Agenda

Horst Kremers worked many years in Engineering Management and Information Sciences. He has backgrounds in ministry level Berlin technical administration as well as in science. His extensive interdisciplinary technical and scientific work (publications, conferences, project work, expertise) is documented on http://www.horst-kremers.de

Horst started working in Sustainable Development and Information Society Aspects since the times of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development 1992, also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.

Dr. (Mrs.) Kalpana Chaudhari is elected as Vice President of the Institute for Sustainable Development and Research, ISDR, India, an organization having consultative status with UN-ECOSOC, UN-Habitat, UNCTAD, UN-Ffd, and UN-WCDRR. Kalpana is also International Task Force on Knowledge and Data, United Nations Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES), Bonn, Germany. She has participated and associated with activities and programs of UN, and other governmental, nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations. She has organized; and also participated in several national, regional and international conferences and symposia in Asia, Africa, Europe and America.

Sahil Shah  works primarily on food security and climate change. He is a co-founder and director of Sustainable Seaweed, an agri-tech company scaling seaweed production for food security and blue carbon sinks. He is also an honorary fellow at the Jahn Research Group at the University of Madison-Wisconsin and a specialist advisor at US food security nonprofit, the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). He sits on the Chatham House Food and Land Use round table.

Falk is a ‘Digital Naturalist’ having worked worldwide on Open Access data, metadata, Open Source geographic information systems (GIS) and global sustainability progress for over 30 years. He operates as a reviewer and ad-hoc editor with many journals, publishers and committees, having published over 200 articles and 6 books on (digital) conservation policy topics for a better world. He is teaching Digital Data and Machine Learning classes, and together with his international students he is a frequent contributor to media and list servers, including TEDx, radio, university seminars and workshops on digital online computing topics. Falk’s core expertise is in wilderness landscapes, field work, endangered species and biodiversity, forestry, machine learning, forecasting, natural resources, and specifically the atmosphere, the oceans, the tropics, polar regions and the three poles (Arctic, Antarctica and Hindu Kush-Himalaya).