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Agenda
Panels, workshops and discussion rounds will take place partly in parallel in the living room, study and shared kitchen. This structure allows all participants to choose individually from a wide range of topics and at the same time experience the diversity of topics.
10:30 Doors open
11:00 Welcome
Betonhalle (UG2): Living room
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
11:15 Talk: "Creating and maintaining affordable housing - current challenges on the housing market"
Betonhalle (UG2): Living room
Dr. Melanie Weber-Moritz, President of the German Tenants' Association
Andrea Gebhard, President of the Federal Chamber of Architects
Moderation: Tanja Samrotzki
12:00 Panel & Workshops 1
Betonhalle (UG2): Living room
Panel 1: Building instead of bureaucratisation - more living space through fewer regulations
Dr. Ersin Nas MdA, Spokesman for Rents and Housing of the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives
Christian Frölich MdL, Committee for Economic Affairs, Transport, Building and Digitalisation Lower Saxony (CDU)
Markus Brunner, Deputy Head of the DIN-Standards Committee for Construction (NABau), DIN
Moderation: Tanja Samrotzki
WG-Küche
Workshop 1A: More sustainable (re)construction: Barrier-free living
Gerd Schreiner MdL, Chairman of the Committee on Climate, Energy and Mobility (CDU)
Heike Heubach MdB, Commissioner of the SPD Parliamentary Group for the Interests of People with Disabilities, Committee on Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Municipalities
Moderation: Lukas Lingenthal, Global Health, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Officer, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Office
Workshop 1B: More sustainable (re)construction: Decarbonisation of the housing industry
Karsten Schmidt, Founder and Managing Director, Ampeers Energy
12:45 Networking and lunch break
place: Kitchen (UG1) and meadow
13:45 Panel & Workshops 2
Betonhalle (UG2): Living room
Panel 2: Affordable housing and sustainability – (not) a conflict of goals
Lars Rohwer MdB, Chairman of the Committee for Housing, Urban Development, Building and Municipalities of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Endres, Head of the Institute of Building Climatology and Energy at the Archietektur TU Braunschweig
Heike Marcinek, Head of Innovation & Transformation, Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena)
Moderation: Tanja Samrotzki
WG-Küche
Workshop 2A: Trainee Housing: Creating Opportunities, Securing Skilled Workers
Dr. Kirsten Kielbassa-Schnepp, Head of the Vocational Education and Training Division, German Confederation of Skilled Crafts
Prof. Gerd Jäger, Managing Director, Baumschlager-Eberle
Anna-Luise Götze, Project Officer, German Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Moderation: Luis Brückner, Youth Volunteer of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Office
Workshop 2B: More Sustainable Investments – Digitization is the Real Construction Turbo
Franziska Albrecht, Madaster Germany
Matthias Zühlke, Managing Director, Syte GmbH
Jonas Mühlbauer, Co-Founder Focused AI
Pascal Biesenbach, founder of Viaduct
Kai Dolata, Transformation Manager Digitalization Automation, Bundesstiftung Bauakademie
Moderation: Robert Kroth, Managing Director, Neues Bauen - 80 seconds
14:45 Panel & Workshops 3
Betonhalle (UG2): Living room
Panel 3: Building, but how? Ways to finance new construction and climate protection
Stephan Stracke MdB, Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group for Transport, Housing, Urban Development and Construction of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
Ingeborg Esser, Managing Director of the Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Entrepreneurs (GdW)
Karsten Schmidt, Founder and Managing Director of Ampeers Energy
Moderation: Tanja Samrotzki
WG-Küche
Workshop 3A: More affordable housing – student housing in a practical check
Dr. Petra Nau, Head of Department Housing, Construction, Management, Deutsches Studierendenwerk
Ulrich Brinkmann, journalist "Bauwelt"
Moderation: Paul Gebser & Tom Jeske, Youth Advisory Board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Office
Workshop 3B: Start into professional life - but where to live? Challenges for trainees
David Mbae-Straßenburg, Head of the Political Education Forum Hamburg with a group of trainees
15:30 More opportunities for ownership: The challenge of financing and maintaining the value of residential property in rural (eastern Germany) areas
Betonhalle (UG2): Living room
Minister-President Mario Voigt, Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia
15:45 Panel & Workshops 4
Betonhalle (UG2): Living room
Panel 4: Home ownership as a building block for wealth accumulation
Minister-President Mario Voigt, Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia
Peter Herbst, CEO of VR Bank in Thüringen eG
Dr. Christian Oberst, Senior Economist for Real Estate Markets and Regional Economics, IW Cologne
Moderation: Dr. Sarah Al Doyaili-Wangler, Social Market Economy Consultant, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
WG-Küche
Workshop 4A: Housing worldwide: International Perspectives on Urban Development and Housing Policy
Hamdan Abdul Majeed, CEO/Managing Director, ThinkCity
Laurence Fredericks, Senior Researcher, Onward
Samuel Gachohi Njuguna, Associate Programme Management Officer, Urban Law and Governance, UN-Habitat
Prof. Juanita Pienaar, Senior legal research and teaching academic, University of Stellenbosch South Africa
Gaurish Wagle, Senior Manager, Design & Master Planning, Masdar City
Office
Workshop 4B: More Available Housing - Berlin Ways
Grit Schade, Head of the Housing Coordination Office, Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing
Moderation: Tobias Wangermann, Digitization Officer, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
16:45 International Housing Policy
How is housing policy implemented in other cities/countries/regions of the world? How can the surrounding areas in metropolitan areas be better connected to the cities? How can sustainable housing be created? How do you counter the influence of tourism on the housing market?
Speaker:
Johannes M. Boehmer, Vice-Governor Social Development Strategy, Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)
Francesca Lionetti, Housing Rights, Diversity and Inclusion, UN-Habitat
Justina Glusman, Vice-Major of Ochota, Poland
Federico Jorge Gonzáles Rouco, Macroeconomic coordinator and Head of Real Estate, Empiria Consultores
Moderation: Melanie Gerster, Consultant for Labour Market and Social Policy, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Location: Living room (UG2)
17:30 Innovations for the construction turnaround
Company pitches and voting
Robert Kroth, Managing Director, Neues Bauen - 80 seconds
With pitches from:
Eckard Dauck, Managing Director Stramentec
Maik Buse, Sales Manager Key Accounts and System Consulting Mitsubishi Electric
Dr.-Ing Robert Bachmann, Head of Technical Sales at Heidelberg Materials
Birgit Guhse, Managing Director Arcadis
18:15 Closing remarks
We are committed to inclusion at our events and would like to encourage people with disabilities to participate. Please contact us if you have any questions about potential barriers at the event venue. If you require a sign language interpreter, please let us know at least two weeks before the event begins.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The programme on the main stage will also be translated into English.
Registration
Registration is now open – register here for the Housing Congress and join us on 16 October! Participation is free of charge.
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