{"title": "Nature as Capital: The Economic Risk of Biodiversity Loss", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/biodiversity"], "description": "\"Nature as Capital: The Economic Risk of Biodiversity Loss\" is a round table discussion at Falling Walls. It is organised by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt). The rapid erosion of biodiversity is emerging as a structural risk for global economies, as ecosystems underpin food systems, supply chains and financial stability while economic activity remains a primary driver of their decline. Building on insights from the DBU, the speakers discuss how biodiversity loss is reshaping risk assessment, investment strategies and the long-term foundations of economic prosperity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nature-as-capital-the-economic-risk-of-biodiversity-loss-72425/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/nature-capital-economic-risk-biodiversity-loss", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Stakeholder capitalism revisited", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ESMT Berlin", "address": "Schlossplatz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An English-language panel discussion, held on campus and via livestream with registration. It is organized by ESMT Berlin in cooperation with Robert Bosch GmbH, together with Net Impact ESMT Berlin. The panel asks what stakeholder capitalism means now: how organizations should define and measure stakeholder value, how companies can handle short-term economic and geopolitical pressure while keeping long-term commitments such as climate targets on track, and how the financial sector can move capital toward stakeholder-oriented business models. Speakers include Franziska Brantner, Joachim Nagel, and Stefan Grosch; the discussion is moderated by Catalina Stefanescu-Cuntze, with welcomes by Jörg Rocholl and Christof Ehrhart.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/stakeholder-capitalism-revisited-22329/", "official_url": "https://go.esmt.berlin/Stakeholder-capitalism-revisited-registration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cde8325c5354003c5075641ac2b34bf8b4fd354c36a4ade5fac3f50f6d4bcd1c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Competing Blocs: Preserving Space for Global Science", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/geopolitics", "science/science-policy"], "description": "A panel titled \"Beyond Competing Blocs: Preserving Space for Global Science\" at the Falling Walls Science House on Karl-Marx-Allee. It is hosted by the Hasso Plattner Institute together with Falling Walls, with speakers including Bill Rosehart of the University of Waterloo, Helga Nowotny, formerly of the European Research Council, and El Mouhoub Mouhoud of PSL University. The discussion addresses how higher education institutions can manage geopolitical risks such as security concerns, technological dependencies and threats to academic freedom without withdrawing from global engagement. It also asks how countries can chart an independent course as a trusted platform for worldwide scientific collaboration and discovery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-competing-blocs-preserving-space-for-global-science-72467/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/beyond-competing-blocs-preserving-space-global-science", "image": ""}, {"title": "Building Trusted Ecosystems for Biomedical Innovation", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine", "society/health"], "description": "\"Building Trusted Ecosystems for Biomedical Innovation\" is a round table discussion in the Falling Walls programme. It is organised by the University of Oxford, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité and the Berlin University Alliance. It explores how innovation ecosystems connect academia, healthcare and industry to accelerate translation in biomedicine while ensuring responsible data use. Particular attention is given to transnational collaboration as a foundation for scalable and sustainable biomedical innovation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/building-trusted-ecosystems-for-biomedical-innovation-72413/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/building-trusted-ecosystems-biomedical-innovation", "image": ""}, {"title": "Science Beyond SDGs: Power, Priorities, Progress", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "A round-table discussion within the Falling Walls programme under the title \"Science Beyond SDGs: Power, Priorities, Progress\". It is organised by Falling Walls with Elsevier and asks how a more distributed global research ecosystem, with rising contributions from the Global South, can sustain science beyond 2030. The discussion draws on the Beyond 2030 report and perspectives from the UN 10-Member Group. The speakers include Iris Blom, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Hauke Heekeren, Sherri Aldis and Stephen Toope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/science-beyond-sdgs-power-priorities-progress-72421/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/science-beyond-sdgs-power-priorities-progress", "image": ""}, {"title": "Rethinking Innovation Finance: From Discovery to Impact", "start": "2026-11-06T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "An invitation-only discussion session within a science programme in Berlin. It is hosted by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). The topic is capital models for turning scientific breakthroughs into innovation, as critical transition phases between public funding and private investment often remain underfunded. The discussion explores public-private partnerships, philanthropic capital and new investment approaches that can help promising research progress towards societal and economic impact.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rethinking-innovation-finance-from-discovery-to-impact-72436/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/rethinking-innovation-finance-discovery-impact-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "Climate Bretton Woods: Rewriting Global Rules", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/climate-policy"], "description": "A talk titled \"Climate Bretton Woods: Rewriting Global Rules\" explores how a carbon currency could make international climate cooperation more durable than past climate diplomacy has. The event is run by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, with Marlene Weiß of Süddeutsche Zeitung appearing as speaker. Bretton Woods created lasting rules for economic cooperation, while climate targets have lacked comparable architecture. New formal analysis suggests that once a coalition reaches critical mass, cooperation becomes self-reinforcing and withstands greater political pressure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/climate-bretton-woods-rewriting-global-rules-72457/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/climate-bretton-woods-rewriting-global-rules", "image": ""}, {"title": "Light and Dark", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bar-Cafe-Aedes", "address": "", "price": "Admission is free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment/light-pollution", "society/urbanism"], "description": "\"Spaces & Species: Light and Dark\" is a Lab Talk on light pollution, exploring how lighting design can balance safety, atmosphere and urban quality with the protection of nature and nocturnal ecosystems. It is organised by the Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory in collaboration with the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment. The discussion focuses on the new Section 41a of the German Federal Nature Conservation Act, its effects on the lighting of buildings, façades and public spaces, and innovative approaches to sustainable lighting design. Together with lighting designers, architects, urban and landscape planners, project developers, municipalities, public authorities and nature and environmental protection, participants will discuss how a more conscious approach to light can succeed – and what opportunities this opens up for liveable cities and species protection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/light-and-dark-33919/", "official_url": "https://aedesmetrolab.de/portfolio/light-and-dark/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fcb5b4a6368a26b3b8da2b80a5cfdf6703f0c6bcbe9be2c969dd30e71e7ad1ab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "From Risk to Discovery: Funding Frontier Science", "start": "2026-11-07T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "\"From Risk to Discovery: Funding Frontier Science\" is a plenary table on the Curie Stage devoted to funding high-risk frontier science. It is led by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) and its Secretary General Pavel Kabat. Speakers also include research funding presidents, state secretaries and a Nobel Laureate in Physics, discussing how funding structures, evaluation cultures and partnerships can make room for unconventional, interdisciplinary research without lowering scientific rigour. The session asks how funders can embrace uncertain ideas in pursuit of transformative discovery amid growing demands for accountability and economic impact.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/from-risk-to-discovery-funding-frontier-science-72391/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/risk-discovery-funding-frontier-science", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Deep Tech Gap: Who Takes The Risk?", "start": "2026-11-07T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/technology/innovation", "society/business/entrepreneurship"], "description": "A hybrid round-table discussion on the 03 Franklin Stage about deep-tech growth: what happens when a technology is ready but the market is not? Organised by Falling Walls, leaders from entrepreneurship, public investment and industry examine where responsibility should sit, how regulation can balance trust with competitiveness, and whether Europe can turn its industrial base into an advantage for scaling technologies into globally competitive companies. Speakers include Philipp Lill (Siemens AG), Michiel Scheffer (European Innovation Council), Silvia Lenaerts (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Barbara Bachus (ExoMatter). The event is in English and available as a livestream.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-deep-tech-gap-who-takes-the-risk-72406/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/deep-tech-gap-who-takes-risk", "image": ""}, {"title": "Spaces & Species: Light and Dark – Reducing Light Pollution as a Design Task", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Aedes Gallery", "address": "Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment/light-pollution", "society/urbanism"], "description": "\"Spaces & Species: Light and Dark\" is a Lab Talk on reducing light pollution as a design task. It is held in collaboration with the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment and explores how lighting design can balance safety, atmosphere and urban quality with the protection of nature and nocturnal ecosystems. It focuses on the new Section 41a of the German Federal Nature Conservation Act and what it means for practice. With contributions from lighting designers, architects and planners, it discusses how contemporary lighting concepts can protect both people and nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/spaces-species-light-and-dark-reducing-light-pollution-as-a-8560/", "official_url": "https://aedesmetrolab.de/portfolio/light-and-dark/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fcb5b4a6368a26b3b8da2b80a5cfdf6703f0c6bcbe9be2c969dd30e71e7ad1ab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "„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.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies-72414/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies", "image": ""}, {"title": "ENRIQUE VIALE Y ALBERTO ACOSTA presentan su libro: LA NATURALEZA SÍ TIENE DERECHOS", "start": "2026-11-01T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T14:30:00+01:00", "place": "Andenbuch", "address": "Bergmannstraße 59, 10961 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment"], "description": "A book presentation and conversation at the Andenbuch bookshop on Bergmannstraße. The guests are Enrique Viale, an Argentine environmental lawyer, and Alberto Acosta, an Ecuadorian economist, intellectual and politician. They present their book \"LA NATURALEZA SÍ TIENE DERECHOS\", which argues for nature as a subject of rights, traces its historical roots and criticises false solutions such as green capitalism. The German translation \"Die Rechte der Natur - Fundament einer anderen Gesellschaft\" published by Unrast Verlag will also be available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/enrique-viale-y-alberto-acosta-presentan-su-libro-la-natural-33436/", "official_url": "https://andenbuch.sumupstore.com/pagina/enriquevialeyalbertoacosta", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f33d28b5324d1ae714fbd71547ad13d2c3af9580f71c58cc23db5b497c3467-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wirtschaftspolitik in Krisenzeiten", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Geschäftsstelle", "address": "Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist nach Anmeldung frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "A public discussion on German economic policy in times of crisis such as energy price shocks, geopolitical conflicts and technological upheaval. The speakers are Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Berlin, and Reint Gropp, President of the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle, moderated by journalist Margaret Heckel. The focus is on the economic consequences of current crises, the competitiveness and resilience of the German location, and the role of investment, innovation and fiscal policy. The audience can ask questions, admission is free with registration, and the event takes place on the ESMT campus as well as via livestream.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wirtschaftspolitik-in-krisenzeiten-26949/", "official_url": "https://www.iwh-halle.de/ueber-das-iwh/veranstaltungen/detail/berlin-science-week-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bd9cba21a80b799a69e5e25e163103a8bcbfa5ae5b55cfaa230a6b2515f3c0e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Konferenz „Wingspan 2026“", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Atelier Gardens Berlin", "address": "Oberlandstraße 26–35 12099 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/conservation"], "description": "The conference \"Wingspan 2026\" is the second Wingspan conference, held under the theme \"From Partnerships to Practice: Accelerating Nature-Positive Energy Infrastructure\". It is aimed at all stakeholder groups of nature-compatible energy transition and seeks to foster dialogue between these actors. Annegret Plank, wind energy specialist at KNE, will attend the conference. Admission is free of charge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/konferenz-wingspan-2026-72715/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8161c01c089eeb82213f416edd520b79f6ad9c645f105ee98ae45d0268a4cc50-600.webp"}, {"title": "Closing the Climate Insurance Protection Gap – Risk Prevention, Resilience, and Natural Catastrophe Insurance in Europe | GDV", "start": "2026-11-04T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft", "address": "Wilhelmstraße 43;43G, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/climate", "science/earth-sciences"], "description": "A panel discussion on the role of the insurance industry in strengthening climate resilience and narrowing the protection gap for natural catastrophe insurance in Europe. It is hosted by the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU together with the GDV and the Czech Insurance Association (ČAP). It takes the European Commission's announced Integrated Framework for Climate Resilience and Climate Insurance Alliance proposals as an occasion to discuss recent EU policy developments, prevention, insurability and limiting the financial impacts of natural disasters, drawing on experience from the Czech Republic and Germany. Speakers include representatives of the European Commission, Munich Re, EIOPA, the European Central Bank and Allianz Insurance Czech Republic, followed by a networking reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/closing-the-climate-insurance-protection-gap-risk-prevention-29709/", "official_url": "https://www.gdv.de/gdv/events/closing-the-climate-insurance-protection-gap-risk-prevention-resilience-and-natural-catastrophe-insurance-in-europe-216762", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cb8f05a69ee5eeaa1f07f1872fda2e662df2465e58c1f669d642c49c71810652-600.webp"}, {"title": "Frontier Research for Europe’s Strategic Resilience", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T15:30:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "A discussion on “Frontier Research for Europe’s Strategic Resilience” as part of Falling Walls, held by invitation only. It is backed by the European Research Council. The discussion examines how open, curiosity-driven research can strengthen Europe’s resilience, competitiveness and strategic autonomy, since Europe’s economic security depends on generating new knowledge before its strategic value is known. It takes place at the Executive Table in the Darwin Room, in English, on the topic of geopolitics, security and science diplomacy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/frontier-research-for-europes-strategic-resilience-72451/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/frontier-research-europes-strategic-resilience-invitation-only", "image": ""}]}