{"title": "Security Innovation: Research & Industry Across Borders", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T13:30:00+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": "A discussion in the „Executive Table“ format under the title „Security Innovation: Research & Industry Across Borders“, taking place by invitation only. It is run by Falling Walls together with the Stifterverband. The topic is how security- and defence-related research and innovation is reshaping industrial policy in Germany, Europe, Canada and beyond – from aerospace, cyber security and AI to quantum and sensor technologies. The discussion examines how German-European-Canadian cooperation can align regulation, procurement and investment to accelerate cross-border innovation and strengthen a credible mid-power alliance. The event is a „Circle“ held in the Newton Room and takes place in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/security-innovation-research-industry-across-borders-72437/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/security-innovation-research-industry-across-borders-invitation-only", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T13:30:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Power of Many: Cooperation and Research Security", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T11:30:00+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": "\"The Power of Many: Cooperation and Research Security\" is an English-language discussion event at the Falling Walls conference, held by invitation only. Behind it are the VDI Technologiezentrum and the Cyberagentur. It deals with research security and academic freedom: differing expectations and unclear definitions weaken open and resilient research. The aim is to develop common ground so that science, industry and politics can make informed decisions while safeguarding openness and trust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-power-of-many-cooperation-and-research-security-72447/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/power-many-cooperation-and-research-security-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "Building Scientific Capacity with Trusted Partners 🇨🇦 Canada", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T15:30:00+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": "At „Building Scientific Capacity with Trusted Partners 🇨🇦 Canada | By Invitation Only“, participants in the Newton Room discuss which research infrastructure, talent, data and critical technologies nations should develop nationally, with trusted partners, or keep globally open. The circle is hosted by U15 Canada as part of the Falling Walls programme. It looks at how intensifying geopolitical competition affects Canada, Germany and Europe, and how those choices can strengthen resilience and shape future innovation policy and international partnerships. The session is by invitation only, held in English and framed as an Executive Table.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/building-scientific-capacity-with-trusted-partners-canada-72438/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/building-scientific-capacity-trusted-partners-canada-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "Europe's Next Chapter: Visions for Tech Races beyond AI", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+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", "society/economics"], "description": "A discussion at Falling Walls Science House where researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers talk about the coming wave of breakthrough technologies. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation is behind it, with Falling Walls organizing the event. It asks how Europe and Germany can turn their strong research and industrial foundations into faster innovation, scalable companies and global markets, as quantum technologies, advanced robotics and biotechnology reshape economies. Funding, regulation, infrastructure and talent are examined so that Europe shapes the next wave of breakthroughs rather than follows it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/europes-next-chapter-visions-for-tech-races-beyond-ai-72455/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/europes-next-chapter-visions-tech-races-beyond-ai", "image": ""}, {"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": ""}, {"title": "Rewiring Innovation: Next Generation Research Organisations", "start": "2026-11-08T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+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": "\"Rewiring Innovation: Next Generation Research Organisations\" is a Plenary Table on the Curie Stage, held in English and also streamed live. It is presented by the Max Planck Society as part of Falling Walls, with its president Patrick Cramer joined by, among others, French research minister Philippe Baptiste and European Innovation Council board president Michiel Scheffer. The speakers discuss how fundamental research and the notion of scientific excellence are being reshaped by deep tech and artificial intelligence. New funding models, public-private partnerships and cross-sector collaboration take centre stage, with Europe's global competitiveness in research at stake.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rewiring-innovation-next-generation-research-organisations-72398/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/rewiring-innovation-next-generation-research-organisations", "image": ""}, {"title": "Cybersecurity & Open Science: Trust in a Fragmented World", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+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/technology/it-security"], "description": "A plenary table on the Curie Stage connecting cybersecurity and open science in a time of geopolitical tensions. Behind the discussion are the VDI Technologiezentrum and the Cyberagentur, with speakers from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Cyberagentur, Denmark's National Defence Technology Center, the VDI Technologiezentrum and Stifterverband. It asks how critical knowledge can be protected without constraining research collaboration. Topics include Germany's Cyberdome, emerging European frameworks, and balancing national interests with freedom, openness, trust and resilience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/cybersecurity-open-science-trust-in-a-fragmented-world-72404/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/cybersecurity-open-science-trust-fragmented-world", "image": ""}, {"title": "Europe's Research Alliances: Keeping Collaboration Strong", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+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 on the future of European research collaboration in the face of geopolitical and economic shifts. It is held by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation and the German Physical Society, in partnership with Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Experiences from the physical sciences highlight how enduring cooperation builds innovation capacity and trust. The discussion asks how Europe can remain an attractive, open and reliable research partner – especially for young researchers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/europes-research-alliances-keeping-collaboration-strong-72429/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/europes-research-alliances-keeping-collaboration-strong", "image": ""}, {"title": "KIWi Policy Talk: Secure science. European perspectives", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+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", "society/politics"], "description": "A round table discussion in the KIWi series, held as a hybrid event and conducted in English. Behind it is the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), with Deputy Secretary General Michael Harms speaking. The topic is knowledge security, which is becoming increasingly institutionalised across Europe, with developments at EU and national level shaping expectations for more standardised and partly mandatory approaches. The discussion asks how responsibilities can be proportionately distributed across system levels to balance openness, autonomy and risk mitigation and enable secure international collaboration, highlighting risk literacy as a prerequisite for sensitive risk assessment and decision-making.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kiwi-policy-talk-secure-science-european-perspectives-72417/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/kiwi-policy-talk-secure-science-european-perspectives", "image": ""}, {"title": "Scientific Collaboration in a Fragmented World", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:30:00+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", "society/politics"], "description": "\"Scientific Collaboration in a Fragmented World\" is a discussion session at the Falling Walls events that is accessible by invitation only. It is hosted by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO). It addresses the challenges facing international research collaboration: geopolitical tensions, research security and technological competition are making cooperation harder, even though major scientific questions exceed the capacity of any single country. It looks at ways to reconcile openness with security and to strengthen the trust, reciprocity and governance needed when political relations are strained.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/scientific-collaboration-in-a-fragmented-world-72443/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/scientific-collaboration-fragmented-world-invitation-only", "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": "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": "Science for Resilience: NATO’s Science Diplomacy in Action", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+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", "society/politics"], "description": "\"Science for Resilience: NATO’s Science Diplomacy in Action\" is a panel session on science diplomacy as a tool for building resilience against security challenges that cross borders. Behind it are NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the International Association for Resilience Analysis and the Society for Risk Analysis. It showcases projects on critical infrastructure and supply-chain resilience in which scientists, governments and partner countries address shared threats through collaboration. It also examines dual-use risks, geopolitical tensions and how science can strengthen adaptation, recovery and collective security.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/science-for-resilience-natos-science-diplomacy-in-action-72456/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/science-resilience-natos-science-diplomacy-action", "image": ""}, {"title": "Science Diplomacy with Africa: Innovation Across Borders", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+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": "\"Science Diplomacy with Africa: Innovation Across Borders\" is an English-language discussion on the Curie Stage at the Falling Walls Science House in Berlin, also available as a livestream. It is organised by Falling Walls and brings together representatives of the African Academy of Sciences, AUDA-NEPAD, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Nigeria's federal ministry for innovation, science and technology, moderated by NYU Berlin. The discussion takes on how Africa's growing role in global energy, technology and supply chains can translate into local prosperity. Speakers explore science diplomacy as an instrument for building trust, enabling technology access and shared ownership of knowledge, innovation and value creation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/science-diplomacy-with-africa-innovation-across-borders-72403/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/science-diplomacy-africa-innovation-across-borders", "image": ""}, {"title": "Germany–Israel Science: Building Future Partnerships", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T10:50:00+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 by invitation only as part of the Falling Walls programme. Hosted by the German-Israeli Foundation, it explores how institutions can secure German-Israeli scientific cooperation for the long term. Topics include mobility, access, long-term funding pathways and networks for early-career researchers. The aim is to foster trust-based collaboration, strengthen scientific leadership among the next generation and turn new partnerships into enduring research alliances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/germanyisrael-science-building-future-partnerships-72448/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/germany-israel-science-building-future-partnerships-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "The End of Innocence: Science Diplomacy Reimagined", "start": "2026-11-06T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T17:30:00+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": "A discussion in the Executive Table format under the title \"The End of Innocence: Science Diplomacy Reimagined\", taking place by invitation only. It is hosted by the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Science and Humanities Council. The topic is the role science can play in a scenario where the rules-based international order is coming to an end. It will discuss how science can be a channel for dialogue and a key to tackling global challenges in a changing world order.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-end-of-innocence-science-diplomacy-reimagined-72439/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/end-innocence-science-diplomacy-reimagined-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "Europe's Tech at Scale: Critical Mass for Global Leadership", "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": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "An English-language panel discussion in the Plenary Table format, held hybrid on site and via livestream. The session is organised by the EuroTech Universities Alliance as part of Falling Walls. It examines how cross-border alliances of science, industry and policy can unite Europe's fragmented deep-tech capabilities into critical mass to compete globally. University presidents along with industry and policy leaders discuss how such ecosystems act as a force multiplier and accelerate lab-to-market.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/europes-tech-at-scale-critical-mass-for-global-leadership-72399/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/europes-tech-scale-critical-mass-global-leadership", "image": ""}]}