06.11. English Research and Innovation for Security: Science and Industry | By Invitation Only Stifterverband
06.11. 09:00 - 09:30 06 Curie Stage English Falling Walls Lab Pitches: Welcome Remarks Joey Leskin German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
06.11. 09:00 - 17:00 11 Meitner Salon English International Fall Gathering 2026 Bayer Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Elsevier Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg
06.11. 09:30 - 10:00 00 Ann Jackson Stage English Falling Walls Engage Pitches: Welcome Remarks Olaf Brock, Andreas Kosmider, Mario Andrés De Leo-Winkler, Elodie Chabrol Hannover Re Foundation
06.11. 09:30 - 11:30 06 Curie Stage English Falling Walls Lab Pitch Session 1 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
06.11. 10:00 - 11:30 03 Franklin Stage English Falling Walls Venture Pitches: Sustainability BioBlends, Brineworks, Evoralis, Helix Earth, MariHealth Solutions, NPHarvest, Resurrect Bio, Tattva Boehringer Ingelheim, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Schott, Sartorius
06.11. 12:00 - 13:30 03 Franklin Stage English Falling Walls Venture Pitches: Engineering of the Future Arkeon Technologies, FluIDect, Hades, InSpace Propulsion Technologies, leitspalt, Linque, Stateful Robotics, Steerlight Boehringer Ingelheim, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Schott, Sartorius
06.11. 12:00 - 13:45 06 Curie Stage English Falling Walls Lab Pitch Session 2 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
06.11. 14:30 - 16:30 03 Franklin Stage English Falling Walls Venture Pitches: Health Solutions Apersys, CARTemis, Diamens, exalt, Infensa Biosciences, Inn'Pulse, noah labs, NodeAI, UNOMR Boehringer Ingelheim, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Schott, Sartorius
06.11. 14:45 - 16:45 06 Curie Stage English Falling Walls Lab Pitch Session 3 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
06.11. 16:30 - 17:30 03 Franklin Stage English Falling Walls Venture: Reverse Pitches | VC Introductions Boehringer Ingelheim, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Schott, Sartorius
06.11. 18:15 - 19:00 06 Curie Stage English Awards Ceremony German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Elsevier Foundation, Hannover Re Foundation, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
07.11. 03 Franklin Stage English Replacing Animal Models: Science's Next Breakthrough Tracey Brown Sartorius
07.11. English Lab to Life: From AI Research to Real-World Impact | By Invitation Only Dieter Schwarz Foundation
07.11. English Accelerating Translation: Innovations to Patients | By Invitation Only M1 - Munich Medicine Alliance
07.11. 06 Curie Stage English Protecting Academic Freedom: Insights and Initiatives Melanie A. Woodin Volkswagen Foundation
07.11. 03 Franklin Stage English RNA Beyond Vaccines: New Frontiers in Medicine Jörg Vogel Verband der forschenden Pharmaunternehmen | vfa
07.11. 09 Tsukamoto Café English From Evidence to Action: How SDG Research Can Shape Policy Nicola Jones, André Müller, Tracey Brown Springer Nature
07.11. English Governing Innovation Ecosystems: Europe’s Coordination Gap | By Invitation Only Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation - SPRIND, EIT Higher Education Initiative
07.11. 06 Curie Stage English Europe’s Innovation Ecosystems: Who Funds Breakthroughs? Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation - SPRIND, EIT Higher Education Initiative
07.11. 10:00 - 11:00 00 Ann Jackson Stage English When Therapies Don't Reach Patients Dietmar Harhoff Bayer
07.11. 11:00 - 12:00 03 Franklin Stage English From Curiosity to Commitment: Big Science in Space ETH Zürich
07.11. 11:00 - 12:00 00 Ann Jackson Stage English Algorithms in Business: Efficiency, Limits, Responsibility Technical University of Munich (TUM)
07.11. 12:00 - 13:00 English The Talent Race: Why Researchers Choose Countries Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
07.11. 12:00 - 13:00 03 Franklin Stage English Beyond the Lab: Autonomous Systems in Action New York University
07.11. 13:00 - 14:00 00 Ann Jackson Stage English Building Trusted Ecosystems for Biomedical Innovation University of Oxford, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), Berlin University Alliance
07.11. 15:00 - 16:00 00 Ann Jackson Stage English KIWi Policy Talk: Secure science. European perspectives German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
08.11. English EU Quantum Sovereignty: Commercialising Quantum Applications | By Invitation Only Bundesdruckerei
08.11. 06 Curie Stage English Planetary Boundaries in an Age of Geopolitical Conflict Frontiers Planet Prize
08.11. 06 Curie Stage English Science Diplomacy with Africa: Innovation across Borders Forschungszentrum Jülich
08.11. 06 Curie Stage English Healthy Societies: Disease Prevention as the Default Wolfgang Wick, Tobias Schmid Volkswagen Foundation, German Science and Humanities Council
08.11. 06 Curie Stage English Rewiring Innovation: Next Generation Research Organisations Max Planck Society
08.11. 11:00 - 12:00 03 Franklin Stage English Nature as Capital: The Economic Risk of Biodiversity Loss Jesse Ausubel German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt)
08.11. 13:00 - 14:00 03 Franklin Stage English Evidence and Power: Why Facts Fail in Politics Angela McLean Hertie Foundation
08.11. 16:00 - 17:00 03 Franklin Stage English Astronomy, Space & Global Cooperation in Africa Bonita de Swardt
08.11. 16:30 - 18:00 11 Meitner Salon English Falling Walls Career Event Baden-Württemberg International
08.11. 17:00 - 18:00 03 Franklin Stage English Cooperation and Diplomacy in Space Research German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
09.11. 09:00 - 18:00 06 Curie Stage English Falling Walls Breakthrough Presentations 2026 Laura Kreidberg, Karen Willcox, Yilin Wang, Thomas Zurbuchen, Yifat Merbl, Željko Ivezić, Johannes Krause Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
09.11. 10:00 - 11:00 08 Newton Room English Meet the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR), Elsevier Foundation, Hannover Re Foundation
