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Virtual Panel Series

Event Series on Education in the U.S. and Germany

Spearheaded by DIPF and Northern Arizona University, we’re starting 2022 with three panel discussions that focus on the tensions and challenges to public education and pedagogy in Germany and the United States.  

IN REVIEW | FUTURE FORUM Before After

FUTURE FORUM

A recap of our first-ever hybrid event, the FUTURE FORUM: Before After | October 14-15, 2021 in Chicago and online.

A Brief Interview with Maureen Benjamins

A Matter of Life and Death: Fighting Inequities in Health

One of the pandemic’s most scathing reveals, was, arguably, the inequities in health across the globe. From accessing Covid-19 tests early on in 2020, to hospital triages and receiving a vaccine, the spectrum of health care access on a global scale was vast, and the coverage partial. We sat down with FUTURE FORUM speaker Maureen Benjamins, Senior Research Fellow at Sinai Urban Health Institute, to learn more about her work, including her recently published book Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America’s Largest Cities, out now via Johns Hopkins University Press, and her upcoming talk at Before After, an innovation spotlight into matters of life and death: fighting inequities in health.

An Interview with Knut Alicke

The Supply Chain Reimagined

Amidst product shortages, trade wars and intense debate about nearshoring and regionalization, we sit down to chat with Knut Alicke, a Partner at McKinsey & Company Stuttgart and Head of Supply Chain Europe, about supply chain resilience, risk forecasting and what went wrong in the pandemic.

A Word with Dr. Kathrin DiPaola

From the Head of Programs: This Year’s FUTURE FORUM

We caught up with Dr. Kathrin DiPaola on the eve of her first FUTURE FORUM to check in on her thoughts and ambitions for this year’s event. Read on to see our questions and Dr. DiPaola’s responses.

Intern with Us!

Interships at DWIH New York

Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and Managed by the DAAD, the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York facilitates transatlantic collaboration to solve the most pressing questions of the future. We encourage German-American exchange on topics in science and technology. For more, read our “About Us.” We hire communications and operations interns on a  6-month, biannual basis, from February to July and from August to January.  Interested in working with us? Check out the information below!

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How AI Is Creating More Resilient Supply Chains

Founded in 2015, scoutbee brings together expertise from purchasing, operations, engineering and data science to transform the way organizations discover and connect with suppliers.

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German Auto Makers Link Up To Prevent Future Crunch

A new cloud-based data exchange platform seeks to improve the resilience and power of the integrated automotive supply chain.