands or PR machinery.
- Political relevance includes the club’s ongoing debate with Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt over police use of surveillance technologies.