Trained as an architect and engineer, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ratti was named to Esquire Magazine's "Best & Brightest" list and Thames & Hudson's selection of "60 Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future." Blueprint Magazine named him one of the "25 People Who Will Change the World of Design," Forbes listed him as one of the "Names You Need To Know," and Fast Company named him one of the "50 Most Influential Designers in America."

Eric Corey Freed - award-winning architect, author and global speaker. For two decades he was founding director of organicARCHITECT, a visionary design leader in biophilic and regenerative design. Eric is the author of twelve books, including Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies. In 2012, he was named one of the 25 "Best Green Architecture Firms" in the U.S. and one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Green Architects."

Bettina Zerza is an architect and founder of ZERZA, a global architecture practice that focuses, among other things, on how data and smart systems are changing our cities and how autonomous buildings can contribute to a sustainable future. Bettina Zerza studied architecture at the TU Graz, Austria and at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York. Her work has won international awards and been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the Museum of the City of New York; New Museum, New York; MAK Vienna; Kulturforum, Berlin; and the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Hong Kong.

Heinz J. Bernegger works at the ZHAW as a lecturer Life Cycle Management Real Estate and consultant in the fields of FM-appropriate planning and realization, sustainable real estate management as well as BIM and sustainability. His special knowledge focuses not only on sustainable architecture and urban planning but also on the following: Planning and Construction Process Management, Sustainability Consulting, Competition Support Sustainability in Architectural Competitions, Sustainable Construction, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Resilience of Buildings and Sites, Smart Site Management, etc.

Sun Jensch has worked in the real estate industry for 25 years. She knows the industry - from project management and development, asset management to political advocacy. Since 2006, in the top real estate industry associations, where she has led political communications and association management. Her in-depth experience ranges from state to federal political levels. Among others, she was managing director at ZIA Zentralen Immobilien Ausschuss e.V. and ZIA Akademie. In the fall of 2021, she founded KOALITION für HOLZBAU.

Leopold Spenner is co-founder and CEO of alcemy, the Berlin-based start-up for a more climate-friendly concrete and cement industry. He grew up in a family that is already the fourth generation to run cement and concrete plants. Spenner studied industrial engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). During his research work at the German Cement Association and his involvement in two building materials projects at the Boston Consulting Group, he got to know the industry even better before founding alcemy together with Dr. Robert Meyer in 2018.

Tom Leppin has many years of experience in the real estate industry as a businessman, project developer, and IT and software specialist. Early in his career, he implemented large-scale IT projects and worked as an independent consultant for well-known real estate investors and project developers. In his mid-twenties, Tom Leppin founded his first own company, Carnaby Capital GmbH, with the goal of building Germany's first digital student residence in Berlin. The Carnaby Living House Berlin opened in October 2018 in Berlin Oberschöneweide at the campus of the HTW.

Benjamin Stocksiefen is a master carpenter and managing director of Holzbau Stocksiefen GmbH in Niederkassel and already represents the fourth generation of the multi-award-winning family business from the Rhineland. In 2019, he published his first book, "Die Feels Wood Story" (The Feels Wood Story), and in 2020 he and his team launched their own YouTube channel all about wood and wood construction. His customers and listeners love his authentic cordiality and the lived joy of wood. Every day, his team and he help people build natural living spaces out of wood.

Petra Ronzani is a communicator, sustainability manager and mediator. She understands how to connote transformation processes in a positive way and is an expert in communication in times of transition. Her focus is on mediation in the overarching sense - between people, hierarchies, between today and tomorrow. After almost 15 years as a leader in institutions such as Haus der Kunst Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Berlin Volksbühne or HENN, she founded Detektei Ronzani in 2021 and accompanies institutions and companies in transformation.

Ralf Schmidt-Pleschka is coordinator for energy and climate policy at LichtBlick SE. His professional career began over 30 years ago in the Enquete Commission "Precautions for the Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere". Since then, he has remained true to climate protection and has worked, among other things, as the energy spokesman for the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Benedikt Scholler is an expert in sustainability, ESG, energy and integral consulting. After his studies in environmental engineering in Bayreuth and Dublin, the trained graduate engineer has worked for the past 15 years at various consulting and planning companies specialized in the real estate industry. Since February 2022 he is a member of the management of pom+Germany. He is a DGNB auditor, ambassador of the Coalition for Timber Construction and member of the board of trustees "Werkstadtforum City West Berlin".

Rut Herten-Koch advises both the public sector and its companies as well as private owners, investors, project developers and bidders in public procurement procedures. She has extensive experience in accompanying and structuring complex procedures - be it in construction planning or public procurement law. In addition, Rut Herten-Koch represents her clients before the public procurement review bodies and the administrative courts. She has been working as a lawyer in the field of public law and public procurement law in Berlin since 2002. Rut Herten-Koch joined Luther as a partner in July 2015.

Since the founding of AFF Architekten in 2000, Martin Fröhlich, together with his office partners and colleagues, has been committed to a circular culture of resources. The office has received several awards for its work. Martin Fröhlich has been conducting research for eight years at EPFL in Lausanne with students and doctoral candidates on topics such as re-use and component tracking. In 2020, the associated studies were presented at the Swiss Biennale of the Territory under the title "Rather Than" in Lugano.

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Teichmann is founder and managing director of G.tecz, a service provider for concrete optimization, concrete development and concept development of special production plants, Brevolith Unternehmergesellschaft, a sales office for UHPC (concrete production technologies) and founder of Teichmann Zimmermann Holding, a technology partner for investment projects based on cementitious building materials. His areas of expertise are concrete research, process optimization and holistic consulting around concrete. Specialized in concrete optimization and development of ultra-high performance concrete.

Uta Weiß is program manager for buildings and heating networks at Agora Energiewende. She works on the transformation of the building sector and heat grids to a climate-neutral heat supply. Before joining Agora, Uta worked for more than 12 years at the ifeu Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg and at the German Energy Agency (dena). There she led a variety of projects and studies on energy efficiency and heat transition. In particular, she advised government agencies on the design of policy instruments to achieve climate neutrality.

The Patzschke architectural office has been established on the Berlin and German market for over 50 years. For several decades, the office and its approximately 55 employees have been committed to a more livable and humane architecture. Robert Patzschke took over the management in 2002, before that he studied in London and Berlin. Between 2005 and 2014, he founded and managed a branch office in India. He is active on the board of the AIV - Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin und Brandenburg.

Xaver Egger is in practice under the office name Sehw, which stands for the founders Martin Schreiber, Xaver Egger, Andreas Horlitz and Christoph Winkler. Founded in 1996, Sehw is now a registered trademark. In addition to its original architectural work, Sehw is active in the fields of general planning and project development. The main focus is on buildings of public use, mostly as a result of preliminary architectural competitions, as well as modern working environments and residential buildings for private commercial clients, investors and developers. Several of Sehw's projects have been awarded architectural prizes.

Robert Lotz studied business administration, is an engineer and architect at Nassauische Heimstätte Wohnstadt (NHW) and is the department head for modernization and major refurbishment. NHW is the largest housing and development company in Hesse, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It owns more than 65,000 apartments and aims to provide affordable housing for broad sections of the population. Its tasks include the development of neighborhoods and portfolios - as well as their expansion through additions.

Vanja Schneider, Civil Engineer, Dipl. Wirtschaftsingenieur has been working exclusively in real estate project development since 1991, predominantly with management responsibility. From 2003 until the end of 2019 he was managing director of INTERBODEN and since the beginning of 2020 he is a founding member and managing partner of MORINGA GmbH (an associated company of Aachener Landmarken AG). With his 30 years of holistic project development experience, 7 of which have now been in the field of circular construction, he has already made a big difference in the industry.

Udo Schramek is the founder and CEO of STEICO SE, the world market leader for ecological wood fiber insulation materials. Since its founding in 1986, he has shaped the company from a 1.5-person operation into one of the 1,000 fastest-growing companies in the world with currently around 2,000 employees. Innovation and climate protection have always been the pillars of success. In addition to its core business of ecological insulating materials, STEICO manufactures innovative timber load-bearing structures and thus offers an integrated construction system with which almost the entire building envelope of a timber building can be created.

Dominik Campanella is the co-founder of Concular, the ecosystem for circular building, and restado, the largest marketplace for reclaimed building materials. Before founding the company, he studied computer science and business administration and worked at Google for several years. He is a member of various advisory boards such as the Leadership Group for Circular Construction of the EU Commission and the Advisory Board for Circular Construction of the DGNB.

After studying architecture at RWTH Aachen University, Lorenz Nagel worked for "Eike Becker Architekten" in Berlin. In 2020, he joined the family project development company PRIMUS developments, where he managed the LUISE project, a timber hybrid building for the German Bundestag. In addition to his work as a project developer, Lorenz Nagel is an ambassador for the "Coalition for Timber Construction", promoting sustainable construction with wood.

Dr. Jan Wenker is a trained carpenter and subsequently studied wood economics (B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees) at the University of Hamburg with a focus on wood physics, wood-based materials and process engineering. After completing his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich on the life cycle assessment of complex wood products, he joined Brüninghoff in 2017. Here, as Head of Department for Product Development & Innovation, he deals with systems for intelligent hybrid construction as well as the development and implementation of concepts for sustainable and recyclable buildings and construction processes.

Denis Üstün is the founder and managing director of difucon GmbH, a startup from the ConTech sector that has made it its mission to make the digitalization of the construction industry accessible to everyone and to drive it forward. As an industrial engineer, he places particular focus on digital interdisciplinary collaboration in the construction process and increasing productivity in the individual process chains. He is also actively involved in the creation of an ecosystem for startups in the ConTech sector via the Federal Association of Digital Construction.

Tina Snedker Kristensen is Head of Sustainability and Communications at Troldtekt A/S, a Danish manufacturer of acoustic panels made of wood and cement. Since May 1, 2022, Troldtekt A/S has been part of the Irish Kingspan Group. With a long experience from the construction and wood industry, a Graduate Diploma in Foreign Trade (HDU) education as well as an Executive Master in Corporate Communication (EMCC) from Aarhus BSS, Tina started at Troldtekt A/S in 1998 and has been responsible for the marketing and communication of Troldtekt A/S for 18 years and of the German NL Troldtekt GmbH since 2015.

Volker Knieß has been working in the flooring industry for 25 years. As Key Account Manager of WINEO, he focuses on the hospitality and retail segments. His drive: to make the world easier and more livable with healthy and sustainable flooring solutions. Sustainable building is not an option in our time, but a responsibility that every builder has to face. All products from WINEO are characterized by their high quality and durability. WINEO develops sustainable flooring solutions by replacing synthetic raw materials with natural materials.

A graduate in business administration, he has been active in the field of "sustainable finance" for over 20 years and is a proven sustainability expert with a very good reputation in civil society and the financial sector. In September 2007, Volker Weber took over the chairmanship of the Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen/FNG. During his tenure as FNG Chairman, the Transparency Code, the FNG Sustainability Profiles and the FNG Seal, among others, were launched. Meanwhile, the FNG seal in particular is recognized as the German SRI seal.

Roland Riethmüller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Meistertipp.de, the digital entrepreneur magazine for the construction industry. With his IT background and passion for content, he manages to promote digitization in the construction industry. Since 2019, Roland Riethmüller is also Founder and CEO of the open innovation platform BEYONDBRICKS, which connects the traditional construction industry with innovative ConstructionTech startups with the help of the startup fair TECH IN CONSTRUCTION. In addition, Roland Riethmüller has been Chairman of the Board of the Federal Association of Digital Construction (BDBau) since 2020.

Marco Mattheis als Diplomingenieur der Elektrotechnik ist der Gründer und Geschäftsführer der T3-Engineering GmbH sowie der Smart & Green Energy Solutions GmbH. Als Experte für Energieerzeugungs- und Speicherungssysteme befasst er sich mit der Planung und Ausführung Wärmeerzeugern und Speichern im Umfeld der Erneuerbaren Energien. Seine Schwerpunkte sind Biogas BHKWs, sowie Entwicklung und Implementierung von innovativen und nachhaltigen Speichersystemen für elektrische und thermische Energie. Er wurde 2021 für den Green BIM Award im Bereich Erhaltung und Instandsetzung nominiert und hat den 2. Platz belegt.

Daniel Riedel is an entrepreneur with a passion for the well-being of humanity. Over the past decade, he has focused on building large secure platforms and businesses. His current focus is on data governance, privacy, and cross-border data sharing, especially where technology and users interact. He helps companies turn data into phenomenal customer experiences (CX) and employee experiences (EX) that will be critical to changing the planet for this generation of people.

Bernd Oswald is Co-Founder of the PropTech company GROPYUS and heads the Business Development and M&A departments. He has been dedicated to wood as a material from the very beginning. The mechanical engineer and lawyer has extensive experience and know-how in the wood construction industry. For example, he was "Division Manager Technology" at Mayr-Melnhof Holz Holding AG. Afterwards he was managing director of KLH Massivholz GmbH and responsible for the production of sustainable building elements made of wood and. Before GROPYUS, Bernd Oswald was COO at CREE, a timber hybrid construction specialist.

Felix Jansen has been with the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) since 2015. At Europe's largest network for sustainable construction, he is responsible for the PR, communications and marketing department. Previously, the communications and media scientist was responsible for communications at numerous companies and organizations, including the international start-up initiative CODE_n, the GFT Group, the SimTech cluster of excellence at the University of Stuttgart, and MFG Baden-Württemberg.

The Berlin presenter and engineer Carmen Franke is over 20 years with heart and soul on stage and in front of the camera. With her confident, likeable manner, she presents gala events, show premieres, incentives, congresses, trade fairs, but also talk shows and TV magazines. The graduate civil engineer feels equally at home with construction topics as with fashion, lifestyle, sports, cooking, finance or health. Since 1998 she has been managing director of the company Glück & Franke Fenster Rolladen Technik Vertriebs GmbH and a member of the public relations committee of the Bundesverband Rollladen Sonnenschutz.