Sounding Board
The Sounding Board advises the University:Future Festival team. Its aim is to gather ideas for the further development of the content and methodology of U:FF 2026. The Sounding Board consists of 10 people who represent all the important stakeholder groups of the festival.
Linn Friedrichs
Moderator, learning and development consultant
Aljoscha Burchardt
Principal Researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Philipp Schmidt
VP Technology Innovation at Axim Collaborative
Moritz Ettl
Founder and Managing Director of Forever Day One
Silke Hertel
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Heidelberg University
Susanne Staude
President of Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences
Antje Michel
Professor of Information Didactics and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Ben Lenk-Ostendorf
Head of AI Guides, Technical University of Munich
Franziska Richter
Lecturer in Digital Transformation Teaching and University Didactics, University of Bremen
Thomas Korner
Head of Innovation Lab ZHAW Zurich
