Schedule

Note: Event times and speaker lineups are subject to change

Workshop: Having Better Policy Conversations About AI

Harvard Kennedy School | Rubenstein R-414 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

The rise of generative AI poses complex challenges that demand multi-disciplinary expertise from policy makers. However, discussions about AI can become fragmented and unproductive, with technical experts and policy makers seemingly speaking different languages and failing to cooperate effectively. This workshop aims to help bridge this divide. We will start the workshop with a conceptual […]

Lunch for Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft Scholars and Alumni

Harvard Kennedy School | Rubenstein R-414 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

The event is exclusively for scholarship recipients from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (German Business Foundation). If you are a current scholarship recipient or alumnus, please join us! We will have a short impulse talk from Floris Engelhardt, PhD at the beginning and then will have lunch together afterwards.

Fireside Chat: Students as Diplomats? – On the History and Future of Transatlantic Student Exchange

Harvard Kennedy School | Rubenstein R-414 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Germany and the United States share some of the oldest and most active student exchange programs in the world. Every year, tens of thousands of German and American students cross the Atlantic, many on exchange programs. For more than a hundred years, these programs have been founded on the hope that memories of Heidelberg or […]

Workshop: Pixels to Progress

Harvard Kennedy School | Rubenstein R-414 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

In this interactive session, we will discuss to which extent collaboration on the digital city can lead to improved urban resilience and thus transform pixels into progress. The starting point of this discussion will be an interactive session where participants engage in the “Urban Digitope”, a serious game developed at the City Science Lab at […]

Workshop: Innovation in Media

Harvard Kennedy School | Rubenstein R-414 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join us for an exciting workshop hosted by funk, the digital content network of ARD and ZDF, where you'll uncover the secrets of innovation in media. Explore cutting-edge strategies, emerging trends, and creative techniques that are revolutionizing the media landscape. Whether you're an aspiring content creator or a researcher interested in science communication, this workshop […]

Workshop: Why is making progress so hard? An interactive intro to Climate & Negotiations

Harvard Kennedy School | Rubenstein R-414 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

How can you negotiate successfully in a rigid process where more than 190 governments, organized in a complex web of formal and informal alliances, negotiate hundreds of technical and political issues that impact all aspects of how we live? Climate negotiations are complex; and they require a particular set of skills and analytical tools. This […]