25.05.16, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. - external application on the website of Bertelsman
Lecture: India Innovate its Way to the Top?
Course language: English
Address:
Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
Unter den Linden 1
10117 Berlin
Organizer: Bertelsmann Stiftung
India with 4300 start-ups is home to the third largest number of technology start-ups globally, ahead of China and Israel and is growing at more than 30% annually. India’s active research and development sector employ benefit from its huge talent pool employing hundreds of thousands of engineers, churning out products for the global market. On the other side, India faces multiple challenges in terms of an unwieldy bureaucracy, creaky infrastructure and reform deadlock. Whether India will be able to overcome the challenges to become a dynamic and innovative economy which can be an engine of growth for the world economy is the question which our speaker, Mr. Ravi Srinivasan would address.
Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of the Board at Bank of Baroda, India. He is the founder Chairman of Social Venture Partners India, a national network of philanthropists addressing social problems through venture philanthropy. He serves on the boards of Rockefeller Foundation, Infosys Ltd, and Strand Lifesciences. Prior to this, as Chairman of Microsoft India between 2004 and 2011, Ravi helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world and one of its fastest growing markets. Ravi is the author of an acclaimed book “Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere” published by Harvard Business Review.
02.06.16, 6:00 p.m. - Registration required
Lecture: Myanmar - Current processes of change
Course language: German
Address:
Schwartz Villa
Grunewaldstr. 55
12165 Berlin
Organizer: Geographical Society in Berlin
The political processes of opening in Myanmar will engage country to the attention of the world, which is currently in deep socio-economic changes.
Frauke Kraas is Professor of Human Geography. She has and in her works mainly with megacities worldwide urbanization, development and transformation Research and Risk Health issues busy spatially especially with Thailand and Myanmar.
03.06.16, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Lecture: Two refugees from North Korea are giving a lecture about the current situation in North Korea
Organised by: KOMO (Korean human rights organization)
With kind support of: Mauermuseum Checkpoint Charlie
International Cooperation
Friedrichstraße 43-45
10117 Berlin
Course language: German
Address:
Mauermuseum Checkpoint Charlie
Friedrichstraße 43-45
10117 Berlin
This event takes place in the movie theater of the Mauermuseum Checkpoint Charlie.
Lecturers: Ji Hyun Park, Ju Il Kim (refugees from North Korea, both currently living in the UK)