2025 OGP Global Summit

The 2025 Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit will take place in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, bringing together more than 1,500 high-level representatives of governments, civil society leaders, and policy-makers from around the world to exchange experiences, best practices, and progress on open government initiatives and implementation on key issues. 

The most promising and impactful reforms submitted to the Open Gov Challenge will be recognized through the Open Gov Awards, including a dedicated prize on public procurement and open contracting.

Open contracting at the 2025 OGP Summit

Open Contracting Partnership will be present to mark our 10 year anniversary together with the open government community. Public procurement is where government spending connects with better public services for citizens, making it a fundamental reform. We’ve been proud to have supported countries and civil society partners over the last 10 years in their open contracting efforts and look forward to recognizing the latest inspiring innovations and transformational activities.

Side events

Showcasing and implementing open contracting best practice
We will bring experts and implementers together for this practical, hands-on workshop to showcase open contracting champions and discuss how to implement open contracting to turn public procurement into a data-driven, user-friendly, digital public service.

6 October, 3pm-6pm. More details and registration for the side event here.

You can also join us for the following events that we are co-hosting or joining:

• Open Government, AI Procurement & Public Participation
  Local and national governments are spending $millions on Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support efficiency and reform in service delivery, and new AI features are being offered in many of the existing tools governments use. This event will explore the role of procurement in shaping AI in government, and the role of public participation in shaping AI procurement.
  6 October, 10am-12:30pm. Co-organized together with Connected by Data, Participation AI and Posterity Global. More details and registration.
  
  
• Transparent Contracts for Climate and Growth: Making Power Deals Public
  A High-Level Briefing on Clean Energy Procurement and Economic Development
  6 October, 2pm. Registration

• Data-driven Anti-Corruption in the OGP
  What OGP Countries must do to deliver successful and data-driven anti-corruption action
  7 October, 5:15-6:30pm

OGP Summit session

Wednesday, 8 October
The power of open procurement: more transparency, better public services and sustainable communities
Transforming public procurement to make it fairer, open and more sustainable is key to making government work better; people’s lives depend on it. This session will feature best practices from government and civil society, lessons and impact from open contracting reforms, and explore how to use public procurement as a lever for broader social, economic and environmental reforms such as building sustainable infrastructure, empowering civil society participation in public spending decisions, and delivering better value for money. This session is co-organized by OCP, together with CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative and the Procurement Service of the Philippines.
Time: 11am-12:15pm

New strategies in the fight against corruption
Financial transparency and integrity are crucial to advancing sustainable growth, achieving development goals, and fostering fair and inclusive societies. This session will bring together leaders from government, civil society, multilateral institutions and private sector to take stock of achievements through the OGP platform and drive collective action and political leadership to raise ambition across countries, ensuring that global pledges translate into concrete results. With participation by Gavin Hayman, ED, OCP.
Time: 5:15pm-6:45pm