For three days, talks and workshops about various topics are held, ranging from media and culture over politics and technology to entertainment.

The conference is organized by the operators of the German blogs Spreeblick[1] and netzpolitik.org[2] and is funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.

The first re:publica, with the slogan "Leben im Netz" (Life in the internet), took place from 11 to 13 April 2007 and attracted about 700 visitors.

[3] Each year, different main focusses were set, for example data protection in 2008 and intellectual property rights and political aspects of internet usage in 2009.

[4][5] A highlight in 2012 was a talk with the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes who demanded to stop ACTA and SOPA.