About Ranga Yogeshwar - Our Keynote Speaker
Ranga Yogeshwar was born in 1959 in Luxembourg as the son of an Indian engineer and a Luxembourgish artist. He spent most of his early childhood in India. After finishing high school in Luxembourg, he studied experimental elementary particle physics and astrophysics, and worked at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN), CERN in Geneva, and the Jülich Research Center. Ranga Yogeshwar began his journalistic career in 1983, initially with various publishers, and then in radio and television. In 1987, he became an editor at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln and later headed the science department. Since 2008, Ranga Yogeshwar has worked as an independent journalist and author. He is one of Germany's leading science journalists and has developed and hosted numerous TV programs, including "Kopfball" (ARD), "Quarks & Co" (WDR), and "Die große Show der Naturwunder" (ARD). Yogeshwar regularly writes articles for leading newspapers and is a welcome expert on numerous talk shows. His books "Sonst noch Fragen?", "Ach so!", and "Nächste Ausfahrt Zukunft" quickly became bestsellers and have been translated into numerous languages. Yogeshwar has received over 60 professional awards and has been honored with, among others, an honorary doctorate from the University of Wuppertal, the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Ranga Yogeshwar is the father of four children and lives with his family near Cologne.
Keynote "Emil's World - How AI is Changing Our World":
My grandson Emil was born in January 2020 and there is a good chance that he will experience the 22nd century. This makes the future tangible. In what kind of world will Emil live? His generation grows up with all sorts of new things taken for granted: talking devices, artificial intelligence, new medicine, but also changes in social interactions. Even in the context of Corona, changes in the working world - such as home office - or in the area of shopping - online retail - are becoming apparent. In the larger context, we are witnessing an epochal change: from climate change to dwindling biodiversity, from resource consumption to a consumer-based human image, a rethinking toward more sustainability is beginning. Emil's world is therefore different from the "business as usual" of my generation. It will be the result of a global transformation, and this raises the question of the new priorities and values of his world.
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