Programme 25 Years of Scientific Policy Advice – Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag
Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at the German Bundestag 14.30 hrs Arrival/Registration
Main Hall of the Paul Löbe Building, West Entrance, Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 1
15.00 hrs “The Invisible Drums” with “Christopher Rumble”, Berlin/Dresden
Dr. Marc Bangert, Institute for Musical Therapy at the College for Music, Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden
15.10 hrs Welcome and Opening Remarks by the President of the German Bundestag, Professor Norbert Lammert, Member of the Bundestag
15.15 hrs “For they know what they do…” Technology assessment (TA) at the German Bundestag
Patricia Lips, Member of the Bundestag, Chairwoman of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment
15.20 hrs Welcoming speech of the President of L’Office parlemen- taire d’évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST), Assemblée Nationale, France Jean-Yves Le Déaut, MP
15.25 hrs Moderated discussion with the correspondents for technology assessment
Dr Philipp Lengsfeld, Member of the Bundestag (CDU/CSU) René Röspel, Member of the Bundestag (SPD) Ralph Lenkert, Member of the Bundestag (The Left Party) Harald Ebner, Member of the Bundestag (Alliance ’90/ The Greens)
Moderator: Volkart Wildermuth 15.45 hrs “The Dissolution of Boundaries between Humans and Machines” – a subject of technology assessment
Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald, Head of the Office of Technol- ogy Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
15.55 hrs Interviews, Presentations
Dr. Marc Bangert, Institute for Musical Therapy, Dresden Martin Pusch, Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH, Strategic Technology Management Karl Heinz Ammon, utilizes a myoelectric prosthesis
Moderator: Volkart Wildermuth
16.15 hrs Cyborgs and the Mecha-Person – between therapy and utopia
Discussion Participants:
Karl Heinz Ammon, utilizes a myoelectric prosthesis Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald, Head of TAB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Enno Park, Chairman, Cyborgs e.V. Prof. Dr. Tanja Schultz, Professor of Cognitive Systems, University of Bremen Prof. Dr. Thomas Stieglitz, Professor of Biomedical Micro- technology, University of Freiburg Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen, Chairwoman of the German Ethics Council
17.30 hrs Closing remarks Patricia Lips, Member of the Bundestag, Chairwoman of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment
Discussion, Refreshments in the Paul Löbe Building main hall
19.00 hrs Closing Organisation:
Committee Secretariat Platz der Republik, 11011 Berlin Tel.: ++49 30 227-33543 oder 33121 Fax: ++49 30 227-36845 Contact: Friedhelm Kappenstein, Kai Steffen Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag Neue Schönhauser Straße 10, 10178 Berlin Tel.: ++49 30 28491 0 Fax: ++49 30 28491 119 Contact: Dr. Christoph Revermann, Dr. Arnold Sauter Email: [email protected]