Speakers 2021

Henry Alt-Haaker
Senior Vice President
“Strategic Partnerships and Robert Bosch Academy”, Robert Bosch Foundation

Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius
Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) / Scientific Director of the SILBERSALZ Festival

Aya Chebbi
Pan-African Feminist | Founder & Chair
Nala Feminist Collective

Steve Crabtree
Executive Producer
BBC2 Horizon
Margje de Koning
Artistic Director
Movies that Matter

Karim Ben Khelifa
Artist | Director

Milica Momčilović
Science Journalist I President
World Federation of Science Journalists

Francesca Panetta
Immersive Artist | Journalist | Director

Gayatri Parameswaran
Writer | Director | Producer | Co-Founder
NowHere Media

Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur
Linguist | Educator | Director
Endangered Languages Archive

Barnaby Churchill Steel
Co-Founder
Marshmallow Laser Feast

Eva Wolfangel
Science Journalist
Freelance
- Jens Afflerbach, General Manager, StoryHouse Productions, Germany
- Elmar Bartlmae, Managing Director & Co-Founder, European Science Communication Institute, Germany
- Dr. Elodie Chabrol, Science Communicator & Director, Pint of Science International, UK
- Steve Crabtree, Executive Producer, BBC Studios Science, UK
- Maddalena Crosti, XR Programmes / Consultant, UK
- Margje de Koning, Director, Movies that Matter Festival, The Netherlands
- Dr. Nicole de Paula, Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS), Founder Women Leaders for Planetary Health, Germany
- Ram Devineni, Producer, Rattapallax, USA
- Carsten Dufner, Commissioning Editor, MDR Wissen, Germany
- Danielle Giroux, Head of Distribution & Publishing, Astrea (part of Atlas V), France
- Pernille Rose Gronkjaer, Producer/Director, Denmark
- Maren Grüber, Project Lead MS Wissenschaft / Fast Forward Science, Wissenschaft im Dialog, Germany
- Ann-Christin Hornberger, Commissioning Editor, Science and Knowledge, ZDF/ARTE, Germany
- Marita Hübinger, Senior Commissioning Editor Science Programmes, ZDF, Germany
- Patrick Klügel, Public Engagement Manager, Cyber Valley Initiative, Germany
- Christine Le Goff, Producer, ZED, France
- Milica Momčilović, President, World Federation of Science Journalists, Serbia
- Jens Monath, Commissioning Editor, ZDF Terra X, Germany
- Anne Olzmann, Managing Director, Albatross World Sales, Germany
- Annette Scheurich, Senior Executive Producer, Marco Polo Film, Germany
- Klaus Scheurich, President, Marco Polo Film, Germany
- Sonja Trimbuch, Commissioning Editor, History & Science - Terra X, ZDF, Germany
- Dennis Wells, Executive Producer, Taglicht Media, Cologne, Germany
- Elaine Wong, Content Partnerships Manager, Viveport, HTC VIVE, UK
- Myriam Achard, Chief, New Media Partnerships and Public Relations, Centre Phi, Canada
- Katie Bench, Senior Sales & Acquisitions Executive,TVF International, UK
- Ana Brzezińska, Head of Studio, Kaleidoscope, France
- Rob Burk, Head of Content, Curiosity Stream, USA
- Julia Cort, Co-Executive Producer, NOVA, NOVA / WGBH, USA
- Tom Coveney, Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual, BBC, UK
- Christiane Goetz-Sobel, Head of Department for Natural Science and Technology, ZDF, Germany
- Alan Goldman, Producer, Blue Plate, Canada
- Jessica Harrop, Head of Production & Development, Sandbox Films, USA
- Maia Krall Fry, Head of Development and Partnerships, Wellcome Trust, UK
- Thomas Matzek, Education, Science and Current Affairs, ORF, Austria
- Kay Meseberg, Head of Mission Innovation, ARTE, France
- Maxime Montagne, Head of VR, Wide, France
- David Murdock, Executive Producer, USA
- Christian Popp, Producer, Yuzu Productions, France
- Anett Sager, Deputy Director of Knowledge Unit, ARTE GEIE, France
- Amy Shepherd, Global Impact Director, Think-Film Impact Production, UK
- Chris Schmidt, Co-Executive Producer, NOVA, NOVA / WGBH, USA
- Ulrich Schraut, Artistic Director, VRHAM! Festival, Germany
- Yuri Sudo, Senior Producer, NHK Science, Japan
- Fabian Vetter, Filmmaker, East End Film, Germany
- Ken Dutton-Regester, Excite Science, Australia
- Roy Kimhi, One Atmosphere, Israel/UK
- Andy Byatt, Amberjack Films, UK
- Maren Schuster & Irene Schulz, Martin-Luther-University, Germany
- Joana MacLean, GFZ Potsdam, Germany
- Alexis Block, Doctoral Fellow, Center for Learning Systems
- Felix Gaedtke, Creative Producer, NowHere Media, Germany
- Egor Iuganov, Doctoral Candidate, International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems, Germany
- Avinash Kumar, Designer, Researcher and Artist, Quicksand, India
- Jyoti Narayan, Designer, Researcher and Artist, Quicksand, India
- Viktoriia Kamska, Doctoral Student, Dynamic Locomotion Group, Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
- Sigrid Anita Haugen, Composer, Norway
- Ben Carlin, Director, Megaverse, UK
- Nicole Ludwig, Research Group Leader, University of Tübingen, Germany
- JD Whitman, Installation Artist, USA
- Krikamol Muandet, Research Group Leader, Empirical Inference Dpt., Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
- Rachel Briscoe, Writer, Producer, Fast Familiar, UK
- Jamie Perera, Sound Artist, UK
- Sergey Prokudin, Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich, Germany
- Phoebe Dobey, Producer, Norway
- Annette Saugestad Helland, Visual Artist, Norway
- Henning Skar, Encircle Games, Norway
- Prof. Dr. Robert Arlinghaus, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
- Mohamed Daoud, Science Communication & Development Officer, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Marielle van Kooten, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, USA
- Jonas Hartwig & Henry Welter, Jugend forscht, Germany
- Charlotte Rieger, Jugend forscht, Germany
- Madeleine Hetherton-Miau, Producer, Media Stockade, Australia
- Rea Apostolides, Producer, Anemon Productions, Greece
- Dr Nadine Mengis, Researcher, GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
- Nana Torp, Director, Producer, Nana Torp film, Denmark
- Alexandra Böhm, Head of International Coproduction, Autentic, Germany