Speakers

Rabbi Ari Abramowitz

Director, “Friends of Israel”, Keren Hayesod
Jerusalem, Israel
Welcome Remarks for the panel „Christlich-jüdische Austausch zwischen Deutschland und Israel“ of the Religion Lab

Uri Adoni

Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners, JVP
Jerusalem, Israel
Speaker at the panel “Cultures of risk, investment and innovation” of the Business Lab

Peter Amsler

Consultant for human rights issues at the Nationaler Geistiger Rat der Bahai in Deutschland e.V.
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the panel „Der interreligiöse Dialog mit Blick auf die Zukunft“ of the Religion Lab

Prof. Dr. Shlomo Avineri

Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Speaker at the Political Lab panel "Germany's special responsibility toward Israel - more than a non-binding proclamation? "

Melanie Bähr

CEO, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the Business Lab panel "Lab Goal for 2015: Berlin / Tel Aviv as start-up partners"

Nir Barkat

Mayor of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Welcome Remarks

Uwe Becker

Treasurer oft he City of Frankfurt (Christian Democratic Union, CDU), Head of Department for Finances and ecclesiastical affairs
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Opening Remarks of the Relgion Lab Panel: "Christian-Jewish Exchange between Israel and Germany"

Prof. Andreas Bönte

Program Area Manager, Bayerischer Rundfunk
München, Deutschland
Moderator of the expert round about „Status, Potential and Perspectives of German-Israeli Relations“

Dr. Nir Boms

Member of the Board, Center for Emerging Futures, research assistant, Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Moderator of the Political Lab panel "Lived Diversity: How do D and IL handle the challenges of immigration?“

Christoph Bornschein

Founder and CEO of TLGG (Torben, Lucie und die gelbe Gefahr GmbH)
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the Business Lab's panel “Dancing with the Elephants”

Tom Bronfeld

co-founder Elevatorfund
Tel Aviv, Israel
speaker at the panel "Dancing with the Elephants" of the Business Lab

Gottfried Bühler

Chairman of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) in Germany
Stuttgart, Germany
Speaker at the panel „Das Heilige Land“ - Religion als Bindeglied zwischen den Völkern. Der interreligiöse Dialog mit Blick auf die Zukunft“ of the Religion Lab

Julia von La Chevallerie

Head of PR, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Potsdam, Germany
Moderator of the Culture Lab panel “Cultural Trends, Frameworks, and Infrastructure in Israel and Germany”

Lila Chitayat

New Media Artist, Taxilink Project
Israel
Pecha Kucha style artists and cultural figures presentations: “What I do and how we could bring Israel and Germany Closer Together” of the Culture Lab

Mohammad Darawshe

Co-Chair, Abraham Fund Initiatives
Israel
Speaker at the panel „Lived Diversity: How do D and IL handle the challenges of immigration?" of the Political Lab

Eran Davidson

Founder of Hasso Plattner Venture Funds and Entrepreneur
Potsdam, Deutschland
Speaker at the Panel “Cultures of risk, investment and innovation” of the Business Lab

George Deek

Deputy Chief of Mission of the Israeli Embassy in Oslo, Norway
Oslo, Norway
Opening speech at the Religion Lab

Andreas Eberhardt

Executive chairman of the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation
Berlin, Deutschland
Speaker at the Culture Lab's “Cultural Trends, Frameworks, and Infrastructure in Israel and Germany” panel

Harald Eckert

Member of board of the "European Coalition for Israel", member of the leader-team of the "Christian Forum for Israel", chairman of "Christen an der Seite Israels e.V."
Moderator of the panel „Das Heilige Land“ - Religion als Bindeglied zwischen den Völkern. Der interreligiöse Dialog mit Blick auf die Zukunft“ of the Religion Lab

Dr. Kristina Eichhorst

Head of Domestic Programmes Division, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Berlin, Germany
Moderator of the Political Lab's panel "Imagine Israel Germany in 2025 – what do the bilateral and societal relations look like?"

Judith Epstein

Vice President of the Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern, Embassador for Hadassah International at the United Nations in Geneva
Munich, Germany
Moderator of the Youth Workshop Special

Jochen Feilcke

Former member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the DIG Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berlin and Potsdam
Berlin, Deutschland
Laudator of "ILI" - Arno Lustiger Ehrenpreis

Tom Franz

Author: "So Schmeckt Israel"; Winner of the Israeli TV-cookshow "Masterchef"
Tel Aviv, Israel
Welcome speech of the Culture Lab

Ralf Fücks

Vorstandsmitglied der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Bremer Senator für Stadtentwicklung und Umweltschutz, Bürgermeister a.D.
Berlin, Deutschland
Redner beim Panel "Die besondere Verantwortung Deutschlands gegenüber Israel - mehr als eine unverbindliche Deklamation?" des Political Labs

Omer Golan

Contemporary interdisciplinary artists: “Plant a Comment”
New York, USA
Speakers at the Pecha Kucha style artists and cultural figures presentations: “What I do and how we could bring Israel and Germany Closer Together”

Ilan Goren

Author of the book: Wo bist du, Motek?
Berlin, Tel Aviv, Moskau
Pecha Kucha Style presentation: “What I do and how we could bring Israel and Germany Closer Together”

Dr. Dieter Graumann

President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress
Berlin, Deutschland
Welcome Remarks

Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund

Prof. em. of the Hebrew University and faculty member of the "Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences"
Jerusalem, Israel
Speaker at the Roundtable of the Science Lab: „Scientific cooperation in the service of German-Israeli friendship”

S.E. Yakov Hadas-Handelsman

Ambassador of the State of Israel
Berlin, Germany
Welcome Remarks

David Harris

Managing Director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Washington, USA
Welcoming speaker

Frank Henkel

Mayor of Berlin, Senator for Interior and Sports of Berlin, Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Welcome Remarks

Prof. Dr. Herbert Jäckle

Vice-Presdient, Max-Planck Society e.V.
Göttingen, Germany
Conclusion speaker of the Science Labs

Anetta Kahane

Chairwoman of the Amadeu Antonio Stiftung
Berlin, Deutschland
Speaker at the panel beim Lab Lived Diversity: How do D and IL handle the challenges of immigration? of the Political Lab

Sven-Christian Kindler

Member of the German Bundestag Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Vice President of the presidium of the German-Israeli Society
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the Youth Workshop Special

Dr. Heinrich Kreft

Deputy Director General for International Academic and Educational Relations and Dialogue among Civilizations in the German Foreign Ministry
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the Religion Lap panel: “Looking in to the future of the interreligious dialogue”

Shari Langemak

Moderator of the Culture Lab Roundtable "Science in the service of bilateral and international understanding"
Berlin, Germany
Editorial Journalist, Medicine & Science, Die Welt

Morderchay Lewy

Former Israeli Embassador at the Holy See
Bonn, Deutschland
Speaker at the panel "Israel – Heimat vieler Religionen - Der interreligiöse Dialog mit Blick auf die Zukunft" of the Religion Lab

Tzipi Livni

Minister of the Interior in Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
Welcome Remarks

Markus Löning

Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the Expert Round about the "Status, Potential and Perspectives of German-Israeli Relations"

Koby Maluk

CEO and Founder, Livinggrid
Tel Aviv, Israe"
Speaker at the Pecha Kucha style artists and cultural figures presentations: "What I do and how we could bring Israel and Germany Closer Together" of the Culture Lab

Rabbi Noam E. Marans

Director of the Interreligious and Intergroup Relations of the American Jewish Committee
Welcome Speaker of the Religion Lab

Itay Mautner

Media Artist
Tel Aviv, Israel
Moderator of the Cultur Lab's Pecha Kucha style artists and cultural figures presentations: “What I do and how we could bring Israel and Germany Closer Together”

Lior Meyer

Director of Global Partnerships, Tel Aviv Global City
Tel Aviv, Israel
Speaker at the Business Lab panel "Lab Goal for 2015: Berlin / Tel Aviv as start-up partners"

Philipp Mißfelder

Federal Chairman of the “Junge Union” (Christian Democratic Party's youth movement) and foreign-policy speaker of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group
Berlin, Deutschland
Speaker at the panel: „Imagine Israel Germany in 2025 – what do the bilateral and societal relations look like?“ of the Political Lab

Christoph Mühlberg

Director, International Affairs, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Bonn, Germany
Speaker at the Roundtable "Science in the service of bilateral and international understanding" of the Science Lab

Hildegard Müller

Former minister of state, president of the German-Israeli Economy Union (D-I-W), Managing Director of the Bundesverbands der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft
Berlin, Deutschland
speaker at the panel "Imagine Israel Germany in 2025 – what do the bilateral and societal relations look like? " of the Political Lab

Ophir Pines Paz

Head of the Local Government Institute, Tel Aviv University, former Minister of the Interior
Tel Aviv, Israel
Speaker at the Political Lab panel "Lived Diversity: How do D and IL handle the challenges of immigration?"

Yohanan Plesner

MK (Frm.), Senior Research Fellow, INSS
Jerusalem, Israel
Speaker at the panel „Imagine Israel Germany in 2025 – what do the bilateral and societal relations look like?“ of the Political Lab

Susa Pop

Director and Manager of Public Art Lab
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the Culture Lab's panel “Cultural Trends, Frameworks, and Infrastructure in Israel and Germany”

Philip Kiril Prinz von Preußen

Protestant referend, elementary and secondary school educator, theologist, great-great-grandson oft he last German emperor Wilhelm II
Germany
Speaker at the Religion Lab panel "'The Holy Land' – Relgion connecting people. Looking into the future of the interreligious dialogue"

Avi Primor

Former Embassador
Tel Aviv, Israel
speaker at the expert round about the topic „status, potential und perspectives of the German-Israel relations“

Tali Rosenbaum

Director of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Jerusalem, Israel
Speaker at the Science Lab's panel „Scientific cooperation in the service of German-Israeli friendship”

Hemdat Sagi

Commercial Attaché and Director of the Israel Tradel Center in Berlin
Berlin, Deutschland
participant of the Lab Goal of the Business Labs

Idan Segev

Professor at the Hebrew University Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Speaker at the showcase "Max Planck-Hebrew University Center for Sensory Processing of the Brain in Action" of the Science Lab

Stephan Scherzer

Executive Director, Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger (VDZ)
Berlin, Deutschland
Speaker at the Culture Lab's panel “Cultural Trends, Frameworks, and Infrastructure in Israel and Germany”

Christian Schmidt

Parliamentary Secretary of State to the Federal Ministry of Defense
Berlin, Germany
Speaker in the Expert Round with political and media personalities about the "Status, Potential and Perspectives of German-Israeli Relations"

Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Helmut Schwarz

President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, recipient of the civil-merit-medal first class (2012) and honorary doctorates from The Hebrew University, Technion and Weizmann Institute
Bonn, Deutschland
Keynote Speaker at the Science Lab

Rudolf Sirsch

Secretary General of the German Coordinating-Council for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Organizations (Deutschen Koordinierungsrates der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit) - DKR
Bad Nauheim, Germany
Speaker at the Religion Lab panel "Das Heilige Land - Religion als Bindeglied zwischen den Völkern. Der interreligiöse Dialog mit Blick auf die Zukunft"

Nicole Srock.Stanley

CEO and Founder, DanPearlman
Berlin, Germany
Speaker at the pecha kucha style artists and cultural figures presentations: “What I do and how we could bring Israel and Germany Closer Together”

Sacha Stawski

Organizer, German Israelcongress; Chairman, ILI - I Like Israel e.V.
Frankfurt, Germany
Opening Remarks

Rabbi Andy Steiman

Rabbi at the Budge-Stiftung
Frankfurt, Main/Deutschland
Speaker at the panel "'The Holy Land' – Relgion connecting people. Looking into the future of the interreligious dialogue" of the Religion Lab

Mickey Steiner

Executive Director of SAP Labs Israel
Ra'anana, Israel
Speaker at the panel “Dancing with the Elephants” of the Business Lab

Efi Stenzler

World Preisent of the Jewish National Fund
Israel
Greeting word speaker

Melody Sucharewicz

Director, German Israelcongress
Tel Aviv, Israel
Opening Remarks

Jonathan Teklu

Co-founder and Managing Partner at Springstar
Berlin, Deutschland
Speaker at the panel “Cultures of risk, investment and innovation" of the Business Lab

Dr. Sylke Tempel

Editor in Chief of the magazine Internationale Politik (DGAP)
Berlin, Deutschland
Moderator of the panel "Germany's special responsibility toward Israel - more than a non-binding proclamation?" of the Political Lab

David Tsur

Member of the Knesset for the Hatenua party
Israel
Speaker on the “Imagine Israel Germany in 2025 – what do the bilateral and societal relations look like?” panel of the Political Lab

Yossi Vardi

Entrepreneur
Tel Aviv, Israel
Keynote Speaker at the Business Lab

Tami Warshavski

Leiter des Innovation and Industrial Development Centers, Shenkar College
Ramat Gan, Israel
Redner beim Panel "Cultural Trends, Frameworks, and Infrastructure in Israel and Germany" des Culture Labs

Prof. Gert Weisskirchen

MdB a.D. former foreign policy spokesperson of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Parliamentary Group and personal representative of the OSCE-chairman responsible for fighting antisemitism
Berlin, Deutschland
Speaker at the panel "Germany's special responsibility toward Israel - more than a non-binding proclamation?" of the Political Lab

Björn Woltermann

VP Emerging Technologies, Deutsche Telekom Products & Innovation
Berlin, Deutschland
Moderator of the Business Lab

Klaus Wowereit

Mayor of Berlin
Berlin, Deutschland
Greeting word speaker

Ran Yaakoby

Kulturattaché der Botschaft des Staates Israel
Berlin, Deutschland
Redner beim Panel “Cultural Trends, Frameworks, and Infrastructure in Israel and Germany” des Culture Labs

Cornelia Yzer

Senator für Economy, Technology and Research
Berlin, Deutschland
Welcome Remarks at the Business Lab

Dr. Jörg Zätzsch

Partner, CMS Hasche Sigle
Berlin, Deutschland
Redner beim Panel "Lab Goal for 2015: Berlin / Tel Aviv as start-up partners" des Business Labs

Maya Zehden

German-Israeli Society Berlin and Potsdam, staff member of the Israel Congress
Berlin, Deutschland
Moderator of the Religion Lab panel “Looking in to the future of the interreligious dialogue”

Nicolas Zimmer

Vorstandsvorsitzender der TSB Technologiestiftung Berlin
Berlin, Deutschland
Redner beim Panel „Lab Goal 2015: Berlin/Tel Aviv als Start-up-Partner“ des Business Labs