Jutta Allmendinger

Professor at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; President of Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin, Germany

Alain Aspect

Professor at the École Polytechnique and at the Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau; Distinguished Senior Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France

Breaking the Wall of Quantum Weirdness. How Experiments Reveal Photon Schizophrenia.

Jean-Michel Borys

Co-director and scientific coordinator, Epode and Epode European Network, France

Breaking the Wall of Childhood Obesity. What Parents, Politics, and Vegetables Can Do.

Michel Brunet

Professor at the Collège de France, Chaire de Paléontologie humaine, Paris; Member of the Institut International de Paléoprimatologie et Paléontologie Humaine Évolution et Paléoenvironnements (IPHEP), Faculté des Sciences, Université de Poitiers, France

Breaking the Wall Around the Secrets of Our Origins. How Early Hominids and Their Paleoenvironments Can Explain Our Species

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago, USA

Breaking the Wall of "Two Cultures". Science and Humanities After Climate Change.

Matthias Driess

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis”, Berlin; Team leader of the Research Unit “Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry” at the Department of Chemistry, Division for Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Breaking the Wall of Limited Resources. What Catalysis Can Do to Save Energy and Create Materials.

Wolfgang Eberhardt

Scientific Director of Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy in Berlin Adlershof, Germany

Breaking the Wall of Energy and Pollution. How Science Is Needed For A Sustainable Supply Of Energy.

Detlef Günther

Professor for Trace Elements and Micro Analysis, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

Breaking the Wall of Timing Our History. How Trace Elements Analysis Will Help to Understand the Past of Our Planet

John-Dylan Haynes

Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain Signals, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany

Breaking the Wall of the Human Mind. How Neuroscience Helps Us Read Thoughts out of Brain Activity.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Director-General of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland

Breaking the Wall of the Hidden Universe. How Particle Physics Can Explain the Nature of Matter.

Norbert Holtkamp

Principal Deputy Director-General, ITER Organization, St-Paul-lez-Durance, France

Breaking the Wall of Fusion. How the ITER Project Aims for Limitless Energy.

Harold James

Professor of History, LAPA Faculty Associate, Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, USA

Breaking the Wall of Finance. Why This Current Crisis Will Be Transformational

Stefan Kaufmann

Director of the Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Breaking the Wall of Unequally Distributed Diseases. What Immunology Can Contribute to One Healthy World.

Gerhard Knies

Chair of the Supervisory Board, Desertec Foundation; Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC), Hamburg, Germany

Breaking the Wall of the Fossil Age. How Desertec Can Overcome Energy Resource Limitations and Global Warming.

Wilhelm Krull

Secretary General of VolkswagenStiftung Hannover; Chairman of Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen, Berlin, Germany

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Keynote. Breaking the Walls of the 21st Century.

Jürgen Mlynek

President of Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres , Berlin, Germany

Richard Morris

Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health at The Wellcome Trust; Professor of Neuroscience, University of Edingburgh, Great Britain

Breaking the Wall of Research Funding. What Funding Can Do to Enable - and to Disrupt - Research Excellence.

Glenn Warren Most

Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago, USA; Professor for Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy

Breaking the Wall around Ancient Greece. How to Imagine the Classics in the 21st Century

Klaus Robert Müller

Professor at the Department of Mechanical Learning, Technische Universität Berlin, Director of Bernstein Center for Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology, Berlin, Germany

Breaking the Wall between Mind and Machine. How Neurotechnology Can Expand Human Capacity for Action.

Amélie Mummendey

Professor for Social Psychology, Vice Rector of the Jena Graduate School, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany

Miguel Nicolelis

Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center , USA

Breaking the Wall of Neurological Disorder. How Brain-Waves Can Steer Prosthetics.

Stephanie Reich

Full Professor for Physics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Give Me a Break. A Vision for Research.

Ina Schieferdecker

Professor at Technische Universität Berlin; Head of Competence Center "Modeling and Testing for System and Service Solutions" (Motion), Fraunhofer Institut, Berlin, Germany

Martin E. Schwab

Professor of Neuroscience, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Chair of the Department of Neuromorphology, Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Breaking the Wall of Paraplegia. How Neuroscience Can Help Spinal- and Brain-Injured Patients.

Peter Seeberger

Professor of Organic Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin; Director of the Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Breaking the Wall of Expensive Vaccines. How Automated Carbohydrate Chemistry Can Save A Life for One Euro.

Tricia Striano

Professor at the Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), USA

Breaking the Wall of Infant Development. What Modern Art and Modern Books Can Do for Children and for Autism Research.

Franz-Josef Ulm

Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (MA), USA

Breaking the Wall of Concrete Pollution. How Green Concrete Can Reduce the Giant Carbon Footprint of Construction.

Wendelin Werner

Professor of Mathematics, Université Paris-Sud and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Breaking the Wall of Randomness. How Random Phenomena Disseminate.

Thomas Wiegand

Chair of Image Communication Department, Technische Universität Berlin; Head of Image Processing Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Berlin, Germany

Breaking The Wall of the Flat World of TV. What Three Dimensional Television Pictures Will Look Like.

Muhammad Yunus

Yunus Centre, Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Laureate, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Breaking the Wall of Poverty. How Social Business Allows a Future for Human Kind, That Is Sustainable And Joyful.