GovTech Meetup: Fall 2019

The Berlin GovTech meetup is back! We'll again have a great lineup of speakers for you, featuring some of the movers and shakers in Berlin who are working to bring the worlds of tech and government together.

This time, we'll be hosting the meetup in Berlin's newly-opened CityLAB – come by to hear about GovTech developments in Berlin and beyond, as well as explore the CityLAB and learn more about its work.

Here is the preliminary schedule for the meetup:

18.30: Welcome from Polyteia and the Technologiestiftung Berlin
18.40: Lars Zimmermann, PUBLIC
18.55: Sonja Anton, Tech4Germany
19.10: Quick Break
19.20: Paul Lunow, Nepos
19.35: Tushaar Bhatt, Convaise

There will be time for brief discussion / Q&A after each presentation, as well as unstructured time after presentations to chat with the speakers and other participants.

We'll have some drinks and snacks on hand!

Read on to learn more about the presenters!

LARS ZIMMERMANN is the managing director at PUBLIC, a venture development firm for GovTech with locations in Berlin, London and Paris. He is also a senior advisor at QuantCo, a data analytics company. From 2005 - 2007, Lars was a McCloy Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he received a Master of Public Administration.

SONJA ANTON is helping to lead the fellowship program Tech4Germany after participating in their first cohort as a fellow in 2018. Previously, Sonja worked in public sector consulting at Capgemini and provided product management support for the launch of a government-funded Swedish Public Tech Startup. She studied Psychology and Management in the United States.

TUSHAAR BHATT is founder of Convaise which he founded with two of his fellow students at Technical University Munich. At Convaise he is responsible for business development and product design due to his background in computer science and business. Beyond his involvement at Convaise he is supporting the World Economic Forum as an academic fellow in their Smart City efforts.