# Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies

Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies at Falling Walls Science House, Saturday 7 November 2026, 13:00.

- Venue: Falling Walls Science House, Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin
- With: Brian P. Schmidt, Manuel Heitor, Armin Nassehi, Helga Nowotny, Yoshua Bengio
- Go to page: https://falling-walls.com/programme/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies

„Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies“ is an English-language discussion held as a round table on the „03 Franklin Stage“ at Falling Walls Science House. It is organised by Falling Walls with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich involved, and takes place as a hybrid format. The panel brings together physics Nobel laureate Brian P. Schmidt, former Portuguese minister Manuel Heitor, LMU vice president Armin Nassehi, former European Research Council president Helga Nowotny and Yoshua Bengio of LawZero. They ask why even stable democracies can erode from within and look at the social, economic, cultural and technological foundations of open societies in times of rapid change.

## Dates

- Saturday 7 November 13:00 — Falling Walls Science House

Written by a model, sources: [falling-walls.com](https://falling-walls.com/programme/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies)

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