The Jury 2023
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Daniela Kluckert
Daniela Kluckert
Daniela Kluckert is an economist. She became a member of the German Federal Parliament in 2017 for the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Since December 2021, she is a Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Digital and Transport. She will be hosting the jury.
“In the future, our mobility needs will continue to rise, and we more than ever need new ideas to intelligently manage traffic flows and effectively utilize our infrastructures. Digitization is the key to achieving better and more sustainable mobility for people, as well as efficient logistics for goods.”
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Prof. Angela Francke
Prof. Angela Francke
Professor Angela Francke works as a professor of cycling infrastructure and local mobility at the University of Kassel, one of the very first German academic positions focusing on cycling. Within this role, she also instructs students in the master’s program “Mobility, Transport, and Infrastructure.” Her extensive research spans numerous years and encompasses interdisciplinary investigations into shifts in mobility trends, the promotion of active transportation, and inclusive cycling infrastructure planning. Prior to this, she completed her doctoral studies at TU Dresden, specializing in traffic psychology and exploring the impacts of urban pricing systems.
“For me, the mobility of the future means having suitable, sustainable modes of transportation that are as natural as breathing: readily available, accessible to everyone at all times, and seamlessly connected.”
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Herrmann
Prof. Dr. Andreas Herrmann
Professor Dr. Andreas Herrmann is Director of the Institute for Mobility at the University of St. Gallen and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He headed the Institute for Customer Insight at the University of St. Gallen and completed numerous residencies at Columbia University, MIT and the University of Michigan. He is primarily concerned with the transformation of the automotive industry and all topics related to Smart Mobility.
“New Mobility for me is inclusive, environmentally friendly and reduces land consumption and accidents.”
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Prof. Dr. Meike Jipp
Prof. Dr. Meike Jipp
Prof. Dr. Meike Jipp has been a member of the Executive Board for Energy and Transport at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) since August 2023. She is also Professor of Transport Demand and Transport Effects at the Technical University of Berlin.
“For me, the mobility of the future is the ideal fusion of aspiration and reality: environmentally sustainable and appealing.”
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Dr. Bernhard Kalkbrenner
Dr. Bernhard Kalkbrenner
Dr. Bernhard Kalkbrenner is a Senior Manager at the Digital Hub Mobility of UnternehmerTUM, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Technical University of Munich. He brings startups, corporates, and cities together to collaboratively develop and implement solutions for tomorrow’s mobility. The aim of the Digital Hub Mobility is to achieve sustainability goals through innovations and strengthen the mobility industry.
“For me, the mobility of the future is diverse, stress-free, safe, environmentally friendly, and different from what we think.”
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Anna-Theresa Korbutt
Anna-Theresa Korbutt
Anna-Theresa Korbutt, born in 1979 in the Hanseatic city of Danzig, is Managing Director of the Hamburg Transport Association (hvv) since April 1, 2021. With great passion and innovative projects, she is committed to the mobility transition in Hamburg.
“In ten years, there will be significantly simplified access to the public transportation system on many levels, with the The Deutschland-Ticket being just the beginning. At the same time, the modal split of car traffic will continue to decrease, and local public transportation, supplemented by autonomous on-demand vehicles, will gain even more importance.”
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Christina Lang
Christina Lang
Christina Lang is Co-Founder and CEO of the DigitalService, the internal digitalization unit of the Federal Government of Germany. Providing interdisciplinary product teams, the DigitalService builds user-centered digital public services together with the government. It also drives the digital transformation of public administration through the fellowships Tech4Germany and Work4Germany. In spring 2020, she initiated the #WirVsVirus hackathon of the German Government as a national, coordinated Covid response effort. Before founding the DigitalService in 2019, Christina worked at the Federal Foreign Office and as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. She is a trained lawyer and holds a Management degree from London Business School.
“Digitalization holds immense opportunities for almost all areas – including mobility. It enables completely new approaches to value creation and provides real data for validating innovative mobility concepts. Digitalization thus ultimately lays the foundation for insight-driven, user-centric development of services that provide real added value.”
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Christiane Möller
Christiane Möller
Christiane Möller is the legal counsel for the The German Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted (DBSV). As a blind advocate, she is dedicated to comprehensive accessibility and equal participation in all areas of life.
“Within ten years, both governmental and private sector entities have internalized the human right to mobility, and the number of barriers is continuously diminishing, regardless of how and where people with disabilities are moving around. The opportunities presented by digitalization for an inclusive and sustainable transportation revolution are being consistently harnessed.”
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Dr. Olga Nevska
Dr. Olga Nevska
Dr. Olga Nevska is Managing Director of Telekom MobilitySolutions, where she oversees the transformation of one of the largest corporate fleets into an innovative mobility provider. Olga represents sustainable, shared, and connected mobility through diversification, decarbonization, and digitalization. For her, corporate mobility is one of the main catalysts for the transportation revolution.
“The mobility of the future is sustainable, shared, connected and demand-oriented – for ALL people equally.”
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Oliver Wolff
Oliver Wolff
In English: Since 2011, Oliver Wolff has been the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV = Association of German Transport Companies. Additionally, he has been serving as the Vice President of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) since 2017. In his personal life, he enjoys exploring the mountains of the world.
“In ten years, we will have mostly achieved the climate protection goals for 2030 in the transportation sector. The infrastructure of public transportation providers will be restored, and people will have more alternatives to cars than they do today.”
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