Jury 2023
The jury of the University:Future Festival 2023 consisted of eight individual track juries as well as an overarching programme jury. Below you will find an overview of the individual jury members.
Programme jury
Track-Jury AI & Technology
Track-Jury Empowerment & Sustainability
Track-Jury Openness & Vision
Track-Jury Transfer & Networks
Track-Jury Exams & Legal
Track-Jury Learning & Skills
Track-Jury Strategies & Management
Track-Jury Spaces & hybrid Concepts
Programme jury



Esther Bishop
Dialogue & Networking Officer
Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre
Jannica Budde
Project Manager CHE Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung
Markus Deimann
Managing Director ORCA.nrw



Sebastian Horndasch
Head of University:Future Festival
Stifterverband
Lara Kolbert
Programme Manager Stifterverband
Britta Leusing
Deputy Head of the Office AI-Campus

Estefania Velasquez
Programme Manager Hochschulrektorenkonferenz

Barbara Wagner
Programme Manager Stifterverband

Ann-Kathrin Watolla
Research Assistant
Hamburg Open Online University

Jan Gfrerer
Digital Change Maker of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung

Thomas Hoffmeister
Professor of Population and Evolutionary Ecology Uni Bremen
Track-Jury AI & Technology

Stefanie Baade
Federal Association AI | Office Manager of the region Baden-Württemberg

Dipl.-Des. Nicole Dierolf
Research Assistant at the Lab for Socioinformatics,
Hochschule Heilbronn

Dr. Britta Leusing
Deputy Head of the Office AI-Campus

Leonard Przybilla
Advisor to the President’s Representative for the Overall Development of the TUM Heilbronn Campus, Research Assistant, Krcmar Lab, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT)

Michael Weber
Research Assistant, Krcmar Lab, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT)

Manfred Weigler
Project Manager Science
Dieter Schwarz Foundation

Prof. Dr. Daniela Wiehenbrauk
Professor for Digital Commerce Management, DHBW Heilbronn
Track-Jury Empowerment & Sustainability

Esther Bishop
Dialogue & Networking Officer
Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre

Luisa Gregory
Project Manager at Hochschulrektorenkonferenz

Anne Katrin Haubold
HTW Dresden

Anna Heudorfer
Project Funding Officer
Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre

Petra Naujoks
HAW Hamburg

Lena Pöhlmann
Student at TU Munich

Daniel Rottke
HS Neubrandenburg

Jan Gfrerer
Digital Change Maker of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung
Track-Jury Openness & Vision

PD Dr. Markus Deimann
Managing Director ORCA.nrw

Daniel Diekmann
Project Manager at Open Educational Resources

Alexander Kobusch
FH Bielefeld

PIa Sander
Research Assistant at Learning Lab, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Magdalena Spaude
Universität zu Köln

Timo van Treeck
Research Assistant ZLE TH Köln
Track-Jury Knowledge Transfer & Communities

Sebastian Metag
Uni Weimar, eTeach-Netzwerk Thüringen

Janosch Reble
Project Manager Knowledge Transfer & Communication
Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre

Dr. Katja Reinecke
Head of Center for Academic Teaching (DCAT) Dahlem, FU Berlin

Ann-Kathrin Watolla
Research Assistant
Hamburg Open Online University
Track-Jury Exams & Legal

Jannica Budde
Project Manager CHE Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung

Martin Drossos
Legal Expert for digial exams, Partnership for Innovative E-Exams (PePP)
Heidelberg University

Stefanie Gerl
FAU/Prüfung hoch Drei III

Martin Rademacher
Project Manager Hochschulforum Digitalisierung at HRK

Alexander Schulz
FU Berlin
Track-Jury Learning & Skills

Thomas Blotevogel
Professor at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences & Scientific Director at the Bavarian Centre for Innovative Teaching (BayZiel)

Jenny Brandt
Doctor at University Medicine Mainz Rudolf Frey Learning Clinic – Curriculum Development (From April 2023: Doctor at University Hospital Basel Innovation Lab – Clinical research group) & HFD core team member

Sebastian Horndasch
Head of University:Future Festival Stifterverband

Katrin Hovy
Project Manager Knowledge Transfer Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehrer

Isa Jahnke
Founding Vice President of the TU Nuremberg (University of Technology Nuremberg) and Professor for Information Science and Learning Technologies

Lavinia Ionica
Programme Manager Stifterverband

Wibke Matthes
Head of the Centre for Key Competencies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

Ronny Röwert
Network coordinator “SDG-Campus” & “Open T-Shape for Sustainable Development” @ TU Hamburg

Kevin Saukel
Digital Change Maker of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung

Anja-Lisa Schroll
Deputy Project Manager Hochschulforum Digitalisierung

Estefania Velasquez
Project Manager Hochschulrektorenkonferenz
Track-Jury Strategies & Management

Annabell Bils
Managing Director of the Center for Learning and Innovation at the FernUniversität in Hagen

Jan Eden
Vice President for Digitalization, Hochschule Düsseldorf

Héla Hecker
Project Manager Board of Directors
Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre

Hans Pongratz
Professor for Complex IT Systems and Digital Infrastructures, Technical Managing Director of the Foundation for University Admission (SfH)

Janosch Schindler
Project Manager Project funding
Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre

Barbara Wagner
Programme Manager Stifterverband
Track-Jury Spaces & hybrid Concepts

Thomas Hoffmeister
Professor of Population and Evolutionary Ecology Uni Bremen

Christian Kohls
TH Köln

Lara Kolbert
Programme Manager Stifterverband
Katrin Schillinger
Project Manager Hybrid Learning Spaces at HAW Hamburg

Inka Wertz
Digital Change Maker beim Hochschulforum Digitalisierung und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Lehramtsausbildung, Universität Greifswald

Inka Wertz
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