September 12–13, 2024 Museumsquartier Wien
Emerging Technologies, Breakthrough Innovations – the Technology Talks 2024 in a brand new format for the first time in Vienna.
The New
Technology Talks
Jan Wörner
President, acatech; former Director General, European Space Agency (ESA)
acatech (National Academy of Science and Engineering, Germany)
Johann-Dietrich “Jan” Wörner (born July 18, 1954 in Kassel) is a German civil engineer, university lecturer and former President of TU Darmstadt. From 2007 to 2015, he was Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). From July 2015 to February 2021, he was Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA). On 19 March 2021, he became President of the German Academy of Science and Engineering; Wörner is also Co-Chairman of the Learning Systems Platform.