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Nutrition science

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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
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in englischer Sprache

7.6 billion people are currently living on earth – and the number keeps growing. How to feed them all is a fundamental challenge for the global community. In this plenary session the topic will be addressed in detail by leading experts: How can food production be optimized? What roles will digitization and robots play in agriculture? What are alternative sources of nutrition? And what can modern plant research contribute?

Head of Business Affairs & Communication, Member of the Executive Committee, Bayer AG, Monheim am Rhein
Space Administration, Earth Observation, German Aerospace Center, Bonn-Oberkassel
Professor and Head, Plant Sciences, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich; Chairman, BioSC - Bioeconomy Science Center, Jülich
Chief Executive Officer, HelmholtzZentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich; Professor and Chair, Department of Metabolic Diseases, Technical University of Munich Chair

Bernd NAAF

Head of Business Affairs & Communication, Member of the Executive Committee, Bayer AG, Monheim am Rhein

 Bernd Naaf is Head of Business Affairs & Communications, member of the Executive Committee of the Crop Science division and Member of the Board of Management of Bayer Crop Science AG. He has been active in this role since June 2015. Additionally, he was appointed Labor Director in January 2014. Bernd Naaf was born in Leverkusen, Germany on March 31, 1959 and began his career with Bayer in 1978, when he joined Bayer AG’s Commercial Training Program (Wirtschaftsassistent). Thereafter he held a number of positions in Sales and Marketing before he was appointed as General Manager for the Bayer Crop Protection business UK and Ireland in 1991. Four years later he moved back to headquarters to become Head of Business Planning and Administration. In 1998 Naaf moved to the Animal Health Business Group to take on the responsibility for Global Marketing. After Bayer CropScience’s acquisition of Aventis CropScience he was appointed as Senior Vice President of the Bayer CropScience Business Operations in the United States of America in January 2003. In October 2004, Bernd Naaf became Regional Head for the Crop Protection business Asia Pacific based in Singapore. In August 2011, he moved to Lyon to take over the postion as Regional Head for Crop Protection Europe/Middle East/Africa. From January 2014 to May 2015, he was Head of Business Management. From 2014 to 2016 he served as the Labor Director of Bayer CropScience AG.

Godela ROSSNER

Space Administration, Earth Observation, German Aerospace Center, Bonn-Oberkassel

 Godela Roßner studied physical geography at the universities of Hamburg, Rennes (F) and Bonn with special emphasis on geoinformatics and remote sensing. After several years at the German Remote Sensing center where she worked in research projects on environmental and landscape monitoring with remote sensing, she joined the DLR Space Management in 2005. Since 2010 she is responsible for the application development and data exploitation in the earth observation department. The overall objective is it to bring earth observation in operational use in science, economics as well as for political decision making by funding programmes for method and application development as well as efficient management of the data.

Dr. Ulrich SCHURR

Professor and Head, Plant Sciences, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich; Chairman, BioSC - Bioeconomy Science Center, Jülich

1982-1988 Studies Biology, University Bayreuth
1988-1991 Ph.D., University Bayreuth
1991-2001 Group Leader, Institute for Botany, University Heidelberg
2001 Habilitation, Botany, University Heidelberg
since 2001 Forschungszentrum Jülich
2001-2011 Director, ICG - Institute for Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, ICG-4: Phytosphere
since 2011 Director, IBG - Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences
2004-2011 Member, Executive Board, EPSO - European Plant Science Organization
2006-2008 Research Director, Research Area Earth and Environment, Forschungszentrum Jülich
since 2006 Member, Executive Board, European Technology Platform Plants for the Future
2006 Founder, JPPC - Jülich Plant Phenotyping Center
2007-2012 Member, Steering Committee, European Technology Platform Biofuels
since 2007 Member, Directorate, KoGa - Competence Center for Horticulture
2008-2011 Vice President, EPSO - European Plant Science Organization
since 2009 Spokesman, IPPN - International Plant Phenotyping Network
since 2010 Chairman, BioSC - Bioeconomy Science Centers
since 2011 Coordinator, Cross-Program Activity Sustainable Bioeconomy, Helmholtz Association
since 2012 Coordinator, EPPN - European Plant Phenotyping Network
German Head, LABEX Germany of EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agro Research Organization)
Member, Science Advisory Board, German Association for the Support of Private German Plant Breeding
Chief Executive Officer, QS Science Fund - Fruits, Vegetables and Potato
Member, CEPLAS - Center of Excellence in Plant Sciences
Coordinator, DPPN - German Plant Phenotyping Network
since 2013 Senior Official, EU-CELAC - workgroup Bioeconomy in the cooperation process between Latin America and Europe, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany
Programme Speaker, Helmholtz Programme Key Technologies for the Bioeconomy
2014-2018 Chairman of the European Technology Platform Plants for the Future
since 2015 Chairman of the International Plant Phenotyping Network (IPPN)
since 2016 Chairman of the ESFRI-project EMPHASIS: European Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure
since 2019 Member of the Excellence Cluster CEPLAS (Plant Sciences) and member of the steering committee
Member of the Excellence Cluster PhenoRob (Robotics for Phenotyping and Digital Agriculture) and member of the board of PhenoRob

Dr. med. Matthias TSCHÖP

Chief Executive Officer, HelmholtzZentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich; Professor and Chair, Department of Metabolic Diseases, Technical University of Munich

1995-1999 Research Fellow, Neuroendocrine Unit, Innenstadt University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
1999-2002 Postdoctoral Scientist, Discovery Research (Nature 2000. Cit.: 2335), Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN
2002-2003 Senior Scientist, Department of Pharmacology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Nuthetal
2003-2009 Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, Obesity Research Center and Genome Research Institute, University of Cincinnati, OH
2009-2011 Professor, Institute for Metabolic Disease, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH
Research Director, Cincinnati Diabetes and Obesity Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH
Arthur Russell Morgan Endowed Chair of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH
since 2011 Director, Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, HelmholtzZentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich
Scientific Director, Helmholtz Diabetes Center, Munich
since 2012 Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Chair, Division of Metabolic Diseases; Professor of Medicine, Technical University of Munich
Adjunct Professor, Yale University, CT
since 2016 Director of Biomedicine, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, HelmholtzZentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich
since 2018 CEO, HelmholtzZentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich

Technology Symposium

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23.08.2018

09:00 - 10:00Open doors: #ART TECCulture
09:00 - 10:00Start of exhibition TEC-Xperience RoomPartner
11:00 - 11:10Welcome and openingPlenary
11:10 - 12:00RTI TalkPlenary
12:20 - 13:40Precision medicine – medicine’s solution to diversity?Plenary
14:00 - 15:30Nutrition sciencePlenary
18:15 - 19:15Tickets to Berlin: Falling Walls Lab Austria & Summer School on EntrepreneurshipPlenary
19:15 - 20:30Die Presse Career lounge for students and young professionalsPlenary
19:30 - 21:30Evening ReceptionSocial

24.08.2018

06:30 - 07:00TU Austria Innovation Marathon: ideas made to order – 24 hours nonstopPlenary
07:00 - 16:00Junior Alpbach – Science and technology for young peopleBreakout
07:00 - 13:00Ö1 Children’s University Alpbach – Science and Technology for KidsBreakout
07:15 - 08:30Seattle never sleeps: a young, booming innovation hub as this year’s guest at the Technology SymposiumPlenary
08:45 - 10:15Our digital future – how human will it be?Plenary
10:30 - 11:00Lunch snacks for the participants of the breakout sessionsSocial
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 01: The contest for key technologies – Europe’s potentials?Breakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 02: Digitization and diversity – an opportunity for business locationsBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 03: Inequality and resilience in the digital economyBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 04: Gene therapy – intervention in nature or future hopeBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 05: Next-generation batteries: European leading-edge technology to leverage electromobilityBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 06: EU NIS directive and NIS act – what now?Breakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 07: Industrial energy revolution: resilience through innovation?Breakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 08: Digital literacy for allBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 09: Consequences of digital monocultures on societiesBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 10: Future disruptive technologies: challenges for modern societiesBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 11: Digital life in a physical world: rethinking digitizationBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 12: The renewability of societal resourcesBreakout
11:00 - 16:00Breakout Session 13: Resilience – how societies can cope with crisesBreakout
16:30 - 17:30Global Talk: #MakeInIndia – India on the fast track?Plenary

25.08.2018

07:00 - 08:30Cyborgs – when technology gets under your skinPlenary
08:50 - 09:50The resilience of democracy and democratic mediaPlenary
09:50 - 10:15Public service strategies in times of digital disruptionPlenary
10:30 - 11:15The physics of everyday thingsPlenary
11:00 - 12:00Snack receptionSocial