9.00 AM  WELCOME REMARKS  &  SESSION 1 

Breaking the Wall of Plastic Waste T. Xu, University of California, Berkeley, US
Breaking the Wall to Understanding Life J. Jumper, DeepMind, UK
Breaking the Wall to Understand Individual and Collective Decision-Making I. Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, DE
Breaking the Wall to Integration A. Sara, NaTakallam, US/Lebanon
Breaking the Wall to the Early Universe J. Kartaltepe, Rochester Institute of Technology, US

 

11.30 AM SESSION 2

Breaking the Wall to Civic Evidence of Environmental Harms, A. Berti Suman, IT
Breaking the Wall to Environmental Justice S. Amrith, Yale University, US
Breaking the Wall to Rapid Science Funding R. Kropa, FootPrint Coalition, US
Breaking the Wall to Holistic Sustainability A. Majumdar, Stanford University, US
Breaking the Wall to Climate Action J. Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, DE


02.00 PM SESSION 3 

Breaking the Wall to Ultra-Fast Genome Sequencing S. Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge, UK
Breaking the Wall to Storing Data in Plants C. Clarke & M. Seyfried, Grow Your Own Cloud,  UK, Poland
Breaking the Wall to Acid Mine Drainage T. Sasha Naidu, ZAF
Breaking the Wall to Inclusive Deliberation S. Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School, US
Breaking the Wall to Treating Rare Genetic Diseases M. Mall, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DE

 

04.15 PM SESSION 4 

Words of Welcome J. Brandenburg, Federal Ministry for Education and Research, DE
Breaking the Wall of Scalable Quantum Computing S. Groeblacher, QphoX, NL
Breaking the Wall of Unsolved Mathematics Problems M. Viazovska, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Ukraine
Breaking the Wall of Authoritarianism L. Moritz Schwarcz, University of São Paulo, BR
Breaking the Wall to Precision Measurement N. Picqué, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, DE
Breaking the Wall of Speech Loss E. Chang, University of California, San Francisco, US