Jury
The jury of the University:Future Festival 2025 is made up of the six track juries and a superordinate programme jury, which consists of the track jury heads. Below you will find an overview of the individual members.
Programme jury
Christina Zitzmann
Vice President for Education at the TH Nuremberg
Esther Bishop
Exchange & Networking Officer, StIL
Gerd Kortemeyer
Rectorate and AI Center, ETH Zurich
Isa Jahnke
Founding Vice President for Studies, Teaching and International Affairs, UTN
Judith Koeritz
Programme Manager at Stifterverband
Julius Othmer
Head of Project House at TU Braunschweig
Luisa Gregory
Consultant, HFD – HRK
Martin Ebner
Head of Teaching and Learning Technologies, senior researcher in educational informatics, TU Graz
Michael Garkisch
Digital Social Work & Social Management, OTH Regensburg
Ronny Röwert
Head of Office, Digital Learning Campus
Sebastian Horndasch
Festival director, U:FF
Thomas Hoffmeister
Professor of Population and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Bremen
Track jury: The bigger Picture
Alexander Gerber
Research professorship for AI in teaching and learning at HSRW
Annabel Bokern
Head of Staff Unit Excellence Strategy, Goethe University Frankfurt
Bettina Pfaendner
Project Team University Alliance Digitalisation at Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel
Esther Bishop
Exchange & Networking Officer, StIL
Franz Vergöhl
Innovation scout of the HCU and the Podcast Update University
Greet Gerda Stichel
Digital Change Maker 2024/2025
Johanna Springhorn
Project coordinator at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, Bielefeld University
Lorenz Mrohs
Project Coordinator, University of Bamberg
Michael Meyer
Network Coordinator Emerging Tech Lab at TU Braunschweig
Naveed Syed
Secretary General of the ENHANCE Alliance
Tabea Hein
Academic Lecturer Digital Transformation and AI, IU International University
Thomas Korner
Head of Innovation Lab, ZHAW
Track jury: AI & Technology
Arno Wilhelm-Weidner
Scientific consultant, VDI/VDE-IT
Ben Lenk-Ostendorf
Head of AI Guides, TU Munich
Benedikt Brünner
Research assistant in the field of AI, TU Graz
Fiona Könz
AI for School Project Manager, ETH Zurich
Gerd Kortemeyer
Rectorate and AI Center, ETH Zürich
Imanol Schlag
Technical Lead for Large Language Model Development at Swiss AI Initiative, ETH Zürich
Julius Othmer
Head of Project House at TU Braunschweig
Lea Hildermeier
DigitalChangeMaker Cohort 23
Luisa Baum
AI in language teaching | PhD student & research assistant @JGU
Markus von der Heyde
Organiser of the Higher Education CIO Congress
Nina Bieling
Research assistant at the Chair of Higher Education Didactics and Research, TU Dortmund
Sabrina Zeaiter
Consultant for Digitalisation (Studies & Teaching), Chief Information Office, Goethe University Frankfurt
Track jury: Future Skills
Friedhelm Bruns
Music mediator & theatre teacher at the Detmold University of Music
Ingo Kleiber
Senior Expert for Digital Education and Educational Technology at the University of Cologne
Jennifer Koch
Head of the ‘Digital Teaching’ department at Jena University Hospital
Judith Koeritz
Programme manager at Stifterverband
Lars Gerber
Research assistant, University of Vechta
Marcus Soll
Research Associate CrossLab Project
Melanie Wilde
Project management ‘Innovative University’ – InCamS@BI, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
Nadine Chochoiek
Professor for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Munich Business School
Sarah Edelsbrunner
Employee in the Future Skills department, TU Graz
Stephanie Reiner
Junior Professor for Innovative Didactics, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Ulrike Mascher
Project Coordinator Future Learning Spaces, Goethe University
Vera Kristina Lenz-Kesekamp
Vice President for Digitalisation, European Distance Learning University Hamburg
Track jury: Innovative Learning
Annalisa Biehl
DigitalChangeMaker 2024/2025
Christina Zitzmann
Vice President for Education at TH Nuremberg
Daniela Schmitz
Junior Professor for Innovative and Digital Forms of Teaching and Learning in Multiprofessional Healthcare
Felix Greven
Project Manager Knowledge Transfer, StIL
Franziska Richter
Digital Transformation Teaching and University Didactics Officer at the University of Bremen
Jule-Louisa Gronau
Student, research assistant & tutor
Julia Philipp
Centre for Science Didactics, Ruhr University Bochum
Olaf Herden
Professor of Computer Science, DHBW Stuttgart Campus Horb
Ronny Röwert
Head of Office, Digital Learning Campus
Silke Herwig
Professor of Media Design, iu International University
Stefan Böhme
Professor of Computer Science, TU Braunschweig
Thomas Bröker
University didactics expert in the Digital Teaching Research and Innovation Lab, TH Nuremberg
Thomas Hoffmeister
Professor of Population and Evolutionary Ecology University of Bremen
Track jury: People
Michael Garkisch
Digital Social Work & Social Management, OTH Regensburg
Luisa Gregory
Advisor HFD – HRK
Thomas Bretz
Speaker of the Executive Board, StIL
Johanna Mencke
Exchange & Networking Officer
Viktoria Fitterer
Head of Campus Services, KIT
Ramona Schulz
Excellence Strategy Officer at the University of Hamburg
Carolin Then Bergh
Digital Change Maker 2024/working student at HFD – CHE
Annemarie Freudenberg
Teaching Development Officer, Mainz University of Applied Sciences
Andrea Ruf
Departmental Advisor, Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
Track jury: Innovative Learning
Alexandra Hassler
Deputy Managing Director Science Network
Alice Altissimo
Expert for strategy development and change projects, TU Braunschweig
Anika Düring
Project Manager Change and Transformation, TU Braunschweig
Annabell Bils
Managing Director, Centre for Learning and Innovation, FernUniversität in Hagen
Hans Pongratz
Technical Managing Director, Foundation for University Admissions / TU Dortmund University
Kerstin Stiewe
Consultant for teaching and curriculum development
Lucia Aschauer
Exchange & Networking Officer, StIL
Marcus Lamprecht
Quality management for studying and teaching at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Martin Ebner
Head of Teaching and Learning Technologies, Senior Researcher Educational Informatics, TU Graz
Monique Tech
Coordinator for Processes and Structural Development in University Development at JGU Main
Philipp Höllermann
Digital Learning Enthusiast, KI-Rookie, New Learning Padawan
Stefan Jazdzejewski
Managing Director of the Talent Accelerator Software Campus and the AI Grid Network
Thies Hauck
Head of University Development & Green Office, Bucerius Law School