FIBE is the leading finance festival in Berlin. Whether you're a finance expert, fintech
visionary, or tech investor, FIBE is your chance to engage with Europe’s leading finance and tech scene!
In a world filled with industry expos and high-profile tech summits, FIBE Berlin is carving out a space for something deeper—something with texture, friction, and consequence. Taking place in April 2025 at CityCube Berlin, FIBE is an intentional convergence of finance, code, policy, culture, and critical engagement—set in one of Europe's most ideologically dynamic cities.
Not a Stage, but an Arena
What sets FIBE Berlin apart is the underlying philosophy: that finance is no longer a closed-door industry but a social technology that touches everything from climate to identity to power.
And Berlin—with its startup culture, activist streak, and history of reinvention—offers fertile ground for this kind of multidisciplinary confrontation. You won't just find suits and slide decks here. You'll find economists arguing with coders, policymakers sparring with anarchists, and panels that feel more like town halls than pitch sessions. Attendees are active participants in shaping a rapidly shifting financial system.
FIBE is designed for productive tension. This isn’t just dialogue. It’s friction with purpose.
Messe Berlin: A Space That Means Something
The choice of CityCube, part of the larger Messe Berlin complex, is no logistical coincidence. Messe Berlin has long been a home to events that define their sectors: IFA for tech, InnoTrans for transport, Grüne Woche for agriculture. Now, with FIBE, it becomes the stage for a new kind of financial imagination.
Messe Berlin lends symbolic weight. To host FIBE within its halls signals that fintech is no longer fringe—it’s formative. It belongs in the same architectural breath as Germany’s most established economic forums.
FIBE benefits from Messe Berlin’s infrastructure: 190,000+ square meters of modular event space, seamless transportation links, and an ecosystem designed to accommodate global thought leadership. But beyond logistics, the venue elevates the event’s gravitas—reminding participants that they’re not just attending a niche meetup, but a gathering of structural consequence.
Intersections, Not Silos
What makes FIBE especially timely is its refusal to stay in its lane. Rather than segmenting discussions into neat verticals (DeFi here, ESG there, AI way over there), it encourages cross-contamination. This is less about consensus and more about cultivating a space where contradictions are welcomed—even celebrated.
Why Berlin Matters
Berlin offers a different kind of backdrop: not more important, but uniquely suited to the questions FIBE wants to ask.
Berlin is a city shaped by rupture and reinvention. A place where creative resistance and institutional experimentation coexist. The city’s affordability, openness to alternative economies, and thriving tech scene make it a natural host for a fintech event that resists predictability.
The city’s financial scene may be younger than its counterparts in Frankfurt or Paris, but its energy is catalytic. Here, the conversation isn’t dominated by legacy frameworks but by what might come next. FIBE thrives in that openness, absorbing Berlin’s energy as more than a setting—as a collaborator.
Final Thoughts
FIBE Berlin isn’t an event you attend. It’s a conversation you enter—one that might unsettle your assumptions and expand your vocabulary.
By placing itself within the halls of Messe Berlin, FIBE claims its place not just in the fintech world, but in the cultural and intellectual life of a city that thrives on what comes next.
This isn’t hype. It’s architecture for a financial future that has yet to be agreed upon. And FIBE Berlin is where that disagreement begins.