Falling Walls

The Falling Walls Conference is an annual science event in Berlin, Germany, that coincides with the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (9 November 1989). The one-day scientific conference showcases the research work of international scientists from a wide range of fields.

The Falling Walls Foundation

After the inaugural 2009 conference organized by the Einstein Foundation, an independent non-profit institution by the name of the Falling Walls Foundation was established through the support of the German Ministry of Education and Research and the Berlin Senator for Education, Science and Research. The foundation is managed by Tatjana König. She is supported by Prof. Sebastian Turner, a Berlin entrepreneur and publisher of the Tagesspiegel, who serves at the board of trustees of the foundation.

Conference format

Every speaker presents a talk of maximum 15 minutes, explaining how their scientific research helps to break down walls in science and society.

Notable speakers

2017
  • Alexander Betts, University of Oxford
  • Sarah Chayes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Dennis Lo, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • W.E. Moerner, Stanford University
  • Jian-Wei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town
  • Jürgen Schmidhuber, Swiss AI Lab
  • Christina Smolke, Stanford University

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009
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